AWARDS THAT MATTER
WGBH productions and services earned more than 50 awards in 2006, including many of broadcasting's top honors. This year's award highlights include:
Television
George Foster Peabody Awards
American Experience—Two Days in October
Masterpiece Theatre—Bleak House
Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award
Frontline—The Age of AIDS
Emmy Awards
Daytime
Daytime
The Victory Garden (single-camera photography)
Zoom (children's series, directing)
Primetime
American Experience—Two Days in October (nonfiction filmmaking)
Masterpiece Theatre—Bleak House (cinematography, make-up)
News and Documentary
Frontline—The Storm (continuing news story coverage)
Frontline—The Torture Question (investigative journalism)
Rx for Survival (informational programming)
Business and Financial
Frontline—Can You Afford to Retire?
New England
Greater Boston
AAAS Science Journalism Award
Nova ScienceNow
Banff World Television Festival Award
Masterpiece Theatre—Bleak House
British Academy Awards
Masterpiece Theatre—Bleak House (best serial, best actress)
Chicago International Film Festival Awards
American Experience—Two Days in October (gold)
American Experience—Fidel Castro (silver)
American Experience—John & Abigail Adams (certificate of merit)
Christopher Award
American Experience
Coalition for Quality Children's Media Kids First Awards
Peep and the Big Wide World (best series, best of the fest)
Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Network Award
Arthur—Binky Goes Nuts
Grierson Award
American Experience—Two Days in October
International Documentary Association Award
American Experience (outstanding continuing series)
American Experience—Jonestown
Lawyers Weekly Excellence in Legal Journalism Award
Greater Boston
Massachusetts/Rhode Island Associated Press Television Award
Greater Boston
Organization of American Historians, Eric Barnouw Award
American Experience—Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst (honorable mention)
American Experience—Two Days in October (honorable mention)
Parents' Choice Awards
Peep and the Big Wide World
Zoom
Population Institute Global Media Award
Rx for Survival (best documentary)
Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award
Frontline—The New Asylums
The Royal Television Society Awards
Masterpiece Theatre—Bleak House (drama serial, writing)
San Francisco International Film Festival Award
American Experience—Jonestown
Satellite Award
Masterpiece Theatre—To the Ends of the Earth (best miniseries)
Sportsmen's Tennis Club Founders Award
Greater Boston
Television Critics Association Award
Frontline
Telly Award
Antiques Roadshow (silver)
Tribeca Film Festival Award
American Experience—Jonestown
WorldFest Houston International Film and Video Festival Awards
Arthur (gold)
Arthur (silver)
Writers Guild of America Awards
Frontline—The Torture Question
Radio
Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award
The Cape and Islands NPR® Stations—Two Cape Cods: Hidden Poverty on the Cape and Islands
American Society for Microbiology Public Communications Award
The World—The Forgotten Plague: Malaria
Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma Award
The World—Hiroshima's Survivors
Jazz Journalists Association, Willis Conover-Marian McPartland Award for Excellence in Jazz
Jazz with Eric in the Evening
National Journalism Award for Excellence in Electronic Media/Radio
The World—The Global Race for Stem Cell Therapies
Radio-Television News Directors Association, Regional 2006 Edward R. Murrow Award
The Cape and Islands NPR Stations—Mail Box Spiders (best writing)
Media Access
National Multiple Sclerosis Society of Michigan da Vinci Award
MoPix Project
Web
Horizon Interactive Award in Education/Training
Nova ScienceNow
Intercom Awards
Living with TSC (gold)
Teachers' Domain (silver)
Massachusetts Innovation Technology Exchange MITX Award for Healthcare
Living with TSC
Radio-Television News Directors Association, Edward R. Murrow Award
The World
W3 Award for Health, Education and Video/Motion Graphics
Living with TSC (silver)
Webby Awards
Nova—Einstein's Big Idea (honorable mention)
Nova ScienceNow (honorable mention)