Bruce Springsteen: Backstage and Backstreets, produced by ABC News Studios, was nominated for outstanding arts, culture or entertainment coverage at the 2025 News & Documentary Emmy Awards. The nominations were announced on Thursday (May 1).
Springsteen has been nominated for three Primetime Emmys, but has yet to win. He was nominated for outstanding variety, music or comedy special for Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band (HBO, 2001), outstanding special class – short-form live action entertainment program for Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band Super Bowl Halftime Show (NBC, 2009) and outstanding variety special (pre-recorded) for Springsteen on Broadway (Netflix, 2019).
Springsteen has won 20 Grammys and an Oscar. He received a Special (honorary) Tony Award in 2018 to honor his show Springsteen on Broadway, which played in 2017-18 and again in 2021.
Celine’s Story, an NBC News special with Hoda Kotb, Celine Dion’s first TV interview after being diagnosed with Stiff Person Syndrome, is nominated for outstanding edited interview.
As We Speak: Rap Music on Trial is nominated for outstanding arts and culture documentary. In the doc, which premiered on Paramount+ in February 2024, Killer Mike sat down with rapper Kemba to delve deeper into the criminalization of lyrics in hip-hop.
The 46th annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards honor programming that originally premiered in calendar year 2024. The 2,200 submissions were judged by a pool of more than 980 peer professionals from across the television and streaming/digital media news and documentary industry.
The 46th Annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards will be presented live at the Palladium Times Square in New York City, and will be streamed live on The Emmys website and via The Emmys apps for iOS, tvOS, Android, FireTV and Roku.
The awards will be presented in two ceremonies:
- News ceremony – Wednesday, June 25, at 7 p.m. ET
- Documentary ceremony – Thursday, June 26, at 7 p.m. ET
Here are the nominees in categories most relevant to the music community. The complete list of nominees is available on The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences’ website:
Outstanding arts, culture or entertainment coverage
10 Million Names, ABC News Live, ABC
Bruce Springsteen: Backstage and Backstreets, ABC News Studios, ABC
“Finding His Voice,” CBS Sunday Morning, CBS
“Illegal Gambling,” Trafficked: Underworlds with Mariana van Zeller, National Geographic [Muck Media]
“The Last Heroes of Normandy,” ABC World News Tonight With David Muir and Nightline, ABC
“Netflix Is Betting Big on Latin America,” The Circuit With Emily Chang, Bloomberg
Outstanding arts and culture documentary
As We Speak: Rap Music on Trial, Paramount+ [MTV Entertainment Studios, District 33, Park Pictures, Strike Anywhere]
Butterfly in the Sky, Netflix [Sidestilt Films, Window Pictures, XTR]
Hollywood Black, MGM+ [Radical Media, Culture Machine, Significant Productions]
King Coal, POV, PBS [Narrow Vision Endeavors, Cottage M, Drexler Films, King Coal Productions LLC, Fishbowl Films]
Madu, Disney + [Disney Branded Television, Hunting Lane Films]
Outstanding edited interview
“Celine’s Story: An NBC News Special with Hoda Kotb,” NBC News Special Report, NBC News
“The Democratic Ticket,” 60 Minutes, CBS News
“Ketanji Brown Jackson,” CBS Sunday Morning, CBS
“Pope Francis,” 60 Minutes, CBS News
“Prisoner in Russia: The Brittney Griner Interview,” 20/20, ABC
Outstanding music composition – documentary
Billy & Molly: An Otter Love Story, National Geographic [Silverback Films]
“Dan Winters: Life is Once. Forever,” Photographer, National Geographic [Little Monster Films]
Endurance, National Geographic [A Little Dot Studios, Consequential, History Hit Production, Little Monster Films, National Geographic Documentary Films]
Frida, Prime Video [Imagine Documentaries, TIME Studios]
Mafia Spies, Paramount+ [CreativeChaos vmg]
