Apple’s “The Oprah Conversation” and “1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything” honored with Critics Choice Real TV Awards

Apple’s “The Oprah Conversation” and “1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything” honored with Critics Choice Real TV Awards

Apple TV+ today earned two Critics Choice Real TV Awards for Oprah’s honest and intimate talk series “The Oprah Conversation,” which took home the prize for Best Structured Series, and the immersive, groundbreaking docuseries “1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything,” which was awarded Best Limited Documentary Series. The Critics Choice Real TV Awards recognize excellence in nonfiction, unscripted and reality programming across broadcast, cable and streaming platforms.

The NAACP Image Award-nominated “The Oprah Conversation'' is a timely series that features Oprah leading intimate discussions with today’s foremost newsmakers, thought leaders and masters of their craft. Filmed remotely, Oprah hosts conversations that aim to bring truth and perspective to a range of topics shaping our world, revealing gripping stories of human connection. Recent guests have included Elliot Page, Eddie Murphy, Amanda Gorman, Barack Obama, Dolly Parton and Stevie Wonder.

“The Oprah Conversation” is available to stream on Apple TV+, alongside “Oprah Talks COVID-19” and “Oprah’s Book Club.”

“1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything” explores the musicians and soundtracks that shaped the culture and politics of 1971. The docuseries provides a deep dive rich with archival footage and interviews, and shows how the musical icons of the time were influenced by the changing tides of history – and, in turn, how they used their music to inspire hope, change and the culture around them. “1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything” examines the most iconic artists and songs that we still listen to 50 years later, including The Rolling Stones, Aretha Franklin, Bob Marley, Marvin Gaye, The Who, Joni Mitchell, Lou Reed and more.

The eight-part docuseries hails from Universal Music Group’s (UMG) Mercury Studios in association with On The Corner Films. Academy, BAFTA and Grammy Award winner Asif Kapadia (“Amy,” “Senna”) serves as series director and executive producer alongside James Gay-Rees (“Amy,” “Senna,” “Exit Through the Gift Shop”), David Joseph and UMG’s Adam Barker. Chris King serves as editor and executive producer. Danielle Peck is series producer and directs alongside James Rogan.

All eight episodes of “1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything” are available to stream on Apple TV+.

Apple’s award-winning offering of unscripted series and films also include “Boys State,” which won two Critics Choice Documentary Awards and the Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize Award; Critics Choice Award-winning and Emmy and Grammy Award-nominated “Beastie Boys Story”; the global smash hit documentary “Billie Eilish: The World’s A Little Blurry”; Werner Herzog’s Critics Choice Documentary Award nominee “Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds”; as well as upcoming documentary “The Supermodels,” from Brian Grazer and Ron Howard’s Imagine Documentaries; and “Number One on the Call Sheet,” from acclaimed storytellers Jamie Foxx, Kevin Hart, Datari Turner and Dan Cogan.

Apple TV+ offers premium, compelling drama and comedy series, feature films, groundbreaking documentaries, and kids and family entertainment, and is available to watch across all your favorite screens. After its launch on November 1, 2019, Apple TV+ became the first all-original streaming service to launch around the world, and has premiered more original hits and received more award recognitions faster than any other streaming service in its debut. To date, Apple Original films, documentaries and series have been honored with 112 wins and 389 awards nominations.

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