AWARDS

Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit (I-Unit) has won two awards at British Sports Journalism Awards. The Men Who Sold Football investigation was released as a film on Al Jazeera English in August 2021 and won gold in the Television/Digital Documentary category.   The podcast of the investigation also won a bronze in the Audio / Radio Documentary category. 

At the 2021 Walkley Awards for Excellence in Journalism, Al Jazeera English’s 101 East team was announced as the winner of the Production category for the interactive project “This is Myanmar’s State of Fear”.

Al Jazeera English has won a prestigious Royal Television Society (RTS) award in the Digital Award category for its series ‘All Hail the Lockdown’. The Network’s Investigative unit also took home an award, in the Home Affairs category for its film ‘The Men Who Sell Football’.

Al Jazeera Digital won three Gold awards across and a Silver medal in the inaugural Anthem Awards for purpose-driven work on February 15. Hosted by the Webby Awards, the Anthem Awards honored innovators and change makers across a variety of social good sectors. Winners will be showcased during a virtual gala event on February 28.

Al Jazeera Centre for Public Liberties and Human Rights won three AVA Digital Awards; a platinum award for the Inspiring Stories initiative, and two gold awards in the Best Digital Story category for Being a Person with Disability is Aspirational and My Craft is in My Hand stories. The Centre also received two Honourable Mentions in the Web-Based Production category, for the design of the initiative's website as well as its non-profit content.

Al Jazeera Investigative Unit (I-Unit) won one of the 2021 British Journalism Awards in the Sports Journalism category for its film The Men Who Sell Football.

The awarded film reveals how English football clubs can be bought by convicted criminals and become vehicles to launder dirty money. Football middlemen tell undercover reporters how they can hide a criminal’s money and identity behind offshore trusts and use “dirty tricks” to deceive the football authorities.

Al Jazeera English’s media analysis and critique show, ‘The Listening Post’ was named Arts & Culture Story of the Year by London’s Foreign Press Association (FPA) for its episode “Battle for the BBC.”

Al Jazeera Media Network has been awarded three coveted Dolphin awards at the Cannes Corporate Media & TV Awards for three films from Al Jazeera English Channel’s Witness documentary strand and Al Jazeera News Channel’s documentary "Palestine 1920". The winners were announced online on November 15.

At the 2021 Amnesty International Australia Media Awards, Al Jazeera English’s 101 East team was announced as the winner of the Print/Online category for the interactive project “The $5 Forests”.

Al Jazeera Media Network wins 21 Lovie Awards, including 10 Jury awards and 11 People’s Lovie awards. The winners were honoured at the 11th Annual Lovie Awards ceremony, held virtually, on November 17, 2021.

Al Jazeera English (AJE) was named ‘Channel of the Year’ at the 2021 Association of International Broadcaster Awards.

The channel also won two awards, in the Continuing News Reporting and Arts and Culture categories.

After competing against 15 foreign documentaries, Al Jazeera's Documentary Channel's film, In The Hands of God, won the Best Documentary Award at the 10th AFRIFF International Film Festival (AFRIFF) in Lagos, Nigeria.

At its 32nd edition, the Carthage Film Festival announced, Little Palestine, co-produced by Al Jazeera Documentary channel, a winner of the Golden Tanit award in the Feature Documentary category.

Hindsight, Al Jazeera Digital’s docudrama podcast series, won a Silver Medal for Best Narration at the 2021 New York Festivals Radio Awards. The full roster of winners was announced virtually, as part of the New York Festivals  Storytellers Gala livecast from New York on October 12.

 Al Jazeera Digital’s news and current affairs podcast, The Take, won top prize in its category in the 2021 Online Journalism (OJA) Awards. The full roster of winners​ was announced online and during an annual conference hosted by OJA parent group, the Online News Association, in Philadelphia on October 16. 

Drowning Letters​, a documentary co-produced by Al Jazeera Documentary channel, received the grand award at the Figra film festival in France in the category of different perspective.

Al Jazeera English (AJE) was named ‘Broadcaster of the Year’ at the 2021 New York Festivals TV & Film Awards for the fifth consecutive year.
The channel collected an impressive array of gold, silver and bronze medals for its programmes and news coverage.

Al Jazeera's Investigative Journalism Unit has won the Best Long Investigative and Best Audio prizes at the DIG for its Investigative, All the Prime Minister's Men.

Al Jazeera’s "About Cinema" programme won a gold award at the Venice TV Award in the "Best of Technology and Innovation" category for the “Star Wars” episode. The programme also qualified to compete in the “Best TV Series” and “Light Entertainment” categories.

Al Jazeera Documentary Channel co-produced the documentary “Their Algeria” directed by Lina Soualem, won the Black Iris Award in the category Best Arab Feature Documentary, in the second edition of the Amman International Film Festival.

The "Afghanistan: The Wounded Earth" series, co-produced and edited by Al Jazeera Documentary Channel, won the Grimme Prize for 2021​, awarded annually by the Grimme Institute for Research & Education for Best International Documentary Productions.

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.