Ukrainians crowd under a destroyed bridge as they try to flee by crossing the Irpin River on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, March 5, 2022. The image was part of a series of images by Associated Press photographers that was awarded the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
We’ve won 59 Pulitzer Prizes, including 36 for photography, since the award was established in 1917. In 2024, AP won the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography for its compelling, multi-country photojournalism showing migration from Central America to the United States.
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2024 Academy Awards
“20 Days in Mariupol,” the feature documentary from The Associated Press and PBS documentary series Frontline won the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature Film at the 96th Academy Awards®.
El fotógrafo de The Associated Press Evgeniy Maloletka, de izquierda a derecha, la editora y productora de Frontline de PBS Raney Aronson, el director, productor y periodista de AP Mstyslav Chernov, la editora y productora Michelle Mizner, la productora de campo y videoperiodista de AP Vasilisa Stepanenko, y el productor y vicepresidente de AP y director de producción Derl McCrudden, ganadores del premio a mejor documental por ’20 Days in Mariupol’, posan en la 77a entrega de los Premios de la Academia Británica de Cine (BAFTA) en Londres el domingo 18 de febrero de 2024. (Foto Vianney Le Caer/Invision/AP)
BAFTA Film Award for Best Documentary
The Associated Press won the best documentary prize at the British Academy Film Awards for Ukraine war documentary “20 Days in Mariupol,” produced with PBS’ “Frontline.”
People watch a screening of “20 Days in Mariupol” at the State Department in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
DuPont-Columbia Award for “20 Days in Mariupol”
The Associated Press was among 15 winners of the 2024 duPont-Columbia Awards for “20 Days in Mariupol.”
FILE – A Taliban fighter stands guard as women wait to receive food rations distributed by a humanitarian aid group, in Kabul, Afghanistan, on May 23, 2023. Human Rights Watch said Monday, Feb. 12, 2024 that Afghanistan’s public health system has been hit hard following a sharp reduction in foreign assistance, coupled with serious Taliban abuses against women and girls, jeopardizing the right to healthcare of millions of Afghans. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)
Visa d’Or Feature Award
Ebrahim Noroozi, AP Photojournalist, won a Visa d’Or Feature Award in 2023 for his coverage of Afghanistan.
An Emmy statuette is displayed inside the Governor’s Ball at the 2016 Primetime Emmy Awards Press Preview Day at the Los Angeles Convention Center on Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2016, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Rich Fury/Invision/AP)
Emmy Awards
The Associated Press earned 2 awards at the 45th News & Documentary Emmys® for “Adrift,” an investigation into a deadly migrant voyage, and “Grand Knighthawk: Infiltrating the KKK,” a documentary produced with ABC News Studios.
FILE – Members of the Vegas Golden Knights celebrate after they defeated the Florida Panthers 9-3 to win the Stanley Cup in Game 5 of the NHL hockey Stanley Cup Finals Tuesday, June 13, 2023, in Las Vegas. The photo was honored by the Associated Press Sports Editors as best sports feature photo of 2023 at their annual winter meeting. (AP Photo/Abbie Parr, File)
Best of Photojournalism Awards
In 2024, The Associated Press won 14 Best of Photojournalism Awards from the National Press Photographers Association.
El fotógrafo de The Associated Press Evgeniy Maloletka, de izquierda a derecha, la editora y productora de Frontline de PBS Raney Aronson, el director, productor y periodista de AP Mstyslav Chernov, la editora y productora Michelle Mizner, la productora de campo y videoperiodista de AP Vasilisa Stepanenko, y el productor y vicepresidente de AP y director de producción Derl McCrudden, ganadores del premio a mejor documental por ’20 Days in Mariupol’, posan en la 77a entrega de los Premios de la Academia Británica de Cine (BAFTA) en Londres el domingo 18 de febrero de 2024. (Foto Vianney Le Caer/Invision/AP)
People watch a screening of “20 Days in Mariupol” at the State Department in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
FILE – A Taliban fighter stands guard as women wait to receive food rations distributed by a humanitarian aid group, in Kabul, Afghanistan, on May 23, 2023. Human Rights Watch said Monday, Feb. 12, 2024 that Afghanistan’s public health system has been hit hard following a sharp reduction in foreign assistance, coupled with serious Taliban abuses against women and girls, jeopardizing the right to healthcare of millions of Afghans. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)
An Emmy statuette is displayed inside the Governor’s Ball at the 2016 Primetime Emmy Awards Press Preview Day at the Los Angeles Convention Center on Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2016, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Rich Fury/Invision/AP)
FILE – Members of the Vegas Golden Knights celebrate after they defeated the Florida Panthers 9-3 to win the Stanley Cup in Game 5 of the NHL hockey Stanley Cup Finals Tuesday, June 13, 2023, in Las Vegas. The photo was honored by the Associated Press Sports Editors as best sports feature photo of 2023 at their annual winter meeting. (AP Photo/Abbie Parr, File)
See AP’s 2024 prize-winning photojournalism:
Migrants walk across the Darien Gap from Colombia to Panama in hopes of reaching the U.S., May 9, 2023. AP’s photojournalism showing migration from Central America to the U.S. earned AP the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for feature photography. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia)
A Venezuelan migrant laughs as she jokes with her husband, who gave her a few flowers he picked in the grass, as they wait along the rail lines in hopes of boarding a freight train heading north in Huehuetoca, Mexico, Sept. 20, 2023. AP’s photojournalism showing migration from Central America to the U.S. earned AP the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for feature photography. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)
Migrants, mainly from Central America, who were traveling to the U.S. inside a tractor-trailer, are detained by Mexican immigration agents and National Guard members, in Veracruz, Mexico, July 23, 2023. AP’s photojournalism showing migration from Central America to the U.S. earned AP the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for feature photography. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)
Migrants travel inside train cars of a northbound freight train, in Irapuato, Mexico, Sept. 23, 2023. AP’s photojournalism showing migration from Central America to the U.S. earned AP the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for feature photography. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)
A Venezuelan migrant stands covered in a wrap while texting, on the banks of the Rio Grande in Matamoros, Mexico, May 13, 2023. AP’s photojournalism showing migration from Central America to the U.S. earned AP the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for feature photography. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)
Migrants who crossed into the U.S. from Mexico pass under concertina wire along the Rio Grande river, Sept. 21, 2023, in Eagle Pass, Texas. AP’s photojournalism showing migration from Central America to the U.S. earned AP the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for feature photography. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
Migrants reach through a border wall for clothing handed out by volunteers as they wait between two border walls to apply for asylum, May 12, 2023, in San Diego. AP’s photojournalism showing migration from Central America to the U.S. earned AP the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for feature photography. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
Migrants cross the Rio Bravo on an inflatable mattress into the United States from Matamoros, Mexico, on May 9, 2023. AP’s photojournalism showing migration from Central America to the U.S. earned AP the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for feature photography. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)
A group of migrants sleep in a makeshift campsite as they wait to apply for asylum after crossing the border, May 10, 2023, near Jacumba, Calif. AP’s photojournalism showing migration from Central America to the U.S. earned AP the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for feature photography. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
Migrants cross the Rio Grande river into the United States from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, March 29, 2023. AP’s photojournalism showing migration from Central America to the U.S. earned AP the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for feature photography. (AP Photo/Christian Chavez)
A woman carries her child after she and other migrants crossed the Rio Grande and entered the U.S. from Mexico, to be processed by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Sept. 23, 2023, in Eagle Pass, Texas. AP’s photojournalism showing migration from Central America to the U.S. earned AP the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for feature photography. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
Venezuelan migrants wave a U.S. flag at a television helicopter that flew over the Rio Grande, in Matamoros, Mexico, May 12, 2023, a day after pandemic-related asylum restrictions called Title 42 were lifted. AP’s photojournalism showing migration from Central America to the U.S. earned AP the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for feature photography. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)
An Afghan refugee rests in the desert next to a camp near the Torkham Pakistan-Afghanistan border, in Torkham, Afghanistan, Nov. 17, 2023. The image is part of a series titled “Afghanistan on the Edge,” which won in the 2024 World Press Photo contest’s Asia Stories category. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi).
Afghan refugees wait to register in a camp near the Torkham Pakistan-Afghanistan border in Torkham, Afghanistan, Nov. 4, 2023. The image is part of a series titled “Afghanistan on the Edge,” which won in the 2024 World Press Photo contest’s Asia Stories category. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi).
Palestinian crowds struggle to buy bread from a bakery in Rafah, Gaza Strip, Feb. 18, 2024. AP’s photojournalism of the war in Gaza earned AP the 2024 International Photography Award and the Seigenthaler Courage in Journalism Prize from the RFK Book and Journalism Awards. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)
Palestinians mourn their relatives killed in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip, in the hospital in Khan Younis, Nov. 11, 2023. The image earned AP the National Press Photographers Association’s Best of Photojournalism Award for 2024 breaking news photography and was part of a photo series that earned AP the 2024 International Photography Award and the Seigenthaler Courage in Journalism Prize from the RFK Book and Journalism Awards. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)
Palestinians line up for a meal in Rafah, Gaza Strip, Dec. 21, 2023. AP’s photojournalism of the war in Gaza earned AP the 2024 International Photography Award and the Seigenthaler Courage in Journalism Prize from the RFK Book and Journalism Awards. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)
A view of the makeshift tent camp where Palestinians displaced by the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip are staying, in the Muwasi area on Dec. 31, 2023. AP’s photojournalism of the war in Gaza earned AP the 2024 International Photography Award and the Seigenthaler Courage in Journalism Prize from the RFK Book and Journalism Awards. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)
A woman mourns the covered bodies of her child and her husband killed in an Israeli army bombardment of the Gaza Strip, in the hospital in Khan Younis, Dec. 5, 2023. AP’s photojournalism of the war in Gaza earned AP the 2024 International Photography Award and the Seigenthaler Courage in Journalism Prize from the RFK Book and Journalism Awards. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)
A Ukrainian police officer takes cover in front of a building that was hit in a Russian airstrike in Avdiivka, Ukraine, March 17, 2023. AP’s photojournalism of the war in Ukraine earned AP the National Press Photographers Association’s Best of Photojournalism Award for 2024 breaking news story.
Fisherwomen and men pull in a net of fish off the coast of Chuao, Venezuela, early Wednesday, June 7, 2023. Some women are joining a family tradition of fishing and in other cases launching new careers after losing jobs during Venezuela’s economic crisis. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)
Members of the Vegas Golden Knights celebrate after they defeated the Florida Panthers 9-3 to win the Stanley Cup in Game 5 of the NHL hockey Stanley Cup Finals June 13, 2023, in Las Vegas. The image was honored by the Associated Press Sports Editors as best sports feature photo of 2023 and earned AP the National Press Photographers Association’s Best of Photojournalism Award for 2024 sports feature. (AP Photo/Abbie Parr)
Three Afghan internally displaced children look with surprise at an apple that their mother brought home after begging, in a camp on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan, Feb 2, 2023. The image is part of a series titled “Afghanistan on the Edge,” which won in the 2024 World Press Photo contest’s Asia Stories category. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi).
A sick Afghan refugee gets treatment in a camp near the Torkham Pakistan-Afghanistan border, in Torkham, Afghanistan, Nov. 3, 2023. The image is part of a series titled “Afghanistan on the Edge,” which won in the 2024 World Press Photo contest’s Asia Stories category. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi).
A poor internally displaced Afghan woman and man take care of their sick child in a camp in Kabul, Afghanistan, Feb 9, 2023. The image is part of a series titled “Afghanistan on the Edge,” which won in the 2024 World Press Photo contest’s Asia Stories category. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi).
Migrants sit under a sign marking the Panama-Colombia border during their trek across the Darien Gap, May 9, 2023. AP’s photojournalism showing migration from Central America to the U.S. earned AP the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for feature photography. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia)
Migrants planning to start walking across the Darien Gap from Colombia to Panama in hopes of reaching the U.S. gather at the trailhead camp in Acandi, Colombia, May 9, 2023. AP’s photojournalism showing migration from Central America to the U.S. earned AP the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for feature photography. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia)
Haitian migrants wade through water as they cross the Darien Gap from Colombia to Panama in hopes of reaching the U.S., May 9, 2023. AP’s photojournalism showing migration from Central America to the U.S. earned AP the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for feature photography. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia)