The Peabody Awards Board of Jurors have introduced the 42 nominees for this yr’s Leisure, Arts, Youngsters’s/Youth, Podcast/Radio, Interactive & Immersive and Public Service honors. The nominees have been chosen by a unanimous vote of 17 jurors from over 1,200 entries; the winners of the 83rd Peabody Awards will likely be introduced on Could 9 after which celebrated on Sunday, June 11 at a ceremony on the Beverly Wilshire Resort in Los Angeles.
This will likely be Peabody’s first in-person ceremony since 2019, in addition to the primary time ever in its historical past that the awards ceremony will happen in Los Angeles.
“From hilarious and heartfelt comedies to interactive and immersive tales that leverage know-how to create gripping narratives, Peabody is devoted to recognizing compelling tales throughout the media panorama,” mentioned Jeffrey Jones, govt director of Peabody. “We’re thrilled to appoint every of those exceptional items of media and to honor the forward-thinking Shari Frilot with our inaugural Visionary Award.”
Whereas not many animated tasks have been nominated, there have been a pair stand outs for common viewers and youngsters’ toons, in addition to subsequent gen animated storytelling on show within the immersive class.
See the complete listing of nominees at peabodyawards.com.
ENTERTAINMENT
Bob’s Burgers | twentieth Century (FOX)
Jury feedback — This long-running, witty animated collection is light and filled with coronary heart. Over its 13 years on the air, Bob’s Burgers has quietly depicted a very progressive imaginative and prescient of a working class household, giving us each real looking and aspirational portraits of parenting life, teenage life and queer life, in addition to classes of acceptance and resiliency.
CHILDREN’S & YOUTH
El Deafo | Lighthouse Studios in affiliation with Apple TV+ (Apple TV+)
El Deafo makes use of distinctive sound design to take viewers contained in the expertise of a younger woman named Cece (voiced by Lexi Finigan, who can also be deaf) as she loses her listening to and finds her internal superhero on this animated collection primarily based on the graphic novel by Cece Bell.
INTERACTIVE & IMMERSIVE
Life Is Unusual: True Colours | Deck 9 Video games & Sq. Enix Exterior Studios (PC, Xbox, PlayStation, Stadia)
Life Is Unusual: True Colours is a sport that follows a 21-year-old, bisexual Asian-American lady, Alex Chen, who has spent the final eight years in foster care and is investigating her brother’s dying. Largely about grief and trauma, the sport can also be joyful, affirming the true significance of empathy by Alex’s supernatural skill to sense and manipulate others’ feelings.
Lucy and the Wolves within the Partitions | Fable Studio, Third Rail Tasks, Sound+Design, Story Studio & Experiences (Oculus Rift, Oculus Quest)
By the endearing and earnest narrative of Lucy and her quest to seek out the supply of mysterious happenings in her home, this glorious interactive VR fable primarily based on the e-book by Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean, which continues in Lucy’s prolonged life throughout platforms, invitations us alongside to discover the positive line between creativeness and actuality and reminds us of that liminal house of chance that we occupy as kids.
Reeducated | The New Yorker (Oculus, Cell, Desktop)
China’s systemic detention of Uyghurs and different minorities is well-documented, however there exists no photographic proof from contained in the camps, which limits journalistic protection. This New Yorker VR venture combines the testimony of three courageous survivors, hand-drawn illustration, and immersive video know-how, exhibiting the circumstances inside jail cells, lecture rooms, torture rooms, and a makeshift working room, and illuminating the atrocities of harrowing life.
The Uncensored Library | Media.Monks, Reporters with out Borders, DDB Germany (Minecraft)
Meticulous and artistically-rendered, this Minecraft construct serves as a monument to press freedom and an modern again door for censored content material. As a result of Minecraft is usually freely accessible in international locations the place different media is blocked, greater than 20 million players in 165 international locations have been in a position to entry details about threats to press freedom in their very own international locations in addition to censored articles from impartial journalists from oppressive international locations akin to Saudi Arabia, Russia, Mexico, Egypt, and Vietnam.
Un(re)solved | FRONTLINE (PBS) with Ado Ato Footage and StoryCorps (pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/unresolved)
Drawing on greater than two years of reporting, 1000’s of paperwork, and dozens of first-hand interviews, this FRONTLINE multiplatform investigation of lives reduce brief examines a federal effort to grapple with America’s legacy of racist killings by the Emmett Until Unsolved Civil Rights Crime Act.
Unpacking | Witch Beam Video games & Humble Video games (Steam)
This Zen puzzle sport transforms the mundane expertise of unpacking gadgets out of bins after a transfer into a rare storytelling system, permitting the participant to get to know the principle character at an intensely intimate and private degree with out ever seeing her over 21 years of her life and eight totally different strikes.
