Collectively, The Walt Disney Company has earned 53 News & Documentary Emmy® Award nominations* across content brands and studios ABC News, ESPN, Disney+, Hulu, and National Geographic. News category winners will be revealed on Wednesday, September 27, while the documentary category winners will be announced on Thursday, September 28.
A total list of The Walt Disney Company’s nominations is as follows:
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
*Joint nominations have been included in the count for certain titles.