News & Documentary Emmys Winners: HBO Max, Nat Geo Lead Field On Night 2 – Full List

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UPDATED, 7:40 PM: HBO Max (now Max), National Geographic and Prime Video were among the big winners on the second of two nights for the 44th annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards. Presented by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, the trophies for the documentary categories were handed out tonight at the Palladium Times Square in New York City.

Nat Geo’s Retrograde won for Outstanding Current Events Documentary, and Netflix’s In Her Hands took the Politics and Government category.

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See the full list of Documentary category winners here, Wednesday night’s News winners here and the combined two-night list here.

The erstwhile HBO max led all networks and platforms with six wins, followed by Nat Geo with five and Prime Video’s three. Streamers Netflix and Paramount+ nabbed two each.

“There has never been a time when the need for thoughtful and hard-hitting documentaries has been greater, nor a time when excellence in this genre has been more deserving of note, honor and celebration,” NATAS Chairman Terry O’Reilly said. “Tonight’s Emmy honorees take us behind the headlines to explore the many facets of our shared global reality and do so at the highest level of the craft. We congratulate them for their achievement.”

Two-time Oscar-winning documentarian Barbara Kopple (American Dream, Harlan County, U.S.A.) received a Lifetime Achievement Award for her distinguished body of work.

The inaugural class of national Gold and Silver Circle doc honorees for news was inducted tonight. The Gold and Silver Circle is a society honoring members of the television and wider broadcasting community who have made an enduring contribution to the industry and have a tenure of 50 and 25 years in the broadcasting profession, respectively.

Gold Circle – 2023 Documentary Inductees
Jon Alpert
Documentarian, Journalist, CoFounder of DCTV Keiko Tsuno, Documentarian, Journalist, CoFounder of DCTV

Silver Circle – 2023 Documentary Inductees

Daniel H. Birman
Documentarian, Birman Productions Lois Vossen, Executive Producer, Independent Lens
Chris White
Executive Producer, American Documentary

Here is the list of Documentary winners by network/platform:

PREVIOUSLY, September 27: CNN, Vice, and the New York Times were among the big winners on the first of two nights for the 44th annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards. CNN led the news portion of the Emmys with 10 wins, with trailing Vice winning nine and the New York Times with five.

Vice’s wins saw eight of them come for the now-canceled program, Vice News Tonight.

CBS’ Sunday Morning won for recorded news program, while ABC’s World News Tonight with David Muir was named outstanding live news program.

The hardware for the news categories was handed out tonight at the Palladium Times Square in New York City. Among major individual winners, CNN’s Selina Wang was named outstanding emerging journalist, while Univision’s Jorge Ramos won the award for journalist in Spanish language media.

Wolf Blitzer, anchor of CNN’s The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer, was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award for his 50-year career in journalism, including 33 years at CNN. The award was presented by Sam Feist, CNN Washington Bureau Chief and Senior Vice President.

“It’s been a tough summer for our industry. We’re encouraged by the breakthrough in the writers strike and hope equitable progress in the SAG-AFTRA strike isn’t far behind,” NATAS President Adam Sharp said during the ceremony. “The future of our industry depends on finding an equilibrium between the need for business models to continue adapting to changing viewer habits and the need to ensure that the individual creative and technical talents that are the engine of our industry remain able to make a meaningful and lasting living in it.

CNN came into the night with a leading 45 News & Doc Emmy noms, far ahead of Vice (30) and ABC and PBS (26 each). Vice’s Vice News Tonight — which wrapped its eight-season run in May — scored a dominant 28 noms, more than doubling its closest program rival, CBS stalwart 60 Minutes, which landed 11. ABC’s Nightline, PBS’ Frontline and National Geographic’s Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller are next with nine apiece.

The awards cover programs that premiered during calendar-year 2022. The documentary trophies will be presented Thursday night and livestreamed at watch.theemmys.tv and via the Emmys apps.

The inaugural class of national Gold and Silver Circle honorees for news was inducted tonight. The Gold and Silver Circle is a society honoring members of the television and wider broadcasting community who have made an enduring contribution to the industry and have a tenure of 50 and 25 years in the broadcasting profession, respectively.

Gold Circle – 2023 News Inductees

David Martin
National Security Correspondent, CBS News
John Quiñones
ABC News Correspondent, “20/20,” “Nightline” and “Good Morning America,” Host, “What Would You Do,” ABC News
Dan Rather
Anchor, Journalist, Founder, News and Guts

Silver Circle – 2023 News Inductees

Steve Fastook
Senior Vice President of Operations, CNBC
Kim Godwin
President, ABC News
Rand Morrison
Executive Producer, CBS News Sunday Morning, CBS News
Steve Osunsami
Senior National Correspondent, ABC News
Otto Padron
President & CEO, Meruelo Media
Thomas Snowden
Editor, NBC News

Here’s a list of the top winners by over-the-Air, Cable, Satellite and Internet Broadcast platform:

CNN

10

Vice

9

The New York Times

5

CBS

4

Univision

3

PBS

2

ABC

1

NBC

1

NBC News Now

1

Newsy

1

Telemundo

1

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