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Peabody Awards

Apr 1, 2002  •  Post A Comment

Coverage of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks dominated the list of winners of the 61st annual Peabody Awards announced last week. ABC News’ coverage on Sept. 11 and 12 and more than 180 hours of programming by National Public Radio earned Peabodys for those organizations. The awards will be presented on May 20 at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel in New York in a ceremony hosted by Walter Cronkite.
The following is a list of television Peabody award winners:
* ABC News Coverage of Sept. 11, 2001, ABC News, New York
* “CNN Presents: Beneath the Veil and Unholy War,” CNN Productions (Atlanta), Channel 4 International and Hard Cash Productions
* “Third Watch: In Their Own Words,” NBC, John Wells Productions in association with Warner Bros. Television
* “America: A Tribute to Heroes,” Joel Gallen and the U.S. broadcast and cable networks
* “Anne Frank,” Touchstone Television, presented on ABC
* “American Masters: F. Scott Fitzgerald: Winter Dreams,” Thirteen/WNET (New York), presented on PBS
* “The Cliburn: Playing on the Edge,” Peter Rosen Productions and KERA-TV, Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas
* “Mzima-Haunt of the Riverhorse,” Survival Anglia Ltd., U.K.
* “ExxonMobil Masterpiece Theatre: Talking Heads II: Miss Fozzard Finds Her Feet,” Slow Motion Ltd. production for the BBC, presented on PBS
* “The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg,” The Chiesla Foundation and Cinemax
* “Still Life With Animated Dogs,” Independent Television Service (ITVS) and Paul and Sandra Fierlinger, AR&T Associates
* “Visions of Vine Street,” WCPO-TV, Cincinnati

* “WTO Challenge,” Television Broadcast Limited, Hong Kong, SAR, People’s Republic of China
* “Endgame in Ireland,” Brook Lapping Productions for BBC2 in association with WGBH/Boston, RTE (Ireland), La Sept ARTE (France and Germany), SBS (Australia) and YLE (Finland)
* “A Huey P. Newton Story,” 40 Acres & a Mule Filmworks, Luna Ray Films, Black Starz!, PBS and African Heritage Network
* “Hell in the Pacific,” A Carlton Production in association with The Learning Channel for Channel Four Television
* “Conspiracy,” HBO Films, produced in association with the British Broadcasting Corporation
* “Things Behind the Sun,” Showtime, An Echo Lake Productions/Sidekick Entertainment Production
* “Boycott,” Norman Twain Productions with Shelby Stone Productions in association with HBO Films
* “The First Year,” Teachers Documentary Project, presented on PBS
* “My Father’s Camera,” National Film Board of Canada
* “Little Bill,” Nickelodeon
* “Blue’s Clues,” Nickelodeon,
* WGBH-TV, Boston
* “60 Minutes II: Memories of a Massacre,” CBS News, New York
* “Wit,” Avenue Pictures in association with HBO Films
* “The Bernie Mac Show,” Wilmore Films, Regency Television and 20th Century Fox
* “Band of Brothers,” Band of Brothers Ltd. on behalf of DreamWorks and Playtone, presented on HBO
* “Nightline,” ABC News, New York