The Walt Disney Company Earns 20 News & Documentary Emmy Awards

Collectively, The Walt Disney Company has won 20 News & Documentary Emmy® Awards across content brands and studios ABC News, Disney+, Hulu, Marvel Studios and National Geographic.

Following ABC News’ banner year of award nominations, “ABC World News Tonight with David Muir” earned two Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Live News Program for the second year in a row; ABC News Studios earned four Emmys, their first-ever for “On the Brink,” “Black in Vegas,” “Grand Knighthawk” and “Rap Trap: Hip-Hop on Trial.” Additionally, “IMPACT x Nightline” secured its first-ever Emmy Award for “On the Brink,” and “20/20” won two Emmys for longform projects, “It Happened Here: A Year in Uvalde” and “Our Barbara.” ABC News Live earned their first-ever Emmy Award for “Israeli Leader Speaks Out.”

After National Geographic set its own record earning the most nominations ever for the brand, it secured a total of 10 wins, including its most-nominated series, “Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller,” which won five awards. Additionally, “Incredible Animal Journeys,” “JFK: One Day in America,” “Path of the Panther,” “Nazis at Nuremberg: The Lost Testimony” and “Science Fair: The Series” each won awards.

Marvel Studios secured its first-ever documentary Emmy Award with “Stan Lee,” which traces his life from his challenging upbringing to the meteoric rise of Marvel Comics and is told in the voice of the Disney Legend.

Below is a complete list of all The Walt Disney Company awards. (As some of these overlap, these are grand totals for each entity.)

* Joint wins have been included in the total count for certain titles.

ABC NEWS
ABC News Studios (ABC News)
4 Wins

• ABC News Soul of a Nation Presents (ABC News Studios)
  • OUTSTANDING DIRECTION: NEWS: “Black in Vegas”
• Grand Knighthawk: Infiltrating the KKK (Hulu, ABC News Studios, The Associated Press)
  • OUTSTANDING CRIME AND JUSTICE COVERAGE
• IMPACT x Nightline (Hulu, ABC News Studios)
  • OUTSTANDING HEALTH OR MEDICAL COVERAGE “On the Brink”
• Rap Trap: Hip-Hop On Trial (Hulu, ABC News Studios)
  • OUTSTANDING ARTS, CULTURE OR ENTERTAINMENT COVERAGE

20/20 (ABC News)
2 Wins*

• “It Happened Here: A Year in Uvalde”
  • OUTSTANDING SOFT FEATURE STORY: LONG FORM
• “Our Barbara”
  • OUTSTANDING RECORDED NEWS SPECIAL

ABC World News Tonight with David Muir (ABC News)
2 Wins

• “ABC World News Tonight with David Muir”
  • OUTSTANDING LIVE NEWS PROGRAM
• “South Sudan: Isolated by Water and War”
  • OUTSTANDING SOFT FEATURE STORY: SHORT FORM

ABC News Live (ABC News)
1 Win*

• “Israeli Leader Speaks Out”
  • OUTSTANDING LIVE INTERVIEW: SHORT FORM

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC
Trafficked with Mariana Van Zeller (National Geographic)
5 Wins

• OUTSTANDING SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY COVERAGE: “Cyber Pirates”
• OUTSTANDING BUSINESS, CONSUMER OR ECONOMIC COVERAGE: “Black Market Babies”
• OUTSTANDING VIDEO JOURNALISM: “Terrorist Oil”
• OUTSTANDING EDITING: NEWS: “Ghost Guns”
• OUTSTANDING LIGHTING DIRECTION: NEWS: “MDMA”

Incredible Animal Journeys (National Geographic)
1 Win

• OUTSTANDING SOUND: DOCUMENTARY

JFK: One Day in America (National Geographic)
1 Win

• OUTSTANDING PROMOTIONAL ANNOUNCEMENT: DOCUMENTARY

Nazis at Nuremberg: The Lost Testimony (National Geographic)
1 Win

• OUTSTANDING WRITING: DOCUMENTARY

Path of the Panther (National Geographic)
1 Win

• OUTSTANDING NATURE DOCUMENTARY

Science Fair: The Series (National Geographic)
1 Win

• OUTSTANDING SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY DOCUMENTARY

MARVEL STUDIOS
Stan Lee (Disney+/Marvel Studios)
1 Win

• OUTSTANDING ART DIRECTION / SET DECORATION / SCENIC DESIGN: DOCUMENTARY

The News & Documentary Emmy Awards honor programming content from more than 2,300 submissions that originally premiered in the calendar-year 2023, judged by a pool of over 1,000 peer professionals from across the television and streaming/digital media industry.

Awards were presented live at the Palladium Times Square in New York City on Sept. 25 and 26.

Media Contacts:
ABC News
Jeannie Kedas
Senior Vice President, Corporate Communications & Publicity
jeannie.kedas@abc.com

Brooks Lancaster
Director, Publicity
brooks.lancaster@abc.com

Disney+ and Marvel Studios
Derek Del Rossi
Senior Vice President, Publicity
derek.del.rossi@disney.com 

Hulu
Brandon Shaw
Vice President, Communications
brandon.shaw@disney.com

National Geographic
Annie McDonough
Director, Awards
annie.mcdonough@natgeo.com

Networks
Fonda Berosini
Vice President, Communications, News Group and Networks
fonda.berosini@abc.com