Peabody Nominees 2021
Tuesday, May 4, 2021 at 8:52PM by Nathaniel R
There are 60 programs nominated for the prestigious Peabody Award this year. As is tradition the Peabodys are a juried award and the nominating committee of 19 people looked at 1,300 potential honorees in various categories like children's programming, documentary, entertainment, news reporting, and the like. You can see the full list of nominees at The Peabody's Official Site which includes acclaimed limited series or series like I May Destroy You, Ted Lasso, Never Have I Ever, and The Good Lord Bird and more. We're just happy that the documentary feature and documentary short finalists we were most rooting for at the Oscars this year, neither of which were nominated, made the Peabody list.Yes, that'd be Welcome to Chechnya and The Speed Cubers, both of which we had interviews for here at TFE...
The Peabody's give 30 wins each year so half of the nominees will be able to call themselves winners when deliberations are over. Though the Peabodys have separate categories there is no set number for any of them so the nominees in "Arts" (there is just one) and Children's Programming (there are just two) aren't necessarily going to be among the winners. These are the new Peabody nominees we've previously reviewed or covered...
Guatemala's "La Llorona" didn't get an Oscar nomination but it is up for a Peabody
• 76 Days
• Asian Americans
• Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché (the only nominee in the "arts" category this year)
• The Cave - Oscar Nominee Doc Feature 2019
• Collective - Oscar Nominee Doc / International Feature 2020
• Crip Camp - Oscar Nominee Doc Feature 2020
• Disclosure
• In My Blood It Runs
• Kingdom of Silence
• La Llorona - Oscar Finalist International Feature 2020
• Speed Cubers - Oscar Finalist Doc Short 2020
• Time - Oscar Nominee Doc Feature 2020
• Unorthodox - Emmy Winner 2020 Best Directing of a Limited Series
• Welcome to Chechnya - Oscar Finalist Doc Feature 2020
Reader Comments (3)
Sigh... another reminder of how disappointing this year's documentary Oscar winner was.
No "My Octopus Teacher". Cool.
"Disclosure" and "Collective". Awesome.
Echoing the above: it's great to see the year's actual excellent documentaries honored, where the Academy so miserably failed.
Also happy for Stephen Colbert. He'll apparently never win another Emmy as long as John Oliver is on the air, but he's been doing great work for the past five years, and deserves some recognition.