News and Documentary Emmy Nominees 2025

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2 May 2025

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The nominees of the 2025 News and Documentary Emmy Awards have been announced. The awards recognise and award the best American news and documentary programmes from the past year – a big well done to all of this years shortlisted projects.

Tsunami: Race Against Time

There is a double nomination for the Blast! Films series which recalls the harrowing events of the 2004 tsunami in the Indian Ocean.

The series has been nominated in the 'Outstanding Historical Documentary' and 'Outstanding Promotional Announcement' categories.

The Truth vs Alex Jones

Amos Pictures' feature length documentary has also been nominated in 2 categories at this years News and Documentary Emmys. They will be contending for the awards in 'Outstanding Crime and Justice Documentary' and 'Best Documentary'.

The film centres around the lawsuits bought against conspiracy theorist Alex Jones in the aftermath of the Sandy Hook elementary school shootings.

A Year of War: Israelis and Palestinians

Nominated in the 'Outstanding Current Affairs Documentary', the documentary produced by Top Hat Productions follows a small group of Palestinians and Israelis who have been affected by the war in Gaza and the attacks from October 2023.

The documentary has also been nominated in 'Excellence in Visual Human-Interest Storytelling' at the Scripps Howard Awards.