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American Masters (1985)

Awards

American Masters

58 wins & 82 nominations

American Cinema Editors, USA

  • 2014 Nominee Eddie
    • Best Edited Documentary - Television
    • Stephen Ellis
    • Gordon Mason
    • Phil McDonald
    Episode: "Jimi Hendrix: Hear My Train a Comin' (2013)"
  • Pamela Scott Arnold
    2013 Winner Eddie
    • Best Edited Documentary - Television
    • Pamela Scott Arnold
    Episode: "Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune (2012)"

Banff Television Festival

  • American Masters (1985)
    2000 Winner Banff Rockie Award
    • Best Arts Documentary
    For episode "Hitchcock, Selznick and the End of Hollywood".

Chicago International Film Festival

  • 1986 Nominee Gold Hugo
    • Best Documentary
    • Amram Nowak (director)

CINE Competition

  • 1991 Winner CINE Golden Eagle
    • Cultural Documentary
    • Deborah Peretz (editor)
    • Saverio Camporeale (supervising sound editor)
    For the episode: "Edward R. Murrow - This Reporter"
  • 1989 Winner CINE Golden Eagle
    • Documentary
    • Karen Thorsen
  • 1985 Winner CINE Golden Eagle
    • Documentary
    • Amram Nowak

Cinema Audio Society, USA

  • Ken Hahn
    2006 Nominee C.A.S. Award
    • Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing for Television - Non-Fiction, Variety or Music - Series or Specials
    • Ken Hahn (re-recording mixer)
    • J.T. Takagi (production mixer)
    Episode: "Sweet Honey in the Rock: Raise Your Voice (2005)"

Directors Guild of America, USA

  • 1996 Nominee DGA Award
    • Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary
    • Helen Whitney
    For episode "Richard Avedon: Darkness and Light".
  • 1991 Nominee DGA Award
    • Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary/Actuality
    • Susan Steinberg
    For episode "Edward R. Murrow: This Reporter", part 1.
  • 1990 Nominee DGA Award
    • Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary/Actuality
    • Gene Lasko
    For episode "W. Eugene Smith: Photography Made Difficult".
  • 1987 Winner DGA Award
    • Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary/Actuality
    • Perry Miller Adato
    • Bruce Nalepinski (first assistant director) (plaque)
    • Peter Pastorelli (second assistant director) (plaque)
    For episode "Eugene O'Neill: A Glory of Ghosts".

Primetime Emmy Awards

  • American Masters (1985)
    2021 Nominee Primetime Emmy
    • Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series
  • Kathryn Bostic
    2021 Nominee Primetime Emmy
    • Outstanding Music Composition for a Documentary Series or Special (Original Dramatic Score)
    • Kathryn Bostic (composer)
    For episode "Amy Tan: Unintended Memoir".
  • Michael Kantor
    2020 Nominee Primetime Emmy
    • Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series
    • Michael Kantor (executive producer)
    • Jay Alix (executive producer)
    • Una Jackman (executive producer)
    • Suzi Dietz (executive producer)
    • Julie Sacks (series producer)
    • Jeff Kaufman (producer)
    • Marcia S. Ross (producer)
  • Michael Kantor
    2019 Nominee Primetime Emmy
    • Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series
    • Michael Kantor
    • Sally Rosenthal
    • Julie Sacks
    • Junko Tsunashima
  • Michael Kantor
    2018 Nominee Primetime Emmy
    • Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series
    • Michael Kantor
    • Chiz Schultz
    • Junko Tsunashima
    • Julie Sacks
    • Tracy Heather Strain
    • Randall MacLowry

Grammy Awards

  • 2002 Nominee Grammy
    • Best Long Form Music Video
    • Jeremy Marre (video director/video producer)
    For episode "Bob Marley: Rebel Music"

Image Awards (NAACP)

  • American Masters (1985)
    2022 Nominee Image Award
    • Outstanding Documentary (Television)
    Episode: "How It Feels to Be Free (2021)"
  • American Masters (1985)
    2021 Nominee Image Award
    • Outstanding Short-Form Series - Reality/Nonfiction
    Episode: "Unladylike 2020 (2020)"
  • American Masters (1985)
    2020 Nominee Image Award
    • Outstanding Documentary (Film)
  • Tracy Heather Strain
    2019 Winner Image Award
    • Outstanding Directing in a Motion Picture (Television)
    • Tracy Heather Strain
    For Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart (2018).

Imagen Foundation Awards

  • American Masters (1985)
    2022 Winner Imagen Award
    • Best Short Film
  • American Masters (1985)
    2021 Winner Imagen Award
    • Best Short Film
    "UNLADYLIKE2020: Jovita Idar"
  • 2008 Nominee Imagen Award
    • Best Documentary
    • Laurie Coyle (Director/producer)
    • Rick Tejada-Flores (Director/producer)

International Documentary Association

  • Michael Kantor
    2023 Nominee IDA Award
    • Best Curated Series
    • Michael Kantor
  • Michael Kantor
    2022 Nominee IDA Award
    • Best Curated Series
    • Michael Kantor
  • Michael Kantor
    2022 Nominee IDA Award
    • Best Curated Series
    • Michael Kantor
  • Michael Kantor
    2021 Nominee IDA Award
    • Best Curated Series
    • Michael Kantor
  • Michael Kantor
    2018 Nominee IDA Award
    • Best Curated Series
    • Michael Kantor

Peabody Awards

  • American Masters (1985)
    2010 Winner Peabody Award
  • American Masters (1985)
    2002 Winner Peabody Award
    For episode "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Winter Dreams".
  • American Masters (1985)
    1994 Winner Peabody Award
    For the feature _"Great Performances" (1972) For episode "Paul Simon: Born at the Right Time".

PGA Awards

  • Susan Lacy in American Masters (1985)
    2015 Nominee PGA Award
    • Outstanding Producer of Non-Fiction Television
    • Susan Lacy
    • Julie Sacks
    • Junko Tsunashima
  • Susan Lacy in American Masters (1985)
    2013 Winner PGA Award
    • Outstanding Producer of Non-Fiction Television
    • Prudence Glass
    • Susan Lacy
    • Julie Sacks
  • Susan Lacy in American Masters (1985)
    2012 Winner PGA Award
    • Outstanding Producer of Non-Fiction Television
    • Susan Lacy
    • Julie Sacks

Philadelphia Film Festival

  • Michael Epstein
    2010 Winner Audience Award - Honorable Mention
    • Sight & Soundtrack
    • Michael Epstein
    For the documentary "LennoNYC"

San Francisco International Film Festival

  • Susan Lacy in American Masters (1985)
    2000 Winner Certificate of Merit
    • Television - History
    • St. Clair Bourne
    • Susan Lacy
    For episode "Paul Robeson: Here I Stand".
  • Michael Epstein
    1999 Winner Golden Spire
    • Television - The Arts
    • Michael Epstein
    For episode "Hitchcock, Selznick and the End of Hollywood".
  • Susan Lacy in American Masters (1985)
    1997 Winner Golden Spire
    • Television - The Arts
    • Susan Lacy
    For episode "Lena Horne: In Her Own Words".

Sundance Film Festival

  • Karen L. Thorson
    1990 Nominee Grand Jury Prize
    • Documentary
    • Karen L. Thorson
    For episode "James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket".
  • Kenneth Bowser
    1990 Nominee Grand Jury Prize
    • Documentary
    • Kenneth Bowser
    For episode "Preston Sturges: The Rise and Fall of an American Dreamer".

Television Critics Association Awards

  • American Masters (1985)
    2006 Nominee TCA Award
    • Outstanding Achievement in News and Information
    For episode "Bob Newhart: Unbuttoned".
  • American Masters (1985)
    2002 Nominee TCA Award
    • Outstanding Achievement in News and Information

Vermont International Film Festival

  • 2000 Winner Best of ... Award
    • Environment
    • Anne Makepeace
    For episode "Coming to Light: Edward S. Curtis and the North American Indians".

Wine Country Film Festival

  • 2000 Winner Documentary Film Prize
    • Anne Makepeace
    For episode "Coming to Light: Edward S. Curtis and the North American Indians". Tied with Amargosa (2000).

Writers Guild of America, USA

  • 2013 Nominee WGA Award (TV)
    • Documentary - Other Than Current Events
    • Peter Jones
    For episode "Johnny Carson: King of Late Night"
  • 2002 Nominee WGA Award (TV)
    • Documentary - Other Than Current Events
    • Thomas Wagner
    For episode "Finding Lucy".
  • Michael Epstein
    2001 Nominee WGA Award (TV)
    • Documentary - Other Than Current Events
    • Michael Epstein
    For episode "Hitchcock, Selznick and the End of Hollywood".
  • John F. Goff in Berserker (1987)
    1997 Nominee WGA Award (TV)
    • Documentary - Other Than Current Events
    • John F. Goff
    • Thomas Wagner
    For episode "Rod Serling: Submitted for Your Approval".

Director's View Film Festival

  • Michael Epstein
    2004 Winner Grand Prize
    • Documentary
    • Michael Epstein
    For episode "None Without Sin".

Montréal International Festival of Films on Art

  • 2003 Winner Best Portrait
    • Avon Kirkland
    For episode "Ralph Ellison: An American Journey". Tied with Andrey Belyy. Okhota na angela, ili Chetyre lyubvi poeta i proritsatelya (2002).

Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival

  • Chuck Workman, 2014
    1999 Nominee Robert and Frances Flaherty Prize
    • Chuck Workman
    For episode "The Source: The Story of the Beats and the Beat Generation"

Black Reel Awards

  • 2014 Nominee Black Reel
    • Outstanding Television Documentary
    • Bob Smeaton
    For the episode "Jimi Hendrix: Hear My Train a Comin'"

Canadian Screen Awards, CA

  • 2017 Nominee Canadian Screen Award
    • Best Biography or Arts Documentary Program or Series
    • Elliott Halpern
    • Elizabeth Trojian
    For episode, "Loretta Lynn: Still a Mountain Girl"

CINDY Awards

  • 2014 Winner Gold Award
    • Domestic National Broadcast Documentary
    • Robert Trachtenberg
    For "Mel Brooks Makes A Noise"
  • James Erskine
    2014 Winner Gold Award
    • Domestic National Broadcast Documentary
    • James Erskine
    For "Billie Jean King"
  • Susan Lacy in American Masters (1985)
    2013 Winner Gold Award
    • Domestic National Broadcast Documentary
    • Susan Lacy
    • Jessica Levin
  • 2013 Winner Gold Award
    • Domestic National Broadcast Documentary
    • Mark A. Catalena
    • Peter Jones

Online Film & Television Association

  • American Masters (1985)
    2020 Nominee OFTA Television Award
    • Best Reality or Non-Fiction Program
  • American Masters (1985)
    2015 Nominee OFTA Television Award
    • Best Non-Fiction Program
  • American Masters (1985)
    2009 Nominee OFTA Television Award
    • Best Informational Program
  • American Masters (1985)
    2004 Winner OFTA Television Award
    • Best Informational Program
  • American Masters (1985)
    2001 Nominee OFTA Television Award
    • Best Informational Series

Critics' Choice Documentary Awards

  • American Masters (1985)
    2022 Nominee Critics' Choice Documentary Award
    • Best Ongoing Documentary Series
  • American Masters (1985)
    2018 Nominee Critics' Choice Documentary Award
    • Best Ongoing Documentary Series
  • American Masters (1985)
    2017 Winner Critics' Choice Documentary Award
    • Best Ongoing Documentary Series (TV/Streaming)

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