List of Humanitas Prize recipients

60 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

• Family ("Thanksgiving") (ABC)
• The Waltons ("The Remembrance") (CBS)
• The White Shadow ("The Death of Me Yet") (CBS)

90 Minute or Longer Network or Syndicated Television

• Son-Rise: A Miracle of Love (NBC)
• 'The Family Man' (CBS)
• The Gift (CBS)

Special Award

• NBC White Paper ("We're Moving Up! The Hispanic Migration") (NBC)

1982 (7th Humanitas Awards)

30 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

• WKRP in Cincinnati ("Venus Flytrap Explains") (CBS)
• Archie Bunker's Place ("Tough Love") (CBS)
• M*A*S*H ("Blood Brothers") (CBS)

60 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

• Hill Street Blues ("Dressed to Kill") (NBC)
• Lou Grant ("Streets") (CBS)
• The White Shadow ("Reunion (Part 2)") (CBS)

90 Minute or Longer Network or Syndicated Television

• The Shadow Box (ABC)
• Leave 'Em Laughing (CBS)
• A Matter of Life and Death (CBS)

Special Award

• NBC Reports ("The Migrants, 1980") (NBC)

1983 (8th Humanitas Awards)

30 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

• M*A*S*H ("Where There's a Will, There's a War") (CBS)
• Archie Bunker's Place ("Relapse") (CBS)
• One Day at a Time ("Mrs. O'Leary's Kid") (CBS)

60 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

• Lou Grant ("Hunger") (CBS)
• ABC Afterschool Special ("The Wave") (ABC)
• Hill Street Blues ("The World According to Freedom") (NBC)

90 Minute or Longer Network or Syndicated Television

• Divorce Wars: A Love Story (ABC)
• Bitter Harvest (NBC)
• The Marva Collins Story (CBS)

Special Award

• America Works When America Works (NBC)

1984 (9th Humanitas Awards)

30 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

• M*A*S*H ("Who Knew?") (CBS)
• Diff'rent Strokes ("Bicycle Man, Part 2") (NBC)
• It Takes Two
  ("Death Penalty") (ABC)

60 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

• Hill Street Blues ("Trial By Fury") (NBC)
• Fame ("Solo Song") (NBC)
• St. Elsewhere ("Rain") (NBC)

90 Minute or Longer Network or Syndicated Television

• Special Bulletin (NBC)
• Benny's Place (ABC)
• Two of a Kind (CBS)

1985 (10th Humanitas Awards)

30 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

• Family Ties ("Not An Affair to Remember") (NBC)
• Family Ties ("Say Uncle") (NBC)
• Gimme a Break! ("Herbie") (NBC)

60 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

• Hill Street Blues ("Doris in Wonderland") (NBC)
• St. Elsewhere ("All About Eve") (NBC)
• St. Elsewhere ("Ties That Bind") (NBC)

90 Minute or Longer Network or Syndicated Television

• Choices of the Heart (NBC)
• Memorial Day (CBS)
• Something About Amelia (ABC)

1986 (11th Humanitas Awards)

30 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

• The Cosby Show ("Theo & the Joint") (NBC)
• Family Ties ("Hotline Fever") (NBC)
• Family Ties ("Remembrance of Things Past, Part 2") (NBC)

60 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

• St. Elsewhere ("Bye, George") (NBC)
• Cagney & Lacey ("An Unusual Occurrence") (CBS)
• Hill Street Blues ("Watt a Way to Go") (NBC)

90 Minute or Longer Network or Syndicated Television

• The Dollmaker (ABC)
• Not My Kid (CBS)
• Surviving (ABC)

Children's Animation Television

• Jim Henson's Muppet Babies
  ("Eight Take Away One Equals Panic") (CBS)
• CBS Storybreak ("Zucchini") (CBS)

Children's Live Action Television

• CBS Schoolbreak Special ("The Day the Senior Class Got Married") (CBS)
• CBS Schoolbreak Special ("Contract for Life: The S.A.D.D. Story") (CBS)
• Pryor's Place ("Home Free") (CBS)

Special Award

• NBC White Paper ("Vietnam, Lessons of a Lost War") (NBC)

1987 (12th Humanitas Awards)

30 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

• The Cosby Show ("Denise's Friend") (NBC)
• The Cosby Show ("An Early Spring") (NBC)
• The Cosby Show ("Truth or Consequences") (NBC)
• Mr. Sunshine ("Pilot") (CBS)

60 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

• Cagney & Lacey ("Ordinary Hero") (CBS)
• Moonlighting ("Every Daughter's Father is a Virgin") (ABC)
• St. Elsewhere ("Sanctuary") (NBC)

90 Minute or Longer Network or Syndicated Television

• Do You Remember Love
  (CBS)
• Hallmark Hall of Fame ("Love Is Never Silent") (CBS)
• Love, Mary (CBS)

Children's Live Action Television

• ABC Afterschool Special ("No Greater Gift") (ABC)
• ABC Afterschool Special ("Don't Touch") (ABC)
• CBS Schoolbreak Special ("Have You Tried Talking to Patty?") (CBS)

Special Award

• CBS Reports ("The Vanishing Family: Crisis in Black America") (CBS)

1988 (13th Humanitas Awards)

30 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

• Kate & Allie ("Jennie & Jason") (CBS)
• The Cosby Show ("The March") (NBC)
• Family Ties ("My Back Pages") (NBC)

60 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

• Family Ties ("A, My Name is Alex"") (special two-part episode) (NBC)^[3]
• St. Elsewhere ("A Room With A View") (NBC)
• St. Elsewhere ("Where There's Hope, There's Crosby") (NBC)

90 Minute or Longer Network or Syndicated Television

• Hallmark Hall of Fame ("Promise") (CBS)
• Alex: The Life of a Child (ABC)
• Miles To Go... (CBS)

Children's Animation Television

• The Smurfs ("The Lure of the Orb") (NBC)
• The Berenstain Bears ("Forget Their Manners") (CBS)
• Galaxy High School ("The Brain Blaster") (CBS)

Children's Live Action Television

• CBS Schoolbreak Special ("The Day They Came To Arrest the Book") (CBS)
• ABC Afterschool Special ("Teen Father") (ABC)
• CBS Schoolbreak Special ("What If I'm Gay?") (CBS)

Special Award

• Mainstreet (NBC)

1989 (14th Humanitas Awards)

30 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

• Frank's Place ("The Bridge") (CBS)
• Kate & Allie ("Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?") (CBS)
• The Wonder Years ("Pilot") (ABC)

60 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

• thirtysomething
  ("Business As Usual") (ABC)
• Cagney & Lacey ("Don't I Know You") (CBS)
• Cagney & Lacey ("Turn, Turn, Turn: Part 2") (CBS)

90 Minute or Longer Network or Syndicated Television

• A Gathering of Old Men (CBS)
• Proud Men (ABC)

Children's Animation Television

• The Flintstone Kids ("Rocky's Rocky Road") (ABC)
• Jim Henson's Muppet Babies
  ("My Muppet Valentine") (CBS)
• Little Clowns of Happytown
  ("Goodbye Grandma") (ABC)

Children's Live Action Television

• ABC Afterschool Special ("The Kid Who Wouldn't Quit: The Brad Silverman Story") (ABC)
• ABC Afterschool Special ("Just a Regular Kid: An AIDS Story") (ABC)
• CBS Schoolbreak Special ("Never Say Goodbye") (CBS)

Special Award

• ABC News Closeup ("They Have Souls Too") (ABC)

1990s

1990 (15th Humanitas Awards)

30 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

• The Wonder Years ("Pottery Will Get You Nowhere") (ABC)
• Baby Boom
  ("Guilt") (NBC)

60 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

• China Beach ("Promised Land") (ABC)
• China Beach ("Lost and Found, Part 2") (ABC)
• thirtysomething
  ("Elliot's Dad") (ABC)
• thirtysomething
  ("In Re: The Marriage of Weston") (ABC)

90 Minute or Longer Network or Syndicated Television

• God Bless the Child (ABC)

Children's Animation Television

• The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh ("Find Her, Keep Her") (ABC)
• The Adventures of Raggedy Ann and Andy ("The Little Chicken Adventure") (CBS)
• The Chipmunks ("A Special Kind of Champion") (NBC)

Children's Live Action Television

• CBS Schoolbreak Special ("My Past Is My Own") (CBS)
• ABC Afterschool Special ("Date Rape") (ABC)
• ABC Afterschool Special ("Taking a Stand") (ABC)

Special Award

• Destined to Live (NBC)

1991 (16th Humanitas Awards)

30 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

• The Wonder Years ("Square Dance") (ABC)
• Why, Charlie Brown, Why? (CBS)
• The Wonder Years ("The Powers That Be") (ABC)

60 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

• thirtysomething
  ("The Other Shoe") (ABC)
• China Beach ("Dear China Beach") (ABC)
• China Beach ("How to Stay Alive in Vietnam Part 2") (ABC)

90 Minute or Longer Network or Syndicated Television

• Common Ground (CBS)
• Hallmark Hall of Fame ("My Name Is Bill W.") (CBS)
• No Place Like Home (CBS)

Children's Animation Television

• Dink, the Little Dinosaur ("Badge of Courage") (CBS)
• Dink, the Little Dinosaur ("Crusty's Baby") (CBS)
• Jim Henson's Muppet Babies
  ("Romancing the Weirdo") (CBS)

Children's Live Action Television

• ABC Afterschool Special ("A Town's Revenge") (ABC)
• CBS Schoolbreak Special ("American Eyes") (CBS)
• CBS Schoolbreak Special ("The Frog Girl: The Jenifer Graham Story") (CBS)

Special Award

• Raising Good Kids in Bad Times ("See Dick and Jane Lie, Cheat and Steal: Teaching Morality to Kids") (NBC)

1992 (17th Humanitas Awards)

30 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

• The Wonder Years ("Good-bye") (ABC)
• Doogie Howser, M.D. ("To Live and Die in Brentwood") (ABC)
• The Wonder Years ("The Ties That Bind") (ABC)

60 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

• thirtysomething
  ("Second Look") (ABC)
• China Beach ("One Small Step") (ABC)
• thirtysomething
  ("Fighting the Cold") (ABC)

90 Minute or Longer Network or Syndicated Television

• Lucky Day (ABC)
• Extreme Close-Up (NBC)
• Separate but Equal ("Parts I and II") (ABC)

Children's Animation Television

• Camp Candy ("Wish Upon a Fish") (NBC)
• Madeline's Christmas (The Family Channel)
• The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 ("True Colors") (NBC)

Children's Live Action Television

• CBS Schoolbreak Special ("Abby, My Love") (CBS)
• CBS Schoolbreak Special ("Lies of the Heart") (CBS)
• CBS Schoolbreak Special ("Malcolm Takes a Shot") (CBS)

PBS/Cable Television

• American Playhouse ("Three Hotels") (PBS)
• Sudie and Simpson (Lifetime)

Special Awards

• The Civil War
  (PBS)
• Over the Influence: Preventing Our Kids From Using Drugs and Alcohol (SYN)

1993 (18th Humanitas Awards)

30 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

• Brooklyn Bridge ("Boys of Summer") (CBS)
• Captain Planet and the Planeteers ("The Ark") (TBS)
• A Different World ("Mammy Dearest") (NBC)
• Roseanne
  ("This Old House") (ABC)
• The Wonder Years ("Hardware Store") (ABC)

60 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

• I'll Fly Away ("Amazing Grace") (NBC)
• Brooklyn Bridge ("When Irish Eyes Are Smiling") (CBS)
• I'll Fly Away ("Coming Home") (NBC)

90 Minute or Longer Network or Syndicated Television

• I'll Fly Away ("Pilot") (NBC)
• Broken Cord (ABC)
• China Beach ("Hello Goodbye") (ABC)

Children's Animation Television

• The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh ("Home is Where the Home Is") (ABC)
• Winnie the Pooh and Christmas Too (ABC)

Children's Live Action Television

• CBS Schoolbreak Special ("Dedicated to the One I Love") (CBS)
• CBS Schoolbreak Special ("Different Worlds: A Story of Interracial Love") (CBS)
• Saved by the Bell ("Home for Christmas, Part 2") (NBC)

PBS/Cable Television

• Wildflower (Lifetime)
• American Playhouse ("Darrow") (PBS)
• Mark Twain and Me (Disney Channel)

1994 (19th Humanitas Awards)

30 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

• Roseanne
  ("Terms of Estrangement, Part 2") (ABC)
• Roseanne
  ("Wait 'Til Your Father Gets Home") (ABC)
• The Wonder Years ("Nose") (ABC)

60 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

• I'll Fly Away ("Comfort and Joy") (NBC)
• Life Goes On ("Bedfellows") (ABC)
• TriBeCa ("The Box") (FOX)

90 Minute or Longer Network or Syndicated Television

• Hallmark Hall of Fame ("Miss Rose White") (NBC)
• For Their Own Good (ABC)
• Jonathan: The Boy Nobody Wanted (NBC)

Children's Animation Television

• The Legend of Prince Valiant ("The Flute") (The Family Channel)
• The Little Mermaid ("Eel-Ectric City") (CBS)
• The Little Mermaid ("Message in a Bottle") (CBS)

Children's Live Action Television

• CBS Schoolbreak Special ("Big Boys Don't Cry") (CBS)
• ABC Weekend Specials
  ("The Parsley Garden") (ABC)
• WonderWorks ("You Must Remember This") (PBS)

PBS/Cable Television

• Cooperstown (TBS)
• American Experience ("Simple Justice") (PBS)
• American Playhouse ("Mrs. Cage") (PBS)

Special Award

• Scared Silent: Exposing and Ending Child Abuse (SYN)

1995 (20th Humanitas Awards)

30 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

• Murphy Brown ("Reaper Madness") (CBS)
• Edith Ann: A Few Pieces of the Puzzle (ABC)
• Frasier ("The Good Son") (NBC)
• The John Larroquette Show ("Amends") (NBC)

60 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

• NYPD Blue ("Personal Foul") (ABC)
• Law & Order ("Sanctuary") (NBC)
• Picket Fences ("Abominable Snowman") (CBS)

90 Minute or Longer Network or Syndicated Television

• David's Mother (CBS)
• Out of Darkness (ABC)
• There Are No Children Here (ABC)

Children's Animation Television

• American Heroes and Legends ("Johnny Appleseed") (Showtime)
• Madeline ("Madeline and the 40 Thieves") (The Family Channel)
• Madeline ("Madeline and the Missing Clown") (The Family Channel)

Children's Live Action Television

• CBS Schoolbreak Special ("Love in the Dark Ages") (CBS)
• ABC Afterschool Special ("Montana Crossroads") (ABC)
• CBS Schoolbreak Special ("If I Die Before I Wake") (CBS)

PBS/Cable Television

• And the Band Played On (HBO)
• State of Emergency (HBO)
• Strapped (HBO)

Feature Film

• Schindler's List
• In the Name of the Father
• Searching For Bobby Fischer
• Shadowlands

1996 (21st Humanitas Awards)

30 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

• The John Larroquette Show ("Faith") (NBC)
• Blossom ("The Date") (NBC)
• Grace Under Fire ("Grace Under Water") (ABC)
• Roseanne
  ("White Men Can't Kiss") (ABC)

60 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

• Party of Five ("Thanksgiving") (FOX)
• Picket Fences ("Final Judgment") (CBS)
• Chicago Hope ("Shutt Down") (CBS)

90 Minute or Longer Network or Syndicated Television

• Hallmark Hall of Fame ("A Place for Annie") (ABC)
• Heart of a Child (NBC)
• The Other Woman (CBS)

Children's Animation Television

• Whitewash (HBO)
• Rugrats ("I Remember Melville") (Nickelodeon)
• ABC Weekend Specials
  ("The Secret Garden") (ABC)

Children's Live Action Television

• CBS Schoolbreak Special ("Between Mother and Daughter") (CBS)
• ABC Afterschool Special ("Boys Will Be Boys") (ABC)
• Adventures in Wonderland ("The Sound and the Furry") (The Disney Channel)

PBS/Cable Television

• The Burning Season (HBO)
• Lakota Woman: Siege at Wounded Knee (TNT)
• On Promised Land (The Disney Channel)

Feature Film

• The Shawshank Redemption
• Forrest Gump
• Nobody's Fool

Special Award

• What Can We Do About Violence? (PBS)

1997 (22nd Humanitas Awards)

30 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

• Frasier ("Breaking the Ice") (NBC)
• Grace Under Fire ("No Help Wanted") (ABC)
• Home Improvement ("The Longest Day") (ABC)

60 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

• Picket Fences ("Saint Zack") (CBS)
• ER ("The Healers") (NBC)
• Homicide: Life on the Street ("A Doll's Eyes") (NBC)
• Party of Five ("Before & After") (FOX)

90 Minute or Longer Network or Syndicated Television

• Gulliver's Travels (NBC)
• Hallmark Hall of Fame ("The Boys Next Door") (CBS)
• Hallmark Hall of Fame ("Journey") (CBS)

Children's Animation Television

• Life with Louie ("Raindrops Keep Falling On My Bed") (FOX)
• The New Adventures of Madeline ("Madeline and the Treasure Hunt") (ABC)
• Santo Bugito ("The Carnivore Kid") (CBS)

Children's Live Action Television

• ABC Afterschool Special ("Fast Forward") (ABC)
• ABC Afterschool Special ("Educating Mom") (ABC)
• ABC Weekend Special ("The Secret of Lizard Woman") (ABC)

PBS/Cable Television

• Hiroshima (Showtime)
• Andersonville ("Part II") (TNT)
• A Mother's Prayer (USA)

Feature Film

• Dead Man Walking
• Babe
• A Family Thing

1998 (23rd Humanitas Awards)

30 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

• Something So Right ("Something About An Older Guy") (NBC)
• Grace Under Fire ("Pills") (ABC)
• Roseanne
  ("The Miracle") (ABC)

60 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

• NYPD Blue ("Taillight's Last Gleaming") (ABC)
• Chicago Hope ("The Parent Rap") (CBS)
• Chicago Hope ("A Time to Kill") (CBS)

90 Minute or Longer Network or Syndicated Television

• Hallmark Hall of Fame ("Old Man") (CBS)
• ...First Do No Harm (ABC)
• Hallmark Hall of Fame ("The Summer of Ben Tyler") (CBS)

Children's Animation Television

• Life with Louie ("The Thank You Note") (FOX)
• Little Bear ("Little Bear's Surprise") (Nickelodeon)
• Timon and Pumbaa
  ("Once Upon a Timon") (CBS)

Children's Live Action Television

• Lifestories: Families in Crisis ("Someone Had To Be Benny") (HBO)
• Sesame Street ("Miles' Family Reunion") (PBS)
• Shari's Passover Surprise (PBS)

PBS/Cable Television

• Miss Evers' Boys (HBO)
• Crime of the Century (HBO)
• The Twilight of the Golds (Showtime)

Feature Film

• Secrets & Lies
• Jerry Maguire
• Shine

1999 (24th Humanitas Awards)

30 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

• Murphy Brown ("Turpis Capillis Annus (Bad Hair Year)") (CBS)
• Foto-Novelas ("The Fix") (PBS)
• Frasier ("The Kid") (NBC)

60 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

• Nothing Sacred ("Proofs for the Existence of God") (ABC)
• ER ("Family Practice") (NBC)
• Homicide: Life on the Street ("Mercy") (NBC)

90 Minute or Longer Network or Syndicated Television

• Wonderful World of Disney ("Ruby Bridges
  ") (ABC)
• NYPD Blue ("Lost Israel: Part 2") (ABC)
• The Staircase (CBS)

Children's Animation Television

• Life with Louie ("Blinded By Love") (FOX)
• Life with Louie ("Family Portrait") (FOX)
• Rugrats ("Mother's Day") (Nickelodeon)

Children's Live Action Television

• Smudge (TNT)
• Saved by the Bell: The New Class ("Putting Up Walls") (NBC)
• Shaquille O'Neal's Sports Theater ("First Time") (Nickelodeon)

PBS/Cable Television

• George Wallace ("Part II") (TNT)
• Clover (USA)
• Mother Teresa: In the Name of God's Poor (The Family Channel)

Feature Film

• Good Will Hunting (Matt Damon and Ben Affleck)
• Contact
• The Education of Little Tree

2000s

2000 (25th Humanitas Awards)

30 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

• Sports Night ("The Six Southern Gentlemen of Tennessee") (ABC)
• Everybody Loves Raymond ("Frank's Tribute") (CBS)
• Sports Night ("The Quality of Mercy at 29K") (ABC)

60 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

• Homicide: Life on the Street ("Shades of Gray") (NBC)
• JAG ("Angels 30") (CBS)
• NYPD Blue ("Raging Bulls") (ABC)
• Rescuers: Stories of Courage ("Aart and Johtje Vos") (Showtime)

90 Minute or Longer Network or Syndicated Television

• NYPD Blue ("Hearts and Souls") (ABC)
• Mama Flora's Family ("Part II") (CBS)
• Selma, Lord, Selma (ABC)

Children's Animation Television

• Rugrats ("Hand Me Downs") (Nickelodeon)
• Pocket Dragon Adventures ("Festival of Lights") (SYN)
• Rugrats ("Autumn Leaves") (Nickelodeon)

Children's Live Action Television

• The Artists' Specials ("Degas and the Dancer") (HBO)
• City Guys ("Gift of Friendship") (NBC)

PBS/Cable Television

• Thanks of a Grateful Nation (Showtime)
• Passing Glory (TNT)
• Thicker Than Blood (TNT)

Feature Film

• October Sky
• A Civil Action
• Saving Private Ryan

2001 (26th Humanitas Awards)

30 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

• Frasier ("Something About Dr. Mary") (NBC)
• 3rd Rock from the Sun ("Dick, Who's Coming To Dinner") (NBC)
• Smart Guy ("Never Too Young") (The WB)

60 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

• The West Wing
  ("Take This Sabbath Day") (NBC)
• Once and Again ("Strangers and Brothers") (ABC)
• In Excelsis Deo
  ") (NBC)

90 Minute or Longer Network or Syndicated Television

• Tuesdays with Morrie (ABC)
• Anya's Bell (CBS)
• Joan of Arc ("Part II") (CBS)

Children's Animation Television

• Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child ("The Sissy Duckling") (HBO)
• Recess ("A Science Fair to Remember") (ABC)
• Mythic Warriors ("Cadmus & Europa") (CBS)

Children's Live Action Television

• The Color of Friendship (Disney Channel)
• Caitlin's Way ("Stray") (Nickelodeon)
• Johnny Tsunami (Disney Channel)

PBS/Cable Television

• A Lesson Before Dying (HBO)
• Dash and Lilly (A&E)
• Freedom Song (TNT)

Feature Film

• The Insider
• The End of the Affair
• The Straight Story

Sundance Feature Film

• Love and Basketball
• The Big Kahuna
• What's Cooking?

2002 (27th Humanitas Awards)

30 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

• Everybody Loves Raymond ("Ray's Journal") (CBS)
• Frasier ("Something About Dr. Mary") (NBC)
• Malcolm in the Middle ("Traffic Ticket") (FOX)

60 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

• Once and Again ("Food for Thought") (ABC)
• ER ("A Walk in the Woods") (NBC)
• Gideon's Crossing ("The Lottery") (ABC)
• Third Watch ("After Hours") (NBC)

90 Minute or Longer Network or Syndicated Television

• Haven ("Part II") (CBS)
• Jesus ("Part II") (CBS)
• Jewel (CBS)

Children's Animation Television

• Clifford the Big Red Dog ("A New Friend") (PBS)
• Madeline ("Madeline and the Giants") (Disney Channel)
• Rocket Power ("Radical New Equipment") (Nickelodeon)

Children's Live Action Television

• Miracle in Lane 2 (Disney Channel)
• The Famous Jett Jackson ("Lost and Found") (Disney Channel)
• The Sandy Bottom Orchestra (Showtime)

PBS/Cable Television

• Wit (HBO)
• Boycott (HBO)
• What Makes a Family (Lifetime)

Feature Film

• You Can Count on Me
• Billy Elliot
• Traffic

Sundance Feature Film

• Green Dragon
• The Believer
• Dancing in September

2003 (28th Humanitas Awards)

30 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

• Scrubs ("My Old Lady") (NBC)
• State of Grace ("Looking for God in All the Right Places") (FOX Family)
• State of Grace ("Love, Love, Me Do") (FOX Family)

60 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

• The Practice
  ("Honor Code") (ABC)
• The West Wing
  ("Two Cathedrals") (NBC)
• Band of Brothers
  ("Bastogne") (HBO)

90 Minute or Longer Network or Syndicated Television

• Anne Frank: The Whole Story (ABC)
• Crossed Over (CBS)
• The Rosa Parks Story (CBS)

Children's Animation Television

• Balto II: Wolf Quest
• Arthur ("The Boy With His Head in the Clouds") (PBS)
• Harold and the Purple Crayon ("Harold's Birthday Gift") (HBO)

Children's Live Action Television

• My Louisiana Sky (Showtime)
• The Brothers Garcia ("The Student Buddy") (Nickelodeon)

PBS/Cable Television

• The Laramie Project (HBO)
• Sins of the Father (FX)
• Within These Walls (Lifetime)

Feature Film

• Iris
• A Beautiful Mind
• I Am Sam

Sundance Feature Film

• Real Women Have Curves
• Australian Rules
• Her Majesty

2004 (29th Humanitas Awards)

30 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

• The Bernie Mac Show ("Sweet Home Chicago Part 2") (FOX)
• The Bernie Mac Show ("Sweet Home Chicago Part 1") (FOX)
• Frasier ("Rooms With A View") (NBC)

60 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

• The Practice
  ("Final Judgment") (ABC)
• Boomtown ("Fearless") (NBC)
• On the Beach
  ") (NBC)
• Without a Trace ("In Extremis") (CBS)

90 Minute or Longer Network or Syndicated Television

• Our America (Showtime)
• Door To Door (TNT)
• Path to War (HBO)

Children's Animation Television

• Static Shock ("Jimmy") (The WB)
• Liberty's Kids ("Common Sense") (PBS)
• Liberty's Kids ("Liberty or Death") (PBS)

Children's Live Action Television

• A Ring of Endless Light (Disney Channel)
• Maniac Magee (Nickelodeon)
• You Wish! (Disney Channel)

Feature Film

• Antwone Fisher
• About a Boy
• The Pianist

Sundance Feature Film

• Whale Rider
• In America
• Pieces of April
• Raising Victor Vargas

2005 (30th Humanitas Awards)

30 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

• The Bernie Mac Show ("Saving Sergeant Tompkins") (FOX)
• The Bernie Mac Show ("Eye of the Tiger") (FOX)
• My Screwup
  ") (NBC)

60 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

• Joan of Arcadia ("Pilot") (CBS)
• On the Beach
  ") (NBC)
• Joan of Arcadia ("The Uncertainty Principle") (CBS)

90 Minute or Longer Network or Syndicated Television

• Angels In America
  (HBO)
• Iron Jawed Angels (HBO)
• Jasper, Texas (Showtime)

Children's Animation Television

• Little Bill ("I Can Sign/The Sign for Friend") (Nickelodeon)
• Arthur ("Big Horns George") (PBS)
• Little Bill ("A Ramp for Monty") (Nickelodeon)

Children's Live Action Television

• Crown Heights (Showtime)
• Full-Court Miracle (Disney Channel)
• Going to the Mat (Disney Channel)

Feature Film

• Dirty Pretty Things
• Finding Nemo
• Seabiscuit

Sundance Feature Film

• Mean Creek
• Garden State
• The Woodsman

2006 (31st Humanitas Awards)

60 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

• The West Wing
  ("NSF Thurmont") (NBC)
• ER ("Alone in a Crowd") (NBC)
• House ("Damned If You Do") (FOX)
• Everybody Lies
  ") (FOX)

90 Minute or Longer Network or Syndicated Television

• Lackawanna Blues (HBO)
• Ike: Countdown to D-Day (A&E)
• Saving Milly (CBS)

Children's Animation Television

• Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks ("Waking Thor") (PBS)
• PAZ ("Things Change") (Discovery Kids/TLC)
• Toddworld
  ("Who's Your Best Friend?") (Discovery Kids/TLC)

Children's Live Action Television

• Searching for David's Heart (ABC Family)
• Buffalo Dreams (Disney Channel)
• Carry Me Home (Showtime)

Feature Film

• Hotel Rwanda
• Finding Neverland
• Millions

Sundance Feature Film

• The Motel
• Love, Ludlow
• Swimmers

2007 (32nd Humanitas Awards)

30 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

• My Name Is Earl ("Pilot") (NBC)
• George Lopez ("The Kidney Stays In The Picture") (ABC)
• Scrubs ("My Way Home") (NBC)

60 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

• House ("Three Stories") (FOX)
• ER ("Darfur") (NBC)
• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit ("Ripped") (NBC)

90 Minute or Longer Network or Syndicated Television

• The Girl in the Café (HBO)
• The Colt (Hallmark)
• Warm Springs (HBO)

Children's Animation Television

• Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Friends ("A Froggy Day In Sunny Patch") (Nickelodeon)
• Maya & Miguel ("Miguel's Wonderful Life") (PBS)
• ToddWorld ("Benny's Missing Chew Toy") (TLC)

Children's Live Action Television

• Edge of America (Showtime)
• Felicity: An American Girl Adventure (The WB)
• High School Musical (Disney Channel)

Feature Film

• Crash
• The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
• Glory Road

Sundance Feature Film

• Quinceanera
• Punching at the Sun
• Wristcutters: A Love Story

2008 (33rd Humanitas Awards)

30 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

• The New Adventures of Old Christine ("Oh God, Yes") (CBS)
• Scrubs ("My Fallen Idol") (NBC)
• The War at Home ("Kenny Doesn't Live Here Anymore") (FOX)

60 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

• ER ("There Are No Angels Here") (NBC)
• House ("House vs. God") (FOX)
• The West Wing
  ("Election Day Part 2") (NBC)

90 Minute or Longer Network or Syndicated Television

• Longford (HBO)
• Tsunami: The Aftermath ("Part II") (HBO)
• Why I Wore Lipstick to My Mastectomy (Lifetime)

Children's Animation Television

• Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks ("The Gift") (PBS)
• Maya & Miguel ("Give Me A Little Sign") (PBS)
• Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Friends ("The Prince, The Princess And The Bee") (Nickelodeon)

Children's Live Action Television

• Molly: An American Girl on the Home Front (Disney Channel)
• Jump In! (Disney Channel)

Feature Film

• Freedom Writers
• Venus
• Amazing Grace

Sundance Feature Film

• Where God Left His Shoes
• Ezra
• Waitress

2009 (34th Humanitas Awards)

30 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

• Scrubs ("My Long Goodbye") (NBC)
• The Bill Engvall Show ("Aloha, Raffles") (TBS)
• In Treatment
  ("Sophie: Week Two") (HBO)

60 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

• John Adams ("Join or Die") (HBO)
• Boston Legal ("Roe V. Wade: The Musical") (ABC)
• The Wire ("Late Editions") (HBO)

90 Minute or Longer Network or Syndicated Television

• Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee (HBO)
• Charlie & Me (Hallmark)
• Hallmark Hall of Fame ("Pictures of Hollis Woods") (CBS)
• A Life Interrupted (Lifetime)

Children's Animation Television

• My Friends Tigger & Pooh ("Eeyore's Sad Day") (Disney Channel)
• Sweet Blackberry Presents ("The Journey of Henry Box Brown") (HBO)
• ToddWorld ("Come Out Of Your Shell") (TLC)

Children's Live Action Television

• Johnny Kapahala: Back on Board (Disney Channel)
• Minutemen (Disney Channel)
• Sheira & Loli's Dittydoodle Works ("Sacrifice") (WLIW)

Feature Film

• The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
• Lars and the Real Girl
• Juno

Sundance Feature Film

• A Raisin in the Sun
• Henry Poole Is Here
• The Visitor

2010s

2010 (35th Humanitas Awards)

30 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

• Scrubs ("My Last Words") (ABC)
• 30 Rock ("Believe in the Stars") (NBC)
• Happily Ever After
  ") (CBS)
• The Simpsons ("All About Lisa") (FOX)

60 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

• Friday Night Lights ("Tomorrow Blues") (NBC)
• ER ("Heal Thyself") (NBC)
• Unfaithful
  ") (FOX)
• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit ("Swing") (NBC)

90 Minute or Longer Network or Syndicated Television

• Taking Chance (HBO)
• Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story (TNT)
• Pedro (MTV)

Children's Live Action Television

• South of Nowhere ("Spencer's 18th Birthday") (The N)
• True Jackson, VP ("The Rival") (Nickelodeon)
• True Jackson, VP ("Pilot") (Nickelodeon)

Feature Film

• WALL-E
• Doubt
• Milk
• The Secret Life of Bees
• Slumdog Millionaire

Sundance Feature Film

• Amreeka
• The Anarchist's Wife
• The Greatest

2011 (36th Humanitas Awards)

30 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

• Modern Family ("Pilot") (ABC)
• Nurse Jackie ("Pilot") (Showtime)
• Meet the Browns ("Meet The Racist") (TBS)
• The Middle ("The Block Party") (ABC)
• The Simpsons ("The Greatest Story Ever D'ohed") (FOX)

60 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

• Glee ("Wheels") (FOX)
• The Good Wife ("Pilot") (CBS)
• Breaking Bad ("Peekaboo") (AMC)
• Grey's Anatomy ("Give Peace a Chance") (ABC)
• In Treatment
  ("Walter: Week Six") (HBO)
• Men of a Certain Age ("Father's Fraternity") (TNT)

90 Minute or Longer Network or Syndicated Television

• Temple Grandin (HBO)
• Amish Grace (Lifetime)
• Endgame (PBS)

Documentary Award

• A Small Act (HBO)
• Freedom Riders (PBS)
• Waste Land

Feature Film

• Precious
• The Hurt Locker
• The Little Traitor
• The Messenger

Sundance Feature Film

• Winter's Bone
• The Kids Are All Right
• Night Catches Us

2012 (37th Humanitas Awards)

30 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

• Modern Family ("The Kiss") (ABC)
• The Big C ("Taking The Plunge") (Showtime)
• How I Met Your Mother ("Last Words") (CBS)
• Nurse Jackie ("Monkey Bits") (Showtime)

60 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

• Friday Night Lights ("Always") (NBC)
• Drop Dead Diva ("Good Grief") (Lifetime)
• House ("Help Me") (FOX)
• The Pacific
  ("Home") (HBO)

90 Minute or Longer Network or Syndicated Television

• Thurgood (HBO)
• Reviving Ophelia
  (Lifetime)
• Taken From Me: The Tiffany Rubin Story (Lifetime)

Children's Animation Television

• Kung Fu Panda Holiday Special
  (NBC)

Documentary Award

• Louder Than a Bomb
• Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey
• Neshoba

Feature Film

• The King's Speech
• 127 Hours
• The Fighter

Sundance Feature Film

• Win Win
• Gun Hill Road
• Meek's Cutoff

2013 (38th Humanitas Awards)

30 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

• Modern Family ("Aunt Mommy") (ABC)
• The Big C ("A Little Death") (Showtime)
• The Middle ("The Map") (ABC)

60 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

• Grey's Anatomy ("White Wedding") (ABC)
• Rescue Me
  ("Ashes") (FX)
• Blue Bloods ("The Job") (HBO)
• Parenthood ("Remember Me? I'm The One Who Loves You") (NBC)

90 Minute or Longer Network or Syndicated Television

• Cinema Verite
  (HBO)
• Hallmark Hall of Fame ("Beyond the Blackboard") (CBS)
• Hallmark Hall of Fame ("Have a Little Faith") (ABC)

Children's Animation Television

• Pound Puppies ("I Never Barked For My Father") (The Hub)

Children's Live Action Television

• Radio Rebel (Disney Channel)

Documentary Award

• I Am
• Serving Life (OWN)
• Buck
• Crime After Crime

Feature Film

• The Conspirator
• The Descendants
• Hugo
• Shame

Sundance Feature Film

• Beasts of the Southern Wild
• LUV
• Middle of Nowhere

2014 (39th Humanitas Awards)

30 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

• Modern Family ("Party Crasher") (ABC)
• The New Normal ("The Godparent Trap") (NBC)
• Nurse Jackie ("Disneyland Sucks") (Showtime)

60 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

• Bones ("The Patriot In Purgatory") (FOX)
• House ("Everybody Dies") (FOX)
• Monday Mornings ("Truth Or Consequences") (TNT)

90 Minute or Longer Network or Syndicated Television

• Hallmark Hall of Fame ("Firelight") (ABC)
• Abducted: The Carlina White Story (Lifetime)
• Betty and Coretta (Lifetime)

Children's Live Action Television

• Let It Shine (Disney Channel)

Documentary Award

• Ethel
• Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God (HBO)
• Project Nim

Feature Film

• Silver Linings Playbook
• Django Unchained
• Flight

Sundance Feature Film

• Fruitvale Station
• The Inevitable Defeat of Mister & Pete
• Mud

2015 (40th Humanitas Awards)

30 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

• Modern Family ("Under Pressure") (ABC)
• How I Met Your Mother ("Last Forever" Part 2) (CBS)
• The Middle ("Happy Halloween IV: The Ghost Story") (ABC)

60 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

• Homeland ("The Star") (Showtime)
• Parenthood ("The Pontiac") (NBC)
• The Killing
  ("Six Minutes") (AMC)
• True Detective ("Form and Void") (HBO)

90 Minute or Longer Network or Syndicated Television

• The Normal Heart (HBO)
• Mary And Martha (HBO)
• Ring Of Fire (Lifetime)

Documentary Award

• The Case Against 8
• Finding Vivian Maier
• Merchants Of Doubt

Feature Film

• 12 Years A Slave
• Belle
• Nebraska

Sundance Feature Film

• Whiplash
• Hellion
• Love Is Strange
• Camp X-Ray

2016 (41st Humanitas Awards)

30 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

• The Middle ("The Graduate") (ABC)
• Blackish
  ("Please Don't Ask, Please Don't Tell") (ABC)
• Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt ("Kimmy Goes Outside!") (Netflix)

60 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

• Orange Is the New Black ("Trust No Bitch") (Netflix)
• Madam Secretary ("Face the Nation") (CBS)
• The Affair ("Pilot") (Showtime)

Children's Animation Television

• Arthur ("The Tardy Tumbler") (PBS)

Children's Live Action Television

• Gortimer Gibbon's Life on Normal Street ("Gortimer and the Surprise Signature") (Amazon)
• Gortimer Gibbon's Life on Normal Street ("Ranger and the Legend of Pendragon's Gavel") (Amazon)
• Liv and Maddie ("Rate-A-Rooney") (Disney Channel)

Documentary Award

• Landfill Harmonic
• Citizenfour
• Southern Rites

Feature Film

• Still Alice
• Testament of Youth
• The Good Lie

Sundance Feature Film

• Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
• Dope
• Experimenter

2017 (42nd Humanitas Awards)

30 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

• Black-ish ("Hope") (ABC)
• The Real O'Neals ("The Real Grandma") (ABC)
• Grace and Frankie ("The Party") (Netflix)

60 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

• This Is Us
  ("Pilot") (NBC)
• The Night Of ("The Call of the Wild") (HBO)
• Madam Secretary ("Waiting For Taleju") (CBS)

Children's Animation Television

• Sofia the First ("Dads and Daughters Day") (Disney Junior)
• Nina's World ("Nina's Brother for a Day") (Universal Kids)
• The Lion Guard ("Never Judge a Hyena by its Spots") (Disney Channel)

Children's Live Action

• An American Girl Story – Melody 1963: Love Has to Win (TV movie) (Amazon Studios)
• Degrassi: Next Class (""#TurntUp"") (Family Channel)
• Girl Meets World ("Girl Meets the Forgiveness Project") (Disney Channel)

Documentary Award

• 13th (shared)
• Jim: The James Foley Story (shared)
• 120 Days

Feature Film

• Hidden Figures (shared)
• Hacksaw Ridge (shared)
• Arrival

Sundance Feature Film

• The Birth of a Nation
• First Girl I Loved
• The Fundamentals of Caring
• Tallulah

2018 (43rd Humanitas Awards)

For the 2018 awards, feature films were separated into three categories.^[4][5]

30 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

• The Big Bang Theory ("The Long Distance Dissonance") (CBS)
• Black-ish ("Lemons") (ABC)
• Will & Grace ("Grandpa Jack") (NBC)

60 Minute Network or Syndicated Television

• The Good Doctor ("Burnt Food") (ABC)
• Game of Thrones ("The Dragon and the Wolf") (HBO)
• Madam Secretary ("Good Bones") (CBS)

Children's Animation

• Doc McStuffins ("Hannah the Brave") (Disney Junior)
• Sofia the First ("The Crown of Blossoms") (Disney Channel)
• Splash and Bubbles (PBS Kids)

Children's Live Action

• Degrassi: Next Class ("#ImSleep") (Family Channel / Netflix)
• An American Girl Story – Ivy & Julie 1976: A Happy Balance
  (TV movie)
• Sesame Street ("The Magical Wand Chase: A Sesame Street Special") (PBS / HBO)

Documentary Award

• Cries from Syria
• One of Us
• Human Flow
• Hearing Is Believing

Feature Film, Drama

• Mudbound (shared)
• The Post (shared)
• Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Feature Film, Comedy

• Lady Bird
• The Big Sick
• The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)

Feature Film, Family

• Ferdinand
• Coco
• The Breadwinner

Sundance Feature Film

• Crown Heights^[6]
• Gook
• Novitiate

2019 (44th Humanitas Awards)

Nominees were announced on 27 November 2018, and the prizes were awarded in 2019.^[7]

30-Minute Comedy

• Dear White People ("Volume 2, Chapter VIII") (Netflix) (shared)
• The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel ("Mid-way to Mid-town") (Amazon Prime) (shared)
• One Day at a Time ("Hello, Penelope") (Netflix)
• Jeremy Bearimy
  ") (Netflix)