AWARDS

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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. 

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.

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.