The latest documentary to pull double duty and win both an Oscar and an Emmy is Saving Face. Daniel Junge and Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy’s film won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Short last year, and it surprised me last night by being named Best Documentary at the 34th News & Documentary Emmy Awards, beating features Project Nim, The Loving Story and Nostalgia for Light as well as fellow short The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom. Saving Face also won the Emmy for documentary/long-form editing.
The Loving Story did pick up an award of its own, the Emmy for Outstanding Historical Programming — Long-Form. HBO Documentary Films, which received credit for the Saving Face and Loving Story wins, was also responsible for airing Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present, which won the Emmy for Arts and Culture, Vito, which won for Outstanding Research, and In Tahrir Square, which won for Outstanding Music & Sound.
Another notable winner is Steve James’s The Interrupters, which won the Outstanding Informational Programming Emmy via its Frontline airing. Frontline won a handful of awards, and CBS did very well, too, with numerous wins for CBS Sunday Morning and 60 Minutes.
Here is a list of all of last night’s winners:
Best Documentary: Saving Face
Outstanding Informational Programming — Long-Form: The Interrupters (Frontline airing)
Outstanding Historical Programming — Long-Form: The Loving Story
Outstanding Nature Programming: An Original DUCKumentary (PBS Nature)
Outstanding Science and Technology Programming: Space Dive (National Geographic Channel)
Outstanding Arts and Culture Programming: Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present
Outstanding Cinematography: Documentary and Long-Form: (TIE) Winged Planet (Discovery Channel); Untamed Americas (National Geographic Channel)
Outstanding Editing: Documentary and Long-Form: Saving Face
Outstanding Editing: News: 60 Minutes, “Joy in the Congo”
Best Report in a News Magazine: 60 Minutes, “Killing Bin Laden”
Best Story in a Regularly Scheduled Newscast: (TIE) CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley, “On The Road: The Longest Wait”; NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams, “Inside Syria”
Outstanding Feature Story in a Regularly Scheduled Newscast: (TIE) CBS Sunday Morning, “Glen Campbell”; CBS Sunday Morning, “Starting Over”; Nightline, “Arctic Journey: The Unicorn of the Sea”
Outstanding Feature Story in a News Magazine: 60 Minutes, “Joy in the Congo”
Outstanding Continuing Coverage of a News Story in a Regularly Scheduled Newscast: BBC World News America, “Inside Syria’s Uprising”
Outstanding Continuing Coverage of a News Story in a Regularly Scheduled Newscast: 60 Minutes, “Aleppo”
Outstanding Continuing Coverage of a News Story — Long-Form: Frontline, “Inside Japan’s Nuclear Meltdown”
Outstanding Coverage of a Breaking News Story in a Regularly Scheduled Newscast: CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley, “The Fight for Idlib”
Outstanding Coverage of a Breaking News Story in a News Magazine: Frontline, “The Battle for Syria”
Outstanding Live Coverage of a Current News Story — Long-Form: CNN, “Election Night in America”
Outstanding Investigative Journalism in a Regularly Scheduled Newscast: CBS This Morning;CBS Sunday Morning, “Exposing the Business of Congress”
Outstanding Investigative Journalism in a News Magazine: Frontline, “Opium Brides”
Outstanding Investigative Journalism — Long-Form: Frontline, “Big Sky, Big Money”
Outstanding Video Journalism: News: Dan Rather Reports, “In the Running”
Outstanding Interview: 60 Minutes, “Killing Bin Laden”
Outstanding Writing: Nick Paton Walsh, “Reports from Syria and Afghanistan,” CNN
Outstanding Research: (TIE) Vito; Jesse Owens (American Experience)
Outstanding News Discussion and Analysis: AC360, “Kids on Race: The Hidden Picture”
Outstanding Business and Economic Reporting in a News Magazine: 60 Minutes, “Hard Landing”
Outstanding Business and Economic Reporting — Long-Form: Frontline, “Money, Power and Wall Street”
Outstanding Business and Economic Reporting in a Regularly Scheduled Newscast: CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley, “Cancer Drug Shortages”
Outstanding Lighting & Scenic Design: NBC News: Decision 2012, Election Night from Democracy Plaza
Outstanding Graphic Design & Art Direction: WWII From Space (History Channel)
Outstanding Music & Sound: In Tahrir Square: 18 Days of Egypt’s Unfinished Revolution
Outstanding Promotional Announcement — Episodic: Through the Wormhole (Science Channel)
Outstanding Promotional Announcement — Institutional: Frontline, “Fall Preview: How Come?”
New Approaches: Documentary: The Martin Agency/Tool, “Clouds Over Cuba”
New Approaches: Current News Coverage: Center for Investigative Reporting, “In Jennifer’s Room”
New Approaches: Arts, Lifestyle Culture: The New York Times, “Life, Interrupted”
Outstanding Regional News Story — Investigative Reporting: KING 5 News (Seattle, WA), “Their Crime, Your Dime”
Outstanding Regional News Story — Spot News: WBZ-TV News (Boston, MA), “Newtown Tragedy”
International Emmy for Current Affairs: Banaz: An Honor Killing
International Emmy for News: Channel 4 News, “The Battle for Homs”
