The following is a list of George Foster Peabody Award winners and honorable mentions during the decade of the 2020s.
Recipient | Area of excellence |
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Institutional honors [1] | |
ARRAY | Honored for "amplifying film and TV projects by people of color and women filmmakers" |
Career achievement honors [2] | |
Sam Pollard | Honored for "chronicling the Black experience and illuminating complicated historical figures across film and television" over a more than 30-year career |
Journalistic Integrity Award honors [3] | |
Judy Woodruff | Honored for being a "trailblazer for women journalists and a role model committed to illuminating the truth at any cost" |
Special commendation [3] | |
Journalism crews | Honored for their work in 2020 amidst such events as the COVID-19 pandemic and the George Floyd protests |
Entertainment honorees | |
HBO in association with BBC, Various Artists Limited and FALKNA | I May Destroy You [4] |
La Casa de Producción | La Llorona [5] |
BBC Studios Americas, Inc. and Amazon Studios | Small Axe [6] |
Apple/Doozer Productions in association with Warner Bros. Television and Universal Television | Ted Lasso [7] |
Showtime Presents Blumhouse Television, Mark 924 Entertainment, Under the Influence Productions | The Good Lord Bird [8] |
CBS Studios | The Late Show with Stephen Colbert [9] |
Studio Airlift and Real Film for Netflix | Unorthodox [10] |
Children's & Youth honorees | |
Apple/Scholastic Entertainment/Gaumont | Stillwater [11] |
Disney Television Animation | The Owl House [12] |
Documentary honorees | |
76 Days LLC/MTV Documentary Films | 76 Days [13] |
CAAM, WETA, Flash Cuts, LLC., Tajima-Peña Productions, ITVS | Asian Americans [14] |
Alexander Nanau Production, Samsa Film, HBO Europe | Collective [15] |
A Higher Ground and Rusted Spoke Production in association with Little Punk/Just Films/Ford Foundation for Netflix | Crip Camp [16] |
A Reel Peak Films Production for Netflix | Immigration Nation [17] |
A Danish Documentary Production, in co-production with Ma.Ja.De, Hecat Studio Paris, Madam Films for National Geographic Documentary Films | The Cave [18] |
Concordia Studio, GB Feature, LLC and Amazon Studios | Time [19] |
Public Square Films, Ninety Thousand Words, Maylo Films, BBC Storyville and HBO Documentary Films | Welcome to Chechnya [20] |
News honorees | |
ABC News 20/20 and The Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY) | "Say Her Name: Breonna Taylor," a documentary that explored Taylor's life, her killing at the hands of police, and the protests that followed (Michael Strahan, Deborah Roberts, and Byron Pitts, correspondents) [21] |
Frontline | China Undercover, a documentary directed by Robin Barnwell detailing China's human rights abuses of Muslims, mostly Uyghurs, and its implications around the world [22] |
Frontline, Columbia Journalism Investigations, USA Today Network | "Whose Votes Counts," which examines the legal battles over absentee ballots during the 2020 Wisconsin elections and its ramifications for modern-day voting rights (produced by Tom Jennings, directed by June Cross, and narrated by Jelani Cobb) [23] |
KNXV-TV/Phoenix, AZ | "Full Disclosure," a documentary that detailed the "Brady list" system that tracks Arizona cops' history of lying and committing crimes, and how it is broken in terms of transparency and accountability (Dave Biscobing, reporter/correspondent) [24] |
Fuuse Films for ITV | Exposure , for Muslim in Trump's America [25] |
PBS NewsHour | Award for its coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic, in particular for the reports "Global Pandemic" (reported by Nick Schifrin, Jane Ferguson, Malcolm Brabant, Marcia Biggs, Bruce Harrison, Michael Baleke, and Max Duncan) and "Making Sense: The Victims of the COVID Economy" (reported by Paul Solman) [26] |
"Desperate Journey," a report by Nadja Drost which covers migrants and refugees traveling the Darién Gap along the Colombia-Panama border [27] | |
Vice News | Vice on Showtime, for "Losing Ground," a report by Alzo Slade which examines heir properties and its effects on African-American land owners [28] |
Podcast & Radio honorees | |
The Atlantic | Floodlines [29] |
Nashville Public Radio | Season two of The Promise (reported by Meribah Knight), which explores Nashville's fight against desegregation in terms of inequalities between Black and white schools [30] |
The Washington Post | Post Reports for "The Life of George Floyd," which chronicles Floyd's life, his family, and how systemic racism played a role in his death (Martine Powers, Ted Muldoon, Arelis Hernández, Toluse Olorunnipa, Robert Samuels, reporters/correspondents) [31] |
Public Service honorees | |
Chemical Soup, Lawrence Bender Productions, Netflix | Cops and Robbers, a live-action/animated short film created in response to the murder of Ahmaud Arbery and police brutality in general [32] |
KING-TV/Seattle, WA | Facing Race, a series that tackles issues of racism, racial inequality and racial privilege and its effects on residents of Seattle and its surrounding communities [33] |
Recipient | Area of excellence | |
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Career achievement honors [34] | ||
Dan Rather | Award for Rather's six-decade career as a journalist, "a textbook example not just of what quality reporting looks like, but how journalists serve democracy well" | |
Journalistic Integrity Award honors [34] | ||
TV Rain (Dozhd) | Award for "Russia's last independent television channel" [35] | |
Special commendation [34] | ||
Journalists and filmmakers in dangerous locales | Commendation for "courageous storytellers" who have risked their lives or died "in their line of duty to bring the truth to the world" | |
Institutional honors [36] | ||
Fresh Air [37] | Award for "being recognized for its rich conversation for over 35 years, becoming the indispensable place for listeners to engage with many of the most beloved artists who have shaped society over the last century" | |
Entertainment honorees | ||
Netflix | Bo Burnham: Inside [38] | |
Hulu, Danny Strong Productions, John Goldwyn Productions, The Littlefield Company, 20th Television | Dopesick [39] | |
Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group, in association with Paulilu, First Thought Productions, Fremulon Productions, 3 Arts Entertainment | Hacks [40] | |
FX Productions | Reservation Dogs [41] | |
Sphere Media Toronto | Sort Of [42] | |
Plan B, PASTEL, Big Indie with Amazon Studios | The Underground Railroad [43] | |
Working Title Television, a part of Universal International Television, a division of Universal Studio Group | We Are Lady Parts [44] | |
20th Television | The Wonder Years [45] | |
Children's and Youth honoree | ||
Netflix | City of Ghosts [46] | |
Documentary honorees | ||
Frontline with CineDiaz, Motto Pictures and Concordia Studio | A Thousand Cuts [47] | |
HBO Presents a Velvet Film Production | Exterminate All the Brutes [48] | |
A One Story Up Production and Pilgrim Media Group for Netflix | High on the Hog: How African American Cuisine Transformed America [49] | |
HBO Documentary Films Presents a Motto Pictures/Little Horse Crossing the River/Little Lantern Company Production | In the Same Breath [50] | |
American Documentary: POV | Mayor [51] | |
Shoes in the Bed Productions, ITVS, Black Public Media (BPM) | Mr. SOUL! [52] | |
Drexler Films, Storyville Films | My Name Is Pauli Murray [53] | |
All Ages Productions, Department of Motion Pictures, PBS, ITVS, Topic | Philly D.A. [54] | |
News honorees | ||
ABC News Nightline | "The Appointment," a report on a Texas woman's journey to seek an abortion outside the state and her case on the right to choose [55] | |
Frontline, Channel 4 | Escaping Eritrea [56] | |
KNTV/San Jose, CA | Award for two reports involving family housing insecurities in San Francisco: "The Moms of Magnolia Street" and "No Man's Land: Fighting for Fatherhood in a Broken System" [57] | |
KNXV-TV/Phoenix, AZ | "Politically Charged," which investigates how the Phoenix Police Department and Maricopa County Attorney's Office made false accusations towards Black Lives Matter protesters in a bid to prosecute them [58] | |
KUSA/Denver, CO | "PRONE," a two-year investigation into deaths caused by the police usage of the prone restraining technique [59] | |
The New York Times | Day of Rage: How Trump Supporters Took the U.S. Capitol [60] | |
"So They Know We Existed": Palestinians Film War in Gaza, which shows refugees filming the turmoil of their homeland during the Israeli–Palestinian conflict [61] | ||
PBS NewsHour | Award for Lisa Desjardins's live on-the-scene reporting of the 2021 United States Capitol attack [62] | |
Vice News | Award for the Transnational series (reported by Gazal Dhaliwal, Alyza Enriquez, Freddy McConnell, Eva Reign, and Rana Thamrin), which showcases transgender communities around the world [63] | |
Podcast & Radio honorees | ||
NBC News Audio | Southlake, a podcast reported by Mike Hixenbaugh and Antonia Hylton which explores the debates of race and education in the eponymous Texas suburb and the growing rise of the controversial critical race theory [64] | |
NPR | Throughline for "Afghanistan: The Center of the World," which examines the history of the country, its culture and its attempt to bring unity to the world prior to the Taliban [65] | |
Rumble Strip | "Finn and the Bell," which explores the life of Finn Rooney, his suicide and how it impacted the small Vermont community that he lived in [66] | |
Arts honoree | ||
A Vulcan Productions Inc. Production, in association with Concordia Studio, Play/Action Pictures, LarryBilly Productions, Produced by Mass Distraction Media and RadicalMedia | Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) [67] |
Recipient | Area of excellence |
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Institutional honor [68] | |
Today | Award for 70 years of being "a morning staple for millions of Americans and a consistent cultural touchstone for deeply moving human stories, groundbreaking news and daily joy" [69] [70] |
Visionary Award honor [71] | |
Shari Frilot [72] | Award for 20 years of having "been a curator and a programmer of emerging media, film and art through the Sundance Institute and external programming platforms" |
Trailblazer Award honor [73] | |
Issa Rae | Award for the creator of Insecure representing "a generation of storytellers who used the Internet to cultivate their craft in service of community" |
Career Achievement Award honor [73] | |
Lily Tomlin | Award for being "a groundbreaking force for women in comedy, as well as LGBTQ+ representation, as well as older women in television, all while being just plain smart and funny" |
Arts honoree [74] [75] | |
National Geographic Documentary Films presents A Sandbox Films Production/An Intuitive Pictures & Cottage M Production | Fire of Love |
Entertainment honorees [74] | |
Delicious Non-Sequitur Productions in association with Warner Bros. Television and 20th Television, a part of Disney Television Studios | Abbott Elementary |
Lucasfilm | Andor |
FX Productions | Atlanta (the show's second win, a rare feat for a Peabody Award winner) [75] |
Merman/ABC Signature in association with Apple | Bad Sisters |
High Bridge, Crystal Diner, Gran Via Productions and Sony Pictures Television | Better Call Saul (the show's second win, a rare feat for a Peabody Award winner) [75] |
HBO in association with Broadway Video, Antigravico and Más Mejor | Los Espookys |
A24 for Netflix | Mo |
Media Res/Blue Marble Pictures in association with Apple | Pachinko |
Fifth Season/Red Hour Productions in association with Apple | Severance |
HBO in association with House of Opus 20 and IPC | We're Here |
Documentary honorees [74] | |
Impact Partners Presents a Malka Films and Maidstone Company, Inc. Production in Association with Good Gravy Films and Just Films/Ford Foundation (aired on Hulu) | Aftershock |
Saaren Films Inc., Six Island Productions Inc., Musa Dagh Productions | Batata |
ITVS, Fork Films, Engel Entertainment (Airing on PBS's Independent Lens ) | Missing in Brooks County |
Black Ticket Films (Airing on PBS's Independent Lens) | Writing with Fire |
Top Hat Productions/Hayloft Productions (aired on BBC Select) | Mariupol: The People's Story , a documentary about the Siege of Mariupol directed by Robin Barnwell |
SO'B Productions (aired on Peacock) | The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks |
National Geographic Documentary Films Presents A Documist and Associaçāo Jupaú Film in association with Time Studios, XTR, Doc Society Climate Story Fund/A Production of Protozoa Pictures, Passion Pictures, Real Lava | The Territory |
Showtime Documentary Films Presents, A Boardwalk Films Production, in Association with WKB Industries | We Need to Talk About Cosby |
News honorees [74] | |
CNN | Award for Shimon Prokupecz's reporting on how police inaction contributed to the Robb Elementary School shooting in Uvalde, TX |
PBS NewsHour | Award for Guns in America, which included on-the-ground updates from mass shootings in Buffalo and Uvalde, as well as impact stories from survivors and the implications for change on gun control (William Brangham, Amna Nawaz, Paul Solman, and Cat Wise, correspondents) [76] |
KARE/Minneapolis, MN | "The Gap: Failure to Treat, Failure to Protect," a six-part report from a year-long investigation that probes a mass shooting in a medical clinic, but broadens out into how the mentally ill can obtain guns, commit other crimes, and not be mandated into receiving treatment |
AJ+ | "One Day in Hebron," which follows AJ+ presenter Dena Takruri as she returns to her hometown of Hebron in Palestine and comes to grips with the reality of the destruction caused by Israeli forces |
Frontline with the Associated Press | Michael Flynn's Holy War , a documentary directed by Richard Rowley profiling Flynn's rise from an elite soldier overseas to a leader of a Christianity-rooted far-right movement in America |
Frontline with Channel 4 | Ukraine: Life Under Russia's Attack , directed by Mani Benchelah and Patrick Tombola, which follows the lives of the Ukrainian people during the Russian invasion of Kharkiv and their struggles for survival, hope and rescue |
Vice News | No Justice for Women in the Taliban's Afghanistan , which explores the decline of the rights of women in the country under the extremist group's control, with reporting by Isobel Yeung |
Podcast/radio honorees [74] | |
Spotify and Gimlet Media | Season two of Stolen , titled Surviving St. Michael's, which explores journalist Connie Walker's investigation into Canada's "Indian residential school system", and how her own father was abused by his priest while a system resident |
On the Media /New York Public Radio | The Divided Dial , Katie Thornton's five-part look into the rise of Salem Media Group and the Christian radio network's influence on talk radio, politics, conservatism, and "the uneasy conflict over truth in American civic life" |
This American Life | "The Pink House at the Center of the World," by Maisie Crow and Zoe Chace, which explores the Jackson Women's Health Clinic's fight for survival in Mississippi following the overturning of Roe v. Wade and the future of abortion in America |
Immersive and Interactive honorees [74] | |
Natalie Wynn | ContraPoints |
Deck Nine and Square Enix | Life Is Strange: True Colors |
Fable Studio, Third Rail Projects, Sound+Design, Story Studio & Experiences | Lucy and the Wolves in the Walls |
The New Yorker | "Reeducated," a VR documentary which involves the lives of Uyghurs in Chinese prisons and the atrocities that they have suffered through |
Media.Monks, Reporters Without Borders, Berlin DDB | The Uncensored Library |
Public service honoree [74] | |
Frontline | The Power of Big Oil |
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