Gotham TV Award for Breakthrough Nonfiction Series | |
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Country | United States |
Presented by | The Gotham Film & Media Institute |
First awarded | 2021 |
Currently held by | We Need to Talk About Cosby (2022) |
Website | tvawards |
The Gotham TV Award for Breakthrough Nonfiction Series is one of the annual Gotham TV Awards and was first awarded in 2021. [1] Originally given out at the main Gotham Awards, it was announced in April 2024 that the award would be presented as part of the 1st Gotham TV Awards, effectively reintroducing it as one of the Gotham TV Awards after the category had not been presented at the previous main Gotham Awards ceremony. [2]
Year | Program | Creator(s) | Network | Ref. |
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2021 | Philly D.A. | Ted Passon, Yoni Brook, Nicole Salazar | PBS | [3] [4] |
City So Real | – | NatGeo | ||
Exterminate All the Brutes | – | HBO/HBO Max | ||
How To with John Wilson | John Wilson | |||
Pride | – | FX | ||
2022 | We Need to Talk About Cosby | W. Kamau Bell | Showtime | [5] |
The Andy Warhol Diaries | – | Netflix | ||
The Last Movie Stars | – | HBO Max/CNN Films | ||
Mind Over Murder | Nanfu Wang | HBO/HBO Max | ||
The Rehearsal | Nathan Fielder | HBO Max | ||
2023 | Not awarded | [6] | ||
2024 | Black Twitter: A People's History | – | Hulu | [7] |
Jerrod Carmichael Reality Show | – | HBO | ||
Life on Our Planet | – | Netflix | ||
Murder in Boston: Roots, Rampage, and Reckoning | – | HBO | ||
Stax: Soulsville U.S.A. | – |
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