page_title: Nova (American TV program)
section_title: Awards
hierarchical_section_title: Nova (American TV program) / Awards
caption_attribution_description: English: Gary Johnstone, Joe McMaster, Jonathan Sahula, and Anna Lee Strachan, 67th Annual Peabody Awards Luncheon Waldorf=Astoria Hotel New York, NY USA June 16, 2008
context_page_description: Nova is an American popular science television program produced by WGBH Boston since 1974. It is broadcast on PBS in the U.S., and in more than 100 other countries. The program has won many major television awards.
  Nova often includes interviews with scientists doing research in the subject areas covered and occasionally includes footage of a particular discovery. Some episodes have focused on the history of science. Examples of topics covered include the following:
  Colditz Castle,
  the Drake equation,
  elementary particles,
  the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens,
  Fermat's Last Theorem,
  the AIDS epidemic,
  global warming,
  moissanite,
  Project Jennifer,
  storm chasing,
  Unterseeboot 869,
  Vinland, and the
  Tarim mummies.
  The Nova programs have been praised for their pacing, writing, and editing. Websites accompany the segments and have also won awards.
context_section_description: Nova has been recognized with multiple Peabody Awards and Emmy Awards. The program won a Peabody in 1974, citing it as "an imaginative series of science adventures," with a "versatility rarely found in television." Subsequent Peabodys went to specific episodes:
  "The Miracle of Life" (1983) was cited as a "fascinating and informative documentary of the human reproductive process," which used "revolutionary microphotographic techniques." This episode also won an Emmy.
  "Spy Machines" (1987) was cited for "neatly recount[ing] the key events of the Cold War and look[ing] into the future of American/Soviet SDI competition."
  "The Elegant Universe" (2003) was lauded for exploring "science's most elaborate and ambitious theory, the string theory" while making "the abstract concrete, the complicated clear, and the improbable understandable" by "blending factual story telling with animation, special effects, and trick photography." The episode also won an Emmy for editing.
  The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (responsible for documentary Emmys) recognized the program with awards in 1978, 1981, 1983, and 1989. Julia Cort won an Emmy in 2001 for writing "Life's Greatest Miracle." Emmys were also awarded for the following episodes:
  1982 "Here's Looking at You, Kid"
  1983 "The Miracle of Life" (also won a Peabody)
  1985 "AIDS: Chapter One", "Acid Rain: New Bad News"
  1992 "Suicide Mission to Chernobyl", "The Russian Right Stuff"
  1994 "Secret of the Wild Child"
  1995 "Siamese Twins", "Secret of the Wild Child"
  1999 "Decoding Nazi Secrets"
  2001 "Bioterror"
  2002 "Galileo's Battle for the Heavens", "Mountain of Ice", "Shackleton's Voyage of Endurance", "Why the Towers Fell"
  2003 "Battle of the X-planes", "The Elegant Universe" (also won a Peabody)
  2005 "Rx for Survival: A Global Health Challenge"
  In 1998, the National Science Board of the National Science Foundation awarded Nova its first-ever Public Service Award.
caption: Joe McMaster and the crew of "Judgement Day" at the 67th Annual Peabody Awards
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