Television Academy Honors Award

The Television Academy Honors annually awards television programs with socially conscious approaches to social issues.

History

The Television Academy Honors were established in 2008 to recognize "Television with a Conscience"—television programming that inspires, informs, motivates and even has the power to change lives.

The most recent of these Emmys, intended to have been hosted in 2023, was cancelled due to the then Writers Guild of America strike.

Honorees

2000s

1st Annual (2008)

• Alive Day Memories: Home from Iraq
• Boston Legal
• Girl Positive
• God's Warriors
• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, "Harm"
• Pictures of Hollis Woods
• Planet Earth
• Shame
• Side Order of Life

2nd Annual (2009)

• A Home for the Holidays (10th Annual)
• Breaking the Huddle: The Integration of College Football
• Brothers & Sisters, "Prior Commitments"
• Extreme Makeover Home Edition, "The Martirez & Malek Families"
• Masterpiece Contemporary: "God on Trial"
• Stand Up to Cancer
• 30 Days
• Whale Wars

2010s

3rd Annual (2010)

• CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, "Coup De Grace"
• Glee, "Wheels"
• Grandpa, Do You Know Who I Am? With Maria Shriver
• Explorer, "Inside Death Row"
• Private Practice, "Nothing To Fear"
• Taking Chance
• Unlocking Autism
• Vanguard, "The OxyContin Express"

4th Annual (2011)

• The 16th Man
• The Big C, "Taking The Plunge"
• Friday Night Lights, "I Can't"
• Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution
• The Oprah Winfrey Show, "A Two-Day Oprah Show Event: 200 Adult Men Who Were Molested Come Forward"
• Parenthood, "Pilot"
• Private Practice, "Did You Hear What Happened to Charlotte King?"
• Wartorn 1861–2010

5th Annual (2012)

• The Dr. Oz Show
• The Five
• Harry's Law, "Head Games"
• Hot Coffee
• Men of a Certain Age, "Let the Sun Shine In"
• Rescue Me, '344"
• Women, War & Peace

6th Annual (2013)

• A Smile as Big as the Moon
• D.L. Hughley: The Endangered List
• Half The Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity For Women Worldwide
• Hunger Hits Home
• The Newsroom
• Nick News with Linda Ellerbee
• One Nation Under Dog: Stories of Fear, Loss & Betrayal
• Parenthood

7th Annual (2014)

• The Big C: Hereafter
• Comedy Warriors
• The Fosters
• Mea Maxima Culpa
• Mom
• Screw You Cancer
• Vice

8th Annual (2015)

• black-ish, "Crime and Punishment"
• E:60, "Dream On: Stories of Boston's Strongest"
• The Normal Heart
• Paycheck to Paycheck: The Life & Times of Katrina Gilbert
• Transparent
• Virunga

9th Annual (2016)

• Born This Way
• Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief
• Homeland
• The Knick
• Mississippi Inferno
• Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom

10th Annual (2017)

• Before the Flood
• The Night Of
• Speechless
• This Is Us
• We Will Rise: Michelle Obama's Mission to Educate Girls Around the World
• Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

11th Annual (2018)

• 13 Reasons Why
• Andi Mack
• Daughters of Destiny
• Forbidden: Undocumented and Queer in Rural America
• Full Frontal with Samantha Bee
• LA 92
• One Day at a Time

12th Annual (2019)

• Alexa & Katie
• A Million Little Things
• I Am Evidence
• My Last Days
• Pose
• Rest in Power: The Trayvon Martin Story
• RBG

2020s

13th Annual (2020)

• 16 Shots
• At the Heart of Gold: Inside the USA Gymnastics Scandal
• Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj
• Queen Sugar
• Unbelievable
• Watchmen

14th Annual (2021)

• For Life
• I Am Greta
• I May Destroy You
• Little America
• The Daily Show
• The Social Dilemma
• Welcome to Chechnya

15th Annual (2022)

• Black and Missing
• Dopesick
• Insecure
• It's a Sin
• Reservation Dogs
• Taste the Nation: Holiday Edition
• The Year Earth Changed

16th Annual (cancelled)

• Profiled: The Black Man
• 37 Words
• As We See It
• Mo
• The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks
• The U.S. and the Holocaust
• We're Here

17th Annual (2024)

• 1000% Me: Growing Up Mixed
• The 1619 Project
• A Small Light
• Beef
• Deadlocked: How America Shaped the Supreme Court
• Heartstopper
• Lakota Nation vs. United States

See also

• The Peabody Awards
• Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature
• Alfred I. duPont–Columbia University Award

External links

• Television Academy