List of awards and nominations received by American Experience

Awards and nominations received by *American Experience*
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Awards and nominations
Award	Wins
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Wins	52
Nominations	150
	Note ↑ Certain award groups do not simply award one winner. They acknowledge several different recipients, have runners-up, and have third place. Since this is a specific recognition and is different from losing an award, runner-up mentions are considered wins in this award tally. For simplification and to avoid errors, each award in this list has been presumed to have had a prior nomination.;

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American Experience is a television program airing on the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) in the United States. The program airs documentaries about important or interesting events and people in American history. As of 2020 the show has aired 32 seasons and a total of 350 episodes. Throughout its run the show has received multiple awards and nominations, several episodes have won a Peabody Award and many have been nominated to awards given by guilds like the Directors Guild of America Awards and the Writers Guild of America Awards. Three episodes of the series have been nominated for Best Documentary Feature at the Academy Awards (D-Day Remembered in 1994, Troublesome Creek: A Midwestern and The Battle Over Citizen Kane in 1995). Also, the series received twelve Primetime Emmy Award out of over forty nominations, including Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series twice in 1998 and 1999, being the inaugural winners of the category, Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Special for Scottsboro: An American Tragedy in 2001 and JFK in 2014 and Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking for Two Days in October in 2006 and Freedom Riders in 2011.

[1] Certain award groups do not simply award one winner. They acknowledge several different recipients, have runners-up, and have third place. Since this is a specific recognition and is different from losing an award, runner-up mentions are considered wins in this award tally. For simplification and to avoid errors, each award in this list has been presumed to have had a prior nomination.

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Year	Category	Nominee(s)	Result	Ref
1994	Best Documentary Feature	D-Day Remembered	Nominated	^[1]
1995		Troublesome Creek: A Midwestern	Nominated
1995		The Battle Over Citizen Kane	Nominated

Year	Category	Nominee(s)	Result	Ref
2003	Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing for Television - Non-Fiction, Variety or Music Series or Specials	Dominick Tavella, Mark Mandler, John Zecca (for "New York: Center of the World")	Nominated
2004		Roger Phenix, John Jenkins, Ken Hahn, Joe Hettinger (for "RFK")	Nominated
2011		G. John Garrett, Rick Angelella, Everett Wong, Coll Anderson (for "Triangle Fire")	Nominated
2017		John Jenkins, Ken Hahn (for "The Great War")	Nominated	^[2]

Year	Category	Nominee(s)	Result	Ref
1992	Outstanding Directing – Documentaries	Ric Burns (for "The Donner Party")	Nominated	^[3]
1996	Outstanding Directing – Documentaries	Jeanne Jordan and Steven Ascher (for "Troublesome Creek: A Midwestern")	Nominated	^[4]

Year	Category	Nominee(s)	Result	Ref
1993	Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft: Researchers	Robert Levi (for "Duke Ellington: Reminiscing in Tempo")	Won
2001	Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft: Researchers	Dan T. Carter, Sandra Guardado, Daniel McCabe, Matthew R. McClung, Paul Stekler (for "George Wallace: Settin' the Woods on Fire")	Won
2001	Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft: Writing	Steve Fayer, Daniel McCabe, Paul Stekler (for "George Wallace: Settin' the Woods on Fire")	Nominated
2002	Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft: Writing	Chana Gazit (for "Fatal Food")	Nominated
2004	Best Documentary	New York: Center of the World	Nominated
	Outstanding Historical Programming - Long Form	New York: Center of the World	Won
	Outstanding Science, Technology and Nature Programming	The Pill	Won
	Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft: Music and Sound	Mariusz Glabinski, Marlena Grzaslewicz, Bruce Kitzmeyer, Ira Spiegel, Dominick Tavella (for "New York: Center of the World")	Nominated
2005	Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft: Direction	Barak Goodman (for "The Fight")	Won
2005	Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft: Writing	David Grubin (for "RFK")	Nominated
2006	Outstanding Historical Programming - Long Form	Victory in the Pacific	Nominated
	Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft: Writing	Austin Hoyt (for "Victory in the Pacific")	Nominated
	Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft: Research	Karen Colbron, Rose M. Compagine, Pamela Gaudiano (for "Fidel Castro")	Nominated
	Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft: Research	Karen Colbron, Margaret Johnson, Tamio Ota, Polly Pettit, Andrea Ryan, Reiko Sakuma, Kristina Wood, Midori Yanagihara (for "Victory in the Pacific")	Nominated
2007	Outstanding Science, Technology and Nature Programming	The Boy in the Bubble	Nominated
	Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft: Writing	Ric Burns, Arthur Gelb, Barbara Gelb (for "Eugene O'Neill: A Documentary Film")	Won
	Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft: Lighting Direction & Scenic Design	Katha Seidman (for "John & Abigail Adams")	Won
2008	Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft: Research	Rich Remsberg, John Rubin (for "The Living Weapon")	Won
2013	Outstanding Historical Programming - Long Form	Jesse Owens	Nominated	^[5]
	Outstanding Research	Jesse Owens	Won
	Outstanding Research	The Amish	Nominated
	Outstanding Music and Sound	Tom Phillips, Brian Bracken, Leslie Bloome, Benny Mouthon (for "Jesse Owens")	Won
2015	Outstanding Science and Technology Programming	The Poisoner's Handbook	Nominated
2016	Outstanding Editing: Documentary and Long Form	Don Kleszy (for "Last Days in Vietnam")	Nominated
2017	Outstanding Research	The Mine Wars	Nominated

Year	Recipient	Result	Ref.
1993	The Donner Party	Won
1996	Battle of the Bulge, FDR, Malcolm X: Make It Plain	Won
1997	The Battle Over Citizen Kane	Won
1998	The Presidents Series, Troublesome Creek: A Midwestern	Won
1999	Riding the Rails, America 1900	Won	^[6]
2001	Playing the China Card (Nixon's China Game)	Won	^[7]
2002	Monkey Trail	Won	^[8]
2003	The Murder of Emmett Till	Won	^[9]
2004	Tupperware!	Won	^[10]
2005	Two Days in October	Won	^[11]
2010	My Lai	Won	^[12]
2011	Triangle Fire, Freedom Riders, Stonewall Uprising	Won	^[13]
2014	Freedom Summer	Won
2017	Oklahoma City	Won

List of awards and nominations received by American Experience

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Year	Category	Nominee(s)	Result	Ref
1996	Outstanding Informational Special	The Battle Over Citizen Kane	Nominated
1996	Outstanding Achievement in Informational Programming	The Battle Over Citizen Kane	Nominated
1998	Outstanding Non-Fiction Series	American Experience	Won	^[14]
1999		American Experience	Won	^[15]
2000		New York: A Documentary Film	Nominated	^[16]
	Outstanding Achievement in Informational Programming	New York: A Documentary Film	Won
	Outstanding Cinematography for a Nonfiction Program	Allen Moore and Budyd Squires (for "New York: A Documentary Film")	Nominated
2001	Outstanding Informational Special	Scottsboro: An American Tragedy	Won	^[17]
2002	Outstanding Cinematography for a Nonfiction Program	Michael Chin, Jon Else and Buddy Squires (for "Ansel Adams: A Documentary Film")	Nominated	^[18]
2003	Outstanding Directing for a Nonfiction Programming	Stanley Nelson Jr. (for "The Murder of Emmett Till")	Won	^[19]
	Outstanding Writing for a Nonfiction Programming	Michelle Ferrari (for "Seabiscuit")	Won	^[20]
	Outstanding Writing for a Nonfiction Programming	Marcia A. Smith (for "The Murder of Emmett Till")	Nominated	^[20]
	Outstanding Cinematography for a Nonfiction Program (Single or Multi-Camera)	Vicente Franco (for "Daughter from Danang")	Nominated	^[21]
	Outstanding Picture Editing for a Nonfiction Program (Single or Multi-Camera)	Toby Shimin (for "Seabiscuit")	Nominated	^[22]
		Kim Roberts (for "Daughter from Danang")	Nominated	^[22]
	Outstanding Sound Editing for a Nonfiction or Reality Program (Single or Multi-Camera)	Kevin Lee (for "Seabiscuit")	Nominated	^[23]
2004	Outstanding Directing for Nonfiction Programming	Laurie Kahn (for "Tupperware!")	Nominated	^[24]
2005	Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking	Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst	Nominated	^[25]
2006	Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking	Two Days in October	Won	^[26]
2006	Outstanding Sound Editing For Nonfiction Programming (Single Or Multi-Camera)	Jack Levy, Daniel Colman, Vince Balunas, Jeff K. Brunello, Kim Roberts, Doug Madick (for "Two Days in October")	Nominated	^[26]
2007	Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking	Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple	Nominated	^[27]
2008		Oswald's Ghost	Nominated	^[28]
		Walt Whitman	Nominated
	Outstanding Writing for a Nonfiction Programming	Mark Zwonitzer (for "Walt Whitman")	Nominated
2009	Outstanding Non-Fiction Series	American Experience	Nominated	^[29]
2009	Outstanding Writing for a Nonfiction Programming	David Grubin (for "The Trials Of J. Robert Oppenheimer")	Nominated	^[29]
2010	Outstanding Non-Fiction Series	American Experience	Nominated	^[30]
	Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking	My Lai	Nominated	^[31]
	Outstanding Directing for a Documentary/Nonfiction Program	Barak Goodman (for "My Lai")	Won	^[31]
2011	Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking	Freedom Riders	Won	^[32]
	Outstanding Writing for a Nonfiction Programming	Stanley Nelson Jr. (for "Freedom Riders")	Won
	Outstanding Picture Editing for a Nonfiction Program	Lewis Erskine and Aljernon Tunsil (for "Freedom Riders")	Won
2012	Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking	The Amish	Nominated	^[33]
2012	Outstanding Writing for a Nonfiction Programming	Barak Goodman (for "Clinton")	Nominated	^[34]
2013	Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Special	Death and the Civil War	Nominated	^[35]
2013	Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series	The Abolitionists	Nominated	^[35]
2014	Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking	The Amish: Shunned	Nominated	^[36]
	Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Special	JFK	Won	^[37]
	Outstanding Writing for a Nonfiction Programming	Mark Zwonitzer (for "JFK")	Nominated	^[37]
2015		Keven McAlester and Mark Bailey (for "Last Days in Vietnam")	Nominated	^[38]
2016		Mark Zwonitzer, Sarah Colt and Tom Jennings (for "Walt Disney")	Nominated	^[39]
2017	Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking	Oklahoma City	Nominated	^[40]
2020	Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking	Chasing the Moon	Nominated	^[41]

Year	Category	Nominee(s)	Result	Ref
1997	Outstanding Achievement in News and Information	American Experience	Won	^[42]
1998			Won	^[43]
1999			Nominated	^[44]
2009		We Shall Remain	Nominated	^[45]

Year	Category	Nominee(s)	Result	Ref
1992	Best Documentary Script – Other Than Current Events	David Grubin (for "LBJ")	Won	^[46]
1992		Robert Levi and Geoffrey C. Ward (for "Duke Ellington: Reminiscing in Tempo")	Nominated
1993		Ric Burns (for "The Donner Party")	Won
1994		Marty Ostrow (for "America and the Holocaust: Deceit and Indifference")	Won
1995		Ric Burns (for "The Way West")	Won
		David Grubin (for "FDR: Part 1")	Nominated
		Thomas Lennon and Mark Zwonitzer (for "The Battle of the Bulge: World War II's Deadliest Battle")	Nominated
1996		Chana Gazit (for "Chicago 1968")	Nominated
1996		Thomas Lennon and Richard Ben Cramer (for "The Battle Over Citizen Kane")	Nominated
1997		Elena Mannes and L. Franklin DeVine (for "New York Underground")	Nominated
1998		David Grubin (for "Truman")	Won
		Chana Gazit (for "Surviving the Dust Bowl")	Nominated
		Adriana Bosch (for "Reagan: Part 2")	Nominated
1999		Stephen Stept (for "Hoover Dam")	Won
1999		Chana Gazit (for "Meltdown at Three Mile Island")	Nominated
2001		Barak Goodman (for "Scottsboro: An American Tragedy")	Won
2001		Ken Emerson & Randy MacLowry (for "Steven Foster")	Nominated
2002		Christine Lesiak (for "Monkey Trail")	Won
2003		Marcia Smith (for "The Murder of Emmett Till")	Won
2003		Michelle Ferrari (for "Seabiscuit")	Nominated
2004		Barak Goodman (for "The Fight")	Won
		Mel Bucklin (for "Emma Goldman")	Nominated
		David Grubin (for "RFK")	Nominated
		Llewellyn M. Smith and Elizabeth Deane (for "Reconstruction")	Nominated
2005		Adriana Bosch (for "Fidel Castro")	Nominated
		Barak Goodman (for "Kinsey")	Nominated
		Mark Zwonitzer (for "The Massie Affair")	Nominated
2006		Arthur Gelb, Barbara Gelb and Ric Burns (for "Eugene O'Neill: A Documentary Film")	Nominated
		Elizabeth Deane (for "John and Abigail Adams")	Nominated
		Mark Davis (for "The Alaska Pipeline")	Nominated
		Barak Goodman (for "The Boy in the Bubble")	Nominated
2007		Ronald Blumer (for "Alexander Hamilton")	Nominated
2008		Michelle Ferrari (for "Kit Carson")	Nominated
2009		David Grubin (for "The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer")	Won
		Barak Goodman (for "The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln")	Nominated
		Mark Zwonitzer (for "We Shall Remain: Episode Three: Trail of Tears")	Nominated
		Ric Burns (for "We Shall Remain: Episode Two: Tecumseh's Vision")	Nominated
2010		Ronald H. Blumer (for "Dolley Madison")	Nominated
2011		Mark Davis (for "Dinosaur Bone War")	Nominated
		Stanley Nelson (for "Freedom Riders")	Nominated
		Austin Hoyt (for "The Great Famine")	Nominated
		Mark Zwonitzer (for "Triangle Fire")	Nominated
2012		David Belton (for "The Amish")	Nominated
		Barak Goodman (for "Clinton")	Nominated
		Ric Burns (for "Death and the Civil War")	Nominated
2013		Randall MacLowry and Michelle Ferrari (for "Silicon Valley")	Won
2013		Rob Rapley (for "The Abolitionists")	Nominated
2015		Chana Gazit (for "The Forgotten Plague")	Nominated
2017		Stephen Ives (for "The Great War: Part II")	Won
		Michelle Ferrari (for "Rachel Carson")	Nominated
		Rob Rapley (for "The Great War: Part III")	Nominated
2018		Michelle Ferrari (for "The Eugenics Crusade")	Won
		Sharon Grimberg (for "The Circus: Part One")	Nominated
		John Maggio (for "Into the Amazon")	Nominated
2019		Robert Stone (for "Chasing The Moon Part One: A Place Beyond The Sky")	Nominated
2020		John Maggio (for "The Poison Squad")	Nominated	^[47]