List of Peabody Award winners (2010–2019)

The Peabody Awards recognize distinguished and meritorious public service by radio and television stations, networks, producing organizations, individuals, and online media. This entry provides a list of winners from the years 2010 through 2019. Each year, the awards celebrate stories that matter and reflect the power of media to inform, connect, and inspire.

2010 Winners:

• Temple Grandin (HBO)
• The Lord of the Rings (BBC Radio)
• Men of a Certain Age (TNT)
• Modern Family (ABC)
• Glee (FOX)
• If God Is Willing and Da Creek Don't Rise (HBO)
• Between the World and Me (The Apollo Theater)
• POV: The Oath (PBS)
• Independent Lens: Precious Knowledge (PBS)
• Reporter (HBO)
• This American Life: House Rules (Public Radio International)
• Frontline: The Spill (PBS)
• In Treatment (HBO)
• 30 for 30: The U (ESPN)
• Sherpa (ESPN)
• The Pacific (HBO)
• Justified (FX)

2011 Winners:

• Downton Abbey (PBS)
• Boardwalk Empire (HBO)
• Lights Out (FX)
• Game of Thrones (HBO)
• Louie (FX)
• Cinema Verite (HBO)
• Page One: Inside The New York Times (Magnolia Pictures)
• POV: Where Soldiers Come From (PBS)
• Frontline: Money, Power and Wall Street (PBS)
• This American Life: Mr. Daisey Goes to the Apple Factory (Public Radio International) (Note: This award was later rescinded)
• Treehouse (Sundance Channel)
• To Die in Jerusalem (HBO)
• The Cost of War: Afghanistan (CNN)
• Storycorps (NPR)
• Beyond the Brink: Saving the World's Most Endangered Species (CNN)
• Educating Essex (Channel 4)
• A Home for Veteran’s: The St. Alphonsus Project (WBIR-TV)

2012 Winners:

• Homeland (Showtime)
• Enlightened (HBO)
• Girls (HBO)
• Parks and Recreation (NBC)
• The Good Wife (CBS)
• Hatfields & McCoys (History Channel)
• Game Change (HBO)
• Portlandia (IFC)
• This American Life: Retraction (Public Radio International)
• The Central Park Five (Sundance Selects)
• Frontline: Poor Kids (PBS)
• All the Difference (PBS)
• Intersexions (SABC1)
• Slavery by Another Name (PBS)
• Locked in a Box (KTNV-TV)

2013 Winners:

• Breaking Bad (AMC)
• House of Cards (Netflix)
• Orange Is the New Black (Netflix)
• The Americans (FX)
• Broadchurch (BBC America)
• Behind the Candelabra (HBO)
• Key & Peele (Comedy Central)
• A Mother's Promise: Syria's Lost Children (CNN)
• Frontline: Digital Nation (PBS)
• POV: Pussy Riot – A Punk Prayer (PBS)
• 911: Lost Tapes of the Pentagon (History Channel)
• Duck Dynasty (A&E) (Note: This award drew controversy and was viewed by some as politically motivated.)
• The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross (PBS)

2014 Winners:

• Fargo (FX)
• True Detective (HBO)
• Transparent (Amazon)
• The Knick (Cinemax)
• Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
• Review (Comedy Central)
• Virunga (Netflix)
• Frontline: Ebola Outbreak (PBS)
• Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey (FOX/National Geographic Channel)
• Radio Diaries (NPR)
• Serial (Podcast)
• Paying the Price (Al Jazeera America)
• Welcoming New Neighbors (KING-TV)

2015 Winners:

• Mr. Robot (USA Network)
• UnREAL (Lifetime)
• Master of None (Netflix)
• Jessica Jones (Netflix)
• Deutschland 83 (SundanceTV)
• Wolf Hall (PBS)
• Bessie (HBO)
• The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst (HBO)
• Amy (A24)
• POV: Point and Shoot (PBS)
• 60 Minutes: The Killing Season (CBS)
• ISIS in Afghanistan (CNN)
• Trapped in the USA (Al Jazeera America)

2016 Winners:

• Atlanta (FX)
• O.J.: Made in America (ESPN)
• American Crime (ABC)
• Horace and Pete (LouisCK.net)
• Lemonade (HBO)
• Stranger Things (Netflix)
• Veep (HBO)
• The Crown (Netflix)
• Full Frontal with Samantha Bee (TBS)
• Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise (PBS)
• Frontline: Plague at the Golden Gate (PBS)
• 13th (Netflix)
• Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel: The Lord of the Rings (HBO)
• Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise (PBS)
• Starving for Attention (WFAA-TV)

2017 Winners:

• Big Little Lies (HBO)
• The Handmaid's Tale (Hulu)
• One Day at a Time (Netflix)
• Better Things (FX)
• Insecure (HBO)
• A Series of Unfortunate Events (Netflix)
• Planet Earth II (BBC America)
• Last Men in Aleppo (PBS)
• Independent Lens: Dolores (PBS)
• POV: Whose Streets? (PBS)
• Rape on the Night Shift (PBS)
• The Harvey Weinstein Investigation (The New York Times)

2018 Winners:

• Killing Eve (BBC America)
• The Americans (FX)
• Barry (HBO)
• The End of the F*ing World (Netflix)
• Pose (FX)
• Hannah Gadsby: Nanette (Netflix)
• Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj (Netflix)
• Sharp Objects (HBO)
• POV: Hale County This Morning, This Evening (PBS)
• POV: Minding the Gap (PBS)
• Frontline: Separated: Children at the Border (PBS)
• When They See Us (Netflix)

2019 Winners:

• Chernobyl (HBO)
• Fleabag (Amazon Prime Video)
• Ramy (Hulu)
• Succession (HBO)
• David Makes Man (OWN)
• Watchmen (HBO)
• Unbelievable (Netflix)
• Leaving Neverland (HBO)
• POV: American Factory (Netflix)
• Frontline: Right to Fail (PBS)
• The Weekly: Immigration Nation (FX/Hulu)
• The Forgotten West Memphis Three (HBO)

This list is not exhaustive and represents a selection of the most notable Peabody Award winners for each year. The Peabody Awards website offers a complete archive of all winners.