According to Variety, the Peabody Awards have announced the 60 finalists in the running for this year’s prestigious prize, as well as the winners of the separate awards who were good enough to avoid having to fight it out with the regular nominees. For the individual awards, the honorees are documentary filmmaker Stanley Nelson and David Letterman, who is probably being given the award partly in hopes that it’ll inspire him to clean up that ridiculous beard. The Daily Show With Jon Stewart will be awarded a Peabody as well, suggesting that the best way to win one of these is to host a beloved, highly influential TV program for many years and then retire.
The regular finalists feature a whole bunch of TV shows, like Black-ish, Fresh Off The Boat, Fargo, Jessica Jones, Mr. Robot, Transparent, and UnREAL, as well as a handful of radio broadcasts/podcasts (including two episodes of This American Life). Then there’s the usual news reports and documentaries, which tend to be more typical Peabody-friendly affairs. Of these 60 finalists, 30 will be selected to win awards, with the first batch being announced via Facebook Live on April 19. The second group will be announced on NBC’s Today on April 21, and then the final winners will be revealed in another Facebook broadcast on April 26. The awards themselves will be handed out at a ceremony in New York on May 21.
The full list of nominees is below.
“Abdi and the Golden Ticket” (This American Life)
Radio/Podcast
“All In with Chris Hayes: Back to Baltimore” (MSNBC’S All in with Chris Hayes)
News
American Experience: Last Days In Vietnam (PBS)
Documentary
American Experience: Walt Disney (PBS)
Documentary
Beasts of No Nation (Netflix)
Entertainment
Black-ish (ABC)
Entertainment