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?

2012

News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Coverage of a Breaking News Story in a News Magazine	Honored for : Frontline (Syria Undercover)
News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Coverage of a Breaking News Story in a News Magazine	Honored for : Frontline (Revolution in Cairo)

2010

News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Investigative Journalism – Long Form	Honored for : Frontline (The Warning)
News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Continuing Coverage of a News Story – Long Form	Honored for : Frontline (A Death in Tehran)
News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Investigative Journalism in a News Magazine	Honored for : Frontline/World (Ghana: Digital Dumping Ground)

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

2008

News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Arts and Culture Programming	Honored for : Frontline (The Undertaking)

2007

News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Historical Programming – Long Form	Honored for : Frontline (The Lost Year in Iraq)
News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Investigative Journalism – Long Form	Honored for : Frontline (Sex Slaves)
News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Investigative Journalism in a News Magazine	Honored for : Frontline/World (Iraq: Saddam's Road to Hell)

2006

News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Investigative Journalism – Long Form	Honored for : Frontline (The Torture Question)
News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Continuing Coverage of a News Story – Long Form	Honored for : Frontline (The Storm)

2005

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

2004

News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Investigative Journalism – Long Form	Honored for : Frontline (Burden of Innocence)

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

2001

News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Background/Analysis of a Single Current Story - Programs	Honored for : Frontline (Drug Wars)

1997

News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Informational or Cultural Programming - Programs	Honored for : Frontline (Secret Daughter)

Awards by David Fanning

2014

Honored for : Frontline

Honored for : Frontline

Honored for : FRONTLINE League of Denial Dangerous Love Affair Trailer

Nominations 2014 »

2013

Honored for : Frontline

Honored for : Frontline

Honored for : Frontline

Honored for : Frontline

Honored for : Frontline

Honored for : Frontline

Honored for : FRONTLINE Fall Preview: How Come?

Nominations 2013 »

2012

Honored for : Frontline

Honored for : Frontline

2010

Honored for : Frontline

Honored for : Frontline

Honored for : Frontline/World

2009

Honored for : Frontline

Nominations 2009 »

2008

Honored for : Frontline

2007

Honored for : Frontline

Honored for : Frontline

Honored for : Frontline/World

2006

Honored for : Frontline

Honored for : Frontline

2005

Honored for : Frontline

2004

Honored for : Frontline

2003

Honored for : Frontline

Nominations 2003 »

2001

Honored for : Frontline

1997

Honored for : Frontline

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