2025Nominee
Best Performance
Breakdown: 1975
David Brinkley
Actor
Wilmington, North Carolina, USA
July 10, 1920
Biography
David McClure Brinkley was an American newscaster for NBC and ABC in a career lasting from 1943 to 1997. From 1956 through 1970, he co-anchored NBC's top rated nightly news program, The Huntley–Brinkley Report, with Chet Huntley and thereafter appeared as co-anchor or commentator on its successor, NBC Nightly News, through the 1970s. In the 1980s and 1990s, Brinkley was host of the popular Sunday This Week with David Brinkley program and a top commentator on election night coverage for ABC News. Over the course of his career, Brinkley received ten Emmy Awards, three George Foster Peabody Awards, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
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Representative Works
Awards and Honors
Critical Favorites
2013Nominee
Best Performance
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
1976Nominee
Best Performance
NBC: The First Fifty Years
Career Highlights
1997Highlight
Best Performance
The Trial of Adolf Eichmann
1968Highlight
Best Performance
The Movie Orgy
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Breakdown: 1975
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
The Movie Orgy