Gotham Independent Film Award for Breakthrough Nonfiction Series

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Gotham TV Award for Breakthrough Nonfiction Series
Country United States
Presented by The Gotham Film & Media Institute
First awarded2021
Currently held by We Need to Talk About Cosby (2022)
Website tvawards.thegotham.org

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]

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Winners and nominees

2020s

YearProgramCreator(s)NetworkRef.
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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