Emmy Awards
2015 News and Documentary Emmy Award: Outstanding Coverage of a Current News Story – Long Form
United States of Secrets (PBS FRONTLINE)
2015 News and Documentary Emmy Award: Outstanding Investigative Journalism – Long Form
Firestone and The Warlord (PBS FRONTLINE)
2015 News and Documentary Emmy Award: Outstanding Documentary
United States of Secrets (PBS FRONTLINE)
2015 News and Documentary Emmy Award: Outstanding Research
Firestone and The Warlord (PBS FRONTLINE)
2014 News and Documentary Emmy Award: Outstanding Business and Economic Reporting – Long Form
The Retirement Gamble (PBS FRONTLINE)
2013 News and Documentary Emmy Award: Outstanding Business and Economic Reporting – Long Form
Money, Power and Wall Street (PBS FRONTLINE)
2009 News and Documentary Emmy Award: Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft: Cinematography
The War Briefing (PBS FRONTLINE)
2008-2009 Emmy Award for Business and Financial Reporting: Outstanding Documentary on a Business Topic
The Madoff Affair (PBS FRONTLINE)
2005 News and Documentary Emmy Award: Outstanding Continuing Coverage of a News Story
The Storm (PBS FRONTLINE)
2000 News and Documentary Emmy Award: Outstanding Background/Analysis of a Single Current Story (Program)
Drug Wars (PBS FRONTLINE)
1981-1982 News and Documentary Emmy Award: Outstanding Background/Analysis of a Single Current Story (Program)
Guatemala (CBS Reports)
Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards
2020 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award (Finalist)
The Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia (PBS FRONTLINE)
2019 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award (Gold Baton)
The Gang Crackdown (PBS FRONTLINE) & Bitter Rivals: Iran & Saudi Arabia (PBS FRONTLINE)
2015 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award (Silver Baton)
United States of Secrets (PBS FRONTLINE)
2001-2002 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award (Gold Baton)
Hunting Bin Laden (PBS FRONTLINE)
2001-2002 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award (Gold Baton)
Looking for Answers (PBS FRONTLINE)
2001-2002 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award (Gold Baton)
Saudi Time Bomb (PBS FRONTLINE)
2001-2002 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award (Silver Baton)
Truth, War and Consequences (PBS FRONTLINE)
George Foster Peabody Awards
2024 George Foster Peabody Award
America and the Taliban (Part 1, 2, 3) (PBS FRONTLINE)
2019 George Foster Peabody Award
Separated: Children at the Border (PBS FRONTLINE)
2016 George Foster Peabody Award
Confronting ISIS (PBS FRONTLINE)
2014 George Foster Peabody Award
United States of Secrets (PBS FRONTLINE)
2009 George Foster Peabody Award
The Madoff Affair (PBS FRONTLINE)
2000 George Foster Peabody Award
Drug Wars (PBS FRONTLINE)
1995 George Foster Peabody Award
Hiroshima – Why the Bomb Was Dropped (ABC News)
1985 George Foster Peabody Award
Crisis in Central America (PBS FRONTLINE)
George Polk Awards
2012 George Polk Award for Documentary Television Reporting
Money, Power and Wall Street (PBS FRONTLINE)
1990 George Polk Award for Documentary Television Reporting
Inside Gorbachev’s USSR (WGBH)
1986 George Polk Award for International Television Reporting
Who’s Running This War (PBS FRONTLINE)
1982 George Polk Award for Network Television Reporting
Guatemala (CBS Reports)
Investigate Reporters and Editors Award
2014 Investigative Reporters and Editors Award for Multiplatform – Large
Firestone and the Warlord (PBS FRONTLINE)
John Chancellor Award
2014 John Chancellor Award for Excellence in Journalism
Awarded to Martin Smith
Nancy Dickerson Whitehead Awards
2001 Nancy Dickerson Whitehead Award for Excellence in Reporting on Drug and Alcohol Problems
Drug Wars (PBS FRONTLINE)
Overseas Press Club Awards
2024 Peter Jennings Award Citation for Excellence
America and the Taliban (Part 1, 2, 3) (PBS FRONTLINE)
2021 Peter Jennings Award Citation for Excellence
The Jihadist (PBS FRONTLINE)
2015 Edward R. Murrow Citation for Best Television Interpretation or Documentary on International Affairs
Firestone and the Warlord (PBS FRONTLINE)
2010 Edward R. Murrow Award for Best Television Interpretation or Documentary on International Affairs
Obama’s War (PBS FRONTLINE)
2008 Whitman Bassow Award for Best Reporting in Any Medium on International Environmental Issues
Heat (PBS FRONTLINE)
2000 Edward R. Murrow Award for Best Television Interpretation or Documentary on International Affairs
Return of the Czar (PBS FRONTLINE)
1995 Edward R. Murrow Award for Best Television Interpretation or Documentary on International Affairs
Hiroshima – Why the Bomb Was Dropped (ABC News)
Society of Environmental Journalists Award for Reporting on the Environment
2011 Kevin Carmody Award for Outstanding In-depth Reporting, Large Market
The Spill (PBS FRONTLINE)
Weintal Prize for Diplomatic Reporting
2007 Special Citation in recognition of a career of distinguished reporting on foreign policy and diplomacy
Awarded to Martin Smith
Writers Guild of America Awards
2018 Writers Guild of America Award for Outstanding Script: Television Documentary – Current Events
Confronting ISIS (PBS FRONTLINE)
2014 Writers Guild of America Award for Outstanding Script: Television Documentary – Current Events
Egypt in Crisis (PBS FRONTLINE)
2013 Writers Guild of America Award for Outstanding Script: Television Documentary – Current Events
Money, Power and Wall Street: Episode 1 (PBS FRONTLINE)
2012 Writers Guild of America Award for Outstanding Script: Television Documentary – Other Than Current Events
WikiSecrets (PBS FRONTLINE)
2012 Writers Guild of America Award for Outstanding Script: Television News – Regularly Scheduled, Bulletin or Breaking News
Educating Sergeant Pantzke (PBS FRONTLINE)
2010 Writers Guild of America Award for Outstanding Script: Television Documentary – Current Events
The Madoff Affair (PBS FRONTLINE)
2008 Writers Guild of America Award for Outstanding Script: Television Documentary – Current Events
Return of the Taliban (PBS FRONTLINE)
2003 Writers Guild of America Award for Outstanding Script: Television Documentary – Current Events
Truth, War and Consequences (PBS FRONTLINE)
Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award
2015 Robert F. Kennedy New Media Award
Firestone and the Warlord (PBS FRONTLINE)
Festival International de Programmes Audiovisuels
2014 Festival Selection
Egypt in Crisis (PBS FRONTLINE)
Online Journalism Awards
2021 Digital Video Storytelling, Short Form
The Last Call (PBS FRONTLINE with The New Yorker)