Awards & Winners

David Fanning

David Fanning is a South African-American filmmaker who has been executive producer of the investigative documentary series Frontline since its first season in 1983. He began his filmmaking career as a young journalist in South Africa. His first films, Amabandla AmaAfrika and The Church and Apartheid, produced for BBC-TV, dealt with race and religion in his troubled homeland. He came to the U.S. in 1973 and began producing and directing local and national documentaries for KOCE, a public television station in California. His film Deep South, Deep North was a PBS/BBC co-production and the first in a long succession of collaborations between U.S. and European television. In 1977, Fanning came to WGBH Boston to start the international documentary series WORLD. As executive producer, he produced and presented over 50 films for PBS in five years. With director Antony Thomas, Fanning produced and co-wrote Death of a Princess. Then in 1982, again with Thomas, he produced Frank Terpil: Confessions of a Dangerous Man, which won the Emmy Award for best investigative documentary. In 1982, Fanning began the development of Frontline.

Awards by David Fanning

Check all the awards nominated and won by David Fanning.

2014


News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Business and Economic Reporting – Long Form
Honored for : Frontline
(The Retirement Gamble)
News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Continuing Coverage of a News Story – Long Form
Honored for : Frontline
(Syria Behind the Lines)
News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Promotional Announcement – Episodic
Honored for : FRONTLINE League of Denial Dangerous Love Affair Trailer

Nominations 2014 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Business and Economic Reporting – Long Form Frontline
The Retirement Gamble
News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Business and Economic Reporting – Long Form Frontline
The Untouchables
News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Investigative Journalism – Long Form Frontline
A Death in St. Augustine
News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Investigative Journalism – Long Form Frontline
League of Denial: The NFL's Concussion Crisis
News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Investigative Journalism – Long Form Frontline
Rape in the Fields
News & Documentary Emmy Award for New Approaches: Documentaries Frontline
The Bombing of Al Bara
News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Informational Programming – Long Form Outlawed in Pakistan
Frontline
News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Continuing Coverage of a News Story – Long Form Frontline
Egypt in Crisis
News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Continuing Coverage of a News Story – Long Form Frontline
Syria Behind the Lines
News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Promotional Announcement – Episodic FRONTLINE League of Denial \"Dangerous Love Affair\" Trailer

2013


News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Investigative Journalism – Long Form
Honored for : Frontline
(Big Sky, Big Money)
News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Continuing Coverage of a News Story – Long Form
Honored for : Frontline
(Inside Japan\u2019s Nuclear Meltdown)
News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Investigative Journalism in a News Magazine
Honored for : Frontline
(Opium Brides)
News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Coverage of a Breaking News Story in a News Magazine
Honored for : Frontline
(The Battle for Syria)
News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Business and Economic Reporting – Long Form
Honored for : Frontline
(Money, Power and Wall Street)
News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Informational Programming – Long Form
Honored for : Frontline
(The Interrupters)
News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Promotional Announcement – Institutional
Honored for : FRONTLINE Fall Preview: How Come?

Nominations 2013 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Coverage of a Breaking News Story in a News Magazine Frontline
The Battle for Syria
News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Continuing Coverage of a News Story in a News Magazine Frontline
Al Qaeda in Yemen
News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Continuing Coverage of a News Story in a News Magazine Frontline
The Regime Responds
News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Feature Story in a News Magazine Frontline
Middle School Moment
News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Investigative Journalism in a News Magazine Frontline
Opium Brides
News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Business and Economic Reporting in a News Magazine Frontline
Cell TowerDeaths
News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Business and Economic Reporting in a News Magazine Frontline
Six Billion Dollar Bet
News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Continuing Coverage of a News Story – Long Form Frontline
Inside Japan\u2019s Nuclear Meltdown
News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Continuing Coverage of a News Story – Long Form Frontline
Climate of Doubt
News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Continuing Coverage of a News Story – Long Form Frontline
Poor Kids
News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Investigative Journalism – Long Form Frontline
Big Sky, Big Money
News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Investigative Journalism – Long Form Frontline
Dollars and Dentists
News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Business and Economic Reporting – Long Form Frontline
Money, Power and Wall Street
News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Informational Programming – Long Form Frontline
The Interrupters
News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Informational Programming – Long Form Frontline
The Suicide Plan
News & Documentary Emmy Award for New Approaches: Current News Coverage Frontline: Targeting the Electorate
News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Promotional Announcement – Institutional FRONTLINE Fall Preview: How Come?

2009


News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Continuing Coverage of a News Story – Long Form
Honored for : Frontline
(Bush's War)

Nominations 2009 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
PGA Producer of the Year Award in Non-Fiction Television Frontline

2005


News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Investigative Journalism – Long Form
Honored for : Frontline
(The Secret History of the Credit Card)

2003


News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Investigative Journalism – Long Form
Honored for : Frontline
(An Ordinary Crime)

Nominations 2003 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
PGA Producer of the Year Award in Live Entertainment And Competition Television Frontline