The Walt Disney Company Television Earns a Collective 53 News & Documentary Emmy® Award Nominations

Collectively, The Walt Disney Company has earned 53 total News & Documentary Emmy® Award nominations across content brands and studios ABC News, ESPN, Disney+, Hulu and National Geographic.

A list of nominations can be found below.

*Joint nominations have been included in the count for certain titles.

Trafficked with Mariana Van Zeller (National Geographic)
9 Nominations
·       Outstanding Investigative News Coverage: Long Form
Episode: “Fish Pirates”
·       Outstanding Science, Technology or Environmental Coverage
Episode: “Amazon Mafia”
·       Outstanding Business, Consumer or Economic Coverage
Episode: “Stolen Car”
·       Outstanding Crime and Justice Coverage
Episode: “White Supremacy”
·       Outstanding Writing: News
Episode: “Cocaine Queens”
·       Outstanding Writing: News
Episode: “Fish Pirates”
·       Outstanding Research: News
Episode: “White Supremacy”
·       Outstanding Editing: News
Episode: “Cocaine Queens”
·       Outstanding Editing: News
Episode: “White Supremacy”

Nightline (ABC News)
9 Nominations*
·       Outstanding Recorded News Program
·       Outstanding Continuing News Coverage: Long Form
Episode: “A Reckoning: The Legacy of Indian Boarding Schools”
·       Outstanding Soft Feature Story: Short Form
Episode: “Swimming While Black”
·       Outstanding Soft Feature Story: Long Form
Episode: “Mi Niño: Chile’s Stolen Children”
·       Outstanding Hard News Feature Story: Short Form
Episode: “The Horrors in Bucha”
·       Outstanding Hard News Feature Story: Long Form
Episode: “Saving Malaika”
·       Outstanding Edited Interview
Episode: “Lia Thomas”
·       Outstanding Arts, Culture or Entertainment Coverage
Episode: “What America Owes: The Stolen Generation”
·       Outstanding Hard News Feature Story: Short Form (with ABC News Live Prime with Linsey Davis)*
Episode: “Inside Kharkiv’s Battle of Resilience”

Retrograde (National Geographic)
6 Nominations
·       Outstanding Current Affairs Documentary
·       Outstanding Direction: Documentary
·       Outstanding Cinematography: Documentary
·       Outstanding Editing: Documentary
·       Outstanding Sound
·       Outstanding Promotional Announcement

ABC News Soul of a Nation Presents (ABC News)
5 Nominations
·       Outstanding Recorded News Special
Episode: “Together as One: Celebrating Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Heritage”
·       Outstanding Arts, Culture or Entertainment Coverage
Episode: “PRIDE: To Be Seen”
·       Outstanding Direction: News
Episode: “PRIDE: To Be Seen”
·       Outstanding Crime and Justice Coverage
Episode: “X / o n e r a t e d – The Murder of Malcolm X and 55 Years to Justice”
·       Outstanding Direction: News
Episode: “X / o n e r a t e d – The Murder of Malcolm X and 55 Years to Justice”

Super/Natural (National Geographic)
4 Nominations
·       Outstanding Nature Documentary
·       Outstanding Cinematography: Documentary
·       Outstanding Sound
·       Outstanding Promotional Announcement

20/20 (ABC News)
3 Nominations*
·       Outstanding Arts, Culture or Entertainment Coverage
Episode: “Cinderella: The Reunion”
·       Outstanding Edited Interview (with ABC World News Tonight with David Muir*)
Episode: “Breaking with the President: The Mike Pence Interview”
·       Outstanding Edited Breaking News Coverage (with ABC World News Tonight with David Muir*)
Episode: “Putin’s War: The Battle to Save Ukraine”

ABC World News Tonight with David Muir (ABC News)
3 Nominations*
·       Outstanding Live News Program
·       Outstanding Edited Interview(with 20/20*)
Episode: “Breaking with the President: The Mike Pence Interview”
·       Outstanding Edited Breaking News Coverage (with 20/20*)
Episode: “Putin’s War: The Battle to Save Ukraine”

ABC News (ABC News)
2 Nominations
·       Outstanding Continuing News Coverage: Long Form “Uvalde 365: A Year in the Community”
·       Outstanding Direction: News
Episode: “Election Night 2022”

ABC News Live (ABC News)
2 Nominations
·       Outstanding Live News Special
Episode: “NASA’s SpaceX Crew-5 Mission | Liftoff To Space”
·       Outstanding Recorded News Special
Episode: “The Struggle to Understand”

Captive Audience: A Real American Horror Story (Hulu)
2 Nominations
·       Outstanding Crime and Justice Documentary
·       Outstanding Promotional Announcement
Captive Audience “Shocking” Trailer

This Week with George Stephanopoulos (ABC News)
2 Nominations
·       Outstanding News Discussion & Analysis
Episode: “On the Brink of War”
·       Outstanding Live Interview – Short Form
Episode: “Defying Putin on The Air”

37 Words (ESPN)
1 Nomination
·       Outstanding Research: Documentary

Ashan Singh (ABC News)
1 Nomination
·       Outstanding Emerging Journalist

ABC News Live Prime with Linsey Davis (with Nightline*) (ABC News)
1 Nomination
·       Outstanding Hard News Feature Story: Short Form
Episode: “Inside Kharkiv’s Battle of Resilience”

ABC News Special Report (ABC News)
1 Nomination
·       Outstanding Live News Special
Episode: “Queen Elizabeth”

ABC News Studios (ABC News/Hulu)
1 Nomination
·       Outstanding Lighting Direction and Scenic Design
Episode: “Wild Crime: Murder In Yosemite”

America the Beautiful (National Geographic/Disney+)
1 Nomination
·       Outstanding Nature Documentary

The Flagmakers (National Geographic)
1 Nomination
·       Outstanding Short Documentary

Sunday NFL Countdown (ESPN)
1 Nomination
·       Outstanding Soft Feature Story: Short Form
Episode: “Phil & Franco”

Victoria’s Secret: Angels and Demons (Hulu)
1 Nomination
·       Outstanding Business and Economic Documentary