“The Daily Show With Jon Stewart” and former late-night host David Letterman will be among the honorees at the 75th annual Peabody Awards, Variety has learned exclusively.
In addition, 60 finalists have been set by the awards’ board of jurors. From that field, 30 winners — the Peabody 30 — will be selected. Those winners will be revealed beginning next week and honored at the Peabody Awards ceremony in New York May 21.
Among the finalists are ABC’s “Black-ish” and “Fresh Off the Boat,” FX’s “Fargo,” Amazon’s “Transparent” and “Catastrophe,” HBO’s “The Leftovers” and “Veep,” Showtime’s “Listen to Me Marlon,” Netflix’s “Jessica Jones” and “Master of None,” USA’s “Mr. Robot” and Lifetime’s “UnReal.”
The first group of winners will be announced April 19 on Facebook Live. Subsequent rounds of winners will be revealed April 21 on NBC’s “Today” and April 26 on Facebook Live.
Letterman and documentary filmmaker Stanley Nelson were selected to receive individual Peabody Awards. “The Daily Show With Jon Stewart” was chosen to receive an institutional award.
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Letterman stepped down in 2015 from his role as host of CBS’ “Late Show,” a post he held since founding the show in 1993. From 1982 to 1992, he served as host of NBC’s “Late Night.” “The Daily Show With Jon Stewart” ran from 1999 to 2015, when Stewart stepped down and Trevor Noah took over as host of the Comedy Central late-night talk show. Nelson is the filmmaker behind the Peabody-winning documentaries “The Murder of Emmet Till,” “Freedom Summer” and “Freedom Riders.”
Based at the University of Georgia, the Peabody Awards celebrates projects in the fields of news, entertainment, documentaries, children’s programming, education, interactive programming, and public service, encouraging the media industries to reach for and achieve the highest standards.
See the full list of finalists below:
Abdi and the Golden Ticket (This American Life)
This American Life
Radio/Podcast
All In With Chris Hayes: Back to Baltimore (MSNBC)
MSNBC’S All in with Chris Hayes
News
American Experience: Last Days In Vietnam (PBS)
A Moxie Firecracker Production for American Experience, WGBH
Documentary
American Experience: Walt Disney (PBS)
A Sarah Colt Productions Film with the participation of Arte for American Experience, WGBH
Documentary
Beasts of No Nation (Netflix)
Red Crown Productions, Participant Media, Come What May Productions, New Balloon
Entertainment
black-ish (ABC)
ABC Studios
Entertainment
Book of Negroes (BET Networks)
Conquering Lion Pictures
Entertainment
Burning Questions: WTAE Investigates Fire Response Times (WTAE-TV)
WTAE-TV, Pittsburgh
News
Catastrophe (Amazon Video)
Avalon Television/Amazon Studios
Entertainment
CNN’s Coverage of Guns in America (CNN & CNN Digital)
CNN
News
Cruel and Unusual: The Texas Prison Crisis (WFAA-TV)
WFAA-TV, Dallas
News
Desperate Journey (PBS, WETA-TV)
PBS NewsHour
News
Deutschland 83 (SundanceTV)
Fremantle International/Kino Lorber
Entertainment
Divided by Law (KUAT-TV)
Arizona Public Media
Radio/Podcast
Do Not Track (donottrack.us)
Upian, National Film Board of Canada, Arte, Bayerischer Rundfunk, CBC/Radio-Canada
Web
European Migrant Crisis/A New Life in Europe/Year of Migration (BBC News, BBC World Service, BBC Radio)
BBC News, BBC World Service, BBC Radio
News
Fargo Installment 2 (FX Networks)
FX Productions, MGM Studios
Entertainment
Fresh Off The Boat (ABC)
20th Century Fox Television
Entertainment
Gardeners of Eden (Pivot)
Ganesh Forever
Documentary
Get Real – Heart of the Haze (Channel NewsAsia, Mediacorp Pte Ltd)
Channel NewsAsia, Mediacorp Pte Ltd
Public Service
Glen Campbell. . .I’ll Be Me (CNN)
PCH Films
Documentary
Going Clear: Scientology and The Prison Of Belief (HBO)
Jigsaw Productions, HBO Documentary Films, and Sky Atlantic
Documentary
Gravity Falls (Disney XD)
Disney Television Animation
Children’s/Youth
Growing Up Trans (PBS/WGBH)
FRONTLINE
Documentary
How to Dance in Ohio (HBO)
HBO Documentary Films, Gidalya Pictures, and Blumhouse
Documentary
Independent Lens: 1971 (PBS)
Maximum Pictures LLC and the Independent Television Service (ITVS) in Association with Big Mouth Productions, Motto Pictures and Fork Films
Documentary
Independent Lens: India’s Daughter (PBS)
Assassin Films, BBC Storyville, UK-INDIA, and Tathagat Films in association with Gamini Plyatissa Foundation, Vital Voices Global Partnership, DR, Plus Pictures Aps, CBC News Network, SVT, IKON, RTS, SRF, and RAI
Documentary
Independent Lens: Through A Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People (PBS)
Through a Lens Darkly, LLC, and the Independent Television Service (ITVS), produced in association with the National Black Programming Consortium
Documentary
Inheritance (PBS/WGBH)
FRONTLINE
Web
Injured Heroes, Broken Promises (KXAS-TV, NBC 5)
KXAS-TV, NBC 5, Dallas-Ft. Worth
News
Invisibilia (NPR)
National Public Radio
Radio/Podcast
ISIS in Afghanistan (PBS/WGBH)
FRONTLINE
Documentary
Katie Morag (Cbeebies)
Move on Up
Children’s/Youth
Listen to Me Marlon (Showtime)
Showtime Documentary Films Presents, A Passions Pictures Production, Cutler Productions
Documentary
Marvel’s Jessica Jones (Netflix)
Marvel Television in association with ABC Studios for Netflix
Entertainment
Master of None (Netflix)
Universal TV, Oh Brudder Productions, Alan Yang Productions, Fermulon
Entertainment
Meet the Composer (WQXR.org)
WQXR’s Q2 Music
Radio/Podcast
Mr. Robot (USA Network)
Universal Cable Productions
Entertainment
Night Will Fall (HBO)
Spring Films, Angel TV, and Ratpac Documentary Films in association with HBO Documentary Films
Documentary
911: Lost On The Line (WXIA-TV)
WXIA-TV
News
POV: Don’t Tell Anyone (No Le Digas a Nadie) (PBS)
American Documentary Inc. | POV
Documentary
Precious Lives (WUVM, WNOV, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism)
371 Productions
Radio/Podcast
Real Sports With Bryant Gumbel: The Killing Fields (HBO)
Real Sports With Bryant Gumbel
News
Secret Mustard Gas Experiments (NPR News)
National Public Radio
News
60 Minutes: A Crime Against Humanity (CBS)
CBS News 60 Minutes
News
60 Minutes: The Death Penalty in America (CBS)
CBS News 60 Minutes
News
The Case for School Desegregation Today (This American Life)
This American Life
Radio/Podcast
The Cosby Accusers Speak (NBC)
Dateline NBC
News
The Counted: People killed by police in the United States (http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/series/counted-us-police-killings/)
The Guardian US
Web
The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst (HBO)
Hit the Ground Running
Documentary
The LaQuan McDonald Investigation (WMAQ-TV)
WMAQ-TV, Chicago
News
The Leftovers (Season 2) (HBO)
HBO Entertainment and Warner Bros Television in association with Damon Lindelof Productions and Film 44
Entertainment
The Memory Palace (http://thememorypalace.us/, Radiotopia)
Nate Dimeo
Radio/Podcast
The Rain Forest Was Here — Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon (NPR Broadcast + Digital npr.org)
National Public Radio
Radio/Podcast
Transparent (Amazon Video)
Amazon Studios
Entertainment
UnREAL (Lifetime)
A+E Studios
Entertainment
VEEP (Season 4) (HBO)
HBO Entertainment in association with Dundee Productions
Entertainment
What Happened, Miss Simone? (Netflix)
A Radical Media Production in association with Moxie Firecracker for Netflix
Documentary
Wild Kratts (PBS Kids)
Kratt Brothers Company and 9 Story Media Group
Children’s/Youth Programming
Wolf Hall (PBS)
A Playground Entertainment and Company Pictures Production for BBC and MASTERPIECE in association with BBC Worldwide, Altus Media and Prescience
Entertainment
