News & Documentary Emmy Awards: Complete Winners List

HBO leads with 10 awards as PBS comes in second with 9

Emmy Statuette
Television Academy

In a ceremony Tuesday night, the Television Academy announced the winners of the 2019 News & Documentary Emmy Awards.

HBO took home ten statues, the most of any single winner. Six of those wins were the result of HBO’s now defunct relationship with Vice: “Vice News Tonight,” which ended its run this month after being canceled by HBO in June.  (It will return on Viceland.) It took home five, while Vice Special Report took home one. The rest went to HBO Documentary Films.

PBS came in a close second with nine Emmys. Four went to “Independent Lens,” two to “Frontline,” two to “PBS News Hour” and one to “God Knows Where I Am.” And in third place was CBS with six Emmys: Five to “60 Minutes” and one won jointly by “48 Hours” and “CBS This Morning.”

Andrea Mitchell also received the lifetime achievement award.

See the full winners list below:

OUTSTANDING COVERAGE OF A BREAKING NEWS STORY IN A NEWSCAST
VICE News Tonight — HBO
Moment of Truth: Kavanaugh and Ford

OUTSTANDING CONTINUING COVERAGE OF A NEWS STORY IN A NEWSCAST
VICE News Tonight — HBO
Yemen’s Forgotten War

OUTSTANDING FEATURE STORY IN A NEWSCAST
VICE News Tonight — HBO
Zero Tolerance

OUTSTANDING HARD NEWS FEATURE STORY IN A NEWSCAST
PBS NewsHour — PBS
Yemen’s Spiraling Hunger Crisis is a Man-Made Disaster

OUTSTANDING INVESTIGATIVE REPORT IN A NEWSCAST
PBS NewsHour — PBS

OUTSTANDING COVERAGE OF A BREAKING NEWS STORY IN A NEWSMAGAZINE
60 Minutes — CBS
The Students of Stoneman Douglas

OUTSTANDING CONTINUING COVERAGE OF A NEWS STORY IN A NEWSMAGAZINE
60 Minutes — CBS
War Crime

OUTSTANDING FEATURE STORY IN A NEWSMAGAZINE
60 Minutes — CBS
The Legacy of Lynching

OUTSTANDING INVESTIGATIVE REPORT IN A NEWSMAGAZINE
Fault Lines — Al Jazeera International USA
Adoption Inc.

OUTSTANDING BREAKING NEWS COVERAGE
ABC News Special Events — ABC
Hurricane Michael

OUTSTANDING NEWS SPECIAL
48 Hours & CBS This Morning — CBS
39 Days

OUTSTANDING NEWS DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS
AC360 — CNN
Finding Hope: Battling America’s Suicide Crisis

OUTSTANDING LIVE INTERVIEW
Amanpour — CNN International
Archbishop of New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan,
interviewed by Christiane Amanpour

OUTSTANDING EDITED INTERVIEW
Dateline NBC — NBC
Bringing Down Bill Cosby: Andrea Constand Speaks

OUTSTANDING SCIENCE, MEDICAL OR ENVIRONMENTAL REPORT
AMHQ — The Weather Channel
Dangers of Tornadoes Depicted Through
Immersive Mixed Reality

OUTSTANDING ARTS, CULTURE OR ENTERTAINMENT REPORT
Art and Soul — Great Big Story

OUTSTANDING BUSINESS, CONSUMER OR ECONOMIC REPORT
Hidden Cost: Our Laws Have Not Kept Up With the Climate — The Weather Channel Digital and
Telemundo with Efran Films

OUTSTANDING CURRENT AFFAIRS DOCUMENTARY
HBO Documentary Films — HBO
It Will Be Chaos

OUTSTANDING POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTARY
Doc World — World Channel
Armed With Faith

OUTSTANDING SOCIAL ISSUE DOCUMENTARY
Crime + Punishment — Hulu

OUTSTANDING INVESTIGATIVE DOCUMENTARY
FRONTLINE — PBS
Documenting Hate

OUTSTANDING HISTORICAL DOCUMENTARY
HBO Documentary Films — HBO
King in the Wilderness

OUTSTANDING ARTS AND CULTURE DOCUMENTARY
Independent Lens — PBS
I Am Not Your Negro

OUTSTANDING SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY DOCUMENTARY
Science Fair — National Geographic

OUTSTANDING NATURE DOCUMENTARY
CNN Films — CNN
Trophy

OUTSTANDING BUSINESS AND ECONOMIC DOCUMENTARY
VICE Special Report — HBO
Panic: The Untold Story of the 2008 Financial Crisis

OUTSTANDING SHORT DOCUMENTARY
Trans in America: Texas Strong — them / Condé Nast Entertainment

BEST STORY IN A NEWSCAST
VICE News Tonight — HBO
Yemen’s Forgotten War

BEST STORY IN A NEWSMAGAZINE
60 Minutes — CBS
War Crime

BEST DOCUMENTARY
HBO Documentary Films — HBO
I Am Evidence

OUTSTANDING NEWSCAST OR NEWSMAGAZINE IN SPANISH
Noticias Telemundo — Mediodía Telemundo

OUTSTANDING COVERAGE OF A BREAKING NEWS STORY IN SPANISH
Noticias Telemundo — Telemundo
Emergencia en la frontera

OUTSTANDING INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM IN SPANISH
Aquí y Ahora — Univision
Muerte río arriba (Death up the River)

OUTSTANDING FEATURE STORY IN SPANISH
Univision News Digital — Univision
El legado de tolerancia cero: niños traumatizados y sin tratamiento

OUTSTANDING NEW APPROACHES: CURRENT NEWS
One Building, One Bomb: How Assad Gassed His Own People — The New York Times

OUTSTANDING NEW APPROACHES: DOCUMENTARY
FRONTLINE — PBS
The Last Generation

OUTSTANDING NEW APPROACHES: ARTS, LIFESTYLE AND CULTURE
Vox Earworm — Vox
The Most Feared Song in Jazz, Explained

OUTSTANDING WRITING
60 Minutes — CBS
War Crime
Writers: Scott Pelley, Nicole Young, Katie Kerbstat

OUTSTANDING RESEARCH
Independent Lens — PBS
Dawnland

Researchers: Adam Mazo, Ben Pender-Cudlip, Kristen Salerno, Mishy Lesser, Sam Lednicky, Shamini Ganasarajah

OUTSTANDING VIDEO JOURNALISM: NEWS
VICE News Tonight — HBO
The Killing Rooms of Mosul

OUTSTANDING CINEMATOGRAPHY: DOCUMENTARY
Independent Lens — PBS
Wildland
Cinematographers: Ryan Heffernan, Kahlil Hudson, Alex Jablonski, Grayson Schaffer

OUTSTANDING EDITING: NEWS
Your Train Is Delayed. Why? — The New York Times
Editors: Liz Deegan, Ora DeKornfeld

OUTSTANDING EDITING: DOCUMENTARY
Independent Lens — PBS
Wildland
Editors: Alex Jablonski, David Nordstrom, Katrina Taylor

OUTSTANDING GRAPHIC DESIGN AND ART DIRECTION
Inside North Korea’s Dynasty — National Geographic
Creative Directors: Luke Best, Miles Donovan, Peter Mellor

OUTSTANDING MUSIC AND SOUND
HBO Documentary Films — HBO
Stolen Daughters: Kidnapped by Boko Haram
Composer: Andrew Phillips

OUTSTANDING LIGHTING DIRECTION AND SCENIC DESIGN
God Knows Where I Am — PBS
Production Designers: Brian Ariotti, Jedd Wider, Todd Wider
Director of Photography: Gerardo Puglia

OUTSTANDING PROMOTIONAL ANNOUNCEMENT
CNN Original Series — CNN
The History of Comedy Season 2 Campaign

OUTSTANDING REGIONAL NEWS STORY: SPOT OR BREAKING NEWS
WXIA 11Alive News (Atlanta, Georgia) — WXIA-TV
Charlie’s Ark
Producer: Erin Peterson
Reporter: Jeremy Campbell

OUTSTANDING REGIONAL NEWS STORY: INVESTIGATIVE REPORT
KING 5 News (Seattle, Washington) — KING-TV
Sick and Forgotten at Hanford
Investigative Reporter: Susannah Frame
Photojournalist: Steve Douglas

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