John Oliver, RBG & Ellen’s Game of Games Among Bennett Award Recipients

For the 5th straight year, NATPE (National Association of Television Program Executives) presented the winners of its Annual Unscripted Breakthrough Awards with sculpture awards created by Bennett Awards. These recognition awards honor reality programs that broke away from the pack the preceding year, becoming part of our cultural conversation and generally altering the expectations of what constitutes a reality program.

As in past years, NATPE used the Bennett Awards design “Distinction” for these recognition awards. These unique sculpture awards were cast in pewter, silver-plated, and then mounted on marble bases with personalized engravings of the NATPE logotype, award category, and recipient name.

The award honorees were presented to recipients at the NATPE MIAMI Marketplace and Conference, held in January 2019. A special awards ceremony was held was held at the Fontainebleau Miami Beach, and was hosted by country-music super-star Kellie Pickler and Emmy Award-winning journalist Ben Aaron.

The 2019 awards were given out in the following categories: Innovation, Competition, Documentary, Docusoap, Factual, and Game Shows. The winners in each category were:

COMPETITION WINNER: RuPaul’s Drag Race (VH1)

Nominees:

  • American Ninja Warrior

  • Big Brother

  • RuPaul’s Drag Race

  • The Voice

  • World of Dance

FACTUAL WINNER: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

Nominees:

  • Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown

  • Full Frontal with Samantha Bee

  • Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

  • Real Time with Bill Maher

  • The Daily Show with Trevor Noah

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DOCUMENTARY WINNER: RBG (CNN)

Nominees:

  • Evil Genius: The True Story of America’s Most Diabolical Bank Heist

  • Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath

  • RBG

  • The Staircase

  • Wild Wild Country

 

GAME SHOWS WINNER: Ellen’s Game of Games (NBC)

Nominees:

Beat Shazam

Celebrity Family Feud

Ellen’s Game of Games

Hollywood Game Night

Match Game

DOCUSOAP WINNER: Born This Way (A&E)

Nominees:

  • Below Deck

  • Born This Way

  • Jersey Shore

  • The Real Housewives Franchise

  • Vanderpump Rules

INNOVATION WINNER: Live PD (A&E)

Nominees:

  • Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath

  • Live PD

  • Nailed It!

  • Queer Eye

  • Wild Wild Country

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