13 wins & 47 nominations
- 2000 Nominee Daytime Emmy
- Outstanding Special Class Special
For episode "From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 1999".
- 2005 Nominee Primetime Emmy
- Outstanding Special Class Program
For episode "Leonard Bernstein's 'Candide' in Concert".Shared with: Ellen M. Krass · Morton Swinsky · Iris Merlis · Jay Good · David Horn · John Walker · Marin Alsop - 2005 Winner Primetime Emmy
- Outstanding Nonfiction Series
Shared with: David Horn · Bill O'Donnell · Michael Kantor · Jeff Dupre · Sally Rosenthal · Julie Andrews - 2004 Nominee Primetime Emmy
- Outstanding Special Class Program
For episode "The Los Angeles Philharmonic Inaugurates Walt Disney Concert Hall".Shared with: Wayne Baruch · Charles F. Gayton · David Horn · Mona Niemiec · Mitch Owgang · John Walker - 2002 Nominee Primetime Emmy
- Outstanding Classical Music-Dance Program
For episode "Joshua Bell: West Side Story Suite From Central Park". - 2001 Winner Primetime Emmy
- Outstanding Classical Music-Dance Program
Shared with: Rada Rassimov · Paola Megas · Andrea Andermann · John Walker · David Horn · Giuseppe Patroni Griffi · Zubin Mehta
- 1999 Winner Personal AwardThis year, television officially begins its second half-century. While many observers might dispute Newton Minow's characterization of the medium as a "vast wasteland," few would challenge Edward R. Murrow's early observation that without leadership, television would amount to little more than a collection of glowing tubes and wires in a box. There is one giant who spans virtually all of TV's first 50 years and represents both its greatest aspirations and its highest achievements. Jac Venza has been a major figure in the medium since 1950. He honed his craft first as a designer and subsequently as a director and producer for CBS. In 1964, Mr. Venza was one of the founding group of producers assembled to create National Educational Television (NET), the forerunner of today's system of public television. From 1972 to today, as executive producer of cultural programs for New York's WNET-TV, Mr. Venza has dedicated his life's work to the presentation of superior dramatic and artistic performance on television. He is the visionary behind the on-going excellence of Great Performances, and within its framework, the concepts of Theater in America and Dance in America. Moreover, under his guidance the America Masters series, also recognized with a Peabody Award today, has been vividly realized. As Bill Baker, President of WNET-TV wrote in a letter to the Peabody Board, "In a time when the lowest common denominator often seems to be the highest aspiration for television, Jack Venza strives for more. Twenty-six years ago he set the standard for public television to make it the undisputed home for the arts. He has pursued that dream ever since, bringing extraordinary distinction to the medium." The Peabody Board wholeheartedly agrees, and presents a personal award in recognition of the many and ongoing achievements of Jac Venza.
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