2014 Jackson Hole Science Media Awards Finalist & Winners Announced

Jackson Hole, WY, USA — More than 480 entries competed for 27 awards this year! 100+ preliminary judges screened 3,000+ hours to select the finalists. The 2014 Science Media Award winners were selected by a distinguished panel of judges preceding the three-day Science Media Symposium

2014 GRAND HELIX AWARD WINNER

Special Jury Awards

WINNER 14-118 Hawking Darlow Smithson for PBS & Channel 4 View Clip

WINNER 14-184 Orbi BBC Earth Productions View Clip

WINNER 14-308 Untamed Science Untamed Science View Clip

WINNER 14-324 Years of Living Dangerously Roaring Fork Films View Clip

Best Earth Sciences Program

WINNER 14-064 David Attenborough’s Natural History Museum Alive 3D Colossus Productions View Clip

14-253 The Day the Mesozoic Died Howard Hughes Medical Institute View Clip

14-329 Your Inner Fish: Your Inner Reptile Tangled Bank Studios & Windfall Films, for PBS View Clip

Best Biological/Life Sciences Program

WINNER 14-326 Your Inner Fish: Your Inner Fish Tangled Bank Studios & Windfall Films, for PBS View Clip

14-068 Decoding Neanderthals A NOVA Production by Arrow International Media, Ltd. for WGBH View Clip  14-306 Unnatural Selection Sky Vision & Terra Mater Factual Studios, GmbH View Clip

Best Environmental & Conservation Sciences Program

WINNER 14-020 Battle for the Elephants Everwild Media for National Geographic Television View Clip

WINNER 14-197 Earth a New Wild: Plains National Geographic Television & Passion Planet for PBS View Clip

14-144 Killer Whales – Fins of Change Terra Mater Factual Studios, GmbH, Brian Leith Productions, WNET/Thirteen & NDR Naturfilm Doclights View Clip

14-130 Inside the Megastorm Dragonfly Film & Television Productions, Ltd. for NOVA/WGBH in association with BBC View Clip

Best Medical Sciences Program

WINNER 14-134 Jabbed: Love, Fear and Vaccines Genepool Productions View Clip

14-085 Kids on Speed? Episode 1 Essential Media and Entertainment View Clip

14-011 American Experience: The Poisoner’s Handbook An Apograph Productions, Inc. film for American Experience American Experience is a production of WGBH View Clip

14-302 Toxic Bees – Nature’s Mayday Public Television Service, Taiwan View Clip

Best Physical Sciences Program

WINNER 14-193 Particle Fever PF Productions, LLC & Anthos Media, LLC View Clip

14-092 Eyes of the Atacama Terra Mater Factual Studios, GmbH View Clip

14-241 COSMOS: A SpaceTime Odyssey — Standing Up in the Milky Way Fuzzy Doors Productions, Cosmos Studios, Inc. in association with FOX Broadcasting Company & National Geographic Channel View Clip

Best Technological Sciences Program

WINNER 14-330 Zeppelin Terror Attack  Windfall Films, Ltd. for NOVA/WGBH, Channel 4 & National Geographic Channel View Clip

14-108 Genius of Nature: Sensing Terra Mater Factual Studios, GmbH, Oxford Scientific Films & BBC View Clip

14-219 Rise of the Drones Pangloss Films, LLC for NOVA/WGBH View Clip

14-262 The Incredible Bionic Man Darlow Smithson Productions, Ltd. for Smithsonian Channel View Clip

Best Human & Social Sciences Program

WINNER 14-247 The Perfect Runner Clearwater Documentary Inc. for Smithsonian Channel View Clip

14-084 Enigma Man – A Stone Age Mystery Electric Pictures View Clip

14-291 The Ultimate Formula: What is the Universe Made of? NHK View Clip

Best Limited Series

WINNER 14-325 Your Inner Fish Tangled Bank Studios & Windfall Films, for PBS View Clip

14-058 COSMOS: A SpaceTime Odyssey Fuzzy Door Productions and Cosmos Studios, Inc. in association with FOX Broadcasting Company & National Geographic Channel View Clip

14-216 Richard Hammond’s Miracles of Nature Terra Mater Factual Studios, GmbH, Oxford Scientific Films & Hamster’s Wheel View Clip

14-324 Years of Living Dangerously Roaring Fork Films View Clip

Best Short Program

WINNER 14-214 Return of the Cicadas Samuel Orr www.MotionKicker.com View Clip

14-132 Invisible Ocean:  Plankton & Plastic Emily V. Driscoll/BonSci Films View Clip

14-236 Snows of the Nile Day’s Edge Productions View Clip

14-314 Your Inner Fish: We Hear with the Bones that Reptiles Eat With Tangled Bank Studios & Windfall Films, for PBS View Clip

Best Short Series Program

WINNER 14-101 Freaks of Nature Off the Fence Productions View Clip

14-285 QUEST: The Science of Sustainability KQED in collaboration with five partner stations View Clip

14-320 WildFIRE PIRE: Wildfires, Climate Change & the Ecosystem Dennis Aig and Daniel Schmidt, Montana State University, Department of Science and Natural History Filmmaking View Clip

Best Radio & Podcast Media

WINNER 14-277 The STEM Story Project — The Poison Squad: A Chemist’s Quest for Pure Food Sruthi Pinnamaneni View Clip

14-070 Desperate for a Cure: The Search for New Alzheimer’s Treatments WCAI – The Cape and Islands’ NPR Station View Clip

14-232 Shared Planet BBC Natural History Unit View Clip

Best Hosted or Presenter-led Program

WINNER 14-245 Richard Hammond’s Miracles of Nature – Super-Bodies Terra Mater Factual Studios GmbH Host: Richard Hammond View Clip

14-241 COSMOS: A SpaceTime Odyssey — Standing Up in the Milky Way Fuzzy Doors Productions & Cosmos Studios, Inc. in association with FOX Broadcasting Company & National Geographic Channel Host: Neil deGrasse Tyson View Clip

14-064 David Attenborough’s Natural History Museum Alive 3D Colossus Productions Host: David Attenborough View Clip

Best Children’s Education Program

WINNER 14-316 Wild Kratts: When Fish Fly! KrattBrothers Company, Ltd. & 9 Story Entertainment View Clip

14-202 Plum Landing WGBH Educational Foundation & Global Mechanic View Clip

14-248 Survival of the Sexiest, Parts I & II Animator: Baker & Hill Developed by National Geographic & Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology View Clip

14-312 Watermelon Magic Spring Garden Pictures View Clip

Best Integrated/Cross Platform Media

WINNER 14-153 Live from Space Arrow Media, Channel 4 & National Geographic Channel View Clip

14-032 Birds of Paradise: Amazing Avian Evolution Developed by National Geographic & Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology View Clip

14-250 Tales from the Poisoner’s Handbook American Experience/WGBH Educational Foundation View Clip

Best Student/Emerging Science Filmmaker

WINNER 14-231 Seizing the Unrecorded Ingrid Pfau Montana State University, MFA Science and Natural History Filmmaking Program View Clip

14-205 Pride Rosh Patel Montana State University, MFA Science and Natural History Filmmaking Program View Clip

14-317 When the Peacock Sings: A Prequel to the Monsoons Shaz Syed University of Salford: Mediacity View Clip

Best Immersive Cinema (3D/Large Format)

WINNER 14-173 Mysteries of the Unseen World (IMAX) National Geographic Entertainment & Day’s End Pictures View Clip

14-100 Flight of the Butterflies 3D SK Films View Clip

14-137 Jerusalem 3D A Cosmic Picture/Arcane Pictures Film, National Geographic Ventures View Clip

Best Immersive Cinema (Fulldome)

WINNER 14-062 Dark Universe American Museum of Natural History View Clip

14-023 Bella Gaia: Beautiful Earth Remedy Arts, LLC & Denver Museum of Nature & Science View Clip

14-170 Moons: Worlds of Mystery Charles Hayden Planetarium & Boston Museum of Science View Clip

14-247 Supervolcanoes Spitz Creative Media, Mirage3D & Thomas Lucas Productions in association with Denver Museum of Nature & Science View Clip

Best Online and Interactive Media

WINNER 14-238 Sound Uncovered: An Interactive Book for the iPad Exploratorium View Clip

14-065 David Attenborough’s Natural History Museum Alive App Colossus Productions View Clip

14-282 The RNA Lab NOVA View Clip

Best Visualization

WINNER 14-021 Battlefield Cell A Wide Eyed Entertainment Production for BBC/Discovery Channel View Clip

14-064 David Attenborough’s Natural History Museum Alive 3D Colossus Productions View Clip

14-241 COSMOS: A SpaceTime Odyssey — Standing Up in the Milky Way Fuzzy Doors Productions, Cosmos Studios, Inc. in association with FOX Broadcasting Company & National Geographic Channel VIew Clip

14-326 Your Inner Fish: Your Inner Fish Tangled Bank Studios & Windfall Films, for PBS View Clip

Best Writing

WINNER 14-326 Your Inner Fish: Your Inner Fish Tangled Bank Studios & Windfall Films, for PBS Writer: David Dugan View Clip

14-052 Making Stuff II: Colder A NOVA Production by Little Bay Pictures, LLC for WGBH/Boston Writer: Vincent Liota View Clip

14-114 The Great Cathedral Mystery A NOVA Production by National Geographic Television Production in association with Camera One Productions Writer: David Murdock View Clip

Best Editing

WINNER 14-193 Particle Fever PF Productions, LLC & Anthos Media, LLC Editor: Walter Murch View Clip

14-134 Jabbed: Love, Fear & Vaccines Genepool Productions Editor: Mark Atkin A.S.E. View Clip

14-241 COSMOS: A SpaceTime Odyssey — Standing Up in the Milky Way Fuzzy Doors Productions, Cosmos Studios, Inc. in association with FOX Broadcasting Company & National Geographic Channel Editors: John Duffy, Michael O’Halloran & Eric Lea View Clip

14-329 Your Inner Fish: Your Inner Reptile Tangled Bank Studios & Windfall Films, for PBS Editor: Garry Crystal; Online Editors: Tamer Osman & Stef Henley; Visual Effects: Jellyfish Pictures View Clip

Best Audioscape

Special Consideration Finalists

14-112 Google Glass Explorer Story: WWF’s Sabita Malla Anomaly & Logan East View Clip

14-161 Marshland Dreams Mill Valley Film Group View Clip

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