# List of Peabody Award winners (1990–1999)

The following is a list of Peabody Award winners and honorable mentions from the years 1990 to 1999.

## 1990

| Recipient | Area of Excellence |
| ABC News and Koppel Communications | The Koppel Report: Death of a Dictator, about the trial and execution of Nicolae and Elena Ceaușescu |
| ABC News/TIME | Peter Jennings Reporting: Guns |
| American Playhouse Series | Award for American Playhouse's "showcasing [of] quality television" |
| Red Barber | Personal award for his commentary work on NPR's Morning Edition |
| Blackside, Inc. | Eyes on the Prize II: America at the Racial Crossroads (1965-1985) |
| CNN | Award for the network's coverage of the crisis in the Persian Gulf (Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm) |
| CBS Music Video Enterprises and American Masters in Association with Perry Films | John Hammond: From Bessie Smith to Bruce Springsteen, about music producer John Hammond, directed by Hart Perry |
| Connecticut Public Radio | The Schubert Theatre: 75 Years of Memories |
| FASE Productions (Foundation for Advancements in Science and Education) | Futures (with Jaime Escalante) |
| Paul Fine and Holly Fine | Personal awards for their production work at CBS News (in particular the 60 Minutes report "Ward 5A", which profiled AIDS ward nurses at San Francisco General Hospital) |
| Florentine Films and WETA-TV/Washington, D.C. | The Civil War |
| John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation | Institutional Award for its support of "inventive, inspired and important television", recognizing the work of William T. Kirby |
| KCTS-TV/Seattle, WA and MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour | "Backhauling," an exposé into truck haulers transporting food products in trucks that had just been used to transport toxic chemicals, produced by Chris Sharp and Lee Hochberg |
| KPTV/Portland, OR | Mount St. Helens: A Decade Later |
| Lynch/Frost Productions in association with Propaganda Films and Worldvision Enterprises Inc. | Twin Peaks, for its pilot episode |
| Worth McDougald | Personal Award on the occasion of McDougald's retirement for his 2+ decades in service to the Peabody Awards as director |
| Mouchette Films/POV | Days of Waiting: The Life & Art of Estelle Ishigo, a film by Steven Okazaki |
| Murray Street Enterprise in association with KQED-FM/San Francisco, CA (distributed by NPR) | HEAT with John Hockenberry |
| National Public Radio | "Manicu's Story: The War in Mozambique," the story of one boy's efforts to reunite with his family in a refugee camp in the war-torn country, produced by Neenah Ellis |
| NBC | Saturday Night Live |
| Southern Center for International Studies (aired on PBS) | Institutional Award for "providing a forum for... international decision-makers" to discuss their decisions on national and international policy in programs such as persons at the Southern Center for international Studies in Atlanta for the decision to produce programs such as Annual Reports of the Secretaries of State, Annual Reports of the Secretaries of Defense, and A Conversation with Dean Rusk (hosted by Edwin Newman). |
| Think Entertainment (as Presented on the Disney Channel) | Mother Goose Rock 'n' Rhyme |
| Vermont Folklife Center | Journey's End: The Memories and Traditions of Daisy Turner and Family |
| Frederick Wiseman | Personal Award for "a mastery of television documentary", including Near Death and Central Park |
| WKYC-TV/Cleveland, OH | Dick Feagler Commentaries |
| WXPN-FM/Philadelphia, PA | Kid's Corner |
| Young Visions Inc. and The Rotary Club of Los Altos | Rotary and AIDS: The Los Altos Story |

## 1991

| Recipient | Area of Excellence |
| ABC News and NHK | Pearl Harbor: Two Hours that Changed the World, anchored by David Brinkley |
| Armed Forces Radio and Television Service | Institutional Award on the occasion of its 50th anniversary |
| Brand-Falsey Productions | I'll Fly Away and Northern Exposure |
| CNN | Award for its coverage of the Soviet coup attempt of 1991 |
| Caedmon Audio (a division of HarperAudio, HarperCollins) | Institutional Award for "preserving our rich oral tradition in poetry, drama, and spoken-word performance" |
| CBS News | 60 Minutes, for the report "Friendly Fire," an examination of a friendly fire incident in the Persian Gulf War and its impact (Steve Kroft, correspondent) |
| CBS Sports | Coverage of the Masters Tournament, highlighting the work of director Frank Chirkinian (George Veras, producer) |
| CBS and Shukovsky/English Productions in association with Warner Bros. | Murphy Brown |
| Central Independent Television (PBS version by WETA-TV/Washington, DC) | Soviets: Red Hot, directed by Juris Podnieks |
| Peggy Charren | Personal Award for her advocacy of quality children's television programming at Action for Children's Television |
| The Discovery Channel | People of the Forest: The Chimps of Gombe, directed by Hugo van Lawick |
| HBO | America Undercover: Heil Hitler! Confessions of a Hitler Youth, produced by Arthur Holch |
| HBO Sports and Black Canyon Productions | When It Was a Game (Dave Harmon, George Roy, and Steve Stern, producers) |
| KARK-TV/Little Rock, AR and Arkansas Department of Health | Arkansas' Timebomb: Teen Pregnancy, a public service campaign (Doug Krile, correspondent) |
| KCRW/Santa Monica, CA | Joe Frank: Work in Progress |
| KSTP-TV/Saint Paul, MN | "Who's Watching the Store?" an "I-Team" investigation by Joel Grover of Twin Cities retail outlets suspecting minority customers as possible shoplifters |
| KTLA-TV/Los Angeles, CA | Presentation of the Rodney King beating videotape and subsequent reportage (Stan Chambers, Warren Wilson, Ron Olsen, and Steve Lentz, reporters) |
| Lucky Duck Productions for MTV Networks | Nickelodeon Special Edition: It's Only Television (Linda Ellerbee, reporter) |
| NPR's Horizons | The Case Against Women: Sexism in the Courts, produced by Helen Borten |
| NPR | Coverage of the Judge Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings by Nina Totenberg |
| NBC News | Reports by Brian Ross on the BCCI scandal |
| NBC, Carson Productions, and Worldwide Pants | Late Night with David Letterman |
| WNET/New York, NY | Dance in America: Everybody Dance Now, directed by Margaret Selby and written by Jennifer Dunning |
| Turner Multimedia | Coup D'État: The Week that Changed the World, a multimedia presentation tool for classrooms on events in the former Soviet Union |
| WNCN-FM/New York, NY | New York City Musicbox, hosted by Elliott Forrest |
| WRAL-TV/Raleigh, NC | Award for its environmental reporting, Save Our Sounds |
| Zouk Productions | The Miles Davis Radio Report, a radio documentary on Miles Davis (Danny Glover, narrator; Quincy Troupe and Jay Allison, producers) |

## 1992

| Recipient | Area of Excellence |
| ABC Television and the Carsey-Werner Company | Roseanne |
| BBC Radio | Institutional Award for the service and the "range, variety and breadth" of its programming |
| Cable News Network, Atlanta, Georgia | Larry King Live Election Coverage 1992 |
| CBS Television and Granada Television, London, UK | Age Seven in America |
| CBS, Finnegan-Pinchuk Company, Brand-Falsey Productions | Northern Exposure, for the episode "Cicely" |
| Canamedia Productions Ltd., and TV Ontario, Toronto, Canada | Threads of Hope |
| Nightline (Capital Cities/ABC Inc.) | 72 Hours to Victory: Behind the Scenes with Bill Clinton |
| Capital Cities/ABC, Inc. | ABC News Nightline Special: Moment of Crisis, Anatomy of a Riot |
| Channel One/Whittle Communications, Los Angeles, California | AIDS |
| C-SPAN | Institutional Award for the network's daily coverage of the United States Congress and government news |
| GPN/Nebraska ETV Network | Reading Rainbow, for the episode "The Wall" |
| Home Box Office and Springcreek Productions, in association with Breakheart Films | Citizen Cohn |
| HKO Media Inc., and WKBD-TV, Detroit, Michigan | Close to Home: The Tammy Boccomino Story |
| The Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico, and KNME-TV, Albuquerque, New Mexico | Surviving Columbus |
| David Isay and NPR | American Folklife Radio Project |
| KFFA/Helena, AR | King Biscuit Time |
| KIRO-TV/Seattle, WA | When the Salmon Runs Dry |
| KJLH/Los Angeles, CA | Coverage of the "Los Angeles Rebellion" |
| KTTV-TV, Los Angeles | Gavel to Gavel Coverage of the Rodney King Trial |
| Maysles Films Inc., New York, New York, and Home Box Office | Abortion: Desperate Choices (episode of America Undercover) |
| MTV Music Television | Choose or Lose |
| NBC Television | The More You Know |
| NBC and Castle Rock Entertainment | Seinfeld |
| NPR and Sylvia Poggioli | Prisoners in Bosnia, correspondent Poggioli's reports from the Bosnian War and the uncovering of "ethnic cleansing" during the Siege of Sarajevo |
| Propaganda Films and Fox Broadcasting Company | Rock the Vote |
| Fred Rogers | Personal Award for Rogers' work on children's television, specifically Mister Rogers' Neighborhood |
| Daniel Schorr | Personal Award for Schorr's NPR commentaries/analyses and previous work at CBS News and CNN |
| Signifyin' Works, Berkeley, California, and the Public Broadcasting Service | Color Adjustment |
| WBUR/Boston, MA and NPR | Car Talk |
| WCVB-TV/Boston, MA | The Incredible Voyage of Bill Pinkney |
| WGBH-TV/Boston, MA and BBC | The American Experience: The Donner Party |
| WGBH-TV, Boston, Massachusetts | The Health Quarterly: The AIDS Report Series |
| WGBH-TV, Boston, Massachusetts, the BBC, London, UK, and NDR, Hamburg, Germany | The Machine That Changed the World |
| WQED-TV/Pittsburgh, PA and WGBH-TV/Boston, MA | Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? |
| WTVJ-TV/Miami, FL | Hurricane Andrew: As It Happened (citing the work of Bryan Norcross) |

## 1993

| Recipient | Area of Excellence |
| ABC News | Day One, for the report "Scarred for Life", which examined the ritual and practice of female circumcision (Sheila MacVicar, correspondent and Forrest Sawyer, host) |
| ABC Radio News | Award for Jon Bascom's profile of Vietnam War women veterans on the occasion of the unveiling of the Vietnam Women's Memorial |
| Christiane Amanpour | Personal Award to the CNN correspondent for her "balance and courageous coverage" on critical world events |
| A.M.L. for The Disney Channel | The Ernest Green Story |
| BBC Radio 4 | "Document: The Unspeakable Atrocity", a self-examination of the BBC's knowledge of Nazi extermination activities during World War II reported by Denys Blakeway |
| BBC South | The Nineties, for the episode "All Your Kisses are Mine" (directed by Kate Broome), which examined life for unmarried women in the early 20th century |
| Best Brains Inc., and HBO Downtown Productions for Comedy Central | Mystery Science Theater 3000 |
| CBS News | 60 Minutes, for the report "The CIA's Cocaine", (Mike Wallace, senior correspondent) which profiled how a Central Intelligence Agency operation in Venezuela led to a steady stream of cocaine into the United States |
| Churchill Entertainment for Fox Children's Network | Award for Fox Children's Network's public service campaign, produced by Nicky Noxon, that focus on "the underlying causes of violence in society" in order to provide positive influences on children |
| Discovery Networks | Institutional Award for its informative and educational programming and initiatives |
| FASE Productions | Good Morning, Miss Toliver |
| Granada Television and WGBH-TV/Boston, MA | Prime Suspect |
| Paul Harvey | Personal Award for Harvey's presentations of news and comments on ABC News Radio |
| HBO and Brillstein-Grey Entertainment | The Larry Sanders Show |
| HBO and Video Verite Films | I Am a Promise: The Children of Stanton Elementary School |
| National Public Radio | Award for its coverage on health care reform by Patricia Neighmond |
| NBC and Baltimore Pictures in association with Reeves Entertainment | Homicide: Life on the Street |
| NBC News | Award for health and science reports by Robert Bazell |
| P.O.V. and Silverlake Productions | Silverlake Life: The View From Here |
| WNET/New York, NY and MTM Enterprises Inc., in association with EuroArts/Brilliant Media | American Masters, for "Paul Simon: Born at the Right Time", directed by Susan Steinberg |
| Warner Bros. Animation and Amblin Entertainment for Fox Children's Network | Animaniacs |
| WBZ (AM)/Boston, MA and Kid Company, Inc. | Kid Company |
| WCVB-TV/Boston, MA | Chuck Kraemer Reporting |
| WKRN-TV/Nashville, TN | "Under the Influence", a series of investigative reports from Tom Atwood, Stuart Watson, Phil Williams and Anne Holt linking the relationship between lobbyists and elected officials to key legislative votes |
| WTTW-TV/Chicago, IL and Kurtis Productions, Ltd. | The New Explorers |
| WHYY-FM/Philadelphia, PA and National Public Radio | Fresh Air with Terry Gross |
| WVTM-TV/Birmingham, AL | Angels of Change |
| WWL-TV/New Orleans, LA | "Facing Reality: Politics, Drugs and Waste", an investigation by Bill Elder into drug abuse and sexual misconduct at drug rehab centers |
| Yorkshire Television and Discovery Channel | Katie and Eilish: Siamese Twins, directed by Mark Galloway |

## 1994

| Recipient | Area of Excellence |
| Nickelodeon and Lucky Duck Productions | Nick News with Linda Ellerbee |
| National Public Radio | "Tobacco Stories", a series of reports on toxic chemical additives used in cigarette production produced by Peggy Girshman and Rob Stein and reported by Richard Harris, Rebecca Perl, Eric Weiner, Daniel Zwerdling and Ira Glass |
| Lichtenstein Creative Media | Schizophrenia: Voices of an Illness, produced by Bill Lichtenstein and narrated by Jason Robards |
| National Public Radio and the Smithsonian Institution | Wade in the Water: African American Sacred Music Traditions |
| Arnold Shapiro Productions, USAA, and CBS News | Break the Silence: Kids Against Child Abuse |
| CBS News | CBS Reports: D-Day |
| WVXU-FM/Cincinnati, OH | D-Day + 50 Years, a to-the-minute rebroadcast of news coverage of the Normandy landings on June 6, 1944 |
| WGBH-TV/Boston, MA and the Lennon Documentary Group | The American Experience: The Battle of the Bulge |
| WGBH-TV/Boston, MA and David Grubin Productions | The American Experience: FDR |
| WGBH-TV/Boston, MA and ROJA Inc. | The American Experience: Malcolm X: Make It Plain |
| WRKS-FM/New York, NY | The Rise and Fall of Vee-Jay |
| WXXI-FM/Rochester, NY | Fascinatin' Rhythm |
| ABC News | Primetime Live, for the report "Rush to Read", a report on the misreading of Pap smear tests |
| ABC News | 20/20, for the report "The Hunger Inside", a profile of Peggy Claude-Pierre and her treatment of anorexia patients |
| KGO-TV/San Francisco, CA | On-location reports on the upheaval and genocide in Rwanda |
| KSEE-TV/Fresno, CA | "The Atomic Bombshell", a report on a nuclear weapons accident near Travis Air Force Base in 1950, its governmental cover-up, and the effects on those nearby |
| National Film Board of Canada (presented on TVOntario) | Fat Chance |
| KGAN-TV/Cedar Rapids, IA | "Sewer Solvent Scandal", an "I-Team" investigation into the dumping of an unsafe chemical solvent into city sewers, and how the chemicals' supplier bribed city officials |
| KSBW-TV/Salinas, CA and Sedwith Pictures | Just Because: Tales of Violence, Dreams of Peace |
| Discovery Communications | Normandy: The Great Crusade |
| WETA-TV/Washington, DC, and Channel 4, and River Films Production for National Geographic Television | China: Beyond the Clouds |
| WTLV/Jacksonville, FL | Buddy Check 12, a public service initiative promoting self-examinations for possible cancers |
| National Geographic Television | Reflections of Elephants |
| Case TV for Channel 4 | Fourways Farm |
| NBC, Constant c Productions and Amblin Television, in association with Warner Bros. Television | ER |
| NBC and Grub Street Productions in association with Paramount Television | Frasier |
| NBC, In Front Productions, and Nuance Productions, in association with TriStar Television Inc. | Mad About You |
| KQED-TV/San Francisco, CA and Propaganda/Working Title Productions for Channel 4 (airing on American Playhouse) | Tales of the City |
| MTV Networks | MTV Unplugged |
| J.E.G. Productions Inc. and HBO | Barbra Streisand in Concert |
| Turner Original Productions/Varied Directions | Moon Shot |

## 1995

| Recipient | Area of Excellence |
| Oscar Brand | Personal Award for his 50th anniversary as host of WNYC's Folksong Festival |
| Oprah Winfrey | Personal Award for the "multi-talented broadcaster" and her on- and off-air accomplishments |
| WJR/Detroit, MI | "Blind Justice: Who Killed Janie Fray?" a series of reports revealing a botched murder investigation which led to an innocent man's imprisonment |
| Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (airing on CBC Radio) | Kevin's Sentence |
| Minnesota Public Radio | Saint Paul Sunday |
| National Public Radio and Sony Classical Film and Video for PBS | Wynton Marsalis: Making the Music and Marsalis on Music |
| WFAA-TV/Dallas, TX | "The Peavy Investigation", a report exploring insurance purchases involving the Dallas Independent School District |
| Television Broadcasts Ltd. | "50 Years After the War", a profile of Japan's imperialism towards Southeastern Asia during the Pacific War and its legacy |
| ABC News | Peter Jennings Reporting: Hiroshima - Why the Bomb was Dropped |
| ABC News 20/20 | "Truth on Trial", a report exploring validity of statements by alleged victims of sexual abuse in children's group care settings |
| ABC News 20/20 | "The Journey of Christopher Reeve", a profile of the quadriplegic actor and his inspiring message |
| WXYZ-TV/Detroit, MI | "Target 7: Armed and Angry", an investigative series exploring the militia movement in the United States |
| WCBS-TV/New York, NY | Award for reports uncovering "rampant corruption" within the New York City school system |
| Kartemquin Educational Films and KTCA-TV/Saint Paul, MN (presented on PBS) | Hoop Dreams |
| Lauderdale Production for Channel 4 and Cinemax | The Dying Rooms |
| Public Policy Productions Inc., in association with WNET/New York, NY (presented on PBS) | Road Scholar (starring Andrei Codrescu) |
| WGBH-TV/Boston, MA and BBC | Rock & Roll |
| KFOR-TV, KOCO-TV, and KWTV-TV/Oklahoma City, OK | Award to the stations for their coverage of the bombing on the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building |
| Discovery Channel and Brian Lapping Associates for BBC | Yugoslavia: Death of a Nation |
| CBS News | CBS Reports: In the Killing Fields of America (parts 1 and 2) |
| CBS News | Coverage of the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin |
| P.O.V. and Deborah Hoffman (presented on PBS) | Complaints of a Dutiful Daughter |
| Turner Original Productions and BBC Natural History | The Private Life of Plants |
| Turner Original Productions, Tollin/Robbins, and Mundy Lane, in association with Television Production Partners | Hank Aaron: Chasing the Dream |
| DeepFocus Productions (presented on PBS) | Coming Out Under Fire |
| Aardman Animations in association with Wallace & Gromit Ltd., BBC Children's International, BBC Bristol, and BBC Lionheart | Wallace and Gromit |
| Frontline/WGBH-TV, Boston, Massachusetts | Frontline, for "Waco - The Inside Story" |
| The Producer's Films for Channel 4 | The Politician's Wife |
| HBO Pictures and Price Entertainment | The Tuskegee Airmen |
| NBC, Baltimore Pictures, Reeves Entertainment SL/TMF Productions, in association with NBC Productions | Homicide: Life on the Street |
| NBC, Barwood Films Ltd., Story Line Productions Inc., and Trillium Productions Inc., in association with TriStar Television | Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story |
| Les Productions Tele-Action Inc., in association with the National Film Board of Canada, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and Telefilm Canada (presented on A&E) | The Boys of St. Vincent |
| CBS and Craig Anderson Productions, Inc., in association with Hallmark Hall of Fame Productions, Inc. | August Wilson's 'The Piano Lesson' |

## 1996

| Recipient | Area of Excellence |
| Peter Gzowski | Personal Award for his work on CBC Radio's Morningside |
| Bud Greenspan | Personal Award for his work in sports documentaries, in particular work related to the Olympics |
| KOMO-TV/Seattle, WA | Institutional Award for KOMO's "local programming excellence," citing the documentaries War on Children and Earth Agenda |
| Sound Portrait Productions, Inc. for National Public Radio | Remorse: The 14 Stories of Eric Morse |
| Radio Smithsonian for Public Radio International | Black Radio: Telling It Like It Was |
| WBEZ-FM/Chicago, IL | This American Life |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science | Kinetic City Super Crew |
| WCVB-TV/Boston, MA | "Who's Guarding the Guardians?" an investigation into lawyers and State of Massachusetts projects taking advantage of the estates of mentally ill citizens |
| KCET-TV/Los Angeles, CA and BBC | The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century |
| BBC and A&E Television Networks | Pride and Prejudice |
| BBC and WGBH-TV/Boston, MA | People's Century |
| BBC and WGBH-TV/Boston, MA | Award for Mobil Masterpiece Theatre, citing House of Cards, To Play the King, and The Final Cut |
| BBC News | Award for a series of Newsnight reports on the civil war in Afghanistan |
| Frontline/WGBH-TV (Boston, MA) and Helen Whitney Productions | Frontline: The Choice 96 |
| Frontline/WGBH-TV (Boston, MA), Long Bow Group Inc., and Independent Television Service | Frontline: The Gate of Heavenly Peace |
| The American Experience, Lennon Documentary Group, and WGBH-TV/Boston, MA | The American Experience: The Battle Over Citizen Kane |
| NOVA/WGBH-TV (Boston, MA), Agaton Film & Television, Swedish Television/SVT1, ZDF-Arte, and Channel 4 | Odyssey of Life |
| Telling Pictures, HBO, Channel 4, and ZDF-Arte | The Celluloid Closet |
| HBO | How Do You Spell God? |
| HBO Sports | Journey of the African-American Athlete |
| HBO and Creative Thinking International Ltd. | Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills |
| WNBC-TV/New York, NY | "Passport to Kill", a report exploring how Dominican natives were able to flee justice after committing murders and other crimes in New York |
| Center for New American Media, Midnight Films, and WETA-TV/Washington, DC | Vote for Me: Politics in America |
| Turner Entertainment Group and Steven Spielberg in association with Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation | Survivors of the Holocaust |
| WCCO-TV/Minneapolis, MN | One to One: Mentoring, a public service project aimed at improving youth through mentoring |
| Carlton Television for Channel 4 | Wise Up |
| ABC and Steven Bochco Productions | NYPD Blue |
| ABC, Tomlin and Wagner Theatricalz, and Kurtz & Friends | Edith Ann's Christmas - Just Say Noël |
| NBC and Wolf Films in association with Universal Television | Law & Order |
| Fox and Gracie Films in association with Twentieth Television | The Simpsons |
| Fox and Ten Thirteen Productions in association with Twentieth Television | The X-Files |

## 1997

| Recipient | Area of Excellence |
| ABC and Sarabande Productions in association with 20th Century Fox Television | Nothing Sacred |
| ABC and The Black/Marlens Company in association with Touchstone Television | Ellen, for "The Puppy Episode" |
| ABC News/Nightline | Award for Nightline's 3-part report "The Trial of Pol Pot" by Jim Laurie |
| Carol Marin | Personal Award for her distinguished investigative work at Chicago's WMAQ-TV and WBBM-TV, as well as her "personal stand against the tide of sensationalism in television news" |
| Ted Turner | Personal Award for Turner's work as "a true visionary in electronic communications" |
| Barraclough Carey Productions, Channel 4, and The History Channel | Hello Mr. President, a documentary about Lyndon B. Johnson directed by Philip J Day |
| New England Cable News | Look for Me Here: 299 Days in the Life of Nora Lenihan, a documentary produced by Florence Del Santo about a woman receiving hospice care |
| Judith Helfand Productions, P.O.V./The American Documentary and Independent Television Service | A Healthy Baby Girl |
| KFGO/Fargo, ND | Award for the station's coverage of the Red River Flood ("The Flood of the Century"), with reports by Don Haney, Bonnie Amistadi, Doug Hamilton, Gary Rogers, Sandy Buttweiler, and Ed Schultz |
| Southern Regional Council | Will the Circle Be Unbroken?, a radio documentary on the Civil rights movement produced by George King |
| KGO/San Francisco, CA | "State Farm: Good Neighbor or Bad Faith?" an investigation by Susan Kennedy into fraudulent practices by the insurance company involving policyholders' disaster claims |
| Focus on the Family Radio Theater | Dietrich Bonhoeffer: The Cost of Freedom, a radio drama on Dietrich Bonhoeffer written and directed by Paul McCusker |
| Murray Street Enterprises and Jazz at Lincoln Center for National Public Radio | Jazz from Lincoln Center |
| WRAL-TV/Raleigh, NC | "Military Medicine", an exposé by Stuart Watson into the low accountability standards applied to doctors in the United States Armed Forces |
| The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer | Award for Richard Rodriguez's essays on American life |
| KQED-TV/San Francisco, CA | The Castro, a documentary about the Castro District, San Francisco directed by Peter L. Stein |
| KTCA/Twin Cities Public Television in association with Middlemarch Films | Liberty! The American Revolution |
| WGBH-TV/Boston, MA | The American Experience: The Presidents Series (including Elizabeth Deane's Nixon and The Kennedys, Adriana Bosch's & Austin Hoyt's Eisenhower and Reagan, and David Grubin's FDR TR. LBJ, and Truman). |
| WGBH-TV/Boston, MA | The American Experience, for "Troublesome Creek - A Midwestern" |
| WGBH-TV/Boston, MA and BBC | Mobil Masterpiece Theatre, for "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall" |
| Les Films d'Ici, La Sept-Cinema, and Centre European Cinematographique RhoneAlpes (presented on Bravo and The Independent Film Channel) | In the Land of the Deaf |
| EuroArts Entertainment OHG & SDR/arte in association with Bravo and Danmarks Radio | Blue Note: A History of Modern Jazz, a documentary directed by Julian Benedikt on Blue Note Records |
| BBC (presented on The History Channel) | The Nazis: A Warning from History |
| Florentine Films/Hott Productions and WETA-TV/Washington, DC | Divided Highways: The Interstates and the Transformation of American Life, a documentary on the Interstate Highway System |
| HBO and Carlton Television in association with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation | Body Doubles: The Twin Experience, a documentary on twins directed by Antony Thomas |
| FASE Productions for PBS | The Eddie Files (with Kay Toliver) |
| Nickelodeon | Award for The Big Help, the network's campaign to promote volunteerism by children |
| Big Feats! Entertainment | Wishbone |
| WNET/New York, NY | City Arts |
| NBC and Fatima Productions | Homicide: Life on the Street, for "the series' sustained excellence," citing in particular the episode "Subway" |
| HBO Pictures and The Thomas Carter Company | Don King: Only in America |
| TNT and a Mark Carliner Production | George Wallace |
| CBS News | Sunday Morning |
| CBS News | 60 Minutes |

## 1998

| Recipient | Area of Excellence |
| Christiane Amanpour | Personal Award for her international reportage work for CNN and CBS News' 60 Minutes |
| Linda Ellerbee | Personal Award for her work as host and co-executive producer of Nick News |
| Robert Halmi Sr. | Personal Award for Halmi's work as a producer and as chairman of the board for Hallmark Entertainment |
| Jac Venza | Personal Award for Venza's "many and ongoing achievements," in particular his founding of National Educational Television and producer of cultural programs for WNET |
| National Public Radio | I Must Keep Fightin': The Art of Paul Robeson, produced by Elizabeth Blair and narrated by Barbara Hendricks |
| National Public Radio | Performance Today |
| National Public Radio and Charlayne Hunter-Gault | Award for Hunter-Gault's reportage from Africa |
| WHAS/Louisville, KY | "Sisterhood of Hope", a profile by Mary Jeffries of the House of Ruth, which provides support for HIV/AIDS-infected women |
| CBS News | "The Reckoning", a report on Public Eye with Bryant Gumbel by Carol Marin profiling a man disfigured in a 1979 truck crash and his encounter with the man responsible for the accident |
| KTVX-TV/Salt Lake City, UT | Award for the station's reports by Chris Vanocur revealing the 2002 Winter Olympic bid scandal |
| BBC and The Learning Channel | The Human Body |
| BBC and WGBH-TV/Boston, MA | When Good Men Do Nothing, a report by Steve Bradshaw that originally aired on BBC's Panorama that revealed the United Nations' downplaying of the Rwandan genocide |
| WGBH-TV/Boston, MA (presented on PBS) | Africans in America: America's Journey Through Slavery |
| WGBH/Frontline, Washington Media Associates, and Public Affairs Television (presented on PBS) | Frontline, for the report "Washington's Other Scandal" by Bill Moyers, which documented "the corrupting influence of fund raising in the electoral process" |
| WGBH Educational Foundation, The American History Project/Out of the Blue Productions Inc., and The American Experience | The American Experience: Riding the Rails, produced by Lexy Lovell and Michael Uys |
| The American Experience, David Grubin Productions Inc., and WGBH Educational Foundation | The American Experience: America 1900 |
| KRON-TV/San Francisco, CA | "About Race", a series of reports by Pete Wilson and Pam Moore exploring racial understanding |
| ITVS and City People Productions (presented on PBS) | Travis, a documentary about a child with AIDS directed by Richard Kotuk |
| WETA-TV/Washington, DC and Florentine Films (presented on PBS) | Frank Lloyd Wright |
| WNET/New York, NY, Florentine Films, and Sherman Pictures | American Masters: Alexander Calder |
| CNN and Jeremy Isaacs Productions | Cold War |
| NBC News | Dateline NBC, for the report "Checks and Balances" by Maria Shriver, which profiled welfare-to-work efforts in Wisconsin and its effects on a quartet of single mothers |
| WANE-TV/Fort Wayne, IN | "Christopher", a look by Karen Hensel at the organ donation process from the donor's death to the recipient's recovery |
| TVC London and Channel 4 | The Bear |
| Comedy Central, Tom Snyder Productions Inc., Popular Arts Entertainment, and HBO Downtown Productions | Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist |
| HBO | Shot Through the Heart |
| HBO and Brillstein-Grey Entertainment | The Larry Sanders Show, for the episode "Flip" |
| HBO Sports | Award for HBO's series of sports documentaries, highlighting When It Was a Game, Babe Ruth, Sugar Ray Robinson: The Bright Lights and Dark Shadows of a Champion, Where Have You Gone, Joe DiMaggio?, and a documentary on Sonny Liston and the guidance of Seth Abraham and Ross Greenburg |
| Chestermead Productions for BBC and WGBH-TV/Boston, MA (presented on PBS) | Mobil Masterpiece Theatre, for its production of King Lear (originally aired on Performance) |
| Showtime Networks Inc., Pacific Motion Pictures, and Egg Pictures | The Baby Dance |
| Fox and David E. Kelley Productions | Ally McBeal |
| ABC and David E. Kelley Productions | The Practice |
| ABC and Steven Bochco Productions | NYPD Blue, for the episode "Raging Bulls" |

## 1999

| Recipient | Area of Excellence |
| ABC News | ABC 2000 Today |
| ABC News | 20/20, for the report "Those Were Our Children," a report by Brian Ross which connected a fatal car/truck accident in Wisconsin to a bribe-for-license scandal within the Office of the Illinois Secretary of State |
| ABC, Storyline Entertainment, Columbia TriStar Television Inc., and Chris Montan Productions in association with Walt Disney Television | Annie |
| BBC in association with PBS | The Life of Birds by David Attenborough |
| BBC News | "Murder in Purdah", a report by Olenka Frenkiel on the torture and killing of women in Pakistan |
| Blackside Inc., in association with WNET/New York, NY (presented on PBS) | I'll Make Me a World: A Century of African-American Arts |
| Brook Lapping Productions for Channel 4 (presented on PBS' The American Experience | Playing the China Card (Nixon's China Game) |
| C-SPAN | American Presidents: Life Portraits |
| Bob Simon | Personal Award to the CBS News correspondent for his international reports on 60 Minutes and 60 Minutes II |
| CBS, Televest, and Columbia TriStar Television in association with Cosby & James Productions | Having Our Say: The Delaney Sisters' First 100 Years |
| ESPN | SportsCentury |
| Florentine Films in association with WETA-TV/Washington, DC (presented on PBS) | Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony |
| Frontline co-production with 10/20 Productions (presented on PBS) | Frontline, for "The Lost Children of Rockdale County", directed by Rachel Dretzin and Barak Goodman and which profiled "drifting" kids in suburban Atlanta, Georgia |
| GMA Network | Award for investigative reporting, citing the reports "I-Witness: Kidneys for Sale", "Kamao", and "Brigada Siete: Child Labor" |
| HBO | Goodnight Moon & Other Sleepytime Tales |
| HBO and Brillstein-Grey Entertainment | The Sopranos |
| HBO and Spanky Pictures in association with Ellen M. Krass Productions | A Lesson Before Dying |
| HBO Sports | Dare to Compete: The Struggle of Women in Sports, a documentary on women's sports produced by Kendall Bridges Reid |
| HBO Sports in association with Black Canyon Productions | Fists of Freedom: The Story of the '68 Summer Games, a documentary on the 1968 Summer Olympics directed by George Roy |
| Mentorn Barraclough Carey Production for Channel 4 | The Valley, a documentary on the Kosovo War directed by Dan Reed |
| MTV Networks | BIOrhythm, a documentary biography series |
| National Public Radio | Morning Edition with Bob Edwards |
| National Public Radio and The Kitchen Sisters | Lost & Found Sound |
| NBC and John Wells Productions in association with Warner Bros. Television | The West Wing |
| Sheila Nevins | Personal Award for her work at HBO |
| Public Affairs Television and WNET/New York, NY | Facing the Truth with Bill Moyers |
| Riverside Films (presented on PBS) | Arguing the World |
| Showtime and Haft Entertainment | Strange Justice |
| Ostroushko Productions, produced for Smithsonian Productions (distributed by Public Radio International) | The Mississippi: River of Song |
| WNET/New York, NY | City Life, a local documentary series on life in New York City |
| TWI/Carlton co-production for ITV and The History Channel | The Second World War in Colour (History Alive: World War II in Color), a documentary on World War II produced by Stewart Binns using contemporary color footage |
| VH1 Public Affairs and MTV Networks | VH1 Save the Music Campaign |
| WAGA-TV/Atlanta, GA | "Singled Out," an investigation by Dale Russell into the targeting of minorities for pat-downs by US Customs inspectors at airport security checkpoints |
| Wall to Wall Television Ltd., BBC, and Carlton Television, and WGBH-TV/Boston, MA | ExxonMobil Masterpiece Theatre: A Rather English Marriage |
| WCPO-TV/Cincinnati, OH | "I-Team" investigations by Laure Quinlivan into the construction projects for stadiums for the Cincinnati Bengals and Reds |
| Yorkshire Television Production and WGBH-TV/Boston, MA | ExxonMobil Masterpiece Theatre: Lost for Words |