The Peabody Awards Board of Jurors has introduced the 60 nominees chosen to characterize probably the most compelling and empowering tales launched in broadcasting and streaming media throughout 2021. The nominees had been chosen by a unanimous vote of 19 jurors from over 1,200 entries from tv, podcasts/radio and the net in leisure, information, documentary, arts, youngsters’s/youth, and public service.
“Following one more turbulent yr, Peabody is proud to honor an array of tales that poignantly and powerfully assist us make sense of the challenges we face as a nation and world,” stated Jeffrey Jones, government director of Peabody. “Demonstrating the immense energy of tales, these nominees uncovered our societal failures and celebrated one of the best of the human spirit. They’re all worthy of recognition, and Peabody is proud to have a good time them.”
Providing partaking content material by professional storytellers from underrepresented teams, this yr’s nominated applications embody a variety of urgent points, together with reporting of the January sixth rebel, Afghanistan’s previous and future, abortion entry, trans rights, and the persevering with wrestle over policing and prison justice reform, amongst many different subjects. The Peabody Awards are primarily based on the Grady School of Journalism and Mass Communication on the College of Georgia.
“Peabody is thrilled to proceed its custom of honoring the perfect in storytelling, significantly from numerous and rising voices,” added Monica Pearson, chairperson of the Peabody Board of Jurors. “Whereas overlaying a wide selection of urgent world points and highly effective human themes, all of those applications display how nice artwork and nice journalism assist us see reality extra clearly.”
Of the 60 nominations, PBS and HBO lead with 13 and eight, respectively, adopted by Hulu and Netflix (5 every), The New York Instances and NBC (4), and ABC, Amazon Prime, BBC, and SHOWTIME (two every).
The 30 winners of the 82nd annual Peabody Awards will probably be named throughout a multi-day digital celebration from June sixth by way of June ninth. Movie star presenters will announce every winner by way of a brief video which is able to embody remarks from the winners. Movies will probably be shared June 6-9, between 9:00am PT-10:30am PT every day on the Peabody Awards social media platforms.
The Peabody Award Nominees, listed by class and in alphabetical order (community/platform in parentheses) are:
Arts
“Summer season of Soul (…Or When The Revolution May Not Be Televised)”
Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson’s rousing directorial debut chronicles the seminal 1969 celebration of Black historical past, music, and style, The Harlem Cultural Competition, by way of interviews and largely forgotten footage of performances from Stevie Marvel, Nina Simone, Sly & the Household Stone, and lots of extra. A Vulcan Productions Inc. Manufacturing, In Affiliation with Concordia Studio, Play/Motion Footage, LarryBilly Productions, Produced by Mass Distraction Media and RadicalMedia. (Searchlight Footage, Onyx Collective, Hulu)
Youngsters’s & youth
“Metropolis of Ghosts”
The “Ghost Membership” ventures round Los Angeles interviewing ghosts and studying concerning the metropolis’s multicultural historical past on this joyful, instructional, and wildly entertaining animated sequence. A Netflix Unique Sequence (Netflix)
“Colin in Black & White”
Colin Kaepernick narrates this youthful, coming-of-age drama about his upbringing as a soccer star aspiring to greatness, grappling along with his racial identification, and studying to face up for his beliefs. ARRAY for Netflix (Netflix)
Documentaries
“9to5: The Story of a Motion”
Administrators Julia Reichert and Steven Bognar inform the story of the real-life secretarial labor motion that impressed the hit 1980 movie and adjusted American workplaces without end. Working Girls Documentary Challenge LLC, ITVS (PBS)
“Attica”
By means of new interviews with survivors of the 1971 rebellion on the Attica Correctional Facility, in addition to observers, specialists, and authorities officers, this documentary sheds new mild on the violent standoff between Black and Latino inmates and legislation enforcement officers whereas highlighting the continuing want for jail reform. SHOWTIME Documentary Movies Presents A Firelight Movies Manufacturing, In Affiliation with Subject Studios (SHOWTIME)
“Altering the Recreation”
Highschool athletics have change into a key battleground within the struggle for trans rights, and this documentary highlights a number of who aren’t solely competing at high ranges but in addition difficult gender boundaries. Hulu, Superfilms Productions, Foton Footage, Glanzrock Productions (Hulu)
“Downing of a Flag”
PBS’s two-part sequence delves into how the Accomplice flag has affected the individuals, politics, and notion of South Carolina—and the way this displays America’s continued reckoning with its racial historical past. South Carolina ETV, Strategic Movies, Susie Movies (PBS)
“Exterminate All of the Brutes”
On this four-part docuseries, filmmaker Raoul Peck (“I Am Not Your Negro”) explores the devastating results of European colonialism, from Native American genocide and American slavery ahead, by way of its results in the present day. It unpacks three seminal works—Sven Lindqvist’s “Exterminate All of the Brutes,” Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz’s “An Indigenous Individuals’s Historical past of america,” and Michel-Rolph Trouillot’s “Silencing the Previous—Exterminate All of the Brutes”—by way of documentary footage, archival materials, animation, and interpretive scripted scenes. HBO/HBO Max (HBO/HBO Max)
“Excessive on the Hog: How African American Delicacies Reworked America”
This luxurious four-episode sequence traces the methods Black meals has influenced American tradition and historical past, guided by host and chef Stephen Satterfield. A One Story Up Manufacturing for Netflix (Netflix)
“Within the Identical Breath”
This eye-opening work, filled with shockingly highly effective footage, traces the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic because it begins in Wuhan, China, and reveals how cover-ups and misinformation scrambled worldwide response at the same time as some sought to name consideration to the reality. HBO Documentary Movies Presents a Motto Footage/Little Horse Crossing the River/ Little Lantern Firm Manufacturing (HBO/HBO Max)
“Lifetime of Crime 1984-2020” For 36 years, documentarian Jon Alpert adopted three associates from Newark, New Jersey, as they struggled with dependancy, jail stints, rehab, employment, and household. The result’s a heartbreaking portrait of the toll that medicine can tackle a life. HBO Documentary Movies in affiliation with DCTV (HBO/HBO Max)
“Lynching Postcards: ‘Token of a Nice Day’”
This chilling brief movie confronts America’s stunning racist historical past by way of the postcards attendees purchased, bought, and despatched to have a good time their time on the public lynchings of their Black neighbors within the nineteenth and twentieth centuries—a piece made all of the extra important by the truth that U.S. President Joe Biden solely only recently signed an anti-lynching legislation. MTV Documentary Movies, Firelight Movies, Peralta Footage (MTV Documentary Movies)
“Mayor”
Toggling between moments of banal paperwork and terrifying warfare, filmmaker David Osit captures the rhythms of life below occupation for Musa Hadid, the mayor of Palestine’s de facto capital of Ramallah. American Documentary: POV (PBS)
“Mr. SOUL!”
The behind-the-scenes story of “America’s first Black ‘Tonight Present,’” this celebratory movie dives into the general public tv selection present “SOUL!”, which ran from 1968 to 1973. “SOUL!” producer and host Ellis Haizlip introduced viewers an unapologetically Black expertise, recognizing up to date luminaries of Black literature, poetry, music, and politics. Footwear In The Mattress Productions, ITVS, Black Public Media (BPM) (PBS)
“My Title is Pauli Murray”
This documentary from the administrators of “RBG,” Julie Cohen and Betsy West, illuminates the exceptional—and remarkably little-known—lifetime of Pauli Murray, a nonbinary, Black lawyer, activist, and poet who influenced the work of Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Thurgood Marshall. Drexler Movies, Storyville Movies (Prime Video)
“Nuclear Household”
On this three-part sequence, filmmaker Ry Russo-Younger delves into her personal upbringing by two lesbian moms by way of sperm donor within the late Nineteen Seventies and early ‘80s, a time when LGBTQ mother and father had been uncommon. An sudden lawsuit induced her to rethink the that means of the phrase “household.” HBO Documentary Movies, Massive Seashore, Affect Companions, and Subject Studios current in affiliation with Sustainable Movies and BUNKER (HBO/HBO Max)
“Philly D.A.”
As riveting as any TV present, this eight-part docuseries introduces Larry Krasner, who spent 30 years combating the district legal professional’s workplace as a civil rights lawyer earlier than he was elected to the place himself—and thus faces the problem of his life, making an attempt to alter the system from inside. All Ages Productions, Division of Movement Footage, ITVS (PBS)
“Procession”
This arresting and weird movie by Robert Greene demonstrates the therapeutic energy of artwork and friendship as a bunch of males course of their sexual abuse by the hands of Catholic clergymen by way of fictionalized reenactments of their trauma. A Netflix Documentary / A 4th Row Movies Manufacturing in Partnership with Concordia Studios & Affect Companions in affiliation with Artemis Rising Basis (Netflix)
“The Queen of Basketball”
From government producers Shaquille O’Neal and Stephen Curry comes this engrossing profile of Lucy Harris, who scored the primary factors in girls’s Olympic basketball and was the primary girl formally drafted into the Nationwide Basketball Affiliation, however has remained extensively unknown. The New York Instances / Breakwater Studios (The New York Instances Op-Docs)
“Easy As Water”
4 Syrian households course of the aftermath of conflict on this documentary from Megan Mylan, filmed over 5 years in 5 international locations. The ensuing movie reveals how household bonds assist us to outlive the ravages of conflict, separation, and displacement. HBO Documentary Movies and Principe Productions in affiliation with Inmaat Productions, JustFilms/Ford Basis (HBO/HBO Max)
“Storm Lake”
As small-town newspapers wither and die within the web age, the household who runs The Storm Lake Instances in Iowa does every thing they’ll to maintain native journalism alive. This inspiring story reveals how onerous it’s, even for a Pulitzer Prize-winning paper that’s nationally famend due to its uncommon energy, because of the Iowa presidential caucuses. Complete Hog Movies, LLC, ITVS (PBS)
“A Thousand Cuts”
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is a grasp at weaponizing social media to unfold disinformation in his personal favor and towards his detractors. This gripping movie follows one among his prime targets, journalist Maria Ressa, as she battles him alongside together with her information website Rappler. FRONTLINE (PBS / GBH / FRONTLINE)
Leisure
“Bo Burnham: Inside”
Multi-faceted performer Bo Burnham affords up a comedy particular for the pandemic age: Made solely on his personal throughout lockdown, this mix of monologue, music, and sketch displays a time when so many wrestled with anxiousness, existential dread, and loneliness, giving viewers a method to giggle and relate by way of the ache. Netflix (Netflix)
“Dopesick”
Govt producers Danny Sturdy and Michael Keaton take viewers into the guts of the opioid disaster, exhibiting how one firm nefariously created the worst drug epidemic in American historical past by way of lies, PR, and good salesmanship. Additionally starring Keaton, Rosario Dawson, Peter Sarsgaard, and Kaitlyn Dever, the sprawling story contains the Sackler household operation behind the epidemic, the residents of a small Virginia mining group victimized by the false advertising, and the DEA brokers caught in between. Hulu, Danny Sturdy Productions, John Goldwyn Productions, The Littlefield Firm, twentieth Tv (Hulu)
“Hacks”
On this hilarious and insightful sequence, Jean Sensible performs an ageing standup comedian being sidelined from her longtime Vegas present. She begrudgingly hires a Gen Z comedy author, performed by Hannah Einbinder, who misplaced her job after a questionable tweet, permitting the ladies to work out generational variations in feminism, humor, and womanhood by way of their work collectively. Common Tv, a division of Common Studio Group, in affiliation with Paulilu, First Thought Productions, Fremulon Productions, 3 Arts Leisure (HBO/HBO Max)
“The Lengthy Music”
PBS’s “Masterpiece” miniseries fantastically adapts Andrea Levy’s novel concerning the finish of slavery in Jamaica, specializing in July, an enslaved girl on a sugarcane plantation who’s unflinching within the face of her unbearable mistress, Caroline. Heyday Tv, which is a part of Common Worldwide Studios, a division of Common Studio Group (PBS)
“Solely Murders within the Constructing”
This one-of-a-kind mystery-comedy options the famous person, intergenerational trio of Steve Martin, Martin Quick, and Selena Gomez taking part in lonely misfits in a fancy New York Metropolis residence constructing who be a part of forces hoping to unravel a homicide of their advanced—and make a true-crime podcast about all of it. Hulu, twentieth Tv (Hulu)
“Pen15”
Creator-stars Maya Erskine and Anna Konkle conclude their distinctive two-season center college comedy as adults taking part in their 13-year-old selves within the yr 2000. It’s as uncomfortable—and relatable—as ever. Hulu, Awesomeness TV, Odenkirk Provissiero, Lonely Island Classics (Hulu)
“Reservation Canine”
With a younger forged filled with contemporary discoveries, this sequence follows the on a regular basis lives of 4 indigenous teenagers in rural Oklahoma as they steal, scrimp, and save their approach towards their dream life in faraway California. FX Productions (FX)
“Kind Of”
This absolutely inhabited portrait of a floundering 20-something facilities a nonbinary character, Sabi, however makes gender just one a part of their total seek for identification as a Pakistani-Canadian nanny, bartender, sister, buddy, and grownup. Sienna Movies Inc (HBO Max)
“Station Eleven”
This post-apocalyptic drama primarily based on Emily St. John Mandel’s novel follows a number of characters by way of a devastating flu pandemic and its aftermath 20 years later as they attempt to rebuild group by way of artwork, regardless of opposition from a violent cult with a charismatic chief. HBO Max presents a Paramount Tv Studios Manufacturing in affiliation with Tractor Beam Productions, Shadowfox Productions, Stone Village Tv, Inc., Pacesetter Productions, and Tremendous Frog (HBO/HBO Max)
“The Underground Railroad”
Barry Jenkins created this fantasy/historic drama primarily based on the e book by Colson Whitehead, telling the magical realist story of Cora, an enslaved girl in Georgia, using an imagined underground railroad—trains and all—to freedom. Plan B, PASTEL, Massive Indie with Amazon Studios (Amazon Prime)
“We Are Woman Elements”
This contemporary, feel-good comedy follows the lives and loves of a four-girl Muslim punk band in London, full with rollicking performances of authentic songs (“Bashir With the Good Beard,” “Voldemort Underneath My Scarf”) co-written by the present’s creator, Nida Manzoor, together with her siblings. Working Title Tv, part of Common Worldwide Studios, a division of Common Studio Group (Peacock)
“The Marvel Years”
This new tackle the Eighties sequence of the identical identify facilities a Black boy named Dean Williams as he comes of age within the late Nineteen Sixties in Montgomery, Alabama. It’s the uncommon reboot to sort out severe points, corresponding to Martin Luther King Jr.’s dying and the Civil Rights motion, whereas additionally permitting for candy nostalgia. twentieth Tv (ABC)
“Yellowjackets”
An distinctive highschool women’ soccer workforce goes “Lord of the Flies” when their aircraft crashes within the wilderness within the Nineties, then reunites 25 years later on this chilling examination of feminine friendship and lingering trauma. SHOWTIME Presents, Leisure One (SHOWTIME)
Information
“Afghanistan: Documenting A Essential Yr”
BBC World Information America goes in-depth on the trouble to finish america’ longest conflict. BBC World Information (BBC World Information America)
“American Riot”
This examination of far-right extremism in America traces the trail from the lethal 2017 Charlottesville rally to the January 6, 2021, rebel on the U.S. Capitol, in a reporting collaboration amongst “Frontline,” ProPublica, and Berkeley Journalism’s Investigative Reporting Program. FRONTLINE, ProPublica, and Berkeley Journalism’s Investigative Reporting Program (PBS / GBH / FRONTLINE)
“The Appointment”
A “Nightline” crew goes alongside on a younger Texas girl’s journey throughout state strains to hunt an abortion, exhibiting the methods more and more strict legal guidelines in some states require girls to go to extremes in exercising their authorized proper to decide on. ABC Information Nightline (ABC Information Nightline)
“Day of Rage: How Trump Supporters Took the U.S. Capitol”
This brief documentary forensic movie is the end result of a six-month investigation through which The New York Instances compiled 1000’s of movies and police audio from the January 6 riot on the U.S. Capitol to type an entire image of what occurred that day. The New York Instances (The New York Instances)
“Escaping Eritrea”
“Nightline” carried out an unprecedented investigation into the repressive regime of Eritrea, producing secret footage and interviews that reveal torture, unjust imprisonment, and compelled conscription. FRONTLINE, Channel 4 (PBS / GBH / FRONTLINE)
“The Healthcare Divide”
“Frontline” and NPR expose the inequalities within the American healthcare system exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, exhibiting how monetary pressures and uneven authorities help have furthered the variations between rich and poor hospitals and sufferers. FRONTLINE, NPR, Investigative Reporting Workshop (PBS / GBH / FRONTLINE)
“Inside Yemen”
PBS NewsHour’s particular correspondent Jane Ferguson goes to the frontlines with Yemeni troopers as they struggle Iran-backed Houthi rebels after U.S. president Joe Biden introduced an finish to American help for the Saudi Arabia-led coalition. PBS NewsHour (PBS NewsHour)
“January sixth Reporting”
“PBS NewsHour” correspondent Lisa Desjardins was the one journalist reporting stay from contained in the Capitol as insurrectionists stormed the constructing on January 6, 2021, to disrupt the counting of Electoral School votes that licensed Joe Biden as the subsequent President of america. Desjardins’ brave reporting supplied a significant doc of a important turning level in American democracy. PBS NewsHour (PBS NewsHour)
“‘The Mothers of Magnolia Avenue’”
Considered one of two items from NBC Bay Space that investigates the challenges of homeless mother and father. “The Mothers of Magnolia Avenue” paperwork how a bunch of unhoused moms in Oakland banded collectively to seek out—and struggle for—a novel answer to the world’s affordability disaster. NBC Bay Space (NBC Bay Space)
“Nima Elbagir: Human Rights Investigations in Ethiopia”
CNN’s chief worldwide investigative correspondent, Nima Elbagir, uncovered widespread human rights atrocities by Ethiopian and Eritrean troops within the Tigray area. CNN, Elephant Media (CNN)
“No Man’s Land: Combating for Fatherhood in a Damaged System”
Considered one of two items from NBC Bay Space that investigates the challenges of homeless mother and father. “No Man’s Land” follows a number of males as they struggle desperately to care for his or her youngsters however are repeatedly turned away from homeless shelters and providers due to inherent biases within the system towards single fathers. NBC Bay Space (NBC Bay Space)
“Politically Charged”
Arizona’s ABC15 investigated Phoenix police and the Maricopa County Legal professional’s Workplace, uncovering proof that officers invented a fictional gang and gave different false testimony to prosecute the activists protesting towards them. ABC15 Arizona (KNXV) (ABC15 Arizona (KNXV))
“PRONE”
Denver’s KUSA-TV spent two years investigating using the susceptible place in arrests throughout the nation after George Floyd died handcuffed and facedown, pinned below an officer’s knee. The workforce—with contributions from reporters in eight different cities—discovered at the least 130 different related instances since 2010 and constructed a database documenting their findings, which might then be utilized by different information stations in different cities. After variations of the documentary aired in Denver and Minneapolis, each police departments mandated extra coaching concerning the risks of one of these restraint. KUSA (KUSA)
“‘So They Knew We Existed’: Palestinians Movie Warfare in Gaza”
Palestinians in Gaza used their telephones to movie the 11-day conflict there in Might 2021 between Israel and Hamas. The New York Instances spoke to a few of them and shared their footage in addition to their tales. As one stated: “I eliminated the password from my cellphone in order that if we didn’t make it out, and we had been killed, individuals would know what occurred to us. In order that they know we existed.” The New York Instances (The New York Instances)
“Transnational”
This VICE sequence covers transgender communities world wide, from India’s solely Quran college for trans Muslims and the Detroit ballroom scene to trans activists combating for U.Ok. well being protection and Mexico’s first shelter constructed by and for trans people who find themselves former intercourse staff. VICE Information (VICE Information Tonight)
Podcast/radio
“Blindspot: Tulsa Burning”
WNYC and the Historical past Channel revisit the 1921 white supremacist mob assault on Tulsa’s thriving Black enterprise district of Greenwood with the hindsight of a century previous and renewed curiosity within the buried components of America’s racial historical past. The HISTORY Channel / WNYC Studios / KOSU (WNYC Studios)
“Dig: The Mannequin Metropolis”
This joint effort between Kentucky Middle for Investigative Reporting and Newsy studies on how Louisville’s bold plans to rework police relations with the Black group disintegrated to the purpose that, 5 years later, town grew to become a nationwide flashpoint when officers killed Breonna Taylor in her residence. The investigation reveals important errors that inform the continuing nationwide debate over police reform. Kentucky Middle for Investigative Reporting and Newsy (WFPL Information Louisville)
“Finn and the Bell”
Rumble Strip Vermont host Erica Heilman dives deep into the lifetime of Finn Rooney, a young person who died by suicide in 2020, and the small Vermont group he left behind combating the tragedy. Rumble Strip (Rumble Strip)
“Half Vaxxed”
This WHYY sequence tells the riveting story of a 22-year-old with no healthcare expertise who talked his approach right into a COVID-19 vaccine distribution deal in hopes of creating hundreds of thousands. As a substitute, his firm collapsed, leaving 1000’s ready for vaccines that by no means got here. This podcast considers how he ended up with a lot energy and whether or not he was a rip-off artist—or a mere incompetent opportunist. WHYY and Billy Penn (WHYY)
“The Enchancment Affiliation”
Former President Donald Trump’s “Massive Lie” is shot by way of an area lens as Serial Productions examines “a real story about election fraud” in Bladen County, North Carolina, and divulges the racial fault strains and coded messages on the coronary heart of discussions about electoral legitimacy. Serial Productions (The New York Instances)
“The Lazarus Heist”
BBC goes deep on the sprawling, epic story of the hacking ring that started with the 2014 launch of inner Sony emails that rocked Hollywood and was blamed on North Korea—however went a lot wider and deeper, together with an try to steal a billion {dollars}. Lengthy Kind Audio, BBC Information for BBC World Service (BBC World Service)
“Mississippi Goddam: The Ballad of Billey Joe”
Reveal host Al Letson makes good on a promise to seek out out what actually occurred to Billey Joe Johnson Jr., a Black excessive schooler whose goals of going to school and taking part in professional soccer ended when he died throughout a 2008 site visitors cease. Authorities stated he died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound through the confrontation with a white sheriff’s deputy, however the boy’s household at all times had doubts. Reveal from the Middle for Investigative Reporting and PRX (public radio stations nationwide, the Reveal podcast, distributed by PRX)
“Radiotopia Presents: S***gap Nation”
Radiotopia’s eight-part sequence includes a younger Bay Space girl, Afia Kaakyire, as she grapples with an intriguing dilemma: Ought to she transfer to her mother and father’ homeland of Ghana, the place they’ll put her up in an residence of their advanced rent-free, or hold struggling to make ends meet as a inventive employee in a vastly overpriced rental market in a rustic grappling with its racist previous (and current)? Radiotopia from PRX (Radiotopia from PRX)
“Southlake”
NBC Information dives into battles over racism and the educating of American historical past by way of a racial lens in probably the greatest college districts in Texas. NBC Information Audio (NBC Information)
“This Land – Season 2”
The Crooked Media sequence, hosted by Native journalist Rebecca Nagle, appears into how the far proper is utilizing Native youngsters, by way of a important adoption dispute in Texas, to destroy American Indian tribes from inside. The deep investigation is a testomony to the ability of the press and the Freedom of Data Act to disclose unsettling truths. Crooked Media, Crucial Frequency (Crooked Media)
“Throughline”
This NPR sequence plumbs the historical past behind present headlines to offer mandatory historic context, from American Socialism and Ayn Rand to Y2K and the Arab Spring. Throughline (podcast platforms)
