To date, POV films have won 37 Emmy® Awards, 21 George Foster Peabody Awards, 12 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards, three Academy Awards®, the first-ever George Polk Documentary Film Award and the Prix Italia. The POV series has been honored with a Special News & Documentary Emmy Award for Excellence in Television Documentary Filmmaking, three IDA Awards for Best Curated Series and the National Association of Latino Independent Producers (NALIP) Award for Corporate Commitment to Diversity. Learn more at www.pbs.org/pov/.
AMERICA REFRAMED: Deej by Robert Rooy; Animator: Em Cooper
My Love, Don’t Cross That River by Moyoung Jin
AMERICA REFRAMED: Farewell Ferris Wheel by Miguel Martinez and Jamie Sisley
AMERICA REFRAMED: Vegas Baby by Amanda Micheli
Last Men in Aleppo by Feras Fayyad
New York, N.Y. — July 26, 2018 — POV (Point of View), American television’s longest-running independent documentary series on PBS, has received six nominations for the 2018 News & Documentary Emmy Awards, announced today by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. PBS leads with 45 nominations, receiving more than any other network. POV’s My Love, Don’t Cross That River was nominated for Best Documentary. The full list of nominated POV films includes My Love, Don’t Cross That River, Almost Sunrise, Last Men in Aleppo, Presenting Princess Shaw, and The Islands and The Whales.
The full list of nominees for the 39th Annual News and Documentary Emmy® Awards is available at emmyonline.com/newsemmy.
The Islands and the Whales by Mike Day The Islands and the Whales by Mike Day
My Love, Don’t Cross That River by Moyoung Jin POV’s My Love, Don’t Cross That River nominated for Best Documentary and Outstanding Arts & Culture Documentary; Sister series America ReFramed receives 3 Emmy nods
Almost Sunrise by Michael Collins Presenting Princess Shaw by Ido Haar
Outstanding Business and Economic Documentary
POV’s sister-series America ReFramed, which airs on WORLD Channel, also received three nominations for its films DEEJ, Farewell Ferris Wheel, and Vegas Baby. Today’s announcement marks over 160 Emmy nominations for the 31-year-old series. Since 1988, POV has won 37 Emmy Awards. Best Documentary
Outstanding Arts & Culture Documentary Outstanding Current Affairs Documentary:
