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'The English Surgeon' Wins duPont-Columbia Award

The duPont Awards, administered since 1968 by Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, honor excellence in broadcast journalism.

We are pleased to announce that The English Surgeon, Geoffrey Smith’s inspiring film about a British neurosurgeon who has traveled to the Ukraine for the past 15 years to treat patients who have been left to die, is among the 13 recipients of the 2011 duPont-Columbia Award.

The awards ceremony will take place on January 20, 2011 in New York City.