HUMANITAS PRIZE NOMINEES

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 The Humanitas Prizes were not presented in 2015.

2014 MISAN SAGAY: Belle

2014 BOB NELSON: Nebraska

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

2009 STEVEN KNIGHT: Amazing Grace

2008 ANN PEACOCK and ANDREW ADAMSON and CHRISTOPHER MARKUS & STEPHEN MCFEELY: The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe

2008 CHRISTOPHER CLEVELAND & BETTINA GILOIS: Glory Road

2007 DAVID MAGEE: Finding Neverland

2007 FRANK COTTRELL BOYCE: Millions

2006 ANDREW STANTON & BOB PETERSON & DAVID REYNOLDS: Finding Nemo

2006 GARY ROSS: Seabiscuit

2005 PETER HEDGES and CHRIS WEITZ & PAUL WEITZ: About A Boy

2005 RONALD HARWOOD: The Pianist

2004 AKIVA GOLDSMAN: A Beautiful Mind

2004 KRISTINE JOHNSON & JESSIE NELSON: I Am Sam

2003 LEE HALL: Billy Elliot

2003 STEPHEN GAGHAN Traffic (USA Films)

2002 NEIL JORDAN: The End of the Affair

2002 JOHN ROACH & MARY SWEENEY: The Straight Story

2001 STEVEN ZAILLIAN: A Civil Action

2001 ROBERT RODAT: Saving Private Ryan

2000 JAMES V. HART and MICHAEL GOLDENBERG: Contact

2000 RICHARD FRIEDENBERG: The Education of Little Tree

1999 CAMERON CROWE: Jerry Maguire

1999 JAN SARD (story by SCOTT HICKS): Shine

1998 GEORGE MILLER & CHRIS NOONAN: Babe

1998 BILLY BOB THORNTON & TOM EPPERSON: A Family Thing

1997 ERIC ROTH: Forrest Gump

1997 ROBERT BENTON: Nobody's Fool

1996 JERRY GEORGE & JIM SHERIDAN: In the Name of the Father

1996 STEVEN ZAILLIAN: Searching for Bobby Fischer

1996 WILLIAM NICHOLSON: Shadowlands

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 The Humanitas Prizes were not presented in 2015.

2014 CARTER BAYS & CRAIG THOMAS: How I Met Your Mother, "Last Forever, Part 2”

2014 ROY BROWN: The Middle, "Happy Halloween IV: The Ghost Story"

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”

2005 NO 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: The Smart Guy, “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”

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 & BRADFALCHUCK & 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 The Humanitas Prizes were not presented in 2015.

2014 JASON KATIMS: Parenthood, “The Pontiac”

2014 VEENA SUD: The Killing, “Six Minutes”

2014 NIC PIZZOLATTO: True Detective, “Form and Void”

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”

2010 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 by DAVID E. KELLEY & SUSAN DICKES & JILL GOLDSMITH): Boston Legal, “Roe V. Wade: The Musical”

2008 GEORGE PELECANOS (story by DAVID 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”

2000 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”

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") (HBO / Sky UK)

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

90 MINUTE NOMINEES

This category was paused after 2014.

2014 LARRY KRAMER: The Normal Heart

2014 RICHARD CURTIS: Mary And Martha

2014 RICHARD FRIEDENBERG: Ring Of Fire

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

2011 MICHAEL 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

1990 JEFF ANDRUS: ABC Thursday Night Movie, “The Proud Men”

1990 CHARLES FULLER: CBS Dramatic Special, “A Gathering of Old Men”

1989 NIGEL MCKEAND and CAROL EVAN MCKEAND: Alex - The Life Of a Child

1989 BEVERLY LEVITT, STUART FISCHOFF: Miles to Go…

1988 CLIFFORD CAMPION: Love, Mary

1988 DARLENE CRAVIOTTO: Love is Never Silent

1987 CHRISTOPHER KNOPF: Not My Kid

1987 JOYCE ELIASON: Surviving

1986 MICHAIL BORTMAN: Memorial Day

1986 WILLIAM HANLEY: Something About Amelia

1985 JAMES SADWITH: Two of a Kind

1985 J. RUFUAS CALEB: Benny's Place

1984 CLIFFORD CAMPION: The Marva Collins Story

1984 RICHARD FRIEDENBERG: Bitter Harvest

1983 CYNTHIA MANDELBERG & PEGGY CHANDLER DICK: Leave 'Em Laughing

1983 LANE SLATE: A Matter of Life and Death

1982 WILLIAM HANLEY: The Family Man

1982 PETE HAMILL: The Gift

1981 FAY KANIN: Friendly Fire

1981 JOANNA LEE: Like Normal People

1980 LORING MANDEL: Breaking Up

1980 LEON TOKATYAN: The Other Side of Hell

1979 DAVID SELTZER, EUGENE LOGAN: Green Eyes

1979 CHARLES M. COHEN: Roots, “Show #8”

1979 JERRY MCNEELY: Something for Joey

1978 ROBERT COLLINS: Medical Story, “The Quality of Mercy”

1978 DAVID SELTZER, DAVID SONTAG: My Father's House

1977 JOEL OLIANSKY: The Law

1977 STANLEY R. GREENBER: The Missiles of October

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 BARRY L. 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