PAST WINNERS & NOMINEES

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FEATURE WINNERS

Humanitas Prizes in Feature Film began to be awarded in Drama, Comedy, and Family starting in 2018.

2024 AVA DUVERNAY: Origin (Drama Feature)

2024 GAVIN STECKLER: Jules (Comedy Feature)

2024 ROBERT L. BAIRD & LLOYD TAYLOR: Nimona (Family Feature)

2023 TYLER PERRY: A Jazzman’s Blues (Drama Feature)

2023 COOPER RAIFF: Cha Cha Real Smooth (Comedy Feature)

2023 GUILLERMO DEL TORO & PATRICK MCHALE: Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio (Family Feature)

2022 MATT HARRIS: The Starling (Drama Feature)

2022 ADAM MCKAY: Don’t Look Up (Comedy Feature)

2022 CHARISE CASTRO SMITH & JARED BUSH: Encanto (Family Feature)

2021 Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and public health conditions in LA County, the Humanitas Prizes were not presented in 2021.

2020 MICAH FITZERMAN-BLUE & NOAH HARPSTER: A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (Drama Feature)

2020 TAIKA WAITITI: Jojo Rabbit (Comedy Feature)

2020 JENNIFER LEE: Frozen 2 (Family Feature)

2019 DANIEL STIEPLEMAN: On the Basis of Sex (Drama Feature)

2019 ELIZABETH BERGER & ISAAC APTAKER: Love, Simon (Comedy Feature)

2019 DAVID MAGEE & ROB MARSHALL & JOHN DELUCA: Mary Poppins Returns (Family Feature)

2018 (TIE) VIRGIL WILLIAMS and DEE REES: Mudbound (Drama Feature)

2018 (TIE) LIZ HANNAH and JOSH SINGER: The Post (Drama Feature)

2018 GRETA GERWIG: Lady Bird (Comedy Feature)

2018 RON BURCH & DAVID KIDD and DON RHYMER, ROBERT L. BAIRD, TIM FEDERLE and BRAD COPELAND: Ferdinand (Family Feature)

2017 (TIE) ALLISON SCHROEDER, THEODORE MELFI: Hidden Figures

2017 (TIE) ROBERT SCHENKKAN, ANDREW KNIGHT: Hacksaw Ridge

2016 RICHARD GLAZER & WASH WESTMORELAND: Still Alice

2015 JOHN RIDLEY: 12 Years a Slave

2014 DAVID O. RUSSELL: Silver Linings Playbook

2013 JAMES SOLOMON & GREGORY BERNSTEIN: The Conspirator

2012 DAVID SEIDLER: The King’s Speech

2011 GEOFFREY FLETCHER: Precious

2010 ANDREW STANTON, JIM REARDON & PETE DOCTER: Wall-E

2009 (TIE) NANCY OLIVER: Lars and the Real Girl

2009 (TIE) RONALD HARWOOD: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

2008 (TIE) RICHARD LAGRAVENESE: Freedom Writers

2008 (TIE) HANIF KUREISHI: Venus

2007 PAUL HAGGIS & BOBBY MORESCO: Crash

2006 KEIR PEARSON & TERRY GEORGE: Hotel Rwanda

2005 STEVEN KNIGHT: Dirty Pretty Things

2004 ANTWONE FISHER: Antwone Fisher

2003 RICHARD EYRE & CHARLES WOOD: Iris

2002 KENNETH LONERGAN: You Can Count on Me

2001 ERIC ROTH & MICHAEL MANN: The Insider

2000 LEWIS COLICK: October Sky

1999 MATT DAMON & BEN AFFLECK: Good Will Hunting

1998 MIKE LEIGH: Secrets & Lies

1997 TIM ROBBINS: Dead Man Walking

1996 FRANK DARABONT: The Shawshank Redemption

1995 STEVEN ZAILLIAN: Schindler’s List

COMEDY TELEPLAY WINNERS

2024 SAMANTHA RILEY, LUCIA ANIELLO, JEN STATSKY, & PAUL W. DOWNS: Hacks (“Yes, And”)

2023 AMY SHERMAN-PALLADINO: The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, “Four Minutes”

2022 ROBB CHAVIS: black-ish, “If a Black Man Cries in the Woods…”

2021 Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and public health conditions in LA County, the Humanitas Prizes were not presented in 2021.

2020 ALEX GREGORY & PETER HUYCK: Veep, “South Carolina”

2019 (TIE) AMY SHERMAN-PALLADINO: The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, “Mid-way to Mid-town” and JACK MOORE: Dear White People, “Volume 2: Chapter VIII”

2018 CHUCK LORRE & STEVE HOLLAND & TARA HERNANDEZ & STEVEN MOLARO & ERIC KAPLAN & JIM REYNOLDS: The Big Bang Theory, "The Long Distance Dissonance"

2017 KENYA BARRIS: black-ish, “Hope”

2016 DEANN HELINE & EILEEN HEISLER: The Middle: “The Graduate”

2015 ELAINE KO: Modern Family, “Under Pressure”

2014 DANNY ZUKER & CHRISTOPHER LLOYD: Modern Family, “Party Crasher”

2013 ABRAHAM HIGGINBOTHAM & DAN O’SHANNON: Modern Family, “Aunt Mommy”

2012 ABRAHAM HIGGINBOTHAM: Modern Family, “The Kiss”

2011 (TIE) LIZ BRIXIUS, LINDA WALLEM & EVAN DUNSKY: Nurse Jackie, “Pilot” & STEVEN LEVITAN & CHRISTOPHER LLOYD: Modern Family, “Pilot”

2010 ASEEM BATRA: Scrubs, “My Last Words”

2009 DAVE TENNANT: Scrubs, “My Long Goodbye”

2008 JENNIFER CRITTENDEN: The New Adventures of Old Christine, “Oh God, Yes”

2007 GREG GARCIA: My Name is Earl, “Pilot”

2006 NO AWARD GIVEN

2005 JACQUI CLAY: The Bernie Mac Show, “Saving Sergeant Tompkins”

2004 TERI SCHAFFER & STEVE TOMPKINS: The Bernie Mac Show, “Sweet Home Chicago Part 2”

2003 MATT TARSES: Scrubs, “My Old Lady”

2002 JENNIFER CRITTENDEN: Everybody Loves Raymond, “Ray’s Journal”

2001 JAY KOGEN: Frasier, “Something About Dr. Mary”

2000 AARON SORKIN and MATT TARSES & DAVID WALPERT & BILL WRUBEL: Sports Night, “The Six Southern Gentlemen of Tennessee”

1999 MARILYN SUZANNE MILLER: Murphy Brown, “Turpis Capillis Annus (Bad Hair Year)”

1998 BOB TISCHLER: Something So Right, “Something about An Older Guy”

1997 STEVEN LEVITAN: Frasier, “Breaking the Ice”

1996 DAVID RICHARDSON: The John Larroquette Show, “Faith”

1995 ROB BRAGIN: Murphy Brown, “Reaper Madness”

1994 ROB ULIN: Roseanne, “Terms of Estrangement, Part 2”

1993 JOHN MASIUS: Brooklyn Bridge, “Boys of Summer”

1992 BOB BRUSH: The Wonder Years, “Good-bye”

1991 TODD W. LANGEN: The Wonder Years, “Square Dance”

1990 MATTHEW CARLSON: The Wonder Years, “Pottery Will Get You Nowhere”

1989 HUGH WILSON: Frank’s Place, “The Bridge”

1988 BOB RANDALL: Kate & Allie, “Jennie & Jason”

1987 JOHN MARKUS: The Cosby Show, “Denise’s Friend”

1986 JOHN MARKUS: The Cosby Show, “Theo & The Joint”

1985 GARY DAVID GOLDBERG and RUTH BENNETT: Family Ties, “Not An Affair to Remember”

1984 ELIAS DAVIS and DAVID POLLOCK: M*A*S*H, “Who Knew?”

1983 DAVID POLLOCK and ELIAS DAVIS: M*A*S*H, “Where There’s a Will, There’s a War”

1982 HUGH WILSON: WKRP In Cincinnati, “Venus Fly Trap Explains”

1981 ALAN ALDA: M*A*S*H, “Dreams”

1980 MICHAEL LEESON: Taxi, “Blind Date”

1979 LARRY RHINE and MEL TOLKIN: All in the Family, “The Brother”

1978 EARL POMERANTZ: Mary Tyler Moore, “Ted’s Change of Heart”

1977 LARRY GELBART: M*A*S*H, “The Interview”

1976 M. CHARLES COHEN: Sunshine, “The Angel of Doom”

DRAMA TELEPLAY WINNERS

2024 MARISSA JO CERAR: Black Cake, “Nine Night”

2023 CRAIG MAZIN: The Last of Us, “Long, Long Time”

2022 SOO HUGH: Pachinko, “Chapter One”

2021 Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and public health conditions in LA County, the Humanitas Prizes were not presented in 2021.

2020 YAHLIN CHANG: The Handmaid’s Tale, “Useful”

2019 STEVEN LILIEN & BRYAN WYNBRANDT: God Friended Me, “Pilot”

2018 DAVID SHORE: The Good Doctor, "Pilot"

2017 DAN FOGELMAN: This Is Us, “Pilot”

2016 JIM DANGER GRAY & JENJI KOHAN: Orange is the New Black, “Trust No Bitch”

2015 ALEX GANSA & MEREDITH STIEHM: Homeland: “The Star”

2014 STEPHEN NATHAN: Bones, “The Patriot in Purgatory”

2013 (TIE) DENIS LEARY & PETER TOLAN: Rescue Me, “Ashes” & STACY MCKEE: Grey’s Anatomy, “White Wedding”

2012 JASON KATIMS: Friday Night Lights, “Always”

2011 (TIE) ROBERT KING & MICHELLE KING: The Good Wife, “Pilot” & RYAN MURPHY: Glee, “Pilot”

2010 JASON KATIMS: Friday Night Lights, “Tomorrow Blues”

2009 KIRK ELLIS: John Adams: Part 1

2008 R. SCOTT GEMMILL & DAVID ZABEL: ER, “There Are No Angels Here”

2007 DAVID SHORE: House, “Three Stories”

2006 JOHN WELLS: The West Wing, “NSF Thurmont”

2005 BARBARA HALL: Joan Of Arcadia, “Pilot”

2004 DAVID E. KELLEY: The Practice, “Final Judgement”

2003 (TIE) AARON SORKIN: The West Wing, “Two Cathedrals” & LUKAS REITER & DAVID E. KELLEY: The Practice, “Honor Code”

2002 MARSHALL HERSKOVITZ & EDWARD ZWICK: Once & Again, “Food for Thought”

2001 AARON SORKIN: The West Wing, “Take This Sabbath Day”

2000 T.J. ENGLISH: Homicide: Life on the Street, “Shades of Gray”

1999 BILL CAIN: Nothing Sacred, “Proofs for the Existence of God”

1998 DAVID MILLS: NYPD Blue, “Taillight's Last Gleaming”

1997 NICK HARDING: Picket Fences, “Saint Zack”

1996 CHRISTOPHER KEYSER & AMY LIPPMAN: Party of Five, “Thanksgiving”

1995 BURTON ARMUS: NYPD Blue, “Personal Foul”

1994 BARBARA HALL: I’ll Fly Away, “Comfort and Joy”

1993 HENRY BROMELL: I’ll Fly Away, “Amazing Grace”

1992 ANN LEWIS HAMILTON: Thirtysomething, “Second Look”

1991 JOSEPH DOUGHERTY: Thirtysomething, “The Other Show”

1990 PATRICIA GREEN: China Beach, “Promised Land”

1989 PAUL HAGGIS & MARSHALL HERSKOVITZ: Thirtysomething, “Business as Usual”

1988 GARY DAVID GOLDBERG and ALAN UGER: Family Ties, “A, My Name is Alex” (special two-part episode)

1987 ROBERT EISELE: Cagney & Lacey, “Ordinary Hero”

1986 JOHN MASIUS and TOM FONTANA: St. Elsewhere, “Bye, George”

1985 PETER SILVERMAN: Hill Street Blues, “Doris in Wonderland”

1984 DAVID MILCH: Hill Street Blues, “Trial By Fury”

1983 GENE REYNOLDS: Lou Grant, “Hunger”

1982 MICHAEL KOZOLL and STEVEN BOCHCO: Hill Street Blues, “Dressed to Kill”

1981 SALLY ROBINSON: Family, “Thanksgiving”

1980 LEON TOKATYAN: Lou Grant, “Vet”

1979 CAROL EVAN MCKEAND and DAVID JACOBS: Family, “Annie Laurie”

1978 JAMES LEE and WILLIAM BLINN: Roots, “Show #4”

1977 JAY PRESSON ALLEN: Family, “Pilot”

1976 JOEL OLIANSKY: The Law, “Complaint Amended”

LIMITED SERIES TELEPLAY

This category was formerly referred to as the “Limited Series, TV Movie, or Special” category

2024 ANYA LETA: Fellow Travelers, “Your Nuts Roasting on an Open Fire”

2023 JOAN RATER & TONY PHELAN: A Small Light, “Pilot”

2022 MARISSA JO CERAR: Women of the Movement, “Mother and Son”

2021 Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and public health conditions in LA County, the Humanitas Prizes were not presented in 2021.

2020 AVA DUVERNAY & MICHAEL STARRBURY; STORY BY AVA DUVERNAY: When They See Us, “Part 4”

90-MINUTE TELEPLAY WINNERS

This category was paused after 2015.

2015 LARRY KRAMER: The Normal Heart

2014 LIGIAH VILLALOBOS: Firelight

2013 DAVID SELTZER: Cinema Verite

2012 GEORGE STEVENS, JR.: Thurgood

2011 CHRISTOPHER MONGER & WILLIAM MERRITT JOHNSON: Temple Grandin

2010 LIEUTENANT COLONEL MICHAEL R. STROBL and ROSS KATZ: Taking Chance

2009 DANIEL GIAT: Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

2008 PETER MORGAN: Longford

2007 RICHARD CURTIS: The Girl in the Café

2006 RUBEN SANTIAGO-HUDSON: Lackawanna Blues

2005 TONY KUSHNER: Angels in America

2004 GORDON RAYFIELD: Our America

2003 KIRK ELLIS: Anne Frank

2002 SUZETTE COUTURE: Haven, Part II

2001 TOM RICKMAN: Tuesdays with Morrie

2000 NICHOLAS WOOTTON: NYPD Blue, “Hearts and Souls”

1999 TONI ANN JOHNSON: Ruby Bridges

1998 HORTON FOOTE: William Faulkner’s Old Man

1997 SIMON MOORE: Gulliver’s Travels, Part II

1996 CATHLEEN YOUNG & LEE GUTHRIE: A Place for Annie

1995 BOB RANDALL: David’s Mother

1994 ANNA SANDOR: Miss Rose White

1993 JOSHUA BRAND and JOHN FALSEY: I’ll Fly Away

1992 JOHN AXNESS & JENNIFER MILLER: Lucky Day

1991 EDWARD HUME: Common Ground, Part II

1990 NO AWARD GIVEN

1989 DENNIS NEMEC: God Bless the Child

1988 RICHARD FRIEDENBERG: Promise

1987 VICKIE PATIK: Do You Remember Love?

1986 HUME CRONYN and SUSAN COOPER: The Dollmaker

1985 JOHN PIELMEIER: Choices of The Heart

1984 MARSHALL HERSKOVITZ: Special Bulletin

1983 DONALD WRYE and LINDA ELSTAD: Divorce Wars

1982 MICHAEL CHRISTOFER: Shadow Box

1981 SUZI LYTE KAUFMAN and BARRY NEIL KAUFMAN and STEVEN KANDEL: Son-Rise: A Miracle of Love

1980 JANE HOWARD-HAMMERSTEIN: Summer of my German Soldier

1979 JOHN SACRET YOUNG: Special Olympics

1978 DAVID SELTZER: Green Eyes

1977 JEANNE WAKATSUKI HOUSTON, JAMES D. HOUSTON & JOHN KORTY: Farewell to Manzanar

1976 DAVID SELTZER: Larry

CHILDREN’S TELEPLAY WINNERS

The animated and live action children’s programming categories were combined in 2019.

2024 HALIMA LUCAS: Marvel’s Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur, “Ride or Die”

2023 HERNÁN BARANGAN: Life by Ella, “Prison or Palace”

2022 CECE BELL & WILL MCROBB: El Deafo

2021 Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and public health conditions in LA County, the Humanitas Prizes were not presented in 2021.

2020 KATE KONDELL: Elena of Avalor, “Changing of the Guard”

2019 MATTHEW CARLSON: Alexa & Katie, "Winter Formal: Part 2”

CHILDREN’S LIVE ACTION WINNERS

The animated and live action children’s programming categories were combined in 2019.

2018 MATT HUETHER: Degrassi: Next Class, "#ImSleep"

2017 ALISON MCDONALD: An American Girl Story, “Melody 1963: Love Has to Win”

2016 GARRETT FRAWLEY & BRIAN TURNER: Gortmer Gibbon’s Life on Normal Street, “Gortimer and the Surprise Signature”

2015 NO AWARD GIVEN

2014 ERIC DANIEL and DON D. SCOTT: Let It Shine

2013 ERIK PATTERSON & JESSICA SCOTT: Radio Rebel

2012 NO AWARD GIVEN

2011 NO AWARD GIVEN

2010 ARIKA LISANNE MITTMAN: South of Nowhere, “Spencer’s 18th Birthday”

2009 ANN AUSTEN, DOUGLAS SLOAN, MAX ENSCOE & ANNIE DEYOUNG: Johnny Kapahala: Back on Board

2008 ANNA SANDOR: Molly: An American Girl on the Home Front

2007 WILLY HOLTZMAN: Edge of America

2006 KAREN LEIGH HOPKINS and ALAN MARC LEVY: Searching for David’s Heart

2005 TONI ANN JOHNSON and MICHAEL D’ANTONIO: Crown Heights

2004 MARITA GIOVANNI and BRUCE GRAHAM: A Ring of Endless Light

2003 ANNA SANDOR: My Louisiana Sky

2002 JOEL KAUFFMAN and DONALD C. YOST: The Miracle in Lane Two

2001 PARIS QUALLES: The Color of Friendship

2000 HEATHER CONKIE: The Artists’ Specials, “Degas and the Dancer”

1999 HILARY JONES-FARROW: Smudge

1998 BRUCE HARMON: Lifestories: Families in Crisis, “Someone Had to Be Benny”

1997 BETTY G. BIRNEY: ABC Afterschool Special, “Fast Forward”

1996 PAMELA DOUGLAS: CBS Afterschool Special, “Between Mother and Daughter”

1995 JOSEPH MAURER: CBS Afterschool Special, “Love in the Dark Ages”

1994 BETTY G. BIRNEY: CBS Afterschool Special, “Big Boys Don’t Cry”

1993 JOSEPH MAURER: CBS Afterschool Special, “Dedicated to The One I Love”

1992 PAUL W. COOPER: CBS Afterschool Special, “Abby, My Love”

1991 BRUCE HARMON: ABC Afterschool Special, “A Town’s Revenge”

1990 ALAN GANSBERG: CBS Afterschool Special, “My Past is My Own”

1989 JOANNA LEE: ABC Afterschool Special, “The Kid Who Wouldn't Quit: The Brad Silverman Story”

1988 MELVIN VAN PEEBLES: CBS Afterschool Special, “The Day They Came to Arrest the Book”

1987 JOSEF ANDERSON: ABC Afterschool Special, “No Greater Gift”

1986 NO AWARD GIVEN

1985 CHARLES PURPURA: CBS Afterschool Special, “The Day the Senior Class Got Married”

CHILDREN’S ANIMATION WINNERS

The animated and live action children’s programming categories were combined in 2019.

2018 KERRI GRANT: Doc McStuffins, "Hannah the Brave"

2017 LAURIE ISRAEL, RACHEL RUDERMAN: Sofia the First, “Dads And Daughters Day”

2016 MATT HOVERMAN: Arthur, “The Tardy Tumbler”

2015 NO AWARD GIVEN

2014 NO AWARD GIVEN

2013 JOE ANSOLABEHERE: Pound Puppies, “I Never Barked For My Father”

2012 JONATHAN GROFF & JON POLLACK: Kung Fu Panda Holiday Special

2011 NO AWARD GIVEN

2010 NO AWARD GIVEN

2009 BRIAN HOHLFELD: My Friends Tigger and Pooh, “Eeyore’s Sad Day”

2008 SINDY MCKAY, DENNIS HALEY & MARCY BROWN: Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks, “The Gift”

2007 ALICE PRODANOU, MICHAEL STOKES and STEVEN SULLIVAN: Miss Spider’s Sunny Patch Friends, “A Foggy Day In Sunny Patch”

2006 KELLY WARD and CLIFF MACGILLIVRAY: Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks, “Waking Thor”

2005 CHRIS NEE: Little Bill, “I Can Sign/TheSign for Friend”

2004 DWAYNE MCDUFFIE: Static Shock, “Jimmy”

2003 DEV ROSS: Balto II: Wolf Quest

2002 LARRY SWERDLOVE: Clifford the Big Red Dog, “A New Friend”

2001 HARVEY FIERSTEIN: The Sissy Duckling

2000 RICHARD GITELSON: Rugrats, “Hand Me Downs”

1999 DAVID SILVERMAN and MARCY GRAY RUBIN: Life with Louie, “Blinded By Love”

1998 ALEX TAUB: Life with Louie, “The Thank You Note”

1997 ALEX TAUB: Life with Louie, “Raindrops Keep Falling On My Bed”

1996 NTOZAKE SHANGE: White Wash

1995 JAMES HOWARD KUNSTLER: American Heroes and Legends, “Johnny Appleseed”

1994 DAVID J. CORBETT and DIANE DIXON: The Legend of Prince Valiant, “The Flute”

1993 BRUCE REID SCHAEFER: The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, “Home Is Where The Home Is”

1992 BETTY G. BIRNEY: Camp Candy, “Wish Upon a Fish”

1991 CLIFF RUBY and ELANA LESSER: Dink, The Little Dinosaur, “Badge of Courage”

1990 DOUG HUTCHINSON, LARRY BERNARD and MARK ZASLOVE: The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, “Find Her, Keep Her”

1989 MARY JO LUDIN: The Flintstone Kids, “Rocky’s Rocky Road”

1988 JOHN LOY and ALAN BURNETT: The Smurfs, “The Lure of the Orb”

1986-1987 NO AWARD GIVEN

1985 JEFFREY SCOTT: Jim Henson's Muppet Babies, “Eight Take Away Equals Panic”

INDEPENDENT FEATURE WINNERS

This category was paused after 2020.

2020 MICHAEL ARMBRUSTER: End of Sentence

2019 DOUG ATCHISON: Brian Banks

2018 MATT RUSKIN: Crown Heights

2017 NATE PARKER: The Birth of a Nation

2016 JESSE ANDREWS: Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

2015 DAMIEN CHAZELLE: Whiplash

2014 RYAN COOGLER: Fruitvale Station

2013 LUCY ALIBAR & BENH ZEITLIN: Beasts of the Southern Wild

2012 THOMAS MCCARTHY: Win Win

2011 ANNE ROSELLINI & DEBRA GRANIK: Winter’s Bone

2010 CHERIEN DABIS: Amreeka

2009 PARIS QUALLES: A Raisin in the Sun

2008 SALVATORE STABILE: Where God Left His Shoes

2007 RICHARD GLATZER & WASH WESTMORELAND: Quinceañera

2006 MICHAEL KANG: The Motel

2005 JACOB AARON ESTES: Mean Creek

2004 NIKI CARO: Whale Rider

2003 GEORGE LAVOO and JOSEFINA LOPEZ: Real Women Have Curves

2002 TIMOTHY LINH BUI & TONY BUI: Green Dragon

2001 GINA PRINCE-BYTHEWOOD: Love And Basketball

DOCUMENTARY WINNERS

2024 ANDREA NEVINS & GRAHAM CLARK: The Cowboy and the Queen

2023 ONDI TIMONER: Last Flight Home

2022 NANFU WANG: In the Same Breath

2021 Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and public health conditions in LA County, the Humanitas Prizes were not presented in 2021.

2020 JAMES ERSKINE, JOHN CARLIN: This Is Football, “Redemption”

2019 KAREN EDWARDS, GEMMA ATWAL: Stolen Daughters: Kidnapped by Boko Haram

2018 EVGENY AFINEEVSKY: Cries From Syria

2017 (TIE) AVA DUVERNAY: 13th

2017 (TIE) CHRIS CHUANG WITH HEATHER MACDONALD & BRIAN OAKES: Jim: The James Foley Story

2016 BRAD ALLGOOD: Landfill Harmonic

2015 BEN COTNER & RYAN WHITE: The Case Against 8

2014 MARK BAILEY: Ethel

2013 (TIE) TOM SHADYAC: I Am

2013 (TIE) LISA R. COHEN: Serving Life

2012 GREG JACOBS & JON SISKEL: Louder Than a Bomb

2011 JENNIFER ARNOLD: A Small Act

2010 CARLOS HAGERMAN & JUAN CARLOS RULFO: Los Que Se Quedan

SHORT FILM WINNERS

2024 LUIS ANTONIO ALDANA & MIGUEL ANGEL CABALLERO: The Ballad of Tita and the Machines

2023 SABINA VAJRAČA: Sevap/Mitzvah

2022 SCOTT BURKHARDT: Girls Are Strong Here

2021 Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and public health conditions in LA County, the Humanitas Prizes were not presented in 2021.

2020 ROSANA SULLIVAN: Kitbull

WEB SERIES

2022 RICH BURNS: The Disappointments

PBS/CABLE WINNERS

This category was paused after 2003.

2003 MOISÉS KAUFMAN and THE MEMBERS OF THE TECTONIC THEATER PROJECT: The Laramie Project

2002 EMMA THOMPSON & MIKE NICHOLS: Wit

2001 ANN PEACOCK: A Lesson Before Dying

2000 JOHN SACRET YOUNG: Thanks of a Grateful Nation

1999 PAUL MONASH and MARSHALL FRADY: George Wallace

1998 WALTER BERNSTEIN: Miss Evers’ Boys

1997 JOHN HOPKINS and TOSHIRO ISHIDO: Hiroshima

1996 WILLIAM MASTROSIMONE and MICHAEL TOLKIN and RON HUTCHINSON: The Burning Season

1995 ARNOLD SCHULMAN: And the Band Played On

1994 LEE BLESSING: Cooperstown

1993 SARA FLANIGAN: Wildflower

1992 JON ROBIN BAITZ: Three Hotels

KIESER AWARD WINNERS

The Kieser Award, Humanitas’s top honoree award, is given to those whose work speaks to our deepest selves and those who use their resources to bring about positive and measurable social change. The Kieser Award is named in honor of Fr. Ellwood “Bud” Kieser, who had a prescient sense of the power and reach of the media. Past recipients include:

FILMMAKERS FOR UKRAINE

GREG BERLANTI

MARTA KAUFFMAN

JOHN SACRET YOUNG

JOHN RIDLEY

JASON KATIMS

BILL MOYERS

FAY KANIN

FRANK PIERSON

COLIN CALLENDER

LARRY GELBART

ARTHUR HILLER

VOICE FOR CHANGE AWARD WINNERS

The Voice for Change Award honors an individual effort in the film and television industry that demonstrates visionary leadership by making high-level, sometimes challenging choices to create positive systemic change. Humanitas Board Member and President Emeritus Ali LeRoi created this award to celebrate those who take risks and stand up for ideals that benefit society. Past recipients include:

THE WRITERS GUILD OF AMERICA

STARZ #TAKETHELEAD INITIATIVE

AVA DUVERNAY

KENYA BARRIS

TRACI BLACKWELL

SPECIAL AWARD WINNERS

2020 LULU WANG: The Funeral (AAFCA Breakout Writer Award)

2020 NORMAN LEAR

2009 STEPHEN WALKER: Young @ Heart

2007 DAVIS GUGGENHEIM: An Inconvenient Truth

1996 BILL MOYERS & JUDITH DAVIDSON MOYERS: What Can We Do About Violence? A Bill Moyers Special

1994 MELISSA JO PELTIER & ARNOLD SHAPIRO: Scared Silent: Ending and Exposing Child Abuse

1992 CAROL L. FLEISHER: Over the Influence: Preventing Our Kids From Using Drugs & Alcohol

1992 GEOFFREY C. WARD & RIC BURNS WITH KEN BURNS: The Civil War

1991 CAROL L. FLEISHER: See Dick & Jane... Lie, Cheat & Steal: Teaching Morality To Kids