The Television Academy Honors annually awards television programs with socially conscious approaches to social issues.
History The Television Academy Honors were established in 2008 to recognize "Television with a Conscience"—television programming that inspires, informs, motivates and even has the power to change lives.
The presentation in 2023 was cancelled due to the then Writers Guild of America strike.
Honorees 2000s 1st Annual (2008) Alive Day Memories: Home from Iraq Boston Legal Girl Positive God's Warriors Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, "Harm" Pictures of Hollis Woods Planet Earth Shame Side Order of Life
2nd Annual (2009) A Home for the Holidays (10th Annual) Breaking the Huddle: The Integration of College Football Brothers & Sisters, "Prior Commitments" Extreme Makeover Home Edition, "The Martirez & Malek Families" Masterpiece Contemporary: "God on Trial" Stand Up to Cancer 30 Days Whale Wars
2010s 3rd Annual (2010) CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: "Coup de Grace" Glee: "Wheels" Grandpa, Do You Know Who I Am? with Maria Shriver National Geographic Explorer" "Inside Death Row" Private Practice: "Nothing To Fear" Taking Chance Unlocking Autism Vanguard: "The OxyContin Express"
4th Annual (2011) The 16th Man The Big C: "Taking the Plunge" Friday Night Lights: "I Can't" Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution The Oprah Winfrey Show: "A Two-Day Oprah Show Event: 200 Adult Men Who Were Molested Come Forward" Parenthood: "Pilot" Private Practice: "Did You Hear What Happened to Charlotte King?" Wartorn 1861–2010
5th Annual (2012) The Dr. Oz Show The Five Harry's Law: "Head Games" Hot Coffee Men of a Certain Age: "Let the Sun Shine In" Rescue Me: "344" Women, War & Peace
6th Annual (2013) A Smile as Big as the Moon D.L. Hughley: The Endangered List Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity For Women Worldwide Hunger Hits Home The Newsroom Nick News with Linda Ellerbee One Nation Under Dog: Stories of Fear, Loss & Betrayal Parenthood
7th Annual (2014) The Big C: Hereafter Comedy Warriors The Fosters Mea Maxima Culpa Mom Screw You Cancer Vice
8th Annual (2015) black-ish, "Crime and Punishment" E:60, "Dream On: Stories of Boston's Strongest" The Normal Heart Paycheck to Paycheck: The Life & Times of Katrina Gilbert Transparent Virunga
9th Annual (2016) Born This Way Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief Homeland The Knick Mississippi Inferno Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom
10th Annual (2017) Before the Flood The Night Of Speechless This Is Us We Will Rise: Michelle Obama's Mission to Educate Girls Around the World Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
11th Annual (2018) 13 Reasons Why Andi Mack Daughters of Destiny Forbidden: Undocumented and Queer in Rural America Full Frontal with Samantha Bee LA 92 One Day at a Time
12th Annual (2019) Alexa & Katie A Million Little Things I Am Evidence My Last Days Pose Rest in Power: The Trayvon Martin Story RBG
2020s 13th Annual (2020) 16 Shots At the Heart of Gold: Inside the USA Gymnastics Scandal Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj Queen Sugar Unbelievable Watchmen
14th Annual (2021) For Life I Am Greta I May Destroy You Little America The Daily Show The Social Dilemma Welcome to Chechnya
15th Annual (2022) Black and Missing Dopesick Insecure It's a Sin Reservation Dogs Taste the Nation: Holiday Edition The Year Earth Changed
16th Annual (cancelled) Profiled: The Black Man 37 Words As We See It Mo The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks The U.S. and the Holocaust We're Here
17th Annual (2024) 1000% Me: Growing Up Mixed The 1619 Project A Small Light Beef Deadlocked: How America Shaped the Supreme Court Heartstopper Lakota Nation vs. United States
17th Annual (2025) Daughters Genius: MLK/X Greener Pastures Out of My Mind We Will Dance Again Will & Harper
17th Annual (2026) AdolescenceMichael Schneider, "‘Heated Rivalry,’ ‘South Park’ Among This Year’s Television Academy Honors Recipients". Variety, April 16, 2026. Deaf President Now! Dying for Sex Heated Rivalry Seen & Heard: The History of Black Television South Park
See also The Peabody Awards Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Alfred I. duPont–Columbia University Award
References
External links Television Academy