Gotham Independent Film Award for Breakthrough Nonfiction Series

The Gotham TV Award for Breakthrough Nonfiction Series is one of the annual Gotham TV Awards and was first awarded in 2021.^[1] Originally given out at the main Gotham Awards, it was announced in April 2024 that the award would be presented as part of the 1st Gotham TV Awards, effectively reintroducing it as one of the Gotham TV Awards after the category had not been presented at the previous main Gotham Awards ceremony.^[2]

Gotham TV Award for Breakthrough Nonfiction Series
Country	United States
Presented by	The Gotham Film & Media Institute
First award	2021
Currently held by	Jerrod Carmichael Reality Show (2024)
Website	tvawards.thegotham.org

Winners and nominees

2020s

Year	Program	Creator(s)	Network(s)	Ref.
2021	Philly D.A.	Ted Passon, Yoni Brook, and Nicole Salazar	PBS	[3] [4]
	City So Real	Steve James	Nat Geo
	Exterminate All the Brutes	Raoul Peck	HBO / HBO Max
	How To with John Wilson	John Wilson
	Pride	–	FX
2022	We Need to Talk About Cosby	W. Kamau Bell	Showtime	[5] [6]
	The Andy Warhol Diaries	Andrew Rossi	Netflix
	The Last Movie Stars	Emily Wachtel	CNN Films / HBO Max
	Mind Over Murder	Nanfu Wang	HBO / HBO Max
	The Rehearsal	Nathan Fielder	HBO Max
2023	Not awarded			[7]
2024	Jerrod Carmichael Reality Show	Jerrod Carmichael	HBO / Max	[8] [9]
	Black Twitter: A People's History	Joie Jacoby	Hulu
	Life on Our Planet	–	Netflix
	Murder in Boston: Roots, Rampage, and Reckoning	Jason Hehir	HBO / Max
	Stax: Soulsville U.S.A.	Jamila Wignot