The Peabody Awards

Turner Classic Movies | 2008 Peabody Institutional Award Winner

From television’s earliest days, when movies filled countless late-night hours and weekend afternoons, to the present, when high-definition screens and “home theatre” surround sound enhances the excitement, the melding of film and television has been a marvelous experience. Turner Classic Movies (TCM) expands and enhances this long tradition. Not only is the channel the premier site for uninterrupted screenings of classic films, it is also a producer of original programming, from biographies of industry figures to thematic cinema history. At the core of these efforts is TCM’s commitment to film preservation and restoration.

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Peabody Winner’s citation for The Story of Film: An Odyssey:

Mark Cousins’ history of world cinema, The Story of Film: An Odyssey, is an event in itself, a wide-reaching, insightful 15-episode documentary that examines and contextualizes work by directors from Buster Keaton to Akira Kurosawa, from Jane Campion to the brothers Coen. Using innovation as his unifying concept, Cousins paints a glorious and lavish picture of cinema’s cumulative development, including how filmmakers from around the world have not only pioneered but borrowed, even stolen, to advance the form and language. TCM (Turner Classic Movies) took Cousins’ work to another level, turned it into a cineaste’s dream. Drawing from its unparalleled library, TCM enriched the American television premiere of the series by surrounding each installment with full-length showings of some of the feature films and short subjects that the series referenced – 119 of the former, dozens of the later. TCM viewers thus had the opportunity to see not just familiar classics such as Singin’ in the Rain and A Fistful of Dollars but rarely shown silent and/or foreign films such as F.W. Murnau’s 1927 Sunrise, the 1958 Egyptian drama Cairo Station and the 1967 Czech comedyDaisies. For its inclusive, uniquely annotated survey of world cinema history, The Story of Film: An Odyssey is honored with a Peabody Award.

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Turner Classic Movies | 2008 Peabody Institutional Award Winner