The Peabody Awards Board of Jurors has introduced the winners for the 2020 Peabody Awards, which honors probably the most highly effective and enlightening tales informed throughout TV, radio, and digital media. As a result of coronavirus pandemic, this 12 months’s ceremony was held just about with lots of the winners sending in movies of their pre-recorded speeches.
This 12 months’s winners embrace Netflix’s sci-fi darling Stranger Things and Ava DuVernay‘s harrowing restricted sequence When They See Us, together with HBO breakouts Watchmen and Succession. Amazon’s Fleabag, which just lately ended after two seasons, and Hulu’s Ramy additionally picked up a win. In the meantime, Cicely Tyson was honored with the Profession Achievement Award, and The Simpsons and Frontline every received an Institutional Peabody Award, which celebrates packages which have demonstrated a big affect on media and the tradition at giant.
“This 12 months’s winners are a vibrant collective of inspiring, revolutionary, and highly effective tales. True to the spirit and legacy of Peabody, our winners are additionally distinguished by the presence and resilience of many rising and various voices,” Peabody govt director Jeffrey P. Jones mentioned in a press release. “We’re particularly proud to rejoice Frontline as an unwavering supply for fact by way of high quality journalism when each are actively underneath assault, and The Simpsons one of the persistently humorous and culturally vital satirical sitcoms over the past three many years.”
See the complete checklist of winners beneath.
CAREER ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Cicely Tyson
INSTITUTIONAL AWARD
Frontline
The Simpsons
ENTERTAINMENT
Chernobyl (HBO)
David Makes Man (OWN)
Dickinson (Apple TV+)
Fleabag (Amazon)
Ramy (Hulu)
Stranger Issues (Netflix)
Succession (HBO)
Unbelievable (Netflix)
Watchmen (HBO)
When They See Us (Netflix)
DOCUMENTARIES
Apollo 11 (CNN)
For Sama (PBS)
Impartial Lens: Hale County, This Morning, This Night (PBS)
POV: Inventing Tomorrow (PBS)
POV: Midnight Traveler (PBS)
POV: Roll Crimson Roll (PBS)
POV: The Distant Barking of Canines (PBS)
POV: The Silence of Others (PBS)
Surviving R. Kelly (Lifetime)
The Fringe of Democracy (Netflix)
True Justice: Bryan Stevenson’s Battle for Equality (HBO)
PODCASTS AND RADIO
Dolly Parton’s America (WNYC)
Have You Heard George’s Podcast? (BBC Sounds)
In The Darkish: The Path Dwelling (APM Experiences)
Threshold: The Refuge (Montana Public Radio)
NEWS
A Totally different Sort of Pressure: Policing Psychological Sickness (NBC Information)
American Betrayal (NBC/MSNBC)
Lengthy Island Divided (Newsday)
The Hidden Workforce: Undocumented in America (CNN)
Unwarranted (WBBM-TV)
CHILDREN’S AND YOUTH
Molly of Denali (PBS Children)
Regina King, Watchmen