List of Humanitas Prize recipients

1970s

1976 (1st Humanitas Awards)

• Sunshine '
• Good Times '
• Good Times '

• The Law '
• The Cay
• The Waltons '

• Larry
• ABC Theater, '
• NBC World Premiere Movie

  1977 (2nd Humanitas Awards)

• M*A*S*H '
• DOC '
• M*A*S*H '

• Family '
• Family '
• The Waltons

• NBC World Premiere Movie '
• Medical Story
• My Father's House

  1978 (3rd Humanitas Awards)

• The Mary Tyler Moore Show '
• All in the Family '
• M*A*S*H '

• Roots '
• Roots '
• The Waltons '

• Green Eyes
• Roots '
• Something for Joey

• CBS Reports '

  1979 (4th Humanitas Awards)

• All in the Family '
• Barney Miller '
• The Jeffersons '

• Family '
• Family '
• Hallmark Hall of Fame '

• Special Olympics
• Breaking Up
• The Other Side of Hell

• CBS Reports

  1980s

1980 (5th Humanitas Awards)

• Taxi '
• All in the Family '
• M*A*S*H '

• Lou Grant '
• Hallmark Hall of Fame '
• Lou Grant '

• Who Are the DeBolts? And Where Did They Get Nineteen Kids?

  1981 (6th Humanitas Awards)

• M*A*S*H '
• United States '
• WKRP in Cincinnati '

• Family '
• The Waltons '
• The White Shadow '

• 'The Family Man'
• The Gift

• NBC White Paper

  1982 (7th Humanitas Awards)

• WKRP in Cincinnati '
• Archie Bunker's Place '
• M*A*S*H '

• Hill Street Blues '
• Lou Grant '
• The White Shadow '

• The Shadow Box
• Leave 'Em Laughing
• A Matter of Life and Death

• NBC Reports

  1983 (8th Humanitas Awards)

• M*A*S*H '
• Archie Bunker's Place '
• One Day at a Time '

• Lou Grant '
• ABC Afterschool Special '
• Hill Street Blues '

• Bitter Harvest
• The Marva Collins Story

• America Works When America Works

  1984 (9th Humanitas Awards)

• M*A*S*H '
• Diff'rent Strokes '
• It Takes Two '

• Hill Street Blues '
• Fame '
• St. Elsewhere '

• Special Bulletin
• Benny's Place
• Two of a Kind

  1985 (10th Humanitas Awards)

• Family Ties '
• Family Ties '
• Gimme a Break! '

• Hill Street Blues '
• St. Elsewhere '
• St. Elsewhere '

• Choices of the Heart
• Memorial Day
• Something About Amelia

  1986 (11th Humanitas Awards)

• The Cosby Show '
• Family Ties '
• Family Ties '

• St. Elsewhere '
• Cagney & Lacey '
• Hill Street Blues '

• The Dollmaker
• Not My Kid
• '

• Jim Henson's Muppet Babies '
• CBS Storybreak '

• CBS Schoolbreak Special '
• CBS Schoolbreak Special '
• Pryor's Place '

• NBC White Paper

  1987 (12th Humanitas Awards)

• The Cosby Show '
• The Cosby Show '
• The Cosby Show '
• Mr. Sunshine '

• Cagney & Lacey '
• Moonlighting '
• St. Elsewhere '

• Do You Remember Love
• Hallmark Hall of Fame '
• Love, Mary

• ABC Afterschool Special '
• ABC Afterschool Special '
• CBS Schoolbreak Special '

• CBS Reports '

  1988 (13th Humanitas Awards)

• Kate & Allie '
• The Cosby Show '
• Family Ties '

• Family Ties '
• St. Elsewhere '
• St. Elsewhere '

• Hallmark Hall of Fame '
• Alex: The Life of a Child
• Miles To Go…

• The Smurfs '
• The Berenstain Bears '
• Galaxy High School '

• CBS Schoolbreak Special '
• ABC Afterschool Special '
• CBS Schoolbreak Special '

• Mainstreet

  1989 (14th Humanitas Awards)

• Frank's Place '
• Kate & Allie '
• The Wonder Years '

• thirtysomething '
• Cagney & Lacey '
• Cagney & Lacey '

• A Gathering of Old Men
• Proud Men

• The Flintstone Kids '
• Jim Henson's Muppet Babies '
• Little Clowns of Happytown '

• ABC Afterschool Special '
• ABC Afterschool Special '
• CBS Schoolbreak Special '

• ABC News Closeup

  1990s

1990 (15th Humanitas Awards)

• The Wonder Years '
• Baby Boom '

• China Beach '
• China Beach '
• thirtysomething '
• thirtysomething '

• God Bless the Child

• The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh '
• The Adventures of Raggedy Ann and Andy '
• The Chipmunks '

• CBS Schoolbreak Special '
• ABC Afterschool Special '
• ABC Afterschool Special '

• Destined to Live

  1991 (16th Humanitas Awards)

• The Wonder Years '
• Why, Charlie Brown, Why?
• The Wonder Years '

• thirtysomething '
• China Beach '
• China Beach '

• Common Ground
• Hallmark Hall of Fame '
• No Place Like Home

• Dink, the Little Dinosaur '
• Dink, the Little Dinosaur '
• Jim Henson's Muppet Babies '

• ABC Afterschool Special '
• CBS Schoolbreak Special '
• CBS Schoolbreak Special '

• Raising Good Kids in Bad Times ''

  1992 (17th Humanitas Awards)

• The Wonder Years '
• Doogie Howser, M.D. '
• The Wonder Years '

• thirtysomething '
• China Beach '
• thirtysomething '

• Lucky Day
• Extreme Close-Up
• Separate but Equal '

• Camp Candy '
• Madeline's Christmas
• The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 '

• CBS Schoolbreak Special '
• CBS Schoolbreak Special '
• CBS Schoolbreak Special '

• American Playhouse '
• Sudie and Simpson

• The Civil War
• Over the Influence: Preventing Our Kids From Using Drugs and Alcohol

  1993 (18th Humanitas Awards)

• Brooklyn Bridge '
• Captain Planet and the Planeteers '
• A Different World '
• Roseanne '
• The Wonder Years '

• I'll Fly Away '
• Brooklyn Bridge '
• I'll Fly Away '

• I'll Fly Away '
• Broken Cord
• China Beach '

• The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh '
• Winnie the Pooh and Christmas Too

• CBS Schoolbreak Special '
• CBS Schoolbreak Special '
• Saved by the Bell '

• Wildflower
• American Playhouse
• Mark Twain and Me

  1994 (19th Humanitas Awards)

• Roseanne '
• Roseanne '
• The Wonder Years '

• I'll Fly Away '
• Life Goes On '
• TriBeCa '

• Hallmark Hall of Fame '
• For Their Own Good

• The Legend of Prince Valiant '
• The Little Mermaid '
• The Little Mermaid '

• CBS Schoolbreak Special '
• ABC Weekend Specials '
• WonderWorks '

• Cooperstown
• American Experience '
• American Playhouse '

• Scared Silent: Exposing and Ending Child Abuse'''

  1995 (20th Humanitas Awards)

• Murphy Brown '
• Frasier '
• The John Larroquette Show '

• NYPD Blue '
• Law & Order '
• Picket Fences '

• David's Mother
• Out of Darkness
• There Are No Children Here

• American Heroes and Legends '
• Madeline '
• Madeline '

• CBS Schoolbreak Special '
• ABC Afterschool Special '
• CBS Schoolbreak Special '

• And the Band Played On
• State of Emergency
• Strapped

• Schindler's List
• In the Name of the Father
• Searching For Bobby Fischer
• Shadowlands

  1996 (21st Humanitas Awards)

• The John Larroquette Show '
• Blossom '
• Grace Under Fire '
• Roseanne '

• Party of Five '
• Picket Fences '
• Chicago Hope '

• Hallmark Hall of Fame '
• Heart of a Child
• The Other Woman

• Whitewash
• Rugrats '
• ABC Weekend Specials '

• CBS Schoolbreak Special '
• ABC Afterschool Special '
• Adventures in Wonderland '

• The Burning Season
• On Promised Land

• The Shawshank Redemption
• Forrest Gump
• Nobody's Fool

• What Can We Do About Violence?'''

  1997 (22nd Humanitas Awards)

• Frasier '
• Grace Under Fire '
• Home Improvement '

• Picket Fences '
• ER '
• '
• Party of Five '

• Gulliver's Travels
• Hallmark Hall of Fame '
• Hallmark Hall of Fame '

• Life with Louie '
• The New Adventures of Madeline '
• Santo Bugito '

• ABC Afterschool Special '
• ABC Afterschool Special '
• ABC Weekend Special '

• Hiroshima
• Andersonville '
• A Mother's Prayer

• Dead Man Walking
• Babe
• A Family Thing

  1998 (23rd Humanitas Awards)

• Something So Right '
• Grace Under Fire '
• Roseanne '

• NYPD Blue '
• Chicago Hope '
• Chicago Hope '

• Hallmark Hall of Fame '
• ...First Do No Harm
• Hallmark Hall of Fame '

• Life with Louie '
• Little Bear '
• Timon and Pumbaa '

• '
• Sesame Street '
• Shari's Passover Surprise

• Miss Evers' Boys
• Crime of the Century
• The Twilight of the Golds

• Secrets & Lies'''
• Jerry Maguire
• Shine

  1999 (24th Humanitas Awards)

• Murphy Brown '
• Foto-Novelas '
• Frasier '

• Nothing Sacred '
• ER '
• '

• Wonderful World of Disney '
• NYPD Blue '
• The Staircase

• Life with Louie '
• Life with Louie '
• Rugrats '

• Smudge
• '
• Shaquille O'Neal's Sports Theater '

• George Wallace '
• Clover

• Good Will Hunting
• Contact
• The Education of Little Tree

  2000s

2000 (25th Humanitas Awards)

• Sports Night '
• Everybody Loves Raymond '
• Sports Night '

• '
• JAG '
• NYPD Blue '
• Rescuers: Stories of Courage '

• NYPD Blue '
• Mama Flora's Family '
• Selma, Lord, Selma

• Rugrats '
• Pocket Dragon Adventures '
• Rugrats '

• The Artists' Specials '
• City Guys '

• Thanks of a Grateful Nation
• Passing Glory
• Thicker Than Blood

• October Sky
• A Civil Action
• Saving Private Ryan

  2001 (26th Humanitas Awards)

• Frasier '
• 3rd Rock from the Sun '
• Smart Guy '

• The West Wing '
• Once and Again '
• The West Wing '

• Tuesdays with Morrie
• Anya's Bell
• Joan of Arc '

• '
• Recess '
• Mythic Warriors '

• The Color of Friendship
• Caitlin's Way '
• Johnny Tsunami

• A Lesson Before Dying
• Dash and Lilly
• Freedom Song

• The Insider
• The End of the Affair
• The Straight Story

• Love and Basketball'''
• The Big Kahuna
• What's Cooking?

  2002 (27th Humanitas Awards)

• Everybody Loves Raymond '
• Frasier '
• Malcolm in the Middle '

• Once and Again '
• ER '
• Gideon's Crossing '
• Third Watch '

• Haven '
• Jesus '
• Jewel

• Clifford the Big Red Dog '
• Madeline '
• Rocket Power '

• Miracle in Lane 2
• The Famous Jett Jackson '
• The Sandy Bottom Orchestra

• Wit
• Boycott
• What Makes a Family

• You Can Count on Me
• Billy Elliot
• Traffic

• Green Dragon'''
• The Believer
• Dancing in September

  2003 (28th Humanitas Awards)

• Scrubs '
• State of Grace '
• State of Grace '

• The Practice '
• The West Wing '
• Band of Brothers '

• '
• Crossed Over
• The Rosa Parks Story

• '
• Arthur '
• Harold and the Purple Crayon '

• My Louisiana Sky
• The Brothers Garcia '

• The Laramie Project
• Sins of the Father
• Within These Walls

• Iris
• A Beautiful Mind
• I Am Sam

• Real Women Have Curves'''
• Australian Rules
• Her Majesty

  2004 (29th Humanitas Awards)

• The Bernie Mac Show '
• The Bernie Mac Show '
• Frasier '

• The Practice '
• Boomtown '
• ER '
• Without a Trace '

• Our America
• Door To Door
• Path to War

• Static Shock '
• Liberty's Kids '
• Liberty's Kids '

• A Ring of Endless Light
• Maniac Magee
• You Wish!

• Antwone Fisher
• About a Boy
• The Pianist

• Whale Rider
• In America
• Pieces of April
• Raising Victor Vargas

  2005 (30th Humanitas Awards)

• The Bernie Mac Show '
• The Bernie Mac Show '
• Scrubs '

• Joan of Arcadia '
• ER '
• Joan of Arcadia '

• Angels In America
• Iron Jawed Angels
• Jasper, Texas

• Little Bill '
• Arthur '
• Little Bill '

• Crown Heights
• Full-Court Miracle
• Going to the Mat

• Dirty Pretty Things
• Finding Nemo
• Seabiscuit

• Mean Creek'''
• Garden State
• The Woodsman

  2006 (31st Humanitas Awards)

• The West Wing '
• ER '
• House '
• House '

• Lackawanna Blues
• Saving Milly

• Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks '
• PAZ '
• Toddworld '

• Searching for David's Heart
• Buffalo Dreams
• Carry Me Home

• Hotel Rwanda
• Finding Neverland
• Millions

• The Motel'''
• Love, Ludlow
• Swimmers

  2007 (32nd Humanitas Awards)

• My Name Is Earl '
• George Lopez '
• Scrubs '

• House '
• ER '
• '

• The Girl in the Café
• The Colt
• Warm Springs

• Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Friends '
• Maya & Miguel '
• ToddWorld '

• Edge of America
• High School Musical

• Crash
• Glory Road

• Quinceanera'''
• Punching at the Sun

• 2008 (33rd Humanitas Awards)

• The New Adventures of Old Christine '
• Scrubs '
• The War at Home '

• ER '
• House '
• The West Wing '

• Longford
• '
• Why I Wore Lipstick to My Mastectomy

• Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks '
• Maya & Miguel '
• Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Friends '

• Jump In!

• Freedom Writers
• Venus
• Amazing Grace

• Where God Left His Shoes
• Ezra
• Waitress

  2009 (34th Humanitas Awards)

• Scrubs '
• The Bill Engvall Show '
• In Treatment '

• John Adams '
• Boston Legal '
• The Wire '

• Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee
• Charlie & Me
• Hallmark Hall of Fame '
• A Life Interrupted

• My Friends Tigger & Pooh '
• Sweet Blackberry Presents '
• ToddWorld '

• Minutemen
• Sheira & Loli's Dittydoodle Works '

• The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
• Lars and the Real Girl
• Juno

• A Raisin in the Sun'''
• Henry Poole Is Here
• The Visitor

  2010s

2010 (35th Humanitas Awards)

• Scrubs '
• 30 Rock '
• How I Met Your Mother '
• The Simpsons '

• Friday Night Lights '
• ER '
• House '
• '

• Taking Chance
• Pedro

• South of Nowhere '
• True Jackson, VP '
• True Jackson, VP '

• WALL-E
• Doubt
• Milk
• The Secret Life of Bees
• Slumdog Millionaire

• Amreeka'''
• The Anarchist's Wife
• The Greatest

  2011 (36th Humanitas Awards)

• Modern Family '
• Nurse Jackie '
• Meet the Browns '
• The Middle '
• The Simpsons '

• Glee '
• The Good Wife '
• Breaking Bad '
• Grey's Anatomy '
• In Treatment '
• Men of a Certain Age '

• Temple Grandin
• Amish Grace
• Endgame

• A Small Act
• Freedom Riders
• Waste Land

• Precious
• The Hurt Locker
• The Little Traitor
• The Messenger

• Winter's Bone'''
• The Kids Are All Right
• Night Catches Us

  2012 (37th Humanitas Awards)

• Modern Family '
• The Big C '
• How I Met Your Mother '
• Nurse Jackie '

• Friday Night Lights '
• Drop Dead Diva '
• House '
• The Pacific '

• Thurgood
• Reviving Ophelia

• Kung Fu Panda Holiday Special

• Louder Than a Bomb
• Neshoba

• The King's Speech
• 127 Hours
• The Fighter

• Win Win
• Gun Hill Road
• Meek's Cutoff

  2013 (38th Humanitas Awards)

• Modern Family '
• The Big C '
• The Middle '

• Grey's Anatomy '
• Rescue Me '
• Blue Bloods '
• Parenthood '

• Cinema Verite
• Hallmark Hall of Fame '
• Hallmark Hall of Fame '

• Pound Puppies '

• Radio Rebel

• I Am
• Serving Life
• Buck
• Crime After Crime

• The Conspirator
• The Descendants
• Hugo
• Shame

• Beasts of the Southern Wild
• LUV
• Middle of Nowhere

  2014 (39th Humanitas Awards)

• Modern Family '
• The New Normal '
• Nurse Jackie '

• Bones '
• House '
• Monday Mornings '

• Hallmark Hall of Fame '
• Betty and Coretta

• Let It Shine

• Ethel
• Project Nim

• Silver Linings Playbook
• Django Unchained
• Flight

• Fruitvale Station'''
• The Inevitable Defeat of Mister & Pete
• Mud

  2015 (40th Humanitas Awards)

• Modern Family '
• How I Met Your Mother '
• The Middle '

• Homeland '
• Parenthood '
• The Killing '
• True Detective '

• The Normal Heart
• Mary And Martha
• Ring Of Fire

• The Case Against 8
• Finding Vivian Maier
• Merchants Of Doubt

• 12 Years A Slave
• Belle
• Nebraska

• Whiplash'''
• Hellion
• Love Is Strange
• Camp X-Ray

  2016 (41st Humanitas Awards)

• The Middle '
• Blackish '
• Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt '

• Orange Is the New Black '
• Madam Secretary '
• The Affair '

• Arthur '

• Gortimer Gibbon's Life on Normal Street '
• Gortimer Gibbon's Life on Normal Street '
• Liv and Maddie '

• Landfill Harmonic
• Citizenfour
• Southern Rites

• Still Alice
• Testament of Youth
• The Good Lie

• Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
• Dope
• Experimenter

  2017 (42nd Humanitas Awards)

• Black-ish
• The Real O'Neals
• Grace and Frankie

• This Is Us
• The Night Of
• Madam Secretary

• Sofia the First
• Nina's World
• The Lion Guard

• '
• Girl Meets World

• The Birth of a Nation
• First Girl I Loved
• The Fundamentals of Caring
• Tallulah''

  2018 (43rd Humanitas Awards)

• The Big Bang Theory
• Black-ish
• Will & Grace

• The Good Doctor
• Game of Thrones
• Madam Secretary

• Doc McStuffins
• Sofia the First
• Splash and Bubbles

• '
• Sesame Street

• Crown Heights
• Gook
• Novitiate''

  2019 (44th Humanitas Awards)

• Dear White People
• The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
• One Day at a Time
• The Good Place

• God Friended Me
• Orange Is the New Black
• The Good Doctor
• This is Us

• Alexa & Katie
• '
• Muppet Babies
• Z-O-M-B-I-E-S

• Brian Banks
• Laugh or Die
• Sorry to Bother You
• The Grizzlies
• The Rider''

  2020s

2020 (45th Humanitas Awards)

• Veep
• Shrill
• Black-ish
• Atypical

• The Handmaid's Tale
• This Is Us
• POSE
• The Twilight Zone

• Elena of Avalor
• The Loud House
• A Series of Unfortunate Events
• Niko and the Sword of Light

• When They See Us
• True Detective
• Chernobyl
• Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear's All in the Family and The Jeffersons

• This Is Football
• Torn Apart: Separated at the Border
• Ernie & Joe: Crisis Cops
• Sea of Shadows

• Kitbull
• Variables
• Purl
• They Charge for the Sun

• Sheridan Watson

• King Lu