{"id":369623,"date":"2026-04-08T14:07:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T14:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/369623\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T14:07:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T14:07:11","slug":"jacinda-ardern-documentary-nominated-for-two-emmys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/369623\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacinda Ardern documentary nominated for two Emmys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-element img-responsive file-odt-landscape-large-4-3\" data-delta=\"1\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/gettyimages-2249397866-594x594.jpg\" width=\"630\" height=\"512\" alt=\"Jacinda Ardern attends the Jacinda Ardern &quot;Prime Minister&quot; London Premiere at the Curzon Mayfair...\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Jacinda Ardern attends the Jacinda Ardern &#8220;Prime Minister&#8221; London Premiere at the Curzon Mayfair on December 1, 2025. Photo: Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>A documentary about former Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has been nominated for two Emmy awards.<\/p>\n<p>The production, Prime Minister, looks at how the world&#8217;s then-youngest female head of government balanced motherhood with leadership, and navigated crises like the covid-19 lockdowns and the Christchurch terror attack.<\/p>\n<p>The documentary was co-directed by Auckland-based filmmaker Michelle Walshe and American Lindsay Utz.<\/p>\n<p>In a video posted to social media, Ardern&#8217;s husband Clarke Gayford said they had been nominated for &#8220;not one, but two Emmy Awards.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He said the periods that the film looks at were some of the toughest times in their lives.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was awful in places.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For one reason or another, I decided to pick up a camera, and film parts of it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Variety Magazine in Los Angeles reported it had been nominated in the &#8216;Best Documentary&#8217; category, and also as &#8216;Outstanding Politics and Government Documentary&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jacinda Ardern attends the Jacinda Ardern &#8220;Prime Minister&#8221; London Premiere at the Curzon Mayfair on December 1, 2025.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":369624,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[156,409,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-369623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}