AWARDS

The film "Brotherhood", co-produced by Al Jazeera Documentary Channel, won first prize in the category “Concorso Cineasti del presente" at the 74th edition of the Locarno Film Festival.

Al Jazeera Media Network has been recognised with a platinum award by dotCOMM Awards for its campaign to release Mahmoud Hussein, a journalist at Al Jazeera Channel. Hussein was arrested by the Egyptian authorities on December 23rd 2016 and held in detention for more than four years without formal charges or trial.

The series "Afghanistan: The Wounded Land", co-produced by Al Jazeera Documentary Channel, won the Jane Mercer Footage Researcher of the Year Award 2021, which international documentary productions compete over, awarded annually by FOCAL International Association.

Al Jazeera Documentary channel’s film, Bride Dress, by Palestinian director Marwa Jabbara Tibi was awarded Best Feature Documentary at the 9th International Festival of Human Rights Documents held in Rabat from June 25th to 27th, under the theme: Cinema is our common language.

The Capital Emmy Awards Gala has named AJ+ film "Meet the black southerners confronting their racist town" as the 2021 Capital Emmy Awards Societal Concerns News category winners.

Al Jazeera’s Digital Division wins best Print and Women’s Entrepreneur Reporting awards for interactive features about women and children in East and West Africa.

Al Jazeera Digital scoops two wins at the 46th Gracie Awards for excellence in work produced by, for and about women.

101 East’s senior reporter Drew Ambrose has been named the International Journalist of the Year at the 2021 One World Media Awards.

Al Jazeera Documentary channel's film, The Sacred Woods​, received Best Film award at the 6th African Film Festival​ held in Dallas, USA.

Al Jazeera Media Network's Creative directorate has won three prizes at NewscastStudio’s Broadcast Productions Awards. The Network’s creative directorate competed with more than 200 creative content-makers from many internationally-renowned channels and institutions.

Al Jazeera Media Network has been awarded “Best Industry Innovation” by the Ministry of Transportation & Communications (MOTC) for its ground-breaking technology innovation recognized by the Global Media Industry.

Al Jazeera Media Network has won more than 140 Telly awards in the field of television and video, including 25 Gold awards in various media fields, awarding the Network "Company of the Year" at the 42nd annual session, and becoming the first non-U.S. media organisation to win the title since the award was established in 1979.

Al Jazeera won a record nine Shorty awards2021. The jury conferred three Winner prizes and one Gold ‘second place’ to brands that demonstrated excellence in digital innovation.

The Wincott Foundation has awarded Al Jazeera the Wincott Award for Video Journalism of the Year. 101 East’s  Selling Out West Papua  revealed how Asia’s largest remaining rainforests are being sold for $5 a hectare.

AJ+ français won two prestigious Webby Awards for the Jury Selection and People’s Choice. The awards were won by a documentary produced by the channel on Couscous of sub-Saharan Africa.

AJ Contrast, Al Jazeera’s immersive storytelling and media innovation studio, won the Drum Online Media Award in the Editorial Innovation of the Year category for Still Here, the virtual and augmented reality installation.

AJ Contrast, VR and Digital Innovation Studio wins ‘Best Use of Digital Media’ for interactive about Uighurs in diaspora.

Al Jazeera Documentary channel’s film, Postcard, directed by Moroccan director Asma al-Modeer, won the Best Feature Documentary award at the Toronto Women Film Festival,

 Al Jazeera English channel won a prestigious 2021 Royal Television Society (RTS) award in the Breaking News category for its reporting of last year’s Beirut explosion.

Al Jazeera English channel was honoured with a 2021 Royal Television Society (RTS) Judges’ Award for the work of its technical team during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Al Jazeera Media Network has won three Promax Global Excellence Awards, two golds and one bronze, in the Informational Graphics and Interstitial Campaigns categories; surpassing a large number of prestigious media organizations including CNN, National Geographic and others.

Al Jazeera journalist Mahmoud Hussein honored with Percy Qoboza Award, from the National Association of Black Journalists. NABJ honored Hussein during a virtual awards event.

AJE Documentaries won two awards at the prestigious Foreign Press Association Media Awards 2020. ‘Hillbilly’ from Witness won the Arts & Culture Story of the Year and ‘Kyrgyzstan’s Space School’ part of the Women Make Science series won the Science Story of the Year award.

Al Jazeera Documentary Channel's “The Fifth Story” won the FIPRESCI Award in the 33rd edition of the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) 2020.