PBS captured
eight News and Documentary Emmy Awards
at the ceremony in NMew
York City,
with its America at a Crossroads
project earning two, both for Operation
Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience. Among other winners included
P.O.V.'s Made in L.A., produced and directed by Robert Bahar and Almudena
Carracedo, who have been tirelessly criss-crossing the globe with their film,
long after its Labor Day 2007 airing. For a complete list of all the nominees,
click here.
Here's
a sampling of some of the News and Documentary nominees:
Outstanding Continuing
Coverage of a News Story--Long Form
P.O.V. / PBS
Made in L.A.
Executive Producers:
Sally Jo Fifer, Simon Kilmurry, Cara Mertes
Producer/Director: Almudena
Carracedo
Producer: Robert Bahar
Outstanding Investigative
Journalism--Long Form
Cinemax Reel Life / Cinemax
Have You Seen Andy?
Executive Producer:
Sheila Nevins
Supervising
Producer: Nancy Abraham
Producer/Director:
Melanie Perkins
Outstanding Informational Programming--Long Form
America at
a Crossroads / PBS
Operation Homecoming: Writing the
Wartime Experience
Director/Producer:
Richard Robbins
Executive Producers:
Jeff Bieber, Dalton Delan, Tom Yellin
Outstanding Historical
Programming--Long Form
A Distant Shore: African Americans of D‑Day / History Channel
Executive Producers:
Douglas Cohen, Dolores Gavin, Louis Tarantino
Producer: Samuel Dolan
Outstanding Arts and
Culture Programming
FRONTLINE / PBS
The Undertaking
Executive Producers:
David Fanning, Michael Sullivan
Producers/Directors:
Miri Navasky, Karen O'Conner
Outstanding Science,
Technology and Nature Programming
The Mysterious Human Heart / PBS
Executive Producer/Producer/Director:
David Grubin
Executive Producer,
Thirteen /WNET New York: Jared
Lipworth
Executive Producers, WETA: Dalton Delan, Jeff Bieber
Producers: Tania Castellanos, Thomas Jennings, David
Murdock
Co-Producer: Mica McCarthy
Best Documentary
Independent Lens / PBS
Billy Strayhorn: Lush Life
Producer/Director:
Robert Levi
Producers: Joshua
Blum, George Seminara
Executive Producer:
Sally Jo Fifer
New Approaches to News & Documentary Programming:
Documentaries
Uprooted /
mercurynews.com
Executive Producers: Richard Hernandez, Geri Migielicz
Producer: Dai Sugano
Reporter: Julie Patel
Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft:
Writing
National Geographic
Special / National Geographic Channel
Incredible Human Machine
Writer: Chad Cohen
Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft: Research
American Experience
/ PBS
The Living Weapon
Researchers: Rich Remsberg, John Rubin
Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft: Cinematography--Nature
Documentaries/Dramatic Recreations
Nature Tech: The Magic
of Motion / Smithsonian Channel
Cinematographers: Tony Allen, Rudolph Erlach, Stefan Fischer,
John Hadfield, Manfred Walzl
Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft: Cinematography--News
Coverage/ Documentaries
Dan Rather Reports
/ HDNet
Cinematographer: Sean Fairburn
Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft: Editing
Breaking Point /
Discovery Channel
Editors: Guy Federico, Bob Fahringer
How the Earth Was Made
/ History Channel
Editor: Huw Jenkins
Incredible Human
Machine / National Geographic
Editor: Arthur Binkowski
Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft: Graphic
Design & Artistic Direction
Inside the Living Body /
National Geographic
Art Director:
David Barlow
Computer Animator: Steven Gomez
Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft: Music
and Sound
America at a Crossroads / PBS
Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime
Experience
Sound Editor: Glen Frazier
Re‑recording Mixer: Terrance Dwyer
Foley Artist:
Monique Reymond
Sound Effects Editors: Sam Londé, Matthew Slivinski
Dialog Editors: David Ball, Vince Tennant
Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft:
Lighting Direction and Scenic Design
NOVA / PBS
Forgotten
Genius
Lighting Director and Scenic Designers:
Gary Henoch, Katha Seidman