CNN Honored with Record 17 Primetime Emmy® Nominations
CNN Films Earns Nine Nominations and CNN Original Series Receives Eight
NEW YORK – July 16, 2019 – CNN was honored with a record 17 Primetime Emmy® nominations, it was announced today by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.
CNN Films earned nine Emmy® nominations – four for RBG, three for Three Identical Strangers and two for Love, Gilda. CNN Original Series earned eight Emmy® nominations – six for Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown and two for United Shades of America with W. Kamau Bell.
The award winners will be announced at the Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards presentation on September 14th and September 15th at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles.
The 2019 CNN Primetime Emmy® nominations are as follows:
Outstanding Informational Series or Special
Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown
Outstanding Unstructured Reality Program
United Shades of America with W. Kamau Bell
Outstanding Cinematography for Nonfiction Programming
Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown – “Bhutan”
Outstanding Writing for a Nonfiction Program
Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown – “Kenya”
Outstanding Picture Editing for a Nonfiction Program
Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown – “Lower East Side”
RBG
Three Identical Strangers
Outstanding Picture Editing for An Unstructured Reality Program
United Shades of America with W. Kamau Bell – “Hmong Americans and the Secret War”
Outstanding Sound Editing for Nonfiction Programming
Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown – “Far West Texas”
Outstanding Sound Mixing for Nonfiction Programming
Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown – “Kenya”
Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking
Three Identical Strangers
RBG
Outstanding Directing for a Documentary/Nonfiction Program
RBG
Three Identical Strangers
Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Special
Love, Gilda
Outstanding Music Composition for a Documentary Series or Special
RBG
Love, Gilda
Press Contacts
Heather Brown, CNN Original Series: Heather.Brown@turner.com
Jennifer Dargan, CNN Films: Jennifer.Dargan@turner.com