The US National Academy for Television Arts & Sciences announced on Thursday the nominees for the 46th annual Emmy News and Documentary Awards, with many of the finalists covering the Gaza war, including a film on the rave in southern Israel that was targeted in the Hamas-led atrocities that sparked the ongoing fighting.
In the “Outstanding Current Affairs Documentary” category, PBS’s “A Year of War: Israelis and Palestinians” on Frontline was nominated alongside Paramount+'”We Will Dance Again,” the documentary on the Supernova festival massacre. The latter was also nominated for the “Outstanding Editing — Documentary” category and for the Television Academy Honors Award, which is given to television programs that raise awareness of important social issues.
In the “Outstanding Continuing News Coverage — Long Form” category, CBS’s “60 Minutes” program was nominated for “A Week in Israel,” which portrayed life in the country under incessant rocket fire and contained interviews with senior Israeli security officials; and “The Pager Plot,” which detailed the special operation carried out against Hezbollah that saw pagers and walkie-talkies in the possession of the Lebanese terror group explode.
Business Insider’s “The Man Who Feeds Gaza’s Children” was nominated in the “Outstanding Light Feature — Long Form” category. The feature tells the story of Hamada Shaqoura, a food blogger from Gaza, whose videos of himself cooking stoically in the coastal enclave amid the war there have garnered millions of views online.
CNN Worldwide received three nominations in the “Outstanding Hard News Feature — Short Form” category for its stories “How Indiscriminate Israeli Fire Killed Half a Family in Gaza”; “A Mother’s Tragic Tale from War-Torn Gaza”; and “Sde Teiman: Israeli Whistleblowers Detail Abuse.” The New York Times’ feature, “She Survived an Airstrike that Killed her Entire Family in Gaza,” was also nominated for this category. “A Mother’s Tragic Tale” was also nominated for the “Outstanding Writing — News” category.
CNN Worldwide also received a nomination in the “Outstanding Investigative News Coverage — Short Form” category for its story about a grandmother who was shot and killed while fleeing Gaza.
In the “Outstanding Live News Special” category, CNN’s Anderson Cooper was nominated for his piece titled “Hostages: The Road Home,” which covered the plight of hostages held by Hamas and their families. Vice News’s “Surviving Nova,” which provided testimony of survivors from the Supernova festival, in which terrorists killed over 300 people, was also nominated in this category, as was CBS’s coverage of the Israel-Hamas war on “Face the Nation.”
“Two Weeks Inside Gaza’s Ruined Hospitals” by The New York Times’ Samer Attar was nominated for the “Outstanding News Discussion & Analysis — Editorial and Opinion” category.
Anderson Cooper’s interview with the parents of Hersh Goldberg-Polin, a hostage who was executed in captivity last year, received a nomination for the “Outstanding Live Interview — Long Form” category.
The Business Insider report on the Israel-Hamas war’s effect on Gaza’s coastline was nominated for the “Outstanding Graphic Design — News” category.
“Starving Gaza,” featured on Al Jazeera’s Fault Lines program, was nominated in the “Outstanding Health or Medical Coverage” and “Outstanding Research — News” categories. Throughout the war in Gaza, the Qatari outlet has been criticized for suppressing anti-Hamas voices inside the Strip.
“The Bibi Files,” a documentary barred from being screened in Israel, which shows footage of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s police interrogations in his ongoing corruption trials, was nominated for the “Outstanding Research — Documentary” category.
The war in Gaza erupted on October 7, 2023, when Hamas-led terrorists invaded Israel, killing some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and kidnapping 251.
Terror groups in the Gaza Strip are holding 59 hostages, including 58 of the 251 abducted by Hamas-led terrorists on October 7, 2023. They include the bodies of at least 35 confirmed dead by the IDF.
The Hamas-run Gaza health ministry says more than 50,000 people in the Strip have been killed or are presumed dead in the fighting so far, though the toll cannot be verified and does not differentiate between civilians and fighters. Israel says it has killed some 20,000 combatants in battle as of January and another 1,600 terrorists inside Israel on October 7.
Israel has said it seeks to minimize civilian fatalities and stresses that Hamas uses Gaza’s civilians as human shields, fighting from civilian areas including homes, hospitals, schools and mosques.