POV has received a record 12 nominations in the 32nd Annual News & Documentary Emmy® Awards! Three POV films, Food, Inc., The Oath and Presumed Guilty, garnered multiple nominations including Best Documentary. Five other films received nominations: the feature-length Good Fortune, Off and Running, Wo Ai Ni (I Love You) Mommy and the shorts The Archive and the StoryCorps Animated Series. PBS received 32 nominations in total.
“We are living in a golden age of documentary filmmaking and we are humbled that the Academy has recognized POV films and filmmakers with such outstanding honors this year,” said Simon Kilmurry, executive producer of POV. “These are films that take passion, courage and tenacity to make, and they are proof that the work of independent documentary filmmakers actually can make a difference.”
OUTSTANDING INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM – LONG FORM
Presumed Guilty
Directors: Roberto Hernandez, Geoffrey Smith; Producer: Layda Negrete; Executive Producers: Simon Kilmurry, Patricia Boero
The Oath
Directors:
Director/Producer: Laura Poitras; Co Producers: Nasser Arrabyee, Aliza Kaplan, Jonathan Oppenheim; Executive Producers: David Menschel, Simon Kilmurry, Sally Jo Fifer
OUTSTANDING INFORMATIONAL PROGRAMMING – LONG FORM
Food, Inc.
Director/Producer: Robert Kenner; Producer: Elise Pearlstein; Co Producers: Richard Pearce, Eric Schlosser, Melissa Robeldo; Executive Producers: Simon Kilmurry, William Pohlad, Jeff Skoll, Diane Weyermann
Off and Running
Director: Nicole Opper; Producer: Sharese Bullock Bailey; Executive Producers: Macky Alston, Simon Kilmurry, Sally Jo Fifer, Sandra Itkoff, Jacquie Jones
Wo Ai Ni (I Love You) Mommy
Director/Producer: Stephanie Wang Breal; Executive Producers: Stephen Gong, Simon Kilmurry
OUTSTANDING BUSINESS AND ECONOMIC REPORTING – LONG FORM
Good Fortune
Director: Landon Van Soest; Producer: Jeremy Levine; Executive Producers: Simon Kilmurry, Diana Barrett, Katy Chevigny, Judith Helfand, Andrew Herwitz
OUTSTANDING ARTS & CULTURE PROGRAMMING
Storycorps Animated Series
Director/Animator: Tim Rauch; Director/Producer: Mike Rauch; Producer: Lizzie Jacobs; Executive Producers: Dave Isay, Simon Kilmurry
BEST DOCUMENTARY
Food, Inc.
Director/Producer: Robert Kenner; Producer: Elise Pearlstein; Co Producers: Richard Pearce, Eric Schlosser, Melissa Robeldo; Executive Producers: Simon Kilmurry, William Pohlad, Jeff Skoll, Diane Weyermann
Presumed Guilty
Directors: Roberto Hernandez, Geoffrey Smith; Producer: Layda Negrete; Executive Producers: Simon Kilmurry, Patricia Boero
The Oath
Directors:
Director/Producer: Laura Poitras; Co Producers: Nasser Arrabyee, Aliza Kaplan, Jonathan Oppenheim; Executive Producers: David Menschel, Simon Kilmurry, Sally Jo Fifer
NEW APPROACHES TO NEWS & DOCUMENTARY PROGRAMMING: ARTS, LIFESTYLE & CULTURE
The Archive
Producer/Director: Sean Dunne; Executive Producer: Simon Kilmurry
OUTSTANDING RESEARCH
Presumed Guilty
Directors: Roberto Hernandez, Geoffrey Smith; Producer: Layda Negrete; Executive Producers: Simon Kilmurry, Patricia Boero
The 32nd Annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards, honoring programming distributed during the calendar year 2010, will be presented on Monday, Sept. 26, 2011 at a ceremony at Frederick P. Rose Hall, Home of Jazz at Lincoln Center, located in the Time Warner Center in New York City. Emmy Awards will be presented in 42 categories, including Breaking News, Investigative Reporting, Outstanding Interview and Best Documentary, among others. The full list of nominees for the 32nd Annual News and Documentary Emmy® Awards is available on the National Television Academy’s website.