Emmy-winning series “Hacks,” “Shogun” and “Baby Reindeer” were among the programs scoring nominations Thursday for the 85th annual Peabody Awards, which will be presented in Beverly Hills in June.
The Peabody Awards honor “storytelling that reflects the social issues and emerging voices of our day.” They will be presented June 1 at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in a ceremony hosted by comedian Roy Wood Jr. The awards are produced by the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Georgia.
HBO’s “Hacks,” FX’s “Shogun” and Netflix’s “Baby Reindeer” were all nominated in the Entertainment category. Also nominated were HBO’s “Alex Edelman: Just for Us,” FX’s “Clipped,” HBO’s “Fantasmas,” PBS’ “Mr. Bates vs. The Post Office,” Netflix’s “One Hundred Years of Solitude,” HBO’s “Ramy Youssef: More Feelings,” Netflix’s “Ripley,” FX’s “Say Nothing” and FX’s “We Are Lady Part.”
For Children’s/Youth programming, nominations went to Disney+’s “Out of My Mind” and Netflix’s “Spirit Rangers.”
In the Arts category, the sole nominee was National Geographic’s documentary series “Photographer.”
Nominations for Interactive & Immersive projects were the adventure game “1000xResist,” the VR experience “Body of Mine,” the New Hampshire Public Radio investigative work “Failures to Act,” The New York Times’ “Inside the Deadly Maui Inferno, Hour by Hour” video and mapping project, Al Jazeera Digital’s “One Day in Gaza Close Up,” the games “Tchia” and “Venba” and Dr. Joe Bervell’s social media video series “What Does Racial Bias in Medicine Look Like.”
Earlier this week, Peabody nominations for Documentaries went to PBS’ “American Coup: Wilmington 1898,” CRAVE’s “Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story,” MTV’s “Black Box Diaries,” Apple TV+’s “Bread & Roses,” Netflix’s “Daughters,” Jolt’s “Hollywoodgate,” Apple’s “The Last of the Sea Women,” Netflix’s “Mountain Queen: The Summits of Lhakpa Sherpa,” HBO’s “Night is Not Eternal,” PBS’ “One with the Whale,” “Queendom,” Netflix’s “The Remarkable Life of Ibelin,” National Geographic’s “The Space Race,” HBO’s “STAX: Soulsville USA,” National Geographic’s “Sugarcane,” HBO’s “Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story,” HBO’s “The Truth vs. Alex Jones,” Netflix’s “Will & Harper” and Netflix’s “You Are Not Alone: Fighting the Wolf Pack.”
In the News category, nominations went to “ABC News Investigates — Zombie Wells: The Threat Beneath,” “China, the U.S. & the Rise of Xi Jinping” (PBS), “Confronting Hate” (WTVF-TV), “Death Trap: No Safe Place in Gaza” (NBC News), “Driven to Death” (KXAS-TV/NBC5), “Policing Phoenix” (ABC15 Arizona), “South Korea’s Adoption Reckoning” (PBS), “Surviving Nova” (VICE TV), “The Night Won’t End” (Al Jazeera English), and “War in the Holy Land” (PBS News Hour).
Public Service nominations went to PBS’s “Breakdown in Maine,” The Marshall Project’s “Inside Story,” Campside Media’s “Long Shadow: In Guns We Trust,” and PBS’ “The Only Doctor.”
Radio/Podcast nodes went to The History Channel’s “Blindspot: The Plague in the Shadows,” The New York Times’ “The Good Whale,” The New Yorker’s “In the Dark: The Killings in Haditha,” NPR’s “Lost Patients,” Meadowlark Media’s “Pablo Torre Finds Out: Watching the Dallas Cowboys on Death Row,” Audible’s “Pulse: The Untold Story,” APM Studios’ “Ripple,” Oregon Public Broadcasting/ProPublica’s “Salmon Wars,” NPR’s “Supermajority,” NPR’s “Tested,” This American Life’s “This is the Case of Henry Dee” and This American Life’s “Yousef, Youmna, Banias and Majd: Four Lives in Gaza.”
During the June 1 ceremony, longtime NBC News correspondent Andrea Mitchell will receive the Peabody Career Achievement Award, while “Saturday Night Live” will receive the Peabody Institutional Award.