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Awards

WETA has won more than 500 awards for its productions, co-productions, presentations and projects, including Primetime Emmys, George Foster Peabody Awards, and duPont-Columbia Journalism Awards.

The following are among the honors WETA has received in the past two years:

 

Primetime Emmy Awards

National television productions

Academy of Television Arts and Sciences: Primetime Emmy Award

  • America at a Crossroads: Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience
  • The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer: Political Turmoil
  • The Mysterious Human Heart
  • Great Performances in America: Dance in America: "Swan Lake" with American Ballet Theatre
  • The Jewish Americans
  • THE WAR

Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award

  • The Jewish Americans
  • Through Deaf Eyes
  • America at a Crossroads: JIHAD: The Men and Ideas Behind Al Qaeda

George Foster Peabody Awards

  • The Jewish Americans
  • Washington Week with Gwen Ifill and National Journal

Organization for American Historians: Erik Barnouw Prize

  • Through Deaf Eyes
  • The Jewish Americans

Columbus International Film + Video Festival

  • The Jewish Americans

CINE Golden Eagle Award

  • America at a Crossroads: Struggle for the Soul of Islam: Inside Indonesia
  • America at a Crossroads: Security versus Liberty: The Other War
  • America at a Crossroads: Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience
  • America at a Crossroads: JIHAD: The Men and Ideas Behind Al Qaeda
  • America at a Crossroads: Gangs of Iraq
  • America at a Crossroads: Europe's 9/11
  • America at a Crossroads: STAND UP: Muslim American Comics Come of Age
  • The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer: Emissions Exchange
  • The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer: Race Against Time
  • The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer: Battling Alzheimer's
  • The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer: Crisis in Darfur
  • The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer: Death Is on Hold/Connecting With Kids
  • The Jewish Americans
  • Reading Rockets: Lauching Young Readers: A Chance to Read
  • Through Deaf Eyes

Parents' Choice Award

  • Reading Rockets: Launching Young Readers

NATAS Washington Chapter Emmy

  • Air Group 16: We Came to Remember

Local television productions

National Capital/Chesapeake Bay Emmy Award

  • The FBI Academy - WETA All Access
  • Great Views - The WETA Guide
  • WETA Hometown Heroes
  • Memorials - The WETA Guide
  • Washington National Cathedral - WETA All Access
  • NASA Goddard Space Flight Center - WETA All Access

WETA community service

  • Literacy Council of Northern Virginia: Community Service Award
  • The Campagna Center: Excellence in Community Service Award