Podcast Academy Announces 2023 Ambies Awards Nominees

Originally Published at variety.com on 1/30/2023

The Ambies (ambies.com), per the Podcast Academy, “celebrate excellence in podcasting and elevate awareness and status of podcasts as a unique and personal medium for entertainment, information, storytelling and expression.” Organization members are eligible to vote for this year’s winners if they have submitted applications by Feb. 1 (more info at this link).

THE AMBIES 2023: FULL LIST OF NOMINEES

Podcast of the Year

• Chameleon: Wild Boys
• Design Matters With Debbie Millman
• Direct Deposit
• Fiasco: The AIDS Crisis
• Gay Pride & Prejudice
• Moriarty
• Pink Card
• Reclaimed: The Story of Mamie Till-Mobley
• The Outlaw Ocean Podcast
• The Prince

Best Business Podcast

• An Arm and a Leg
• Business Wars
• Lead Balloon – Public Relations, Marketing and Strategic Communications Stories
• The Heist Season 2: The Wealth Vortex
• The New Way We Work, featuring 4-part Ambition Diaries miniseries
• What’s Your Problem? With Jacob Goldstein
• Work Check

Best Comedy Podcast

• Funny Cuz It’s True
• I Love a Lifetime Movie
• Scam Goddess
• Summer In Argyle
• The Fckry With Leslie Jones and Lenny Marcus
• Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me!
• Why Won’t You Date Me? With Nicole Byer

Best DIY Podcast

• Allyship Is a Verb
• Poetry for All
• Proud Stutter
• Queer News
• Stitch Please
• Teddy Goes to the USSR
• They Knew Which Way to Run

Best Documentary Podcast

• Bone Valley
• Collapse: Disaster in Surfside
• Finding Tamika
• I Will Not Grow Old Here
• Imperfect Paradise: The Forgotten Revolutionary
• The Greatest Menace: Inside the Gay Prison Experiment
• We Were Three

Best Entertainment Podcast

• Even the Rich
• MUBI Podcast
• Object of Sound
• Pop Paranormal
• Queue Points
• Reality With The King
• Scamfluencers

Best Fiction Podcast

• Birds of Empire
• Bone, Marry, Bury
• Jane Anonymous
• Last Known Position
• Moriarty
• Newts!
• The Big Lie

Best History Podcast

• Against the Odds
• Fiasco: The AIDS Crisis
• History Daily
• One Year: 1986
• Reclaimed: The Story of Mamie Till-Mobley
• Slow Burn: Roe v. Wade
• Snafu With Ed Helms

Best Indie Podcast

• Blind Landing
• Ghosthoney’s Dream Machine
• Imaginary Worlds
• In Those Genes
• Inner West Icons
• SOL Affirmations With Karega & Felicia
• The Nocturnists

Best Interview Podcast

• 9 to 5ish With theSkimm
• Design Matters With Debbie Millman
• Direct Deposit
• Rethinking
• The Assignment With Audie Cornish
• The Lede
• Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes Podcast

Best Knowledge, Science or Tech Podcast

• Climate of Change
• In Machines We Trust
• IRL: Online Life Is Real Life
• TED Radio Hour
• Threshold
• Unexplainable
• Why It Matters

Best News Podcast

• Collapse: Disaster in Surfside
• Foundering: The Amazon Story
• Imperfect Paradise: The Sheriff
• Post Reports
• Ukrainecast
• Vice News Reports
• What Next

Best Original Score and Music Supervision

• Culpable Podcast – Dirt Poor Robins, Dayton Cole
• Disgraceland – Jake Brennan, Matt Beaudoin, Ryan Spraker, Bryce Kanzer
• Fed Up – Scott Velasquez
• Gay Pride & Prejudice – Chris Ryan, Jonathon Roberts, Liz Fulton
• Kabul Falling – Arson Fahim
• Last Known Position – Deron Johnson, David Levita
• Spark & Fire – Ryan Holladay

Best Performance in Audio Fiction

• #Matter – Amin Joseph
• Borrasca (Season 2) – Cole Sprouse, Sarah Yarkin
• Dark Sanctum – Bethany Joy Lenz, Clive Standen, Michael O’Neill
• Moriarty – Dominic Monaghan, Billy Boyd, Phil LaMarr, Lindsay Whisler
• Outliers – Rory Culkin
• The Madness of Chartrulean – Aud Andrews
• Story Pirates – Cecily Strong, Eric Austin

Best Personal Growth / Spirituality Podcast

• A Slight Change of Plans
• Allyship Is a Verb
• Back From Broken
• How God Works
• How to Be a Better Human
• In the Arena With Leah Smart
• The Mel Robbins Podcast

Best Podcast for Kids

• A Kids Book About: The Podcast
• Forever Ago
• Million Bazillion
• Pinkalicious & Peterrific
• Smash Boom Best
• Tai Asks Why
• The Arthur Podcast

Best Politics or Opinion Podcast

• Crossing the Line
• It’s Political With Althia Raj
• Post Reports
• Strict Scrutiny
• Teaching Texas
• The Prince
• The State of: Women

Best Production and Sound Design

• Batman: The Audio Adventures – Chris Gibney, Julie Larson
• Birds of Empire – Randy Torres, Ben Milchev, Ryan Walsh, David Tatasciore, Gabe Burch
• Cupid – Randy Torres, Ben Milchev, Ryan Walsh, David Tatasciore, Sarah Ma
• Maejor Frequency – Richard Riegel
• Marvel’s Wastelanders: Doom – Mark Henry Phillips
• The Big Burn – E. Scott Kelly
• Twenty Thousand Hertz – Jai Berger

Best Reporting

• Bone Valley – Gilbert King, Kelsey Decker
• Chameleon: Scam Likely – Yudhijit Bhattacharjee
• Conviction: The Disappearance of Nuseiba Hasan – Habiba Nosheen
• Taking on Putin – John Sweeney
• The Greatest Menace: Inside the Gay Prison Experiment – Patrick Abboud
• The Outlaw Ocean Podcast – Ian Urbina
• Who Killed Daphne? – Stephen Grey

Best Scriptwriting, Fiction

• American Hostage – C.D. Carpenter
• I Hear Fear – Jenny Deiker Restivo, Nathalie Chicha
• Impact Winter – Travis Beacham
• Last Known Position – Luke Passmore
• Power Trip – Mary Hamilton, Cara Horner
• The End Up – Will Weggel, Danny Luber
• Story Pirates – Minhdzuy Khorami, Mike Cabellon, Meghan O’Neill, Peter McNerney, Lee Overtree, Rachel Wenitsky, Ned Riseley

Best Scriptwriting, Nonfiction

• 12 Years That Shook the World – Erin Harper
• Chameleon: Wild Boys – Sam Mullins
• Death of an Artist – Helen Molesworth
• Ídolo: The Ballad of Chalino Sánchez – Erick Galindo, Alejandro Mendoza
• Into America – Trymaine Lee, Aisha Turner, Isabel Angell, Max Jacobs, Josh Sirotiak
• MUBI Podcast – Rico Gagliano
• We Were Three – Nancy Updike

Best Society and Culture Podcast

• Fiasco: The AIDS Crisis
• Ídolo: The Ballad of Chalino Sánchez
• In Those Genes
• Into America
• Love Right Now
• The Sum of Us
• Truth Be Told

Best Sports Podcast

• Choosing Sides: F1
• Deep Left Field With Mike Wilner
• Pink Card
• Sports History This Week
• The Lead
• The Longest Game
• Torched

Best True Crime Podcast

• Conviction: The Disappearance of Nuseiba Hasan
• Dateline: Missing in America
• Death of an Artist
• Queen of the Con
• The Paddlefish Caviar Heist
• Up and Vanished- The Trial of Ryan Duke
• Wrongful Conviction

Best Wellness or Relationships Podcast

• Are You Sleeping?
• Back From Broken
• Chiquis and Chill
• Come as You Are
• Dear Headspace
• Navigating Narcissism
• Room 5