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
Book of Negroes (BET Networks)
Entertainment
Burning Questions: WTAE Investigates Fire Response Times (WTAE-TV)
News
Catastrophe (Amazon Video)
Entertainment
CNN’s Coverage of Guns in America (CNN & CNN Digital)
News
Cruel and Unusual: The Texas Prison Crisis (WFAA-TV)
News
Desperate Journey (PBS)
News
Deutschland 83 (SundanceTV)
Entertainment
Divided by Law (KUAT-TV)
Radio/Podcast
Do Not Track (donottrack.us)
Web
European Migrant Crisis/A New Life in Europe/Year of Migration (BBC News)
News
Fargo (FX Networks)
Entertainment
Fresh Off The Boat (ABC)
Entertainment
Gardeners of Eden (Pivot)
Documentary
Get Real – Heart of the Haze (Channel NewsAsia, Mediacorp Pte Ltd)
Public Service
Glen Campbell…I’ll Be Me (CNN)
Documentary
Going Clear: Scientology and The Prison Of Belief (HBO)
Documentary
Gravity Falls (Disney XD)
Children’s/Youth
Growing Up Trans (PBS/WGBH)
Documentary
How To Dance In Ohio (HBO)
Documentary
Independent Lens: 1971 (PBS)
Documentary
Independent Lens: India’s Daughter (PBS)
Documentary
Independent Lens: Through A Lens Darkly: Black Photographers And The Emergence Of A People (PBS)
Documentary
Inheritance (PBS/WGBH)
Web
Injured Heroes, Broken Promises (KXAS-TV, NBC 5)
News
Invisibilia (NPR)
Radio/Podcast
ISIS in Afghanistan (PBS/WGBH)
Documentary
Katie Morag (Cbeebies)
Children’s/Youth
Listen to Me Marlon (Showtime)
Documentary
Marvel’s Jessica Jones (Netflix)
Entertainment
Master of None (Netflix)
Entertainment
Meet the Composer (WQXR.org)
Radio/Podcast
Mr. Robot (USA Network)
Entertainment
Night Will Fall (HBO)
Documentary
911: Lost On The Line (WXIA-TV)
News
POV: Don’t Tell Anyone (No Le Digas a Nadie) (PBS)
Documentary
Precious Lives (WUVM, WNOV, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism)
Radio/Podcast
Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel: The Killing Fields (HBO)
News
Secret Mustard Gas Experiments (NPR News)
News
60 Minutes: A Crime Against Humanity (CBS)
News
60 Minutes: The Death Penalty in America (CBS)
News
“The Case for School Desegregation Today” (This American Life)
Radio/Podcast
The Cosby Accusers Speak (NBC)
News
The Counted: People killed by police in the United States (http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/series/counted-us-police-killings/)
Web
The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst (HBO)
Documentary
The LaQuan McDonald Investigation (WMAQ-TV)
News
The Leftovers (HBO)
Entertainment
The Memory Palace (http://thememorypalace.us/, Radiotopia)
Radio/Podcast
The Rain Forest Was Here — Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon (NPR Broadcast + Digital npr.org)
Radio/Podcast
Transparent (Amazon Video)
Entertainment
UnREAL (Lifetime)
Entertainment
Veep (HBO)
Entertainment
What Happened, Miss Simone? (Netflix)
Documentary
Wild Kratts (PBS Kids)
Children’s/Youth Programming
Wolf Hall (PBS)
Entertainment