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News & Documentary Emmy Nods Announced

By Tom White


Here, believe it or not, is an abbreviated list of the News & Documentary Emmy Awards nominations, which come out of the New York-based National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences; tyou can find out about the nods for the Prime Time Emmy Awards, under the auspices of the Los Angeles-based National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, click here.

PBS led the way with 41 News & Docs nominations, followed by CBS, with 23; ABC, 13; National Geographic Channel, 12; and HBO/Cinemax., 12. For a complete list of all the nominations, click here.

OUTSTANDING CONTINUING COVERAGE OF A NEWS STORY‑‑LONG FORM

ABC News Special : China Inside Out )
Executive Producer: Tom Yellin
Senior Producer: Kayce Jennings
Producer: Gabrielle Tenenbaum
Reporter: Bob Woodruff

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

FRONTLINE The War Briefing (PBS)
Executive Producer: David Fanning
Producer: Marcela Gaviria
Co‑Producer: Will Cohen
Correspondent: Martin Smith

Wide Angle: Birth of a Surgeon (PBS)
Executive Producer: Pamela Hogan
Senior Producer: Nina Chaudry
Producer: Loui Bernal
Co‑Executive Producer: Moises Naim
Producer/Director: Helen Fitzwilliam

National Geographic Explorer: Gorilla Murders (National Geographic Channel)
Executive Producer: Jonathan Halperin
Senior Producer: Robert Zakin
Series Producer: Max Salomon
Producer/Director: Michael Davie

P.O.V.: The Ballad of Esequiel Hernandez (PBS)
Director: Kieran Fitzgerald
Producer: Brendan Fitzgerald
Executive Producers: Peter Gilbert, Michael Fitzgerald
Executive Director: Patricia Boero
Executive Producer for POV/American Documentary Inc.: Simon Kilmurry

OUTSTANDING INFORMATIONAL PROGRAMMING ‑- LONG FORM

FRONTLINE : Growing Up Online (PBS)
Executive Producer: David Fanning
Producer/Directors: Rachael Dretzin, John Maggio

HBO Documentary Films: Resolved (HBO)
Executive Producers: Sarah Clark, Mark Iola Clark, Lisa Kraus, Peter Kraus, Sheila Nevins, Marc Stanley, Wendy Stanley, Andy Waters, Liz Waters
Senior Producer: Nancy Abraham
Producer/Director: Greg Whiteley

HBO Documentary Films: The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo (HBO)
Executive Producers: Diana Barrett, Sheila Nevins
Supervising Producer: Nancy Abraham
Producer/Director: Lisa Jackson

Independent Lens: Hard Road Home (PBS)
Executive Producer: Sally Jo Fifer
Producer: Selina Lewis Davidson
Director: Macky Alston

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

P.O.V. In The Family (PBS)
Director/Producer: Joanna Rudnick
Executive Producers: Sally Jo Fifer, Simon Kilmurry, Gordon Quinn
Co‑Producer: Beth Iams

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

Documenting the Face of America: Roy Stryker and the FSA/OWI Photographers (PBS)
Producer: Jeanine Butler
Co‑Producers: Catherine Butler, Alastair Reill

Koppel on Discovery: The Last Lynching (Discovery Channel)
Executive Producer: Tom Bettag
Senior Producer: Hallye Galbraith
Producers: James Blue, Steve Cain, Lete Childs, Peter Demchuck, Bob Fahringer, Guy Federico, Jay LaMonica, Elissa Rubin, Alissa Shapiro
Anchor/Correspondent: Ted Koppel

MSNBC Films: Witness to Jonestown (MSNBC)
Executive Producers: Benjamin Ringe, Knute Walker
Senior Executive Producer: Scott Hooker
Senior Producers: Daniel Bregman, Vicki Sufian
Producer: Stephen Stept
Vice President ‑ Long Form Programming: Michael Rubin

P.O.V. :The Judge and the General(PBS)
Director/Producer: Patricio Lanfranco
Executive Producers: Sally Jo Fifer, Simon Kilmurry, Richard Pearce Producer/Director: Elizabeth Farnsworth
Executive Director: Patricia Boero

The Rape of Europa (PBS)
Producer/Directors: Richard Berge, Bonni Cohen, Nicole Newnham

OUTSTANDING ARTS & CULTURE PROGRAMMING

60 Minutes: Alec Baldwin (PBS)
Executive Producer: Jeff Fager
Senior Broadcast Producer: Bill Owens
Executive Editor: Patti Hassler
Producers: Deirdre Naphin Curran, Katy Textor
Correspondent: Morley Safer

ABC News 20/20: Drama High (ABC)
Executive Producer: David Sloan
Senior Broadcast Producer: Jessica Velmans
Producers: Bram Harris, Muriel Pearson

Cinemax Reel Life: Salim Baba (HBO)
Producers: Francisco Bello, Raja Dey, Scott Mosier
Director: Tim Sternberg

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

In The Footsteps of Marco Polo (PBS)
Executive Producers: Tom Casciato, Josh Nathan, Stephen Segaller, Lisa Taylor‑Belliveau
Senior Producer: Eva Anisko
Producer/Directors: Denis Belliveau, Francis O'Donnell
Producer: Emir Lewis

P.O.V.: Belarusian Waltz (PBS)
Executive Producers: Sally Jo Fifer, Miroslaw Grubek, Therese Jebsen, Simon Kilmurry, Jan Ramstad, Krzysztof Talczewski
Producer: Torstein Grude
Director: Andrezj Fidyk

OUTSTANDING SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND NATURE PROGRAMMING

EVOLVE: Eyes (History Channel)
Executive Producers: Charles Nordlander, Beth Hoppe
Series Producers: Jonathan Grupper, Neil Laird
Producers: Stephanie Angelides, Kurt Tondorf

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

NOVA : Ape Genius (PBS)
Executive Producer: John Bredar
Senior Executive Producer: Paula Apsell
Senior Series Producer: Melanie Wallace
Supervising Producer: James Donald
Producer/Director: John Rubin

NOVA: Secrets of the Parthenon (PBS)
Senior Executive Producer: Paula Apsell
Senior Series Producer: Melanie Wallace
Producer: Gary Glassman

Secrets of the Dead: Doping for Gold (PBS)
Executive Producers: Phil Craig, Sally Jo Fifer, Jared Lipworth
Producer/Director: Alison Rooper

BEST DOCUMENTARY

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

HBO Documentary Films: China's Stolen Children (HBO)
Executive Producers: Sheila Nevins, Kevin Sutcliffe
Supervising Producers: Nancy Abraham, Mark Roberts
Producers: Kate Blewett, Brian Woods
Director: Jezza Neumann

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

National Geographic Explorer: Gorilla Murders (National Geographic Channel)
Executive Producer: Jonathan Halperin
Senior Producer: Robert Zakin
Series Producer: Max Salomon
Producer/Director: Michael Davie

The Devil Came on Horseback (National Geographic Channel)
Producers: Gretchen Wallace, Jane Wells
Directors: Ricki Stern, Annie Sundberg

P.O.V.: Inheritance (PBS)
Executive Producers: Simon Kilmurry, Chris Malachowsky, Ryan Malachowsky
Producer/Director: James Moll
Producer: Christopher Pavlick

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

FRONTLINE :Bush's War Timeline (pbs.org/frontlline)
Executive Producer: David Fanning
Producer/Director: Michael Kirk
Co‑Producer: Mike Wiser
Web Producer: Andrew Ott, Sarah Moughty
Editorial Director: Marrie Campbell
Director of New Media & Technology: Sam Bailey

Intended Consequences (Mediastorm.org)
Executive Producer: Brian Storm
Producers: Pamela Chen, Xiaoming Jia, Tim Klimowicz, Bob Sacha, Chad Stevens
Reporters: Jules Shell, Jonathan Torgovnik

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
Photoojournalist: Joshua Cogan
Interactive Producer: Josh Goldblum

P.O.V. : Ars Magna (PBS)
Producer: Sean Roach
Director: Cory Kelley

Tate Liverpool: The One That Spoke To Me (tate.org)
Producer: Martin Percy

Tate Modern : Tate Street Art (Tate.org)
Producer: Martin Percy

Vanguard : Lost In Democracy (Current TV)
Producer: Mike Shen
Producer/Correspondent: Christof Putzel

OUTSTANDING INDIVIDUAL ACHIEVEMENT IN A CRAFT: WRITING

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

HBO Documentary Films: The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo (HBO)
Writer: Lisa Jackson

MSNBC Films: Witness to Jonestown (MSNBC)
Writer: Stephen Stept

Take One Step: The Truth About Cancer (PBS)
Writer: Linda Garmon

OUTSTANDING INDIVIDUAL ACHIEVEMENT IN A CRAFT: RESEARCH

Cinemax Reel Life: Nanking(HBO)
Researchers: Marina Brodskaya, Violet Du Feng, Joann Jacobs, Zachary Leonsis, Dylan Nelson, Wan‑Shun Shih, Katie Strand, Izumi Tanaka, Makiko Waka

D‑Day: The True Story of Omaha Beach (Smithsonian Channel)
Researchers: Georgina Leslie, Simon Trew

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

NOVA : Ape Genius (PBS)
Researcher: John Rubin, Jonathan Sacks

P.O.V./American Documentary : Traces of the Trade (PBS)
Researchers: Jennifer Anderson, Catherine Benedict, Katrina Browne, Beth Sternheimer

The Rape of Europa (PBS)
Researchers: Sergei Beck, Richard Berge, Bonni Cohen, Linda Davis‑Garkow, Elena Franchi, Alexander Kandaurov, Andrzej Lewandowski, Nicholas Lynn, Monica Nagele‑Dreher, Nicole Newnham, Sabine Ranft, Bonni Rowan, Camille Servan‑Schreiber

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

NATURE:Crash: A Tale of Two Species(PBS)
Camerapersons: Michael Male, Chris Szwedo, Andrew Young

NATURE:White Falcon, White Wolf (PBS)
Camerapersons: Ian McCarthy, Mark Smit

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

Koppel on Discovery: The People's Republic of Capitalism (Discovery Channel) Director of Photography: Robert Goldsborough

National Geographic Explorer: Gorilla Murders (National Geographic Channel)
Cinematographer: Erin Harvey

P.O.V.: Up the Yangtze (PBS)
Director of Photography: Wang Shi Qing

OUTSTANDING INDIVIDUAL ACHIEVEMENT IN A CRAFT: EDITING

The Devil Came on Horseback (National Geographic Channel)
Editor: Joey Grossfield

HBO Documentary Films: Resolved (HBO) Editors: Brad Barber, Tom Runquist, Greg Whiteley

National Geographic Explorer: Gorilla Murders (National Geographic Channel)
Editors: Christine Jameson‑Henry, Max Salomon, Salvatore Vecchio

P.O.V.: Soldiers of Conscience (PBS)
Editors: Gary Weimberg , Josh Peterson

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

OUTSTANDING INDIVIDUAL ACHIEVEMENT IN A CRAFT: MUSIC & SOUND

The Devil Came on Horseback (National Geographic Channel)
Composer: Paul Brill
Sound Mixer: Tom Efinger
Sound Designer: Rusty Dunn
Sound Editor: Brad Bergbom

Superpride (National Geographic Channel)
Composers: Mac Squier, Lenny Williams

When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions-Landing the Eagle (Discovery Channel)
Composer: Richard Blair-Oliphant
Sound Designer: Peter Baldock
Dubbing Mixer: Cliff Jones
Conductor/Orchestration: Ben Wallfisch
Additional Music: Jody Jenkins
Music Recording Engineer: Geoff Foster
Post Production Supervisor: Richard Lloyd
Music Supervisor: Hilary Skewes
Supervising Music Editor: Richard Todman
Music Editor: Peter Clarke

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