Happy Birthday Neil deGrasse Tyson! The astrophysicist’s Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey was honored with a Peabody Award in 2014.
Ann Druyan, wife of the late Carl Sagan, accepts the 2014 Peabody Award for Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey just before the 38th anniversary of the day they fell in love. The couple won a Peabody in 1980 for the original series.
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The updated version of COSMOS had very big shoes to fill, given the historic goodwill toward Carl Sagan’s original production, a 1980 Peabody winner which was deeply loved by a generation of armchair astronomers and inspired many future scientists. COSMOS 2.0managed to pull off an impressive hat trick: Thanks to advances in special-effects technology, it looks gorgeous. Thanks to the presence of its host, astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson (himself a protégé of Sagan), the tour of intergalactic wonderlands and subatomic particles is energetic and fascinating. Perhaps most important, thanks to its rigorous, unapologetic belief in the scientific method, the series has the kind of backbone and point of view that would have made the late Sagan proud. COSMOS reminds viewers that individuals are mere specks of dust within a vast interstellar wonderland, but at times, it also emphasizes the idea that, on our little planet, global warming is real and must be confronted. As we ride along with Tyson in his Ship of the Imagination, every corner of the universe and every cell in our bodies becomes fascinating in a host of new ways. For sparking joyful wonder and for celebrating the fruits of rational inquiry, COSMOS: A SpaceTime Odyssey receives a Peabody Award.
Ann Druyan with her second #Peabody Award for #Cosmos. She said tomorrow is the 38th anniversary of when Carl Sagan and she fell in love.
Neil deGrasse Tyson posing with his Peabody award for #Cosmos #Peabody