HUMANITAS PRIZE NOMINEES
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Humanitas Prizes in Feature Film began to be awarded in Drama, Comedy, and Family starting in 2018.
2025 PETER STRAUGHAN: Conclave (Drama Feature)
2025 RAMELL ROSS, JOSLYN BARNES: Nickel Boys (Drama Feature)
2025 SEAN WANG: DÌDI (弟弟) (Comedy Feature)
2025 MEGAN PARK: My Old Ass (Comedy Feature)
2025 DANIEL STIEPLEMAN: Out of My Mind (Family Feature)
2025 CHRIS SANDERS: The Wild Robot (Family Feature)
2024 ANDREW HAIGH:All of Us Strangers (Drama Feature)
2024 J.A. BAYONA, BERNAT VILAPLANA, JAIME MARQUES-OLARREAGA, NICOLÁS CASARIEGO:Society of the Snow (Drama Feature)
2024 LAURA CHINN:Suncoast (Drama Feature)
2024 CORD JEFFERSON:American Fiction (Comedy Feature)
2024 JOHN CARNEY:Flora and Son (Comedy Feature)
2024 DAVID HEMINGSON:The Holdovers (Comedy Feature)
2024 JOHN HOBERG, KAT LIKKEL, BRENDA HSUEH:Elemental (Family Feature)
2024 BILLY LUTHER:Frybread Face and Me (Family Feature)
2024 BETTINA GILOIS, HERNÁN JIMÉNEZ, ALEJANDRA MÁRQUEZ ABELLA:A Million Miles Away (Family Feature)
2023 REBECCA LENKIEWICZ: She Said (Drama Feature)
2023 MICHAEL REILLY & KEITH BEAUCHAMP and CHINONYE CHUKWU: Till (Drama Feature)
2023 PETER FARRELLY & BRIAN CURRIE & PETE JONES: The Greatest Beer Run Ever (Comedy Feature)
2023 MARK RIZZO: Champions (Comedy Feature)
2023 TOM HUANG: Dealing with Dad (Comedy Feature)
2023 PAUL FISHER and TOMMY SWERDLOW: Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (Family Feature)
2023 DAVID HUDGINS: Gigi & Nate (Family Feature)
2022 ASGHAR FARHADI: A Hero (Drama Feature)
2022 SIÂN HEDER:CODA (Drama Feature)
2022 EDSON ODA:Nine Days (Drama Feature)
2022 DANIEL KWAN & DANIEL SCHEINERT:Everything Everywhere All At Once (Comedy Feature)
2022 DONALD MARTIN:Queen Bees (Comedy Feature)
2022 KEVIN JAKUBOWSKI:8-Bit Christmas (Family Feature)
2022 KAY CANNON:Cinderella (Family Feature)
2022 CARLEY STEINER AND JOSH A. CAGAN:Spin (Family Feature)
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and public health conditions in LA County, the Humanitas Prizes were not presented in 2021.
2020 TERRENCE MALICK: A Hidden Life (Drama Feature)
2020 MARIO CORREA and MATTHEW MICHAEL CARNAHAN: Dark Waters (Drama Feature)
2020 CHARLES RANDOLF:Bombshell (Drama Feature)
2020 LULU WANG:The Farewell (Comedy Feature)
2020 RICHARD CURTIS (story by JACK BARTH, RICHARD CURTIS):Yesterday (Comedy Feature)
2020 SCOTT Z. BURNS:The Laundromat (Comedy Feature)
2020 TYLER NILSON & MICHAEL SCHWARTZ:The Peanut Butter Falcon (Family Feature)
2020 ANDREW STANTON and STEPHANY FOLSOM (story by JOHN LASSETER, ANDREW STANTON, JOSH COOLEY, VALERIE LAPOINTE, RASHIDA JONES & WILL MCCORMACK, MARTIN HAYNES AND STEPHANY FOLSOM): Toy Story 4 (Family Feature)
2020 SERGIO PABLOS, JIM MAHONEY, ZACH LEWIS (story by SERGIO PABLOS): Klaus (Family Feature)
2019 RYAN COOGLER & JOE ROBERT COLE: Black Panther (Drama Feature)
2019 JOEL EDGERTON: Boy Erased (Drama Feature)
2019 ELIZABETH CHOMKO:What They Had (Drama Feature)
2019 SHANA FESTE: Boundaries (Comedy Feature)
2019 PETER CHIARELLI and ADELE LIM: Crazy Rich Asians (Comedy Feature)
2019 BO BURNHAM: Eighth Grade (Comedy Feature)
2019 ALEX ROSS PERRY and TOM MCCARTHY and ALLISON SCHROEDER (story by GREG BROOKER and MARK STEVEN JOHNSON): Christopher Robin (Family Feature)
2019 BRAD BIRD:Incredibles 2 (Family Feature)
2019 WES ANDERSON (story by WES ANDERSON, ROMAN COPPOLA, JASON SCHWARTZMAN, and KUNICHI NOMURA): Isle of Dogs (Family Feature)
2018 MARTIN MCDONAGH: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (Drama Feature)
2018 EMILY V. GORDON & KUMAIL NANJIANI: The Big Sick (Comedy Feature)
2018 NOAH BAUMBACH: The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) (Comedy Feature)
2018 ADRIAN MOLINA and MATTHEW ALDRICH (story by LEE UNKRICH, JASON KATZ, MATTHEW ALDRICH, ADRIAN MOLINA):Coco (Family Feature)
2018 ANITA DORON (story by DEBORAH ELLIS): The Breadwinner (Family Feature)
2017 ERIC HEISSERER: Arrival
2016 JULIET TOWHIDI: Testament of Youth
2016 MARGARET NAGEL: The Good Lie
2015 MISAN SAGAY: Belle
2015 BOB NELSON:Nebraska
2014 The Humanitas Prizes were not presented in 2014.
2013 QUENTIN TARANTINO: Django Unchained
2013 JOHN GATINS: Flight
2012 ALEXANDER PAYNE, JIM RASH & NAT FAXON: The Descendants
2012 JOHN LOGAN: Hugo
2012 STEVE MCQUEEN and ABI MORGAN: Shame
2011 DANNY BOYLE & SIMON BEAUFOY: 127 Hours
2011 SCOTT SILVER, PAUL TAMASY & ERIC JOHNSON: The Fighter
2010 MARK BOAL: The Hurt Locker
2010 LYNN ROTH: The Little Traitor
2010 ALESSANDRO CAMON & OREN MOVERMAN: The Messenger
2009 JOHN PATRICK SHANLEY: Doubt
2009 DUSTIN LANCE BLACK: Milk
2009 GINA PRINCE-BYTHEWOOD: The Secret Life of Bees
2009 SIMON BEAUFOY: Slumdog Millionaire
2008 DIABLO CODY: Juno
2007 STEVEN KNIGHT: Amazing Grace
2006 ANN PEACOCK and ANDREW ADAMSON and CHRISTOPHER MARKUS & STEPHEN MCFEELY: The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe
2006 CHRISTOPHER CLEVELAND & BETTINA GILOIS: Glory Road
2005 DAVID MAGEE: Finding Neverland
2005 FRANK COTTRELL BOYCE: Millions
2004 ANDREW STANTON & BOB PETERSON & DAVID REYNOLDS: Finding Nemo
2004 GARY ROSS: Seabiscuit
2003 PETER HEDGES and CHRIS WEITZ & PAUL WEITZ: About A Boy
2003 RONALD HARWOOD: The Pianist
2002 AKIVA GOLDSMAN: A Beautiful Mind
2002 KRISTINE JOHNSON & JESSIE NELSON: I Am Sam
2001 LEE HALL: Billy Elliot
2001 STEPHEN GAGHAN: Traffic (USA Films)
2000 NEIL JORDAN: The End of the Affair
2000 JOHN ROACH & MARY SWEENEY: The Straight Story
1999 STEVEN ZAILLIAN: A Civil Action
1999 ROBERT RODAT: Saving Private Ryan
1998 JAMES V. HART and MICHAEL GOLDENBERG: Contact
1998 RICHARD FRIEDENBERG: The Education of Little Tree
1997 CAMERON CROWE: Jerry Maguire
1997 JAN SARD (story by SCOTT HICKS): Shine
1996 GEORGE MILLER & CHRIS NOONAN: Babe
1996 BILLY BOB THORNTON & TOM EPPERSON: A Family Thing
1995 ERIC ROTH: Forrest Gump
1995 ROBERT BENTON: Nobody's Fool
1994 JERRY GEORGE & JIM SHERIDAN: In the Name of the Father
1994 STEVEN ZAILLIAN: Searching for Bobby Fischer
1994 WILLIAM NICHOLSON: Shadowlands
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2025 SIMRAN BAIDWAN, SHANTIRA JACKSON: Clean Slate, "Chrome Jesus"
2025 MICHAEL SCHUR: A Man on the Inside, "Tinker Tailor Older Spy"
2025 ALEX GREGORY: The Studio, "Casting"
2024 MYLES WARDEN, CAPRI SAMPSON: Act Your Age, “Snip Snip”
2024 MEREDITH SCARDINO, JANINE BRITO: Girls5eva, “Bomont”
2024 CESAR MAZARIEGOS: The Simpsons, ”Night of the Living Wage”
2023 FRANCESCA SLOANE & KAREN JOESPH ADCOCK: Atlanta, "The Goof Who Sat by the Door"
2023 STERLIN HARJO & KAWENNÁHERE DEVERY JACOBS: Reservation Dogs, "Mabel"
2023 GARRETT WERNER: Abbott Elementary, "Read-A-Thon"
2022 QUINTA BRUNSON: Abbott Elementary, “Pilot”
2022 HANNAH BOS & PAUL THUREEN: Somebody Somewhere, “BFD”
2022 LECY GORANSON: The Conners, “Triggered”
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and public health conditions in LA County, the Humanitas Prizes were not presented in 2021.
2020 AIDY BRYANT & ALEXANDRA RUSHFIELD & LINDY WEST: Shrill, "Annie"
2020 PETER SAJI: Black-ish, "Black Like Us"
2020 ROBIA RASHID: Atypical, "Road Rage Paige"
2019 MICHELLE BADILLO & CAROLINE LEVICH: One Day at a Time, "Hello, Penelope"
2019 MEGAN AMRAM: The Good Place, "Jeremy Bearimy"
2018 KENYA BARRIS: black-ish, "Lemons"
2018 ALEX HERSCHLAG: Will & Grace, "Grandpa Jack"
2017 CHERYL HOLLIDAY: The Real O'Neals, "The Real Grandma"
2017 ALEXA JUNGE: Grace and Frankie, "The Party"
2016 PETER SAJI: black-ish, "Please Don't Ask, Please Don't Tell"
2016 ROBERT CARLOCK & TINA FEY: Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, "Kimmy Goes Outside!"
2015 CARTER BAYS & CRAIG THOMAS: How I Met Your Mother, "Last Forever, Part 2”
2015 ROY BROWN: The Middle, "Happy Halloween IV: The Ghost Story"
2014 The Humanitas Prizes were not presented in 2014.
2013 MIKE SCULLY: The New Normal, "The Godparent Trap"
2013 LIZ BRIXIUS: Nurse Jackie, "Disneyland Sucks"
2012 JENNY BICKS: The Big C, "A Little Death"
2012 DEANN HELINE & EILEEN HEISLER: The Middle, "The Map"
2011 DARLENE HUNT: The Big C, "Taking The Plunge"
2011 CARTER BAYS & CRAIG THOMAS: How I Met Your Mother, "Last Words"
2011 LIZ BRIXIUS: Nurse Jackie, "Monkey Bits"
2010 KEVIN CURRAN: The Simpsons, "The Greatest Story Ever D'ohed"
2010 ALEX REID: The Middle, "The Block Party"
2010 MYRA J.: Meet the Browns, "Meet The Racist"
2009 ROBERT CARLOCK: 30 Rock, "Believe in the Stars"
2009 JAMIE RHONHEIMER: How I Met Your Mother, "Happily Ever After"
2009 JOHN FRINK: The Simpsons, "All About Lisa"
2008 KATHY ANN STUMPE: The Bill Engvall Show, “Aloha, Raffles”
2008 SARAH TREEM: In Treatment, “Sophie: Week Two”
2007 DAVE TENNANT: Scrubs, “My Fallen Idol”
2007 ROB LOTTERSTEIN: The War at Home, “Kenny Doesn’t Live Here Anymore”
2006 JIM HOPE: George Lopez, “The Kidney Stays in the Picture”
2006 GARRETT DONOVAN & NEIL GOLDMAN: Scrubs, “My Way Home”
2005NO AWARD GIVEN
2004 RICHARD APPEL: The Bernie Mac Show, “Eye of the Tiger”
2004 GARRETT DONOVAN & NEIL GOLDMAN: Scrubs, “My Screwup”
2003 WARREN HUTCHERSON & KRISS TURNER (Story by LARRY WILMORE): The Bernie Mac Show, “Sweet Home Chicago - Part I”
2003 DAN O’SHANNON & LORI KIRKLAND & BOB DAILY: Frasier, “Rooms with a View”
2002 STEVEN PETERMAN, GARY DONTZIG: State of Grace, “Looking for God in All the Right Places”
2002 HOLLIS RICH, BRENDA LILLY: State of Grace, “Love, Love, Me Do”
2001 JON SHERMAN & DAN O’SHANNON: Frasier, “Frasier's Edge”
2001 LARRY STRAWTHER: Malcolm in the Middle, “Traffic Ticket”
2000 DAVID GEOTSCH & JASON VENOKUR: 3rd Rock From the Sun, “Dick Who's Coming To Dinner”
2000 STEVE YOUNG: TheSmartGuy, “Never Too Young”
1999 ERIC COHEN: Everybody Loves Raymond, “Frank's Tribute”
1999 BILL WRUBEL and AARON SORKIN: Sports Night, “The Quality of Mercy at 29K”
1998 BENNETT COHEN, EDIT VILLARREAL: Foto-Novelas, “The Fix”
1998 JEFFREY TICHMAN & SUZANNE MARTIN: Frasier, “The Kid”
1997 STEVIE RAY FROMSTEIN: Grace Under Fire, “Pills”
1997 DREW OGIER (story by ROSEANNE): Roseanne, “The Miracle”
1996 STEVIE RAY FROMSTEIN: Grace Under Fire, “No Help Wanted”
1996 ELLIOT SHOENMAN, MARLEY SIMS: Home Improvement, “The Longest Day”
1995 ALLAN KATZ: Blossom, The Date
1995 MARC FLANAGAN: Grace Under Fire, “Grace Under Water”
1995 ROB ULIN and KEVIN ABBOTT: Roseanne, “White Men Can't Kiss”
1994 JANE WAGNER: Edith Ann, “A Few Pieces of the Puzzle”
1994 DON REO, JUDITH D. ALLISON: The John Larroquette Show, “The Amends”
1994 DAVID ANGELL & PETER CASEY & DAVID LEE: Frasier, “The Good Son”
1993 SY ROSEN: The Wonder Years, “The Nose”
1993 AMY SHERMAN: Roseanne, “Wait 'Til Your Father Gets Home”
1992 GLENN BERENBEIM: A Different World, “Mammy Dearest”
1992 CHUCK LORRE and JEFF ABUGOV: Roseanne, “This Old House”
1992 CRAIG HOFFMAN: The Wonder Years, “Hardware Store”
1991 NAT KATLIN BERNSTEIN, MITCHEL LEE: Doogie Howser, M.D., “To Live and Die in Brentwood”
1991 MARK B. PERRY: The Wonder Years, “The Ties that Bind”
1990 CHARLES M. SCHULZ: Why, Charlie Brown, Why?
1990 DAVID M. STERN The Wonder Years, “The Powers That Be”
1989 NANCY MEYERS, CHARLES SHYER: Baby Boom, “Guilt”
1989 JOHN MARKUS & CARMEN FINESTRA & GARY KOTT: The Cosby Show, “Truth or Consequences”
1988 BOB RANDALL & BILL PERSKY": Kate & Allie, “Brother Can You Spare a Dime”
1988 CAROL BLACK & NEAL MARLENS: The Wonder Years, “Pilot”
1987 GARY KOTT: The Cosby Show, “The March”
1987 RUTH BENNETT: Family Ties, “My Back Pages”
1986 MATT WILLIAMS: The Cosby Show, “An Early Spring”
1986 DAVID LLOYD: Mr. Sunshine, “Pilot”
1985 MARC LAWRENCE: Family Ties, “Hotline Fever”
1985 GARY DAVID GOLDBERG & ALAN UGER: Family Ties, “Remembrance of Things Past”
1984 RUTH BENNETT: Family Ties, “Say Uncle”
1984 JULIAN ARTHUR: Gimme a Break, “Herbie”
1983 BLAKE HUNTER: Different Strokes, “The Bicycle Man, Part 2”
1983 SUSAN HARRIS: It Takes Two, “Death Penalty”
1982 HARRIETT WEISS & PATT SHEA: Archie Bunker's Place, “Relapse”
1982 PAUL PERLOVE: One Day At A Time, “Mrs. O'Leary's Kid”
1981 HARRIETT WEISS & PATT SHEA: Archie Bunker's Place, “Tough Love”
1981 DAVID POLLACK & ELIAS DAVIS: M*A*S*H*, “Blood Brothers”
1980 GARY MARKOWITZ: United States, “Point of View”
1980 HUGH WILSON: WKPR In Cincinnati, “God Talks to Johnny”
1979 HARRIETT WEISS & PATT SHEA: All In The Family, “Edith Gets Fired”
1979 KEN LEVINE & DAVID ISAACS: M*A*S*H*, Point of View
1978 REINHOLD WEEGE: Barney Miller, “Goodbye, Mr. Fish Part 2”
1978 ROGER SHULMAN & JOHN BASKIN: The Jeffersons, “984 W. 124th St. Apt. 5c.”
1977 MEL TOLKIN: All In The Family, “Archie's Brief Encounter Part 2”
1977 ALAN ALDA: M*A*S*H*, “Dear Sigmund”
1976 SETH FREEMAN: Doc, “Oldies But Goodies”
1976 BURT PERLUTSKY: M*A*S*H*. “Quo Vadis, Captain Chandler”
1975 BOB PEETE: Good Times, “My Girl Henrietta”
1975 ROGER SHULMAN & JOHN BASKIN: Good Times, “The Lunch Money Ripoff”
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2025 MICHAEL GRASSI, SHANNON LOONEY: Brilliant Minds, "The Man From Grozny"
2025 NEIL DRUCKMANN, HALLEY GROSS, CRAIG MAZIN: The Last of Us, "The Price"
2025 BRUCE MILLER: The Handmaid’s Tale, "The Handmaid's Tale"
2024 MERIEL SHEIBANI-CLARE, PETER MORGAN: The Crown, “Ritz”
2024 JOSHUA ALLEN: The Morning Show, “White Noise”
2024 ROCHELLE ZIMMERMAN: Station 19, “With So Little to Be Sure Of”
2023 PETER GOULD: Better Call Saul, "Saul Gone"
2023 DJ NASH & JAMES RODAY RODRIGUEZ: A Million Little Things, "One Big Thing"
2023 BEN VANSTONE: All Creatures Great and Small, "Surviving Siegfried"
2022 IKE SMITH: Chicago P.D., “Burnside”
2022 ANTHONY SPARKS: Queen Sugar, “May 27, 2020”
2022 REGGIE ROCK BYTHEWOOD & GEORGE DOHRMANN: Swagger, “Radicals”
2022 DAN FOGELMAN: This is Us, “The Challenger”
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and public health conditions in LA County, the Humanitas Prizes were not presented in 2021.
2020 EBONI FREEMAN: This is Us, “Our Little Island Girl”
2020 RYAN MURPHY & BRAD FALCHUCK & STEVEN CANALS: Pose, “In My Heels”
2020 SELWYN SEYFU HINDS: The Twilight Zone, “Replay”
2019 BRIAN CHAMBERLAYNE: Orange Is The New Black, “Be Free”
2018 DAVID BENIOFF & D.B. WEISS: Game of Thrones, “The Dragon and the Wolf”
2018 JOY GREGORY: Madam Secretary, “Good Bones”
2017 JOY GREGORY: Madam Secretary, “Waiting for Taleju”
2017 RICHARD PRICE and STEVEN ZAILLIAN: The Night Of, “The Call of the Wild”
2016 HAGAI LEVI & SARAH TREEM: The Affair, “Pilot”
2016 MATT WARD: Madam Secretary, “Face the Nation”
2015 JASON KATIMS: Parenthood, “The Pontiac”
2015 VEENA SUD: The Killing, “Six Minutes”
2015 NIC PIZZOLATTO: True Detective, “Form and Void”
2014 The Humanitas Prizes were not presented in 2014.
2013 DAVID SHORE, ELI ATTIE & PETER BLAKE: House, “Everybody Dies”
2013 KAREN STRUCK & DAVID E. KELLEY: Monday Mornings, “Truth or Consequences”
2012 BRIAN BURNS: Blue Bloods, “The Job”
2012 KERRY EHRIN: Parenthood, “Remember Me? I’m The One Who Loves You”
2011 JEANETTE COLLINS & MIMI FRIEDMAN: Drop Dead Diva, “Good Grief”
2011 RUSSEL FRIEND, GARRETT LERNER & PETER BLAKE: House, “Help Me”
2011 BRUCE MCKENNA & ROBERT SCHENKKAN: The Pacific, “Home”
2010 J. ROBERTS & VINCE GILLIGAN: Breaking Bad, “Peekaboo”
2010 PETER NOWALK: Grey’s Anatomy, “Give Peace a Chance”
2010 WARREN LEIGHT: In Treatment, “Walter: Week Six"
2010 WARREN HUTCHERSON: Men of a Certain Age, “Father's Fraternity”
2009 DAVID ZABEL:ER, ”Heal Thyself"
2009 DAVID HOSELTON: House, ”Unfaithful"
2009 AMANDA GREEN: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, “Swing”
2008 DAVID E. KELLEY & SUSAN DICKES (story byDAVID E. KELLEY & SUSAN DICKES & JILL GOLDSMITH): Boston Legal, “Roe V. Wade: The Musical”
2008 GEORGE PELECANOS(story byDAVID SIMON & GEORGE PELECANOS): The Wire, “Late Editions”
2007 DORIS EGAN: House, “House vs. God”
2007 ELI ATTIE & JOHN WELLS: The West Wing, “Election Day Part 2”
2006 JANINE SHERMAN BARROIS: ER, “Darfur”
2006 JONATHAN GREENE: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, “Ripped”
2005 DEE JOHNSON: ER, “Alone in a Crowd”
2005 DAVID SHORE: House, “Pilot - Everybody Lies”
2005 SARA B. COOPER: House, “Damned If You Do”
2004 JOHN WELLS: ER, “Makemba”
2004 JOY GREGORY: Joan of Arcadia, “The Uncertainty Principle”
2003 GRAHAM YOST (story by GRAHAM YOST & MYKELTI WILLIAMSON): Boomtown, “Fearless”
2003 JOHN WELLS: ER, “On the Beach”
2003 FRANCISCO CASTRO: Without a Trace, “In Extremis”
2002 LUKAS REITER & DAVID E. KELLY: The Practice, “The Honor Code”
2001 JOHN WELLS: ER, “A Walk in the Woods”
2001 PAUL ATTANASIO: Gideon's Crossing, “The Lottery”
2001 EDWARD ALLEN BERNERO: Third Watch, “After Hours”
2000 RICHARD KRAMER: Once and Again, “Strangers and Brothers”
2000 AARON SORKIN and RICK CLEVELAND: The West Wing, “In Excelsis Deo”
1999 SCOTT GERMILL: JAG, “Angels 30”
1999 LEONARD GARDNER: NYPD Blue, “Raging Bulls”
1999 PAUL MONASH and CY CHERMAK & FRANCINE CARROLL: Rescuers: Stories of Courage, “Aart and Johtje Vos”
1998 CAROL FLINT:ER, “Family Practice”
1998 ERIC OVERMYER: Homicide: Life On The Streets, “Mercy”
1997 TIM KRING: Chicago Hope, “A Time to Kill”
1997 KEVIN ARKADIE & SARA B. CHARNO & JENNIFER LEVIN: Chicago Hope, “The Parent Rap”
1997 CHRISTOPHER KEYSER & AMY LIPPMAN: Party Of Five, “Before and After”
1996 JOHN WELLS: ER, “The Healers”
1996 JAMES YOSHIMURA: Homicide: Life On The Streets, “A Doll's Eyes”
1995 MICHAEL BRAVERMAN: Chicago Hope, “Shutt Down”
1995 DAVID E. KELLEY: Picket Fences, “Final Judgement”
1995 DAVID E. KELLEY: Picket Fences, “Abominable Snowmen”
1994 MICHAEL S. CHERNUCHIN & WILLIAM N. FORDES: Law & Order, “Sanctuary”
1993 MARSHALL GOLDBERG: Life Goes On, “Bedfellows”
1993 DAVID J. BURKE & HANS TOBEASON Tribeca, “The Box”
1992 KEVIN ARKADIE: I'll Fly Away, “Coming Home”
1992 GARY DAVID GOLDBERG: Brooklyn Bridge, “When Irish Eyes Are Smiling”
1991 JOHN WELLS: China Beach, “One Small Step”
1991 JOSEPH DOUGHERTY: Thirtysomething, “Fighting the Cold”
1990 JOHN WELLS: China Beach, “Dear China Beach”
1990 GEORGIA JEFFRIES: China Beach, “How to Stay Alive in Vietnam”
1989 JOHN SACRET YOUNG and WILLIAM BROYLES JR.: China Beach, “Lost and Found”
1989 JOSEPH DOUGHERTY: Thirtysomething, “Elliot's Dad”
1989 SUSAN SHILLIDAY: Thirtysomething, “In Re: The Marriage of Weston”
1988 KATHRYN FORD: Cagney and Lacey, “Don't I Know You”
1988 SHELLY LIST & JONATHAN ESTRIN: Cagney and Lacey, “Turn, Turn, Turn Part 2”
1987 CHANNING GIBSON: St. Elsewhere, “A Room with a View”
1987 JOHN MASIUS & TOM FONTANA: St. Elsewhere, “Where There's Hope, There's Crosby”
1986 CHANNING GIBSON and JOHN MASIUS: St. Elsewhere, “Sanctuary”
1986 BRUCE FRANKLIN SINGER: Moonlighting, “Every Daughter's Father Is A Virgin”
1985 GEORGIA JEFFRIES: Cagney and Lacey, “An Unusual Occurrence”
1985 DAVID MILCH & ROGER DIRECTOR: Hill Street Blues, “Watt a Way to Go”
1984 JOHN MASIUS & TOM FONTANA: St. Elsewhere, “All About Eve”
1984 JOHN MASIUS & TOM FONTANA: St. Elsewhere, “Ties That Bond”
1983 LINDA ELSTAD: Fame, “Solo Song”
1983 TOM FONTANA: St. Elsewhere, “Rain”
1982 JOHNNY DAWKINS: Theatre For Young Americans, “The Wave”
1982 MICHAEL WAGNER: Hill Street Blues, “The World According to Freedom”
1981 BID FREEMAN: Lou Grant, “Streets”
1981 JOHN FALSEY and JOSHUA BRAND: The White Shadow, “Reunion Part 2”
1980 MARION HARGROVE: The Waltons, “The Remembrance”
1980 MARC RUBIN: The White Shadow, “The Death of Me Yet”
1979 JAMES LEE BARRETT: Stubby Pringle's Christmas
1979 MICHELLE GALLERY: Lou Grant, “Dying”
1978 CAROL EVAN MACKEAND: Family, “The Princess in the Tower”
1978 LANFORD WILSON: Taxi
1977 JAMES LEE: Roots, “Show #3”
1977 JACK MILLER: The Waltons, “The Pony Cart”
1976 NIGEL MCKEAND and CAROL EVAN MCKEAND: Family, “A Right and Proper Goodbye”
1976 KATHLEEN HITE: The Waltons, “The Sermon”
1975 RUSSELL THACHER: The Cay
1975 HINDI BROOKS: The Waltons, “The Romance”
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This category was previously referred to as the “Limited Series, TV Movie, or Special” category.
2025 CHARLES YU: Interior Chinatown, "Generic Asian Man"
2025 DAVID HARROWER: Lockerbie: A Search for Truth, "Episode 1"
2025 CLARE BARRON: Say Nothing, "Do No Harm"
2024 STEVEN KNIGHT: All the Light We Cannot See, “Episode 1”
2024 PARK CHAN-WOOK & DON MCKELLAR: The Sympathizer, “Endings Are Hard, Aren’t They?”
2024 ERICA LIPEZ: We Were the Lucky Ones, “Rio”
2023 BRIAN SAVELSON: Little America, "Paper Piano"
2023 LEE EISENBERG & IDIL IBRAHIM: Little America, "Camel on a Stick"
2023 MICHAEL NANKIN and BARBARA NANCE: An Amish Sin
2022 RACHELLE WILLIAMS-BENARY & SAM BOYD: Love Life: “Mia Hines”
2022 MOLLY SMITH METZLER: Maid: “Snaps”
2022 JARED FRIEDER: Three Months
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and public health conditions in LA County, the Humanitas Prizes were not presented in 2021.
2020 NIC PIZZOLATTO: True Detective, "Now Am Found"
2020 CRAIG MAZIN: Chernobyl, "Vichnaya Pamyat"
2020 DON NICHOLL, MICHAEL ROSS, BENARD WEST, BARRY HARMAN, HARVE BROSTEN: Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear's All in the Family and The Jeffersons
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This category was paused after 2015.
2015 LARRY KRAMER: The Normal Heart
2015 RICHARD CURTIS: Mary And Martha
2015 RICHARD FRIEDENBERG: Ring Of Fire
2014 The Humanitas Prizes were not presented in 2014.
2013 LIGIAH VILLALOBOS: Hallmark Hall of Fame, “Firelight”
2013 ELIZABETH HUNTER: Abducted: The Carlina White Story
2013 SHEM BITTERMAN & RON HUTCHINSON: Betty and Coretta
2012 DAVID SELTZER: Cinema Verite
2012 CAMILLE THOMASSON: Hallmark Hall of Fame, “Beyond the Blackboard”
2012 MITCH ALBOM: Hallmark Hall of Fame, “Have a Little Faith”
2011 GEORGE STEVENS, JR.: Thurgood
2011 TEENA BOOTH: Reviving Ophelia
2011MICHAEL BORTMAN: Taken From Me: The Tiffany Rubin Story
2010 CHRISTOPHER MONGER & WILLIAM MERRITT JOHNSON: Temple Grandin
2010 MICKY LEVY & TEENA BOOTH: Amish Grace
2010 PAULA MILNE: Endgame
2009 MICHAEL R. STROBL and ROSS KATZ: Taking Chance
2009 JOHN PIELMEIER: Gifted Hands
2009 DUSTIN LANCE BLACK (story by PARIS BARCLAY and DUSTIN LANCE BLACK): Pedro
2008 KAREN LAGASSE STRUCK: Charlie & Me
2008 ANN PEACOCK and DANIEL PETRIE JR. and CAMILLE THOMASSON: Hallmark Hall of Fame, "Pictures of Hollis Woods"
2008 JOHN WIERICK: A Life Interrupted
2007 ABI MORGAN: Tsunami, The Aftermath - Part II
2007 NANCEY SILVERS: Why I Wore Lipstick To My Mastectomy
2006 STEPHEN HARRIGAN: The Colt
2006 MARGARET NAGLE: Warm Springs
2005 LIONEL CHETWYND: Ike: Countdown to D-Day
2005 JEFF ARCH: Saving Milly
2004 SALLY ROBINSON and EUGENIA BOSTWICK SINGER & RAYMOND SINGER and JENNIFER FRIEDES: Iron Jawed Angels
2004 JONATHAN ESTRIN: Jasper, Texas
2003 DANIEL GIAT: Path to War
2003 WILLIAM H. MACY & STEVEN SCHACHTER : Door to Door
2002 JOHN WIERICK: Crossed Over
2002 PARIS QUALLES: The Rosa Parks Story
2001 SUZETTE COUTURE: Jesus, Night Two
2001 SUSAN COOPER: Jewel
2000 DAVID ALEXANDER: Anya's Bell
2000 MICHAEL ALEXANDER MILLER and RONALD PARKER: Joan of Arc, Part Two
1999 CAROL SHREDER: Mama Flora's Family, Part II
1999 CYNTHIS WHITCOMB: Selma, Lord, Selma
1998 DAVID MILCH & NICHOLAS WOOTON: NYPD Blue, “Lost Israel, Part II”
1998 CHRISTOPHER LOFTON: The Staircase
1997 ANN BECHETT: First Do No Harm
1997 ROBERT INMAN: The Summer of Ben Tyler
1996 WILLIAM BLINN: The Boys Next Door
1996 PATRICIA MACLACHLAN: Journey
1995 SUSAN NANUS: Heart of a Child
1995 NANCEY SILVERS: The Other Woman
1994 BARBARA TURNER: Out of Darkness
1994 BOBBY SMIT JR.: There Are No Children Here
1993 ED KAPLAN: For Their Own Good
1993 STEVE LAWSON and DALENE YOUNG: Jonathan: The Boy Nobody Wanted
1992 ANN BECKETT: The Broken Cord
1992 JOHN WELLS: China Beach, “Hello-Good Bye”
1991 GEORGE STEVENS: Separate But Equal, Part I
1991 MARSHALL HERSKOVITZ (Teleplay), MARSHALL HERSKOVITZ & EDWARD ZWICK: Extreme Close-up
1990 WILLIAM G. BORCHERT: My Name is Bill W.
1990 SAM BLACKWELL & ARA WATSON: No Place Like Home
1988 JEFF ANDRUS: ABC Thursday Night Movie, “The Proud Men”
1988 CHARLES FULLER: CBS Dramatic Special, “A Gathering of Old Men”
1987 NIGEL MCKEAND and CAROL EVAN MCKEAND: Alex - The Life Of a Child
1987 BEVERLY LEVITT, STUART FISCHOFF: Miles to Go…
1986 CLIFFORD CAMPION: Love, Mary
1986 DARLENE CRAVIOTTO: Love is Never Silent
1985 CHRISTOPHER KNOPF: Not My Kid
1985 JOYCE ELIASON: Surviving
1984 MICHAIL BORTMAN: Memorial Day
1984 WILLIAM HANLEY: Something About Amelia
1983 JAMES SADWITH: Two of a Kind
1983 J. RUFUAS CALEB: Benny's Place
1982 CLIFFORD CAMPION: The Marva Collins Story
1982 RICHARD FRIEDENBERG: Bitter Harvest
1981 CYNTHIA MANDELBERG & PEGGY CHANDLER DICK: Leave 'Em Laughing
1981 LANE SLATE: A Matter of Life and Death
1980 WILLIAM HANLEY: The Family Man
1980 PETE HAMILL: The Gift
1979 FAY KANIN: Friendly Fire
1979 JOANNA LEE: Like Normal People
1978 LORING MANDEL: Breaking Up
1978 LEON TOKATYAN: The Other Side of Hell
1977 DAVID SELTZER, EUGENE LOGAN: Green Eyes
1977 CHARLES M. COHEN: Roots, “Show #8”
1977 JERRY MCNEELY: Something for Joey
1976 ROBERT COLLINS: Medical Story, “The Quality of Mercy”
1976 DAVID SELTZER, DAVID SONTAG: My Father's House
1975 JOEL OLIANSKY: The Law
1975 STANLEY R. GREENBER: The Missiles of October
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The animated and live action children’s programming categories were combined in 2019.
2025 LIZ HARA: Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur, "Full Moon"
2025 BARRYL. LEVY: Me, "Pilot”
2025 NATASHA KLINE: Primos, "Summer of Silencio"
2024 ALICE OSEMAN: Heartstopper, “Perfect”
2024 ROBB ARMSTRONG, CRAIG SCHULZ, BRYAN SCHULZ, & CORNELIUS ULIANO: Snoopy Presents: Welcome Home, Franklin
2024 MATTHEW CHAUNCEY: What If...?, "What If... Hela Found the Ten Rings?"
2023 GIGI D.G.: Pinecone & Pony, "A Life of Adventure"
2023 KWAME ALEXANDER & DAMANI JOHNSON: The Crossover, "X’s and 0’s"
2023 LISA MUSE BRYANT: Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur, "Hair Today Gone Tomorrow"
2022 KELLIE R. GRIFFIN and HALCYON PERSON: Karma's World: “Hair Comes Trouble”
2022 ALEX GALATIS: Snoopy Presents: To Mom (and Dad), with Love
2022 SASCHA ROTHCHILD: The Babysitters Club: “Claudia and the Sad Goodbye”
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and public health conditions in LA County, the Humanitas Prizes were not presented in 2021.
2020 KEVIN SULLIVAN:The Loud House, “Racing Hearts”
2020 JOE TRACZ: A Series of Unfortunate Events, “Penultimate Peril: Part 1”
2020 SHAENE SIDERS: Niko and the Sword of Light, “The Automatron”
2019 BRIAN HOHLFELD: My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, “Surf and/or Turf”
2019 LAURA SREEBNY: Muppet Babies, “You Say Potato, I Say Best Friend”
2019 DAVID LIGHT & JOSEPH RASO: Z-O-M-B-I-E-S
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The animated and live action children’s programming categories were combined in 2019.
2018 KEN SCARBOROUGH, RAYE LANKFORD AND JESSICA CARLETON: Sesame Street, “The Magical Wand Chase: A Sesame Street Special”
2018 MAY CHAN: An American Girl Story, “Ivy & Julie 1976: A Happy Balance”
2017 MATTHEW NELSON: Girl Meets World, “Girl Meets the Forgiveness Project”
2017 COURTNEY JANE WALKER: Degrassi: Next Class, “#TurntUp”
2016 JOHN D. BECK, RON HART & JENNIFER KEENE: Liv and Maddie, “Rate-A-Rooney”
2016 GRETCHEN ENDERS: Gortimer Gibbon’s Life On Normal Street, “Ranger and the Legend of Pendragon’s Gavel”
2015 NO AWARD GIVEN
2014 The Humanitas Prizes were not presented in 2014.
2013 ONE RECIPIENT, NO EXTRA NOMINATIONS
2012 ONE RECIPIENT, NO EXTRA NOMINATIONS
2011 NO NOMINATIONS MADE
2010 NO NOMINATIONS MADE
2009 DAN KOPELMAN: True Jackson, VP, "The Rival"
2009 ANDY GORDON: True Jackson, VP, ”Pilot"
2008 JOHN KILLORAN (story by DAVID DIAMOND & DAVID WEISSMAN): Minutemen
2008 CORY ROSENBERG AND BILL RODMAN (Writing Consultant, IRA FRITZ): Sheira & Loli's Dittydoodle Works, “Sacrifice"
2007 DOREEN SPICER and REGINA HICKS & KARIN GIST: Jump in!
2007 ANNA SANDOR: Molly: An American Girl on the Home Front
2006 ANNA SANDOR: Felicity: An American Girl Adventure
2006 PETER BARSOCCHINI: High School Musical
2005 MARJORIE SCHWARTZ NIELSEN: Buffalo Dreams
2005 CHRISTOPHER FAY: Carry Me Home
2004 JOEL SILVERMAN and JOEL KAUFFMANN & DONALD C. YOST: Full-Court Miracle
2004 CHRIS NOLAN & LAURIE NOLAN and STEVE BLOOM and STU KRIEGER: Going to the Mat
2003 MICHAEL NOLIN & JACK ZURIA & MARK ZASLOVE: Maniac Magee
2003 CHRISTOPHER REED & CYNTHIA CARLE: You Wish!
2002 GARY ROSENKRANZ: The Brothers Garcia, “The Student Buddy”
2001 DARYL NICKENS: The Famous Jett Jackson, “Lost and Found”
2001 JOSEPH MAURER: The Sandy Bottom Orchestra
2000 JANA VEVERKA: Caitlin's Way, “Stray”
2000 ANN SLOAN & DOUG SLOAN: Johnny Tsunami
1999 TOM TENOWICH: City Guys, “Gift of Friendship”
1998 RENEE PALYO & BENNETT TRAMER: Saved By The Bell, “Putting Up Walls”
1998 JEFF STETSON: Nickelodeon Sports Theater with Shaquille O'Neal, “First Time”
1997 TONY GEISS: SesameStreet, “Miles' Family Reunion”
1997 SAUL TURTELTAUB: Shari's Passover Surprise
1996 MARK GREENHALGH, MATTHEW BALL: ABC Afterschool Special, “The Secret of Lizard Woman”
1996 COURTNEY FLAVIN: ABC Afterschool Special, “Educating Mom”
1995 CAROL STARR SCHNEIDER, DAVID J. EAGLE: ABC Afterschool Special, “Boys Will be Boys”
1995 DARYL BUSBY, TOM J. ASTLE: Adventures In Wonderland, “The Sound and the Furry”
1994 MARILYN WEBBER: ABC Afterschool Special, “Montana Crossroads”
1994 SUSAN ROHRER: CBS Schoolbreak Special, “If I Die Before I Wake”
1993 HANK SAROYAN: Weekend Special, “William Saroyan's 'The Parsley Garden'“
1993 DARYL G. NICKENS Wonderworks Family Movie, “You Must Remember This”
1992 JOSEPH MAURER: CBS Schoolbreak Special, “Dedicated to the One I Love”
1992 PAMELA DOUGLAS: CBS Schoolbreak Special, “Different Worlds: A Story of Interracial Love”
1992 BENNETT TRAMER: Saved By The Bell, “A Home For Christmas”
1991 BARRA GRANT: CBS Schoolbreak Special, “Lies of the Heart”
1991 BOB GOOKIN: CBS Schoolbreak Special, “Malcolm Takes a Shot”
1990 HARRY LONGSTREET & RENEE LONGSTREET: CBS Schoolbreak Special, “Frog Girl: The Jenifer Grahm Story”
1989 HARMON, BRUCE, DONALD MCDONALD: ABC Afterschool Special, “Date Rape”
1989 BRUCE HARMON: ABC Afterschool Special, “Taking a Stand”
1988 GEORGE LEFFERTS: CBS Schoolbreak Special, “Never Say Goodbye”
1988 VICTORIA HOCKBERG: ABC Afterschool Special, “Just a Regular Kid: An Aids Story”
1987 JEANNE BETANCOURT: ABC Afterschool Special, “Teen Father”
1987 PAUL W. COOPER: CBS Schoolbreak Special, “What if I’m Gay”
1986 JEANNE BETANCOURT: ABC Afterschool Special, “Don't Touch”
1986 ALAN L. GANSBERG and JUDITH M. GANSBERG CBS Schoolbreak Special, “Have You Tried Talking to Patty?”
1985 PETER SILVERMAN: Contract for Life: The S.A.D.D. Story
1985 S.S. SCHWEITZER: Pryor's Place, “Home Free”
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The animated and live action children’s programming categories were combined in 2019.
2018 MICHAEL FOULKE: Splash and Bubbles, “Pearlene”
2018 CRAIG CARLISLE: Sofia the First,“The Crown of Blossoms”
2017 KEVIN HOPPS: The Lion Guard, “Never Judge a Hyena by Its Spots”
2017 MARIA ESCOBEDO: Nina’s World, “Nina’s Brother for a Day”
2016 ONE RECIPIENT, NO EXTRA NOMINATIONS
2015 NO NOMINATIONS MADE
2014 The Humanitas Prizes were not presented in 2014.
2013 NO NOMINATIONS MADE
2012 ONE RECIPIENT, NO EXTRA NOMINATIONS
2011 ONE RECIPIENT, NO EXTRA NOMINATIONS
2010 NO NOMINATIONS MADE
2009 NO NOMINATIONS MADE
2008 KARYN PARSONS: Sweet Blackberry Presents, "The Journey of Henry Box Brown"
2008 DON GILLIES: ToddWorld, "Come Out Of Your Shell"
2007 EVELINA FERNANDEZ: Maya & Miguel:“Give Me A Little Sign”
2007 NADINE VAN DER VELDE: Miss Spider’s Sunny Patch Friends, “The Prince, the Princess and the Bee”
2006 JONATHAN GREENBERG: Maya & Miguel, “Miguel's Wonderful Life”
2006 PAMELA HICKEY, DENNYS MCCOY: ToddWorld, “Benny's Missing Chew Toy”
2005 JAMES STILL: Paz, “Things Change”
2005 PAMELA HICKEY, DENNYS MCCOY: ToddWorld, “Who's Your Best Friend?”
2004 PETER K. HIRSCH: Arthur, “Big Horns George”
2004 CHRIS NEE: Little Bill, “A Ramp for Monty”
2003 MARC ZICREE and ELAINE ZICREE: Liberty's Kids, “Common Sense”
2003 DOUG MCINTYRE: Liberty's Kids, “Liberty or Death”
2002 PETER K. HIRSCH: Arthur, “The Boy with His Head in the Clouds”
2002 MELODY FOX: Harold and the Purple Crayon, “Harold's Birthday Gift”
2001 MICHAEL BLOOM & ANDY MCELFRESH: Rocket Power, “Radical New Equipment”
2001 BETTY G. BIRNEY: The New Adventures of Madeline, “Madeline and the Giants”
2000 LIBBY BIDEAU, SANDY ADOMAITIS & BART JENNETT: Disney's Recess, “A Science Fair To Remember”
2000 PETER COLLEY: Mythic Warriors, “Cadmus & Europa”
1999 ROBERT N. SKIR & MARTY ISENBERG: Pocket Dragon's Adventures, “The Festival of Lights”
1999 RICHARD GITELSON: Rugrats, “Autumn Leaves”
1998 SHAWN RYAN: Life with Louie, “Family Portrait”
1998 JON COOKSEY & ALI MARIE MATHESON AND J. DAVID STERN & DAVID N. WEISS: Rugrats, “Mother's Special Day”
1997 JAMES STILL: Maurice Sendak's Little Bear, “Little Bear's Surprise”
1997 ROBERTS B. GANNAWAY: The Lion King's Timon & Pumbaa, Once Upon a Timon
1996 MICHAEL PRICE: Santo Bugito, “The Carnivore Kid”
1996 BETTY G. BIRNEY: The New Adventures of Madeline, “Madeline and the Treasure Hunt”
1995 BARBARA SLADE: Rugrats, “I Remember Melville”
1995 LIBBY HINSON: The Secret Garden
1994 MARTHA MORAN: Madeline, “Madeline and the 40 Thieves”
1994 BRUCE SHELLY & REED SHELLY: Madeline, “Madeline and the Missing Clown”
1993 CHUCK MENVILLE: The Little Mermaid, “Eel-Ectric City”
1993 LYNN LEFLER: The Little Mermaid, “Message in a Bottle”
1992 DOUG MOLITAR: Captain Planet, “The Ark”
1992 KARL GEURS AND MARK ZASLOVE: The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, “Winnie the Pooh and Christmas Too”
1991 STEPHAN MARTINIERE, PETER LANDECKER, AND JUDY ROTHMAN: Madeline, “Madeline's Christmas”
1991 STEVEN J. FISHER: Super Mario Brothers 3, “True Colors”
1990 TED FIELD: Dink, The Little Dinosaur, “Crusty's Baby”
1990 JEFFREY SCOTT: Jim Henson's Muppet Babies, “Romancing the Weirdo”
1989 GEORGE ATKINS AND JANIS DIAMOND: The Adventures of Raggedy Ann and Andy
1989 PATSY CAMERON, TEDD ANASTI & THERESE NAUGLE: The Chipmunks, “A Special Kind of Champion”
1988 STAR KAPLAN AND MAIA MATTISE: Jim Henson's Muppet Babies, “My Muppet Valentine”
1988 KAYTE KUCH AND SHERYL SCARBOROUGH: Little Clowns of Happy Town, “Goodbye Grandma”
1987 ROWBY GOREN: Berenstain Bears Sat Morning Show The Bern. B. Forget Their Manners
1987 DAVID WIEMERS AND KEN KOONCE: Galaxy High, “The Brain Blaster”
1986 NO AWARD GIVEN
1985 PAUL HAGGIS: CBS Storybreak, “Zucchini”
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This category was paused following 2020.
2020 JOHN COLLEE & ANTHONY MARAS: Hotel Mumbai
2020 PAUL DOWNS COLAIZZO: Brittany Runs a Marathon
2020 CHINONYE CHUKWU: Clemency
2019 HEIKKI KUJANPÄÄ and MIKKO REITALA: Laugh or Die
2019 BOOTS RILEY: Sorry to Bother You
2019 GRAHAM YOST and MOIRA WALLEY-BECKETT: The Grizzlies
2019 CHLOÉ ZHAO: The Rider
2018 JUSTIN CHON: Gook
2018 MARGARET BETTS: Novitiate
2017 KEREM SANGA: First Girl I Loved
2017 ROB BURNETT: The Fundamentals of Caring
2017 SIAN HEDER: Tallulah
2016 RICK FAMUYIWA: Dope
2016 MICHAEL ALMEREYDA: Experimenter
2015 KAT CANDLER: Hellion
2015 IRA SACHS & MAURICIO ZACHARIAS: Love Is Strange
2015 PETER SATTLER: Camp X-Ray
2014 The Humanitas Prizes were not presented in 2014.
2013 MICHAEL STARRBURY: The Inevitable Defeat of Mister & Pete
2013 JEFF NICHOLS: Mud
2012 SHELDON CANDIS & JUSTIN WILSON: LUV
2012 AVA DUVERNAY: Middle of Nowhere
2011 RASHAAD ERNESTO GREEN: Gun Hill Road
2011 JONATHAN RAYMOND: Meek's Cutoff
2010 LISA CHOLODENKO & STUART BLUMBERG: The Kids Are All Right
2010 TANYA HAMILTON: Night Catches Us
2009 MARIE NOËLLE: The Anarchist's Wife
2009 SHANA FESTE: The Greatest
2008 ALBERT TOREES: Henry Poole Is Here
2008 TOM MCCARTHY: The Visitor
2007 NEWTON I. ADUAKA & ALAIN-MICHEL BLANC (story by NEWTON I. ADUAKA): Ezra
2007 ADRIENNE SHELLY: Waitress
2006 TANUJ CHOPRA, HART EDDY: Punching at the Sun
2006 GORAN DUKIC: Wristcutters: A Love Story
2005 DAVID L. PATERSON: Love, Ludlow
2005 DOUG SADLER: Swimmers
2004 ZACH BRAFF: Garden State
2004 NICOLE KASELL AND STEVEN FECHTER: The Woodsman
2003 JIM SHERIDAN & NAOMI SHERIDAN & KIRSTEN SHERIDAN: In America
2003 PETER HEDGES: Pieces of April
2003 PETER SOLLETT (story by PETTER SOLLETT and EVA VIVES): Raising Victor Vargas
2002 PHILLIP GWYNNE & PAUL GOLDMAN: Australian Rules
2002 MARK J. GORDON: Her Majesty
2001 HENRY BEAN: The Believer
2001 REGGIE ROCK BYTHEWOOD: Dancing In September
2000 ROGER RUEFF: The Big Kahuna
2000 GURINDER CHANHA & PAUL MAYEDA BERGES: What's Cooking
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This category was broken into two awards: Documentary, Feature Length and Docuseries, Single Episode in 2025.
2025 SARA KHAKI, MOHAMMADREZA EYNI: Cutting Through Rocks (Feature Length)
2025 NYLE DIMARCO, DAVIS GUGGENHEIM: Deaf President Now! (Feature Length)
2025 SUE KIM: The Last of the Sea Women (Feature Length)
2025 HALEY WATSON: 30 for 30 Shorts, "Motorcycle Mary" (Docuseries, Single Episode)
2025 NICCO ANNAN, KATORI HALL, SHOSHANA GUY: Down in the Valley, "Saints and Sinners" (Docuseries, Single Episode)
2025 BRIAN KNAPPENBERGER: Turning Point: The Vietnam War, "The End of the Road" (Docuseries, Single Episode)
2024 BERNARDO RUIZ & FABIAN CABALLERO: El Equipo: The Story of the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team
2024 ELSBETH FRAANJE: Sexual Healing
2023 LISA HEPNER: The Human Trial
2023 RAZELLE BENALLY and MATTHEW GALKIN: Murder In Big Horn, "Episode 1"
2023 STEFAN FORBES: Hold Your Fire
2022 SHANNON KRING: End of the Line: The Women of Standing Rock
2022 JULIA MARCHESI: Frederick Douglass In Five Speeches
2022 SMRITI MUNDHRA: Through Our Eyes: “Shelter”
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and public health conditions in LA County, the Humanitas Prizes were not presented in 2021.
2020 ELLEN GOOSENBERG KENT: Torn Apart: Separated at the Border
2020 JENIFER MCSHANE: Ernie & Joe: Crisis Cops
2020 RICHARD LADKANI: Sea of Shadows
2019 Concept by FIONA DAWSON, written by JAMIE COUGHLIN and GABRIEL SILVERMAN, directed by GABRIEL SILVERMAN, co-directed by FIONA DAWSON: TransMilitary
2019 Directed by LIZ GARBUS and JENNY CARCHMAN, produced by LIZ GARBUS, JENNY CARCHMAN, JUSTIN WILKES: The Fourth Estate, “Part 3: American Carnage”
2019 Story by DAVIS GUGGENHEIM, DEREK DONEEN, SARAH ANTHONY, directed by DEREK DONEEN, produced by DAVIS GUGGENHEIM and SARAH ANTHONY: The Price of Free
2018 RACHEL GRADY & HEIDI EWING: One of Us
2018 Directed by AI WEIWEI, written by CHIN-CHIN YAP, TIM FINCH & BORIS CHESHIRKOV: Human Flow
2018 LORENZO DESTEFANO: Hearing Is Believing
2017 TED ROACH: 120 Days: Undocumented in America
2016 LAURA POITRAS: Citizenfour
2016 JOSH ALEXANDER: Southern Rites
2015 JOHN MALOOF & CHARLIE SISKEL: Finding Vivian Maier
2015 ROBERT KENNER: Merchants of Doubt
2014 The Humanitas Prizes were not presented in 2014.
2013 ALEX GIBNEY: Mea Maxima Culpa
2013 JAMES MARSH: Project Nim
2012 CINDY MEEHL: Buck
2012 YOAV POTASH: Crime After Crime
2011 MICKI DICKOFF: Neshoba: The Price of Freedom
2011 PHILIP SHANE & JUSTIN WEINSTEIN: Being Elmo: A Puppeteer’s Journey
2010 STANLEY NELSON: Freedom Riders
2010 LUCY WALKER: Waste Land
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2025 SERENA DYKMAN: Babka
2025 MARCELLA OCHOA: Hour of Blood
2025 ROBIN WANG, JESSE AULTMAN: Neither Donkey Nor Horse
2024 MAEGAN HOUANG: Astonishing Little Feet
2024 ANNDI JINELLE LIGGETT: Jelly
2024 FELICIA D HENDERSON: The Rebel Girls
2023 JOSEPH LEE: Other Homes
2023 FELICIA PRIDE: LOOK BACK AT IT
2023 CHRIS BOWMAN & HUBBEL PALMER: Ninety-Five Senses
2022 NATALIE NOURIGAT: Far from the Tree
2022 MARGARET NAGLE: Leap
2022 LOUIS GONZALES: Nona
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and public health conditions in LA County, the Humanitas Prizes were not presented in 2021.
2020 KRISTEN LESTER: Purl
2020 EUGENE RAMOS: They Charge for the Sun
2020 SABINA VAJRACA: Variables
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This category was paused after 2003.
2003 JOHN PIELMIER: Sins of the Father
2003 ROBERT J. AVRECH: Within These Walls
2002 HERMAN DANIEL FARRELL, III AND TIMOTHY J. SEXTON: Boycott
2002 ROBERT L. FREEDMAN: What Makes a Family
2001 JERRY LUGWIG: Dash and Lilly
2001 PHIL ALDEN ROBINSON & STANLEY WEISER: Freedom Song
2000 HAROLD SYLVESTER: Passing Glory
2000 BILL CAIN: Thicker Than Blood
1999 BILL CAIN: Clover
1999 LOMINIQUE LAPIERRE, CAROL KAPLAN: Mother Teresa: In the Name of God's Poor
1998 WILLIAM NICHOLSON: Crime of the Century
1998 JONATHAN TOLINS & SETH BASS: The Twilight of the Golds
1997 DAVID W. RINTELS: Andersonville Part II
1997 LEE ROSE: A Mother’s Prayer
1996 BILL KERBY: Lakota Woman: The Seige at Wounded Knee
1996 KEN SAGOES: On Promised Land
1995 DENA KLEIMAN: Strapped
1995 SUSAN BLACK & LANCE GENTILE: State of Emergency
1994 JOHN MCGREEVEY: The American Experience, “Simple Justice”
1994 NANCY BARR: American Playhouse, “Mrs. Cage”
1993 WILLIAM SCHMIDT AND STEPHEN STEPT: Darrow
1993 CYNTHIA WHITCOMB: Mark Twain and Me
1992 SARA FLANIGAN CARTER & KEN KOSER: Sudie and Simpson