Overview
- The Lifetime Achievement honor will be presented March 1 at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Frederick P. Rose Hall in New York, with competitive winners announced March 2.
- Coverage notes Nye’s long-running science TV work and recent recognition, including the 2025 Presidential Medal of Freedom and a Hollywood Walk of Fame star.
- NATAS president and CEO Adam Sharp praised Nye as one of television’s most revered broadcast educators who inspired generations to appreciate science.
- Nye said the award affirms his belief that the process of science is “the best idea humans have ever had” and highlighted the passion, beauty, and joy of science.
- NATAS also unveiled 2026 Gold and Silver Circle inductees and juried winners, including PBS’s Carl the Collector and creatives from Star Trek: Prodigy, Ultraman: Rising, Daffy in Wacklyland, Jentry Chau vs. The Underworld, Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Spellbound, and Win or Lose.