Under Raney Aronson-Rath, the decades-old PBS doc series has started winning Oscars (“20 Days in Mariupol”) and appealing to younger generations online.
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PBS/Frontline This year’s documentary Oscar race will pit a cringe comedy maestro against the most decorated documentary film producer of the past decade. While plenty of ink has been spilled over Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim’s form-shattering Elizabeth Holmes curio “You Can See Everything,” it would be a mistake to count out Raney Aronson-Rath.
Aronson-Rath has been at the helm of “Frontline,” PBS’ acclaimed investigative documentary series, since 2015. Under her watch, the program has won so many Emmys she’s lost count (it stands at 44) and launches around 20 documentaries a year. In 2024, it took home its first documentary Oscar for “20 Days in Mariupol,” a vivid and violent account of AP journalist Mstyslav Chernov and his colleagues’ time in the Ukrainian city as it withstood Russia’s invasion in early 2022.
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