List of Humanitas Prize recipients

The Humanitas Prize is a writing award for American television that was first given in 1975. In 1995, eligibility expanded to include the writers of feature films. Winners in bold.[1]

Although the prize is awarded only to writers, this list includes only the title of the film or television show they wrote. Additionally, it does not cover all of the Humanitas Prize categories.[1]

1970s

1976 (1st Humanitas Awards)

Prizes were given out in 1975 on The Today Show.[2]

30 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

  • Sunshine ("The Angel of Doom") (NBC)
  • Good Times ("The Lunch Money Rip-Off") (CBS)
  • Good Times ("My Girl Henrietta") (CBS)

60 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

  • The Law ("Complaint Amended") (NBC)
  • The Cay (NBC)
  • The Waltons ("The Romance") (CBS)

90 Minute or Longer Network or Syndicated Television

1977 (2nd Humanitas Awards)

30 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

60 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

  • Family ("Pilot") (ABC)
  • Family ("A Right and Proper Goodbye") (ABC)
  • The Waltons ("The Sermon") (CBS)

90 Minute or Longer Network or Syndicated Television

  • NBC World Premiere Movie ("Farewell to Manzanar") (NBC)
  • Medical Story ("The Quality of Mercy") (NBC)
  • My Father's House (ABC)

1978 (3rd Humanitas Awards)

30 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

60 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

  • Roots ("Part IV") (ABC)
  • Roots ("Part III") (ABC)
  • The Waltons ("The Pony Cart") (CBS)

90 Minute or Longer Network or Syndicated Television

Special Award

1979 (4th Humanitas Awards)

30 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

60 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

90 Minute or Longer Network or Syndicated Television

  • Special Olympics (CBS)
  • Breaking Up (ABC)
  • The Other Side of Hell (NBC)

Special Award

1980s

1980 (5th Humanitas Awards)

30 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

  • Taxi ("Blind Date") (ABC)
  • All in the Family ("Edith Gets Fired") (CBS)
  • M*A*S*H ("Point of View") (CBS)

60 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

  • Lou Grant ("Vet") (CBS)
  • Hallmark Hall of Fame ("Stubby Pringle's Christmas") (NBC)
  • Lou Grant ("Dying") (CBS)

90 Minute or Longer Network or Syndicated Television

  • Summer of My German Soldier (NBC)
  • Friendly Fire (ABC)
  • Like Normal People (ABC)

Special Award

1981 (6th Humanitas Awards)

30 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

  • M*A*S*H ("Dreams") (CBS)
  • United States ("Uncle Charlie") (NBC)
  • WKRP in Cincinnati ("God Talks to Johnny") (CBS)

60 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

  • Family ("Thanksgiving") (ABC)
  • The Waltons ("The Remembrance") (CBS)
  • The White Shadow ("The Death of Me Yet") (CBS)

90 Minute or Longer Network or Syndicated Television

  • Son-Rise: A Miracle of Love (NBC)
  • 'The Family Man' (CBS)
  • The Gift (CBS)

Special Award

1982 (7th Humanitas Awards)

30 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

60 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

  • Hill Street Blues ("Dressed to Kill") (NBC)
  • Lou Grant ("Streets") (CBS)
  • The White Shadow ("Reunion (Part 2)") (CBS)

90 Minute or Longer Network or Syndicated Television

Special Award

  • NBC Reports ("The Migrants, 1980") (NBC)

1983 (8th Humanitas Awards)

30 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

  • M*A*S*H ("Where There's a Will, There's a War") (CBS)
  • Archie Bunker's Place ("Relapse") (CBS)
  • One Day at a Time ("Mrs. O'Leary's Kid") (CBS)

60 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

90 Minute or Longer Network or Syndicated Television

Special Award

  • America Works When America Works (NBC)

1984 (9th Humanitas Awards)

30 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

  • M*A*S*H ("Who Knew?") (CBS)
  • Diff'rent Strokes ("Bicycle Man, Part 2") (NBC)
  • It Takes Two ("Death Penalty") (ABC)

60 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

90 Minute or Longer Network or Syndicated Television

1985 (10th Humanitas Awards)

30 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

60 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

90 Minute or Longer Network or Syndicated Television

1986 (11th Humanitas Awards)

30 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

60 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

90 Minute or Longer Network or Syndicated Television

Children's Animation Television

Children's Live Action Television

Special Award

1987 (12th Humanitas Awards)

30 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

60 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

90 Minute or Longer Network or Syndicated Television

Children's Live Action Television

Special Award

1988 (13th Humanitas Awards)

30 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

60 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

90 Minute or Longer Network or Syndicated Television

Children's Animation Television

  • The Smurfs ("The Lure of the Orb") (NBC)
  • The Berenstain Bears ("Forget Their Manners") (CBS)
  • Galaxy High School ("The Brain Blaster") (CBS)

Children's Live Action Television

Special Award

  • Mainstreet (NBC)

1989 (14th Humanitas Awards)

30 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

60 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

90 Minute or Longer Network or Syndicated Television

  • A Gathering of Old Men (CBS)
  • Proud Men (ABC)

Children's Animation Television

Children's Live Action Television

Special Award

  • ABC News Closeup ("They Have Souls Too") (ABC)

1990s

1990 (15th Humanitas Awards)

30 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

  • The Wonder Years ("Pottery Will Get You Nowhere") (ABC)
  • Baby Boom ("Guilt") (NBC)

60 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

  • China Beach ("Promised Land") (ABC)
  • China Beach ("Lost and Found, Part 2") (ABC)
  • thirtysomething ("Elliot's Dad") (ABC)
  • thirtysomething ("In Re: The Marriage of Weston") (ABC)

90 Minute or Longer Network or Syndicated Television

  • God Bless the Child (ABC)

Children's Animation Television

Children's Live Action Television

Special Award

1991 (16th Humanitas Awards)

30 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

60 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

  • thirtysomething ("The Other Shoe") (ABC)
  • China Beach ("Dear China Beach") (ABC)
  • China Beach ("How to Stay Alive in Vietnam Part 2") (ABC)

90 Minute or Longer Network or Syndicated Television

Children's Animation Television

Children's Live Action Television

Special Award

  • Raising Good Kids in Bad Times ("See Dick and Jane Lie, Cheat and Steal: Teaching Morality to Kids") (NBC)

1992 (17th Humanitas Awards)

30 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

60 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

  • thirtysomething ("Second Look") (ABC)
  • China Beach ("One Small Step") (ABC)
  • thirtysomething ("Fighting the Cold") (ABC)

90 Minute or Longer Network or Syndicated Television

  • Lucky Day (ABC)
  • Extreme Close-Up (NBC)
  • Separate but Equal ("Parts I and II") (ABC)

Children's Animation Television

Children's Live Action Television

PBS/Cable Television

Special Awards

  • The Civil War (PBS)
  • Over the Influence: Preventing Our Kids From Using Drugs and Alcohol (SYN)

1993 (18th Humanitas Awards)

30 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

60 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

  • I'll Fly Away ("Amazing Grace") (NBC)
  • Brooklyn Bridge ("When Irish Eyes Are Smiling") (CBS)
  • I'll Fly Away ("Coming Home") (NBC)

90 Minute or Longer Network or Syndicated Television

  • I'll Fly Away ("Pilot") (NBC)
  • Broken Cord (ABC)
  • China Beach ("Hello Goodbye") (ABC)

Children's Animation Television

Children's Live Action Television

PBS/Cable Television

1994 (19th Humanitas Awards)

30 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

  • Roseanne ("Terms of Estrangement, Part 2") (ABC)
  • Roseanne ("Wait 'Til Your Father Gets Home") (ABC)
  • The Wonder Years ("Nose") (ABC)

60 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

  • I'll Fly Away ("Comfort and Joy") (NBC)
  • Life Goes On ("Bedfellows") (ABC)
  • TriBeCa ("The Box") (FOX)

90 Minute or Longer Network or Syndicated Television

Children's Animation Television

  • The Legend of Prince Valiant ("The Flute") (The Family Channel)
  • The Little Mermaid ("Eel-Ectric City") (CBS)
  • The Little Mermaid ("Message in a Bottle") (CBS)

Children's Live Action Television

PBS/Cable Television

Special Award

  • Scared Silent: Exposing and Ending Child Abuse (SYN)

1995 (20th Humanitas Awards)

30 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

60 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

90 Minute or Longer Network or Syndicated Television

  • David's Mother (CBS)
  • Out of Darkness (ABC)
  • There Are No Children Here (ABC)

Children's Animation Television

  • American Heroes and Legends ("Johnny Appleseed") (Showtime)
  • Madeline ("Madeline and the 40 Thieves") (The Family Channel)
  • Madeline ("Madeline and the Missing Clown") (The Family Channel)

Children's Live Action Television

PBS/Cable Television

  • And the Band Played On (HBO)
  • State of Emergency (HBO)
  • Strapped (HBO)

Feature Film

1996 (21st Humanitas Awards)

30 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

60 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

90 Minute or Longer Network or Syndicated Television

Children's Animation Television

Children's Live Action Television

PBS/Cable Television

  • The Burning Season (HBO)
  • Lakota Woman: Siege at Wounded Knee (TNT)
  • On Promised Land (The Disney Channel)

Feature Film

Special Award

  • What Can We Do About Violence? (PBS)

1997 (22nd Humanitas Awards)

30 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

  • Frasier ("Breaking the Ice") (NBC)
  • Grace Under Fire ("No Help Wanted") (ABC)
  • Home Improvement ("The Longest Day") (ABC)

60 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

  • Picket Fences ("Saint Zack") (CBS)
  • ER ("The Healers") (NBC)
  • Homicide: Life on the Street ("A Doll's Eyes") (NBC)
  • Party of Five ("Before & After") (FOX)

90 Minute or Longer Network or Syndicated Television

Children's Animation Television

  • Life with Louie ("Raindrops Keep Falling On My Bed") (FOX)
  • The New Adventures of Madeline ("Madeline and the Treasure Hunt") (ABC)
  • Santo Bugito ("The Carnivore Kid") (CBS)

Children's Live Action Television

PBS/Cable Television

Feature Film

1998 (23rd Humanitas Awards)

30 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

  • Something So Right ("Something About An Older Guy") (NBC)
  • Grace Under Fire ("Pills") (ABC)
  • Roseanne ("The Miracle") (ABC)

60 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

90 Minute or Longer Network or Syndicated Television

Children's Animation Television

  • Life with Louie ("The Thank You Note") (FOX)
  • Little Bear ("Little Bear's Surprise") (Nickelodeon)
  • Timon and Pumbaa ("Once Upon a Timon") (CBS)

Children's Live Action Television

  • Lifestories: Families in Crisis ("Someone Had To Be Benny") (HBO)
  • Sesame Street ("Miles' Family Reunion") (PBS)
  • Shari's Passover Surprise (PBS)

PBS/Cable Television

  • Miss Evers' Boys (HBO)
  • Crime of the Century (HBO)
  • The Twilight of the Golds (Showtime)

Feature Film

1999 (24th Humanitas Awards)

30 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

  • Murphy Brown ("Turpis Capillis Annus (Bad Hair Year)") (CBS)
  • Foto-Novelas ("The Fix") (PBS)
  • Frasier ("The Kid") (NBC)

60 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

  • Nothing Sacred ("Proofs for the Existence of God") (ABC)
  • ER ("Family Practice") (NBC)
  • Homicide: Life on the Street ("Mercy") (NBC)

90 Minute or Longer Network or Syndicated Television

Children's Animation Television

Children's Live Action Television

  • Smudge (TNT)
  • Saved by the Bell: The New Class ("Putting Up Walls") (NBC)
  • Shaquille O'Neal's Sports Theater ("First Time") (Nickelodeon)

PBS/Cable Television

  • George Wallace ("Part II") (TNT)
  • Clover (USA)
  • Mother Teresa: In the Name of God's Poor (The Family Channel)

Feature Film

2000s

2000 (25th Humanitas Awards)

30 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

60 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

  • Homicide: Life on the Street ("Shades of Gray") (NBC)
  • JAG ("Angels 30") (CBS)
  • NYPD Blue ("Raging Bulls") (ABC)
  • Rescuers: Stories of Courage ("Aart and Johtje Vos") (Showtime)

90 Minute or Longer Network or Syndicated Television

Children's Animation Television

Children's Live Action Television

  • The Artists' Specials ("Degas and the Dancer") (HBO)
  • City Guys ("Gift of Friendship") (NBC)

PBS/Cable Television

Feature Film

2001 (26th Humanitas Awards)

30 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

60 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

  • The West Wing ("Take This Sabbath Day") (NBC)
  • Once and Again ("Strangers and Brothers") (ABC)
  • The West Wing ("In Excelsis Deo") (NBC)

90 Minute or Longer Network or Syndicated Television

  • Tuesdays with Morrie (ABC)
  • Anya's Bell (CBS)
  • Joan of Arc ("Part II") (CBS)

Children's Animation Television

Children's Live Action Television

PBS/Cable Television

Feature Film

Sundance Feature Film

2002 (27th Humanitas Awards)

30 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

60 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

90 Minute or Longer Network or Syndicated Television

  • Haven ("Part II") (CBS)
  • Jesus ("Part II") (CBS)
  • Jewel (CBS)

Children's Animation Television

  • Clifford the Big Red Dog ("A New Friend") (PBS)
  • Madeline ("Madeline and the Giants") (Disney Channel)
  • Rocket Power ("Radical New Equipment") (Nickelodeon)

Children's Live Action Television

PBS/Cable Television

Feature Film

Sundance Feature Film

2003 (28th Humanitas Awards)

30 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

  • Scrubs ("My Old Lady") (NBC)
  • State of Grace ("Looking for God in All the Right Places") (FOX Family)
  • State of Grace ("Love, Love, Me Do") (FOX Family)

60 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

  • The Practice ("Honor Code") (ABC)
  • The West Wing ("Two Cathedrals") (NBC)
  • Band of Brothers ("Bastogne") (HBO)

90 Minute or Longer Network or Syndicated Television

Children's Animation Television

Children's Live Action Television

PBS/Cable Television

Feature Film

Sundance Feature Film

2004 (29th Humanitas Awards)

30 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

60 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

  • The Practice ("Final Judgment") (ABC)
  • Boomtown ("Fearless") (NBC)
  • ER ("On the Beach") (NBC)
  • Without a Trace ("In Extremis") (CBS)

90 Minute or Longer Network or Syndicated Television

Children's Animation Television

Children's Live Action Television

  • A Ring of Endless Light (Disney Channel)
  • Maniac Magee (Nickelodeon)
  • You Wish! (Disney Channel)

Feature Film

  • Antwone Fisher
  • About a Boy
  • The Pianist

Sundance Feature Film

2005 (30th Humanitas Awards)

30 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

60 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

90 Minute or Longer Network or Syndicated Television

Children's Animation Television

  • Little Bill ("I Can Sign/The Sign for Friend") (Nickelodeon)
  • Arthur ("Big Horns George") (PBS)
  • Little Bill ("A Ramp for Monty") (Nickelodeon)

Children's Live Action Television

Feature Film

Sundance Feature Film

2006 (31st Humanitas Awards)

60 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

  • The West Wing ("NSF Thurmont") (NBC)
  • ER ("Alone in a Crowd") (NBC)
  • House ("Damned If You Do") (FOX)
  • House ("Everybody Lies") (FOX)

90 Minute or Longer Network or Syndicated Television

Children's Animation Television

Children's Live Action Television

Feature Film

Sundance Feature Film

  • The Motel
  • Love, Ludlow
  • Swimmers

2007 (32nd Humanitas Awards)

30 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

  • My Name Is Earl ("Pilot") (NBC)
  • George Lopez ("The Kidney Stays In The Picture") (ABC)
  • Scrubs ("My Way Home") (NBC)

60 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

  • House ("Three Stories") (FOX)
  • ER ("Darfur") (NBC)
  • Law & Order: Special Victims Unit ("Ripped") (NBC)

90 Minute or Longer Network or Syndicated Television

Children's Animation Television

Children's Live Action Television

  • Edge of America (Showtime)
  • Felicity: An American Girl Adventure (The WB)
  • High School Musical (Disney Channel)

Feature Film

  • Crash
  • The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
  • Glory Road

Sundance Feature Film

  • Quinceanera
  • Punching at the Sun
  • Wristcutters: A Love Story

2008 (33rd Humanitas Awards)

30 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

60 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

90 Minute or Longer Network or Syndicated Television

Children's Animation Television

Children's Live Action Television

  • Molly: An American Girl on the Home Front (Disney Channel)
  • Jump In! (Disney Channel)

Feature Film

  • Freedom Writers
  • Venus
  • Amazing Grace

Sundance Feature Film

2009 (34th Humanitas Awards)

30 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

60 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

90 Minute or Longer Network or Syndicated Television

Children's Animation Television

  • My Friends Tigger & Pooh ("Eeyore's Sad Day") (Disney Channel)
  • Sweet Blackberry Presents ("The Journey of Henry Box Brown") (HBO)
  • ToddWorld ("Come Out Of Your Shell") (TLC)

Children's Live Action Television

Feature Film

Sundance Feature Film

2010s

2010 (35th Humanitas Awards)

30 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

60 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

  • Friday Night Lights ("Tomorrow Blues") (NBC)
  • ER ("Heal Thyself") (NBC)
  • House ("Unfaithful") (FOX)
  • Law & Order: Special Victims Unit ("Swing") (NBC)

90 Minute or Longer Network or Syndicated Television

  • Taking Chance (HBO)
  • Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story (TNT)
  • Pedro (MTV)

Children's Live Action Television

Feature Film

Sundance Feature Film

2011 (36th Humanitas Awards)

30 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

60 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

90 Minute or Longer Network or Syndicated Television

  • Temple Grandin (HBO)
  • Amish Grace (Lifetime)
  • Endgame (PBS)

Documentary Award

Feature Film

Sundance Feature Film

2012 (37th Humanitas Awards)

30 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

60 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

  • Friday Night Lights ("Always") (NBC)
  • Drop Dead Diva ("Good Grief") (Lifetime)
  • House ("Help Me") (FOX)
  • The Pacific ("Home") (HBO)

90 Minute or Longer Network or Syndicated Television

  • Thurgood (HBO)
  • Reviving Ophelia (Lifetime)
  • Taken From Me: The Tiffany Rubin Story (Lifetime)

Children's Animation Television

Documentary Award

  • Louder Than a Bomb
  • Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey
  • Neshoba

Feature Film

Sundance Feature Film

  • Win Win
  • Gun Hill Road
  • Meek's Cutoff

2013 (38th Humanitas Awards)

30 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

60 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

  • Grey's Anatomy ("White Wedding") (ABC)
  • Rescue Me ("Ashes") (FX)
  • Blue Bloods ("The Job") (HBO)
  • Parenthood ("Remember Me? I'm The One Who Loves You") (NBC)

90 Minute or Longer Network or Syndicated Television

Children's Animation Television

  • Pound Puppies ("I Never Barked For My Father") (The Hub)

Children's Live Action Television

Documentary Award

  • I Am
  • Serving Life (OWN)
  • Buck
  • Crime After Crime

Feature Film

Sundance Feature Film

2014 (39th Humanitas Awards)

30 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

  • Modern Family ("Party Crasher") (ABC)
  • The New Normal ("The Godparent Trap") (NBC)
  • Nurse Jackie ("Disneyland Sucks") (Showtime)

60 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

  • Bones ("The Patriot In Purgatory") (FOX)
  • House ("Everybody Dies") (FOX)
  • Monday Mornings ("Truth Or Consequences") (TNT)

90 Minute or Longer Network or Syndicated Television

  • Hallmark Hall of Fame ("Firelight") (ABC)
  • Abducted: The Carlina White Story (Lifetime)
  • Betty and Coretta (Lifetime)

Children's Live Action Television

  • Let It Shine (Disney Channel)

Documentary Award

  • Ethel
  • Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God (HBO)
  • Project Nim

Feature Film

Sundance Feature Film

2015 (40th Humanitas Awards)

30 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

60 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

  • Homeland ("The Star") (Showtime)
  • Parenthood ("The Pontiac") (NBC)
  • The Killing ("Six Minutes") (AMC)
  • True Detective ("Form and Void") (HBO)

90 Minute or Longer Network or Syndicated Television

  • The Normal Heart (HBO)
  • Mary And Martha (HBO)
  • Ring Of Fire (Lifetime)

Documentary Award

Feature Film

  • 12 Years A Slave
  • Belle
  • Nebraska

Sundance Feature Film

  • Whiplash
  • Hellion
  • Love Is Strange
  • Camp X-Ray

2016 (41st Humanitas Awards)

30 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

60 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

  • Orange Is the New Black ("Trust No Bitch") (Netflix)
  • Madam Secretary ("Face the Nation") (CBS)
  • The Affair ("Pilot") (Showtime)

Children's Animation Television

  • Arthur ("The Tardy Tumbler") (PBS)

Children's Live Action Television

Documentary Award

Feature Film

Sundance Feature Film

  • Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
  • Dope
  • Experimenter

2017 (42nd Humanitas Awards)

30 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

60 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

  • This Is Us ("Pilot") (NBC)
  • The Night Of ("The Call of the Wild") (HBO)
  • Madam Secretary ("Waiting For Taleju") (CBS)

Children's Animation Television

Children's Live Action

  • An American Girl Story – Melody 1963: Love Has to Win (TV movie) (Amazon Studios)
  • Degrassi: Next Class (""#TurntUp"") (Family Channel)
  • Girl Meets World ("Girl Meets the Forgiveness Project") (Disney Channel)

Documentary Award

  • 13th (shared)
  • Jim: The James Foley Story (shared)
  • 120 Days

Feature Film

Sundance Feature Film

2018 (43rd Humanitas Awards)

For the 2018 awards, feature films were separated into three categories.[4][5]

30 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

60 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

Children's Animation

Children's Live Action

  • Degrassi: Next Class ("#ImSleep") (Family Channel / Netflix)
  • An American Girl Story – Ivy & Julie 1976: A Happy Balance (TV movie)
  • Sesame Street ("The Magical Wand Chase: A Sesame Street Special") (PBS / HBO)

Documentary Award

Feature Film, Drama

Feature Film, Comedy

  • Lady Bird
  • The Big Sick
  • The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)

Feature Film, Family

  • Ferdinand
  • Coco
  • The Breadwinner

Sundance Feature Film

  • Crown Heights[6]
  • Gook
  • Novitiate

2019 (44th Humanitas Awards)

Nominees were announced on 27 November 2018, and the prizes were awarded in 2019.[7]

30-Minute Comedy

60-Minute Drama

Children's Teleplay

  • Alexa & Katie ("Winter Formal, Part 2") (Netflix)
  • My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic ("Surf and/or Turf") (Discovery Family)
  • Muppet Babies (“You Say Potato, I Say Best Friend”) (Disney Junior)
  • Z-O-M-B-I-E-S (Disney Channel)

Documentary Award

  • Stolen Daughters: Kidnapped by Boko Haram
  • TransMilitary
  • The Fourth Estate, "Part 3: American Carnage"
  • The Price of Free

Feature Film, Drama

Feature Film, Comedy

Feature Film, Family

Independent Feature Film

2020s

2020 (45th Humanitas Awards)

Nominees were announced on 15 November 2019.[8] For the first time, there were awards for "Limited Series, TV Movie or Special" and "Short Film". The awards were presented 24 January 2020 at The Beverly Hilton.[9]

Comedy Teleplay

  • Veep ("South Carolina") (HBO)
  • Shrill ("Annie") (Hulu)
  • Black-ish ("Black Like Us") (ABC)
  • Atypical ("Road Rage Paige") (Netflix)

Drama Teleplay

  • The Handmaid's Tale ("Useful") (Hulu)
  • This Is Us ("Our Little Island Girl") (NBC)
  • POSE ("In My Heels") (FX)
  • The Twilight Zone ("Replay") (CBS All Access)

Children's Teleplay

Limited Series, TV Movie or Special

Documentary

  • This Is Football ("Redemption")
  • Torn Apart: Separated at the Border
  • Ernie & Joe: Crisis Cops
  • Sea of Shadows

Feature Film, Drama

Feature Film, Comedy or Musical

Feature Film, Family

Independent Feature Film

Short Film

  • Kitbull
  • Variables
  • Purl
  • They Charge for the Sun

2022 (46th Humanitas Awards)

Winners were announced on 9 September 2022 at an event held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel hosted by comedian Larry Wilmore.[10] For the first time, an award was presented in Web Series. Prize winners are in bold.

Comedy Teleplay

Drama Teleplay

  • Pachinko ("Chapter One") (Apple TV+)
  • Chicago P.D. ("Burnside") (NBC)
  • Queen Sugar ("May 27, 2020") (OWN)
  • Swagger ("Radicals") (Apple TV+)
  • This is Us ("The Challenger") (NBC)

Children's Teleplay

Limited Series, TV Movie or Special

Documentary

  • In the Same Breath
  • End of the Line: The Women of Standing Rock
  • Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches
  • Through Our Eyes: 'Shelter'

Feature Film, Drama

Feature Film, Comedy

Feature Film, Family

Short Film

  • Girls Are Strong Here
  • Far from the Tree
  • Leap
  • Nona

Web Series

  • The Disappointments

2023 (48th Humanitas Awards)

Winners were announced on 15 August 2023.[11] Prize winners are in bold.

Comedy Teleplay

Drama Teleplay

  • The Last of Us ("Long, Long Time") (HBO)
  • Better Call Saul ("Saul Gone") (AMC)
  • A Million Little Things ("One Big Thing") (ABC)
  • All Creatures Great and Small ("Surviving Siegfried") (Channel 5 / PBS)

Children's Teleplay

  • Life by Ella ("Prison or Palace") (Apple TV+)
  • Pinecone & Pony ("A Life of Adventure") (Apple TV+)
  • The Crossover ("X’s and 0’s") (Disney+)
  • Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur ("Hair Today Gone Tomorrow") (Disney Channel)

Limited Series, TV Movie or Special

  • A Small Light ("Pilot") (National Geographic)
  • Little America ("Paper Piano") (Apple TV+)
  • Little America ("Camel on a Stick") (Apple TV+)
  • An Amish Sin (Lifetime)

Documentary

Feature Film, Drama

Feature Film, Comedy

Feature Film, Family

Short Film

References

  1. ^ a b "Past Winners". Humanitas.
  2. ^ "The History of the Humanitas Prize". 12 January 2018.
  3. ^ "Past Winners & Nominees". Humanitas. Retrieved 2023-04-29.
  4. ^ "Humanitas Prize Finalists Announced for 2018". 10 January 2018. Retrieved 20 August 2018.
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External links

  • Writers Guild Foundation