Jackson Hole Science Media Awards 2014 Finalists Announced
Program/Content Finalists Have Been Announced!
Crafts Category Finalists Announced August 15th
CONTENT CATEGORY FINALISTS:
Best Earth Sciences Program
(Including Geology, Paleontology, Oceanography, and Meteorology)
Your Inner Fish: Your Inner Reptile
Tangled Bank Studios & Windfall Films, for PBS
The Day the Mesozoic Died
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
David Attenborough’s Natural History Museum Alive 3D
Colossus Productions
Best Biological/Life Sciences Program
(Including Botany, Zoology Genetics, Neuroscience and Evolution)
Your Inner Fish: Your Inner Fish
Tangled Bank Studios & Windfall Films, for PBS
Unnatural Selection
Sky Vision & Terra Mater Factual Studios, GmbH
Decoding Neanderthals
A NOVA Production by Arrow International Media, Ltd. for WGBH
Best Environmental & Conservation Sciences Program
(Interdisciplinary Examination of the Environment and Ecosystems)
Earth a New Wild: Plains
National Geographic Television & Passion Planet for PBS
Battle for the Elephants
Everwild Media for National Geographic Television
Inside the Megastorm
Dragonfly Film & Television Productions, Ltd. for NOVA/WGBH in association with BBC
Killer Whales - Fins of Change
Terra Mater Factual Studios, GmbH, Brian Leith Productions, WNET/Thirteen & NDR Naturfilm Doclights
Best Medical Sciences Program
(Including Clinical Science, Epidemiology, Pharmacology, Bioengineering, Stem Cell Research and Public Health)
American Experience: The Poisoner’s Handbook
An Apograph Productions, Inc. film for American Experience
American Experience is a production of WGBH
Jabbed: Love, Fear and Vaccines
Genepool Productions
Kids on Speed? Episode 1
Essential Media and Entertainment
Toxic Bees – Nature’s Mayday
Public Television Service, Taiwan
Best Physical Sciences Program
(Including Physics, Chemistry, Astronomy and Nanoscience)
Particle Fever
PF Productions, LLC & Anthos Media, LLC
COSMOS: A Spacetime Odyssey -- Standing Up in the Milky Way
Fuzzy Doors Productions, Cosmos Studios, Inc. in association with FOX Broadcasting Company & National Geographic Channel
Eyes of Atacama
Terra Mater Factual Studios, GmbH
Best Technological Sciences Program
(Including Robotics, Computer & IT, Artificial Intelligence, Mechanical & Systems Engineering)
The Incredible Bionic Man
Darlow Smithson Productions, Ltd. for Smithsonian Channel
Genius of Nature: Sensing
Terra Mater Factual Studios, GmbH, Oxford Scientific Films & BBC
Zeppelin Terror Attack
Windfall Films, Ltd. for NOVA/WGBH, Channel 4 & National Geographic Channel
Rise of the Drones
Pangloss Films, LLC for NOVA/WGBH
Best Human & Social Sciences Program
(Including Psychology, Anthropology, Sociology, Linguistics and History of Science)
The Perfect Runner
Clearwater Documentary, Inc. & Smithsonian Channel
The Ultimate Formula: What is the Universe Made of?
NHK
Enigma Man - A Stone Age Mystery
Electric Pictures
PROGRAM CATEGORIES:
Best Limited Series
COSMOS: A Spacetime Odyssey
Fuzzy Door Productions and Cosmos Studios, Inc. in association with FOX Broadcasting Company & National Geographic Channel
Your Inner Fish
Tangled Bank Studios & Windfall Films, for PBS
Years of Living Dangerously
Roaring Fork Films
Richard Hammond’s Miracles of Nature
Terra Mater Factual Studios, GmbH, Oxford Scientific Films & Hamster’s Wheel
Best Short Program
Your Inner Fish: We Hear with the Bones that Reptiles Eat With
Tangled Bank Studios & Windfall Films, for PBS
Snows of the Nile
Day’s Edge Productions
Invisible Ocean: Plankton & Plastic
Emily V. Driscoll/BonSci Films
Return of the Cicadas
Samuel Orr/www.MotionKicker.com
Best Short Series Program
Freaks of Nature
Off the Fence Productions
QUEST: The Science of Sustainability
KQED in collaboration with five partner stations
WildFIRE PIRE: Wildfires, Climate Change, & the Ecosystem
Dennis Aig and Daniel Schmidt, Montana State University, Department of Science and Natural History Filmmaking
Best Radio & Podcast Media
The STEM Story Project -- The Poison Squad: A Chemist’s Quest for Pure Food
Sruthi Pinnamaneni
Desperate for a Cure: The Search for New Alzheimer’s Treatments
WCAI - The Cape and Islands' NPR Station
Shared Planet
BBC Natural History Unit
Best Hosted or Presenter-led Program
COSMOS: A Spacetime Odyssey -- Standing Up in the Milky Way
Fuzzy Doors Productions & Cosmos Studios, Inc. in association with FOX Broadcasting Company & National Geographic Channel
Richard Hammond’s Miracles of Nature -- Super-Bodies
Terra Mater Factual Studios GmbH
David Attenborough’s Natural History Museum Alive 3D
Colossus Productions
Best Children’s Education Program
Wild Kratts: When Fish Fly!
KrattBrothers Company, Ltd. & 9 Story Entertainment
Plum Landing
WGBH Educational Foundation & Global Mechanic
Watermelon Magic
Spring Garden Pictures
Survival of the Sexiest, Parts I & II
Animator: Baker & Hill
Developed by National Geographic & Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology
Best Integrated/Cross Platform Media
Tales from the Poisoner’s Handbook
American Experience/WGBH Educational Foundation
Live from Space
Arrow Media, Channel 4 & National Geographic Channel
Birds of Paradise: Amazing Avian Evolution
Developed by National Geographic & Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology
Best Student and Emerging Science Filmmaker
Seizing the Unrecorded
Ingrid Pfau
Montana State University, MFA Science and Natural History Filmmaking Program
When the Peacock Sings: A Prequel to the Monsoons
Shaz Syed
University of Salford: Mediacity
Pride
Rosh Patel
Montana State University, MFA Science and Natural History Filmmaking Program
Best Immersive Cinema (3D/Large Format)
Flight of the Butterflies 3D
SK Films
Jerusalem 3D
A Cosmic Picture/Arcane Pictures Film, National Geographic Ventures
Mysteries of the Unseen World (IMAX)
National Geographic Entertainment & Day’s End Pictures
Best Immersive Cinema (Fulldome)
Moons: Worlds of Mystery
Charles Hayden Planetarium & Boston Museum of Science
Bella Gaia: Beautiful Earth
Remedy Arts, LLC & Denver Museum of Nature & Science
Dark Universe
American Museum of Natural History
Supervolcanoes
Spitz Creative Media, Mirage3D & Thomas Lucas Productions in association with Denver Museum of Nature & Science
Best Online and Interactive Media
Sound Uncovered: An Interactive Book for the iPad
Exploratorium
The RNA Lab
NOVA
David Attenborough’s Natural History Museum Alive App
Colossus Productions
