Children’s & Family Emmy Awards 2025 Nominees Unveiled

The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS) has unveiled the nominees for the 2025 Children’s & Family Emmy Awards, which will be presented on March 15.

Nickelodeon’s Blue’s Clues & You!, PBS KIDS’ Donkey Hodie, Apple TV+’s Lovely Little Farm and Max’s Sesame Street are nominated in the preschool series category. The contenders for children’s or family-viewing series are Apple TV+’s Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock, Univision’s La Fuerza de Creer: Dulce Sazón, Apple TV+’s Jane, BYUtv’s Malory Towers and Disney Channel’s Raven’s Home.

For the young teen series category, Disney+’s Goosebumps, Netflix’s Heartstopper, Netflix’s One Piece, Disney+’s Percy Jackson and the Olympians and Roku Channel’s The Spiderwick Chronicles have been nominated.

In the animated categories, the preschool series nominees are Frog and Toad (Apple TV+), Interrupting Chicken (Apple TV+), Rosie’s Rules (PBS KIDS), StoryBots: Answer Time (Netflix) and The Tiny Chef Show (Nickelodeon), while the children’s or young teen series nominees are CURSES! (Apple TV+), Hilda (Netflix), Iwájú (Disney+), Kiff (Disney Channel), Marvel’s Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur (Disney+) and Summer Camp Island (Cartoon Network).

Up for the fiction special award are Monster High 2 (Nickelodeon), The Naughty Nine (Disney Channel), The Slumber Party (Disney Channel), The Velveteen Rabbit (Apple TV+) and World’s Best (Disney+). The animated special award nominees, meanwhile, are Merry Little Batman (Prime Video), Orion and the Dark (Netflix), Peter and the Wolf (Max), Snoopy Presents: One-of-a-Kind Marcie (Apple TV+), The Tiger’s Apprentice (Paramount+) and Tiny Chef’s Marvelous Mish Mesh Special (Nickelodeon).

Contenders for short-form live-action program are Elmo and Jesse Remember Uncle Jack (Sesame Workshop), GIRLS’ VOICES NOW: The Beauty in Being Different (Girls’ Voices Now, Here TV), Healthy Minds Thriving Kids (Child Mind Institute) and Kid Gloves (Kid Gloves Show). For the short-form animated program prize, How Not to Draw (Disney Channel), I Am Groot (Disney+), Once Upon a Studio (Disney+), Take Care with Peanuts (Snoopy—Official Channel) and The Wonderful World of Mickey Mouse: Steamboat Silly (Disney+) are nominees.

BYUtv’s All-Round Champion, Max’s Elmo & Tango Holiday Helpers, Food Network’s Kids Baking Championship, National Geographic’s A Real Bug’s Life and HBO/Max’s Stand Up & Shout: Songs from a Philly High School are nominees for the non-fiction program award.

In the performance categories, Lola Blue (A Kind of Spark), Ella Bright (Malory Towers), Justin Long (Goosebumps), Raven-Symoné (Raven’s Home) and Christian Slater (The Spiderwick Chronicles) are up for the lead performer in a preschool, children’s or young teen program award. The nominees for supporting performer in a preschool, children’s or young teen program are Adam Copeland (Percy Jackson and the Olympians), Amanda Lawrence (Malory Towers), Elizabeth Mitchell (The Santa Clauses), Sarah Rafferty (My Life with the Walter Boys), Lance Reddick (Percy Jackson and the Olympians) and Eric Stonestreet (The Santa Clauses).

Younger performer nominees for a preschool, children’s or young teen program are Pyper Braun (Erin & Aaron), Noah Cottrell (The Spiderwick Chronicles), Mykal-Michelle Harris (Raven’s Home), Alaya High (That Girl Lay Lay), Leah Sava Jeffries (Percy Jackson and the Olympians) and Phoenix Laroche (The Velveteen Rabbit).

Kimiko Glenn (Baby Shark’s Big Show!), Bobby Moynihan (Pupstruction), Cree Summer (Spirit Rangers), Fred Tatasciore (StoryBots: Answer Time) and Kari Wahlgren (Superkitties) are nominated for their voice performances in preschool programs. Eric Bauza (Teen Titans Go!), Bob Bergen (Looney Tunes Cartoons), Ben Feldman (Monsters at Work), William Shatner (Masters of the Universe: Revolution) and Paul Walter Hauser (Orion and the Dark) are nominated for their voice acting in children’s or young teen programs.

Younger voice performers nominated are Lucia Cunningham (Jessica’s Big Little World), Simisola Gbadamosi (Iwájú), Terrence Little Gardenhigh (Fright Krewe), Arianna McDonald (Snoopy Presents: One-of-a-Kind Marcie) and Jacob Tremblay (Orion in the Dark).

Nominees for writing, directing, puppetry, music direction, cinematography, editing and more have also been released.

“This year’s nominations are particularly meaningful, as much of the work being honored was delayed due to last year’s strikes,” said Rachel Schwartz, head of the Children’s & Family Emmy Awards. “It is a privilege to have been named head of a competition that is not only honoring exceptional talent but is also shaping the way children and their families interact with the world. Congratulations to all.”