The 42nd Annual News and Documentary Emmy® Awards honored Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool with the following Emmys: Outstanding Arts & Culture Documentary Outstanding Sound Watch Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool, now streaming:   American Masters — Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool takes ...

American Masters celebrates an Imagen Award nomination for Unladylike 2020 – Jovita Idar  in the category of Best Short Film. The Imagen Foundation recognizes Latinx talent, celebrating diversity in the entertainment industry. The awards are determined by an independent panel of industry executives and Latino ...

Nominations for the 42nd Annual News and Documentary Emmy® Awards were announced by The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS). American Masters is honored to celebrate two nominations for its presentation of Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool, directed by Stanley Nelson. Outstanding ...

American Masters celebrates 10 documentaries as part of our Emmy®-nominated season in the category of “Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series” at the 73rd Emmy Awards. We congratulate Kathryn Bostic for her nomination as composer of Amy Tan: Unintended Memoir in the category of “Outstanding Music ...

By Elisa Lichtenbaum As part of #PBSForTheArts, a multiplatform campaign from PBS and The WNET Group celebrating the resiliency of the arts in America during the COVID-19 pandemic shutdown and reopening, we’re pleased to present a series of artist interviews spotlighting the inspiring pandemic survival stories ...

American Masters and Firelight Media have won the “People’s Voice” award for the short film Anik Khan: Street Level.

Who has changed America? People like Nina Simone, Mae West, Pam Grier, Keith Haring, Cecily Tyson, Laura Ingalls Wilder, and Twyla Tharp. Think of Amy Tan, Doc Severinsen, Lena Horne, Walter Winchell, Abbey Lincoln, Jovita Idár, Michael Tilson Thomas, and Diahann Carroll. Independent producers shared ...

Two American Masters initiatives have been nominated for an NAACP Image Award in the category of Outstanding Short-Form Series – Reality/Nonfiction: Unladylike2020 and In the Making. Both series are streaming now on the American Masters website. Illuminating the stories of extraordinary American heroines from the ...

“Toto, I’ve got a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore,” Dorothy Gale once famously said in “The Wizard of Oz.” The actress Judy Garland was just 16 when she starred as the sparkly shoe-wearing Dorothy in the award-winning film, and she crash-landed into a new ...