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2014 Finalists & Winners

More than 480 entries competed for 27 awards in 2014. 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

Sponsored by PBS Distribution & Sony
- WINNER - Particle Fever | PF Productions, LLC & Anthos Media, LLC

Best Earth Sciences Program

Sponsored by Terra Mater Factual Studios
-WINNER- David Attenborough's Natural History Museum Alive 3D | Colossus Productions
The Day the Mesozoic Died | Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Your Inner Fish: Your Inner Reptile | Tangled Bank Studios & Windfall Films, for PBS

Best Biological/Life Sciences Program

 Sponsored by Nature/WNET
- WINNER - Your Inner Fish: Your Inner Fish | Tangled Bank Studios & Windfall Films, for PBS
Decoding Neanderthals | A NOVA Production by Arrow International Media, Ltd. for WGBH View Clip
Unnatural Selection | Sky Vision & Terra Mater Factual Studios, GmbH

Best Environmental & Conservation Sciences Program

Sponsored by Tangled Bank Studios 
- WINNER - Battle for the Elephants | Everwild Media for National Geographic Television
- WINNER - Earth a New Wild: Plains | National Geographic Television & Passion Planet for PBS
Killer Whales - Fins of Change | Terra Mater Factual Studios, GmbH, Brian Leith Productions, WNET/Thirteen & NDR Naturfilm Doclights
Inside the Megastorm | Dragonfly Film & Television Productions, Ltd. for NOVA/WGBH in association with BBC

Best Medical Sciences Program

Sponsored by AAAS
- WINNER - Jabbed: Love, Fear and Vaccines | Genepool Productions
Kids on Speed? Episode 1 | Essential Media and Entertainment
American Experience: The Poisoner's Handbook | An Apograph Productions, Inc. film for American Experience American Experience is a production of WGBH
Toxic Bees - Nature's Mayday | Public Television Service, Taiwan

Best Physical Sciences Program

Sponsored by the Smithsonian Channel
- WINNER - Particle Fever | PF Productions, LLC & Anthos Media, LLC
Eyes of the Atacama | Terra Mater Factual Studios, GmbH
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

Best Technological Sciences Program

Sponsored by Discovery Communications
- WINNER - Zeppelin Terror Attack | Windfall Films, Ltd. for NOVA/WGBH, Channel 4 & National Geographic Channel
Genius of Nature: Sensing | Terra Mater Factual Studios, GmbH, Oxford Scientific Films & BBC
Rise of the Drones | Pangloss Films, LLC for NOVA/WGBH
The Incredible Bionic Man | Darlow Smithson Productions, Ltd. for Smithsonian Channel View Clip

Best Human & Social Sciences Program

Sponsored by Vulcan Productions
- WINNER - The Perfect Runner | Clearwater Documentary Inc. for Smithsonian Channel
Enigma Man - A Stone Age Mystery | Electric Pictures
The Ultimate Formula: What is the Universe Made of? | NHK

Best Limited Series

Sponsored by Off the Fence
- WINNER - Your Inner Fish | Tangled Bank Studios & Windfall Films, for PBS
COSMOS: A SpaceTime Odyssey | Fuzzy Door Productions and Cosmos Studios, Inc. in association with FOX Broadcasting Company & National Geographic Channel View Clip
Richard Hammond's Miracles of Nature | Terra Mater Factual Studios, GmbH, Oxford Scientific Films & Hamster’s Wheel
Years of Living Dangerously | Roaring Fork Films

Best Short Program

- WINNER - Return of the Cicadas | Samuel Orr
Invisible Ocean: Plankton & Plastic | Emily V. Driscoll/BonSci Films
Snows of the Nile | Day’s Edge Productions
Your Inner Fish: We Hear with the Bones that Reptiles Eat With | Tangled Bank Studios & Windfall Films, for PBS

Best Short Series Program

Sponsored by PBS Distribution
- WINNER - Freaks of Nature | Off the Fence Productions
QUEST: The Science of Sustainability | KQED in collaboration with five partner stations
WildFIRE PIRE: Wildfires, Climate Change & the Ecosystem | Dennis Aig and Daniel Schmidt, Montana State University, Department of Science and Natural History Filmmaking

Best Radio & Podcast Media

- WINNER - The STEM Story Project -- The Poison Squad: A Chemist's Quest for Pure Food | Sruthi Pinnamaneni
Desperate for a Cure: The Search for New Alzheimer's Treatments | WCAI - The Cape and Islands' NPR Station
Shared Planet | BBC Natural History Unit

Best Hosted or Presenter-led Program

Sponsored by the Nature Conservancy
- WINNER - Richard Hammond's Miracles of Nature - Super-Bodies | Terra Mater Factual Studios GmbH Host: Richard Hammond
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
David Attenborough's Natural History Museum Alive 3D | Colossus Productions Host: David Attenborough

Best Children's Education Program

Sponsored by the Science Festival Alliance
- WINNER - Wild Kratts: When Fish Fly! | KrattBrothers Company, Ltd. & 9 Story Entertainment
Plum Landing | WGBH Educational Foundation & Global Mechanic
Survival of the Sexiest, Parts I & II | Animator: Baker & Hill Developed by National Geographic & Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology
Watermelon Magic | Spring Garden Pictures

Best Integrated/Cross Platform Media

- WINNER - Live from Space | Arrow Media, Channel 4 & National Geographic Channel
Birds of Paradise: Amazing Avian Evolution | Developed by National Geographic & Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology
Tales from the Poisoner's Handbook | American Experience/WGBH Educational Foundation

Best Student & Emerging Science Filmmaker

- WINNER - Seizing the Unrecorded | Ingrid Pfau Montana State University, MFA Science and Natural History Filmmaking Program
Pride | Rosh Patel Montana State University, MFA Science and Natural History Filmmaking Program
When the Peacock Sings: A Prequel to the Monsoons | Shaz Syed University of Salford: Mediacity

Best Immersive Cinema (3D/Large Format)

Sponsored by the Boston Museum of Science
- WINNER - Mysteries of the Unseen World (IMAX) | National Geographic Entertainment & Day’s End Pictures
Flight of the Butterflies 3D | SK Films
Jerusalem 3D | A Cosmic Picture/Arcane Pictures Film, National Geographic Ventures

Best Immersive Cinema (Fulldome)

Sponsored by SkySkan
Dark Universe | American Museum of Natural History
Bella Gaia: Beautiful Earth | Remedy Arts, LLC & Denver Museum of Nature & Science
Moons: Worlds of Mystery | Charles Hayden Planetarium & Boston Museum of Science
Supervolcanoes | Spitz Creative Media, Mirage3D & Thomas Lucas Productions in association with Denver Museum of Nature & Science

Best Online and Interactive Media

Sponsored by World Wildlife Fund
- WINNER - Sound Uncovered: An Interactive Book for the iPad | Exploratorium
David Attenborough's Natural History Museum Alive App | Colossus Productions
The RNA Lab | NOVA

Best Visualization

Sponsored by Sony
- WINNER - Battlefield Cell | A Wide Eyed Entertainment Production for BBC/Discovery Channel
David Attenborough's Natural History Museum Alive 3D | Colossus Productions
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
Your Inner Fish: Your Inner Fish | Tangled Bank Studios & Windfall Films, for PBS

Best Writing

Sponsored by National Geographic Studios
- WINNER - Your Inner Fish: Your Inner Fish | Tangled Bank Studios & Windfall Films, for PBS Writer: David Dugan
Making Stuff II: Colder | A NOVA Production by Little Bay Pictures, LLC for WGBH/Boston Writer: Vincent Liota
The Great Cathedral Mystery | A NOVA Production by National Geographic Television Production in association with Camera One Productions Writer: David Murdock

Best Editing

Sponsored by Fujifilm
- WINNER - Particle Fever | PF Productions, LLC & Anthos Media, LLC Editor: Walter Murch
Jabbed: Love, Fear & Vaccines | Genepool Productions Editor: Mark Atkin A.S.E.
COSMOS: A SpaceTime Odyssey -- Standing Up in the Milky Way | Editors: John Duffy, Michael O'Halloran & Eric Lea
Your Inner Fish: Your Inner Reptile | Editor: Garry Crystal; Online Editors: Tamer Osman & Stef Henley; Visual Effects: Jellyfish Pictures

Best Audioscape

Sponsored by PBS
- WINNER - Disneynature Bears | Disneynature Sound Designers: Tim Owens & Kate Hopkins; Re-recording Mixers: Andrew Wilson & Matthew Gough
Dark Universe | Sound Supervisor & Re-Recording Mixer: Peter Hylenski, Music: Robert Miller, Sound Designer, Effects & Narration Editor: Brian Langman
Jungle Book Bear - Gulo Film, Sound Recording: Oliver Goetzl, Ivo Nörenberg, Music: Jörg Magnus Pfeil, Siggi Mueller, Sound Mix: Anton Hering, Jonathan Jenkins
COSMOS: Standing Up in the Milky Way | Sound Editors: Christopher Harvengt, Richard Steele, Mixers: Mark Hensley, Joel Catalan, Prod. Mixer: Darryl L. Frank, ADR: Paul Aronoff, Foley: David Torres

Special Jury Awards

- WINNER - Hawking Darlow Smithson for PBS & Channel 4
- WINNER - Orbi | BBC Earth Productions
- WINNER - Untamed Science | Untamed Science
- WINNER - Years of Living Dangerously | Roaring Fork Films

Special Consideration Finalists

Google Glass Explorer Story: WWF's Sabita Malla | Anomaly & Logan East
Marshland Dreams | Mill Valley Film Group

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