OUTSTANDING ARTS & CULTURE PROGRAMMING

Frontline:
The Undertaking
Thomas Lynch, 58, is a writer and a poet. He’s also a funeral director in a small town in central Michigan where he and his family have cared for the dead — and the living — for three generations. Lynch agreed to allow Frontline inside Lynch & Sons, from funeral arrangements to the embalming room, for this film.

OUTSTANDING SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND NATURE PROGRAMMING

The Mysterious Human Heart:
All three episodes watchable online.
About the heart: how it works, what can go wrong with it, and how we treat it. The three-hour series follows the stories of men and women, young and old, whose hearts have led them to a brush with mortality. The series explores the most common misconceptions about this unique organ, and documents scientific and medical discoveries that have given us new insights into the best ways to prevent and treat heart disease.

BEST REPORT IN A NEWS MAGAZINE

Bill Moyers Journal:
Buying the War
Four years ago on May 1, President Bush landed on the aircraft carrier USS Lincoln and delivered a speech in front of a giant “Mission Accomplished” banner. Despite profound questions and the increasing violence in Baghdad, many in the press confirmed the White House’s claim that the war was won. How did they get it so wrong? How did the evidence disputing the existence of weapons of mass destruction and the link between Saddam Hussein and 9/11 continue to go largely unreported?

OUTSTANDING INDIVIDUAL ACHIEVEMENT IN A CRAFT: RESEARCH

American Experience:
The Living Weapon
This American Experience production examines the international race to develop biological weapons in the 1940s and 1950s, revealing the scientific and technical challenges scientists faced and the moral dilemmas posed by their eventual success. Full documentary online.

OUTSTANDING INDIVIDUAL ACHIEVEMENT IN A CRAFT: LIGHTING DIRECTION AND SCENIC DESIGN