Documentary Emmys: HBO’s ‘Prime Minister’ Lands Top Prize; Nat Geo and Netflix Lead Winners List

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Prime Minister, the HBO/CNN original documentary about popular New Zealand leader Jacinda Ardern, was named best documentary at Thursday’s Documentary Emmy Awards. The doc, directed by Michelle Walshe and Lindsay Utz, had its world premiere at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Audience Award for World Cinema Documentary.

Magnolia Pictures, HBO Documentary Films, CNN Films and Madison Wells are behind “Prime Minister,” which also comes from Dark Doris and Divergent Pictures. The win came on the third night of an epic week of Emmy events held in New York by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.