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PBS Leads News & Docs Emmy Winners

By Tom White


PBS took six News & Documentary Emmy Awards at the ceremony in New York City last night, with honors going to FRONTLINE, P.O.V., NOVA and Bill Moyers Journal. HBO added to its trophy case of Creative Arts and Primetime Emmys, with four, including two to the Academy Award-winning Taxi to the Dark Side. The leading multi-award winning program was Travel Channel's Wild China, with three awards.

For the complete list of winners, click here.

OUTSTANDING CONTINUING COVERAGE OF A NEWS STORY‑‑LONG FORM

FRONTLINE: Bush's War (PBS)
Executive Producer: David Fanning
Producer/Director: Michael Kirk
Producer/Reporter: Jim Gilmore
Co‑Producer: Mike Wiser

OUTSTANDING INFORMATIONAL PROGRAMMING ‑- LONG FORM

NOVA: A Walk to Beautiful(PBS)
Executive Producer / Producer: Steve Engel
Senior Executive Producer: Paula Apsell
Senior Series Producer: Melanie Wallace Producer/Director: Mary Olive Smith
Co‑Producer: Allison Shigo
Director: Amy Bucher

OUTSTANDING HISTORICAL PROGRAMMING ‑-LONG FORM

Cinemax Reel Life: Nanking(HBO)
Producer/Director: Bill Guttentag
Producers: Michael Jacobs, Ted Leonsis
Co‑Producer: Violet Du Feng
Director: Dan Sturman

OUTSTANDING INTERVIEW

P.O.V.: Inheritance (PBS)

Producer/Director: James Moll
Producer: Christopher Pavlick
Executive Producers: Chris Malachowsky, Ryan Malachowsky, Simon Kilmurry

OUTSTANDING ARTS & CULTURE PROGRAMMING

HBO Documentary Films: The Art of Failure: Chuck Connelly Not For Sale (HBO)
Executive Producers: Diana Holtzberg, Sheila Nevins
Supervising Producer: Sara Bernstein
Producer/Director: Jeff Stimmel

OUTSTANDING SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND NATURE PROGRAMMING

National Geographic Channel Presents: Five Years on Mars
Executive Producer: Howard Swartz
Producer/Director: Mark Davis
Senior Vice President, Production: Michael Cascio

BEST DOCUMENTARY

HBO Documentary Films: Taxi to the Dark Side (HBO
Executive Producers: Sidney Blumenthal, Don Glascoff, Robert Johnson, Jedd Wider, Todd Wider
Producer/Director: Alex Gibney
Producers: Eva Orner, Susannah Shipman
Co‑Producers: Blair Foster, Sloane Klevin

NEW APPROACHES TO NEWS & DOCUMENTARY PROGRAMMING: DOCUMENTARIES

The Boys of Christ Child House (Freep.com/Detroit Free Press)
Producer/Senior Videographer: Brian Kaufman
Lead Photojournalist: Kathleen Galligan
Photojournalist: Regina Boone
Executive Producer: Kathy Kieliszewski
Reporter: Robin Erb
Video Executive Producer: Craig Porter
Managing Editor, Digital Media: Nancy Andrews
Web Producer: James Thomas

NEW APPROACHES TO NEWS & DOCUMENTARY PROGRAMMING: ARTS, LIFESTYLE & CULTURE

Hope: Living and Loving with HIV in Jamaica (Livehopelove.com)
Executive Producer: Jon Sawyer
Co‑Producers: Nathalie Applewhite, Stephen Sapienza
Correspondent: Kwame Dawes
Videojournalist: Doug Gritzmacher
Photojournalist: Joshua Cogan
Interactive Producer: Josh Goldblum

OUTSTANDING INDIVIDUAL ACHIEVEMENT IN A CRAFT: WRITING

Bill Moyers Journal: Essays ‑ Gilded Age, It Was Oil, Memorial Day (PBS)
Writers: Bill Moyers, Michael Winship

OUTSTANDING INDIVIDUAL ACHIEVEMENT IN A CRAFT: RESEARCH

HBO Documentary Films: Taxi to the Dark Side (HBO
Researchers: Salimah El Amin, Blair Foster

OUTSTANDING INDIVIDUAL ACHIEVEMENT IN A CRAFT: CINEMATOGRAPHY‑‑NATURE DOCUMENTARIES

Wild China: Heart of the Dragon (Travel Channel)
Camerapersons: John Aitchison, Mike Lemmon, Justin Maguire, Gavin Newman

OUTSTANDING INDIVIDUAL ACHIEVEMENT IN A CRAFT: CINEMATOGRAPHY

FRONTLINE: The War Briefing
Cameraperson: Timothy Grucza

OUTSTANDING INDIVIDUAL ACHIEVEMENT IN A CRAFT: EDITING

Wild China: Shangri-La (Travel Channel)
Editors: Andy Netley, Steve Olive

OUTSTANDING INDIVIDUAL ACHIEVEMENT IN A CRAFT: GRAPHIC DESIGN & ART DIRECTION

Illicit: The Dark Trade (PBS)
Art Director: Ricardo Andrade
Visual Effects Supervisor: Elizabeth Andrade
Animators: Wen Zhong Yuan, James Nidel
3D Animator: Chris Jennings

OUTSTANDING INDIVIDUAL ACHIEVEMENT IN A CRAFT: MUSIC & SOUND

Wild China: Heart of the Dragon (Travel Channel)
Composer: Barnaby Taylor