Lakota Nation vs. United States was named best documentary on the second night of the 2024 News & Documentary Emmy Awards.
The film counts Mark Ruffalo and Marisa Tomei among its executive producers. It was directed by Jesse Short Bull and Laura Tomaselli and produced by Benjamin Hedin and Phil Pinto, with all four serving as writers.
The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences presented the awards, which were presented Thursday evening at the Palladium Times Square in New York City. W. Kamau Bell hosted the ceremony.
Also during the ceremony, documentary filmmaker Alex Gibney was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award, presented by fellow documentarian Sheila Nevins.
The News & Documentary Emmys are awarded during two individual ceremonies: categories honoring television news programming were presented on Wednesday, while awards in the documentary categories were presented on Thursday. In prime time, CNN, ABC and National Geographic were among the early winners.
The 45th Annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards honor programming content from more than 2,200 submissions originally premiering in 2023. They were judged by a pool of 980 professionals from across the television and streaming news and documentary industries. digital media.
The complete list of winners from the second evening follows.
BEST DOCUMENTARY
Lakota Nation vs. United States (AMC+) [Unceded Films, LLC | IFC Films]
EXCEPTIONAL CURRENT AFFAIRS DOCUMENTARY
Poisoned: The Dirty Truth About Food (Netflix) [Campfire Studios | Atlas Films]
EXCEPTIONAL POLITICAL AND GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTARY
Clarence and Ginni Thomas: Politics, Power, and the Supreme Court; Frontline (PBS)
EXCEPTIONAL DOCUMENTARY ON SOCIAL ISSUES
Eat your catfish; POV (PBS) [Zela Film | American Documentary, POV]
EXCEPTIONAL INVESTIGATIVE DOCUMENTARY
Global Spyware Scandal: Exposing Pegasus; Frontline (PBS) [FRONTLINE | Forbidden Film | the Forbidden Stories Consortium]
EXCEPTIONAL HISTORICAL DOCUMENTARY
Chol Soo Lee free, Objective independent (PBS)
EXCEPTIONAL DOCUMENTARY ON ART AND CULTURE
Little Richard: I am everything (CNN Film | Max) [Bungalow Media + Entertainment]
EXCEPTIONAL DOCUMENTARY ON SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Science Fair: The Series (National Geographic) [Muck Media]
EXCEPTIONAL NATURE DOCUMENTARY
Panther Trail (National Geographic) [Grizzly Creek Films | Wildpath | National Geographic | Common Pictures | Appian Way]
EXCEPTIONAL COMMERCIAL AND ECONOMIC DOCUMENTARY
Big Vape: The Rise and Fall of Juul (Netflix) [Amblin Television | This Machine (a part of Sony Pictures Television) | TIME Studios]
EXCEPTIONAL DOCUMENTARY ON CRIME AND JUSTICE
Murder in Boston: roots, fury and reckoning (HBO | Maximum) [HBO Documentary Films | The Boston Globe | Little Room Films
OUTSTANDING SHORT DOCUMENTARY
The Silent Witness: Life Stories
OUTSTANDING WRITING: DOCUMENTARY
Nazis at Nuremberg: The Lost Testimony (National Geographic) [Steve Rotfeld Productions]
OUTSTANDING RESEARCH: DOCUMENTARY
Victim/suspect (Netflix) [Motto Pictures | Center for Investigative Reporting Studios]
OUTSTANDING DIRECTING: DOCUMENTARY
Lakota Nation vs. United States (AMC+) [Unceded Films, LLC, | IFC Films]
EXCEPTIONAL CINEMATOGRAPHY: DOCUMENTARY
Murder on Big Horn (Show time) [Fairhaven]
EXCEPTIONAL EDITING: DOCUMENTARY
American manhunt: the Boston Marathon bombing (Netflix) [The Cut | Tillerman Films | Ventureland]
EXCEPTIONAL GRAPHIC DESIGN: DOCUMENTARY
Second World War: from the front (Netflix) [72 Films]
EXCEPTIONAL MUSICAL COMPOSITION: DOCUMENTARY
Second World War: from the front (Netflix) [72 Films]
GREAT SOUND: DOCUMENTARY
Incredible trips with animals (National Geographic) [Plimsoll Productions]
EXCEPTIONAL LIGHTING DIRECTION: DOCUMENTARY
To End All War: Oppenheimer and the Atomic Bomb (MSNBC Movies; MSNBC) [NBC News Studios]
OUTSTANDING ART/SET DIRECTION DECORATION/SCENE: DOCUMENTARY
Stan Lee (Disney+) [Marvel Studios]
EXCEPTIONAL PROMOTIONAL ADVERTISEMENT: DOCUMENTARY
JFK: A Day in America (National Geographic) [72 Films | JAX]
EXCEPTIONAL REGIONAL DOCUMENTARY
The Lost Story of Emmett Till: Then and Now (WMAQ) [Chicago/Midwest Chapter]