5th Annual Prism Awards Nominations

Written By Rick Ellis, January 31st, 2001

The Prism Awards are presented in partnership with The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse/National Institutes of Health, and are the entertainment industry's annual recognition for the accurate depiction of drug, alcohol and tobacco use and addiction in movies, television, video, music, interactive and comic book entertainment.

THEATRICAL FEATURE FILM
Bounce (Miramax Films)
Pay It Forward (Warner Bros. Pictures/Tapestry Films/Bel Air Entertainment)
Requiem For a Dream (Artisan Entertainment/Thousand Words/Sibling-Protozoa/Industry Entertainment/ Bandeira Entertainment)
Traffic (USA Films/Initial Entertainment Group/Bedford Falls Co.)
28 Days (Columbia Pictures/Sony PicturesEntertainment)

TELEVISION COMEDY SERIES EPISODE
Becker - "Smoke 'Em If You Got 'Em" (Paramount Network Television/Dave Hackel Productions/Industry Entertainment/ CBS Entertainment/Paramount Domestic Television)
Cosby - "Raising Paranoia" (The Carsey-Werner Co./CBS Entertainment/Carsey-Werner Distribution)
Rude Awakening - "Bottoms Up" (Lions Gate Television/Columbia TriStar Television Distribution/Showtime Networks)
The Simpsons - "Days of Wine of D'oh'ses" (20th Century Fox Television/Gracie Films/Fox Broadcasting Co./20th Television Corp.)
That '70s Show - "Hyde's Christmas Rager" (The Carsey-Werner Co./Fox Broadcasting Co./Carsey-Werner Distribution)

TELEVISION COMEDY SERIES STORYLINE
Popular - "Ur-ine Trouble"/ "Style & Substance Abuse" (Touchstone Television/Ryan Murphy Productions/Roundtable Ink/The Shephard-Robin Co./The WB Television Network/Buena Vista Television)
Sex and the City - "No Ifs, Ands, or Butts"/"Easy Come, Easy Go"/ "All or Nothing"/"Running with Scissors"/"Don't Ask, Don't Tell" (Darren Star Productions/HBO)

TELEVISION DRAMA SERIES EPISODE
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - "Friends and Lovers" (CBS Productions/Bruckheimer Films/Alliance Atlantis Television Productions/CBS Entertainment)
Family Law - "Playing God" (Columbia TriStar Television/CBS Productions/Paul Haggis Productions/CBS Entertainment/Columbia TriStar Television Distribution)
Judging Amy - "Blast From the Past" (20th Century Fox Television/Barbara Hall-Joseph Stern Productions/CBS Entertainment/20th Television Distribution)
Third Watch - "Know Thyself" (Warner Bros. Television/John Wells Productions/NBC Entertainment/Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution)
The West Wing - "Mandatory Minimums" (Warner Bros. Television/John Wells Productions/NBC Entertainment/Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution)

TELEVISION DRAMA SERIES STORYLINE Dawson's Creek - The Agony of Ecstasy--"Future Tense"/"Great X-pectations"/"You Had Me at Goodbye" (Granville Productions/Columbia TriStar Television/The WB Television Network/Columbia TriStar Television Distribution)
E.R. - Carter's Addiction---"Be Still My Heart"/"All in the Family"/ "Be Patient"/"Under Control" /"Match Made in Heaven"/"Fastest Year"/"Such Sweet Sorrow"/"May Day"/"Homecoming"/"Sand and Water"/ "Mars Attacks" (Warner Bros. Television/Amblin Television/Constant c Productions/NBC Entertainment/Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution)
Felicity - Alcoholism--"The Anti-Natalie Intervention"/ "Hello, I Must Be Going"/"Kissing Mr. Covington" (Touchstone Television/Imagine Television/The WB Television Network/Buena Vista Television)
Resurrection Blvd. - The Story of Paco--"El Regreso"/"Negro Y Moreno"/"Dos Padres" (Viacom Productions/Showtime Networks/Paramount Domestic Television)
7th Heaven - "Busted" * "Blind" * "Bye" (Spelling Television/The WB Television Network/Paramount Domestic Television)

TELEVISION DAYTIME DRAMA SERIES EPISODE OR STORYLINE
All My Children - "Drunk Driving Revisited" (ABC Daytime)
Days of Our Lives - "Fetal Alcohol Syndrome" "Episode #8856" * "Episode #8858" * "Episode #8861" (Columbia TriStar Television/Corday Productions/NBC Entertainment)
Port Charles - "Karen's Drug Addiction" (ABC Daytime)

TELEVISION CHILDREN'S LIVE ACTION SERIES EPISODE OR SPECIAL
City Guys - "Unhappy Hour" (NBC Studios/Peter Engel Productions/NBC Entertainment/NBC Enterprises)
In a Heart Beat - "Friends Don't Let Friends" (Alliance Atlantis Television Productions/The Disney Channel)
Just Deal - "One for the Road" (NBC Studios/The Tom Lynch Co./NBC Entertainment/NBC Enterprises)
The Last Party (Channel One News)

TELEVISION BIOGRAPHICAL REALITY SERIES EPISODE OR SPECIAL
Biography - "Dick Van Dyke: Put on a Happy Face" (Peter Jones Productions/Arts & Entertainment Network)
The E! True Hollywood Story - "Burt Reynolds" (E! Entertainment Television)
The E! True Hollywood Story - "David Strickland" (E! Entertainment Television)
Intimate Portrait - "Mackenzie Phillips" (Lifetime Television)

TELEVISION DOCUMENTARY OR NEWSMAGAZINE SERIES EPISODE OR SPECIAL
Frontline - "Drug Wars" (WGBH/Rain Media/Cambay Productions/Public Broadcasting Service)
Hooked: Illegal Drugs and How They Got That Way- "Cocaine"/ "LSD, Ecstasy and the Raves"/"Marijuana"/"Opium, Morphine and Heroin" (Tera Media/Discovery Health Channel)
Smashed: Kids and Alcohol (NBC News)
Teen Files - "The Truth About Drugs" (Arnold Shapiro Productions/Paramount Stations Group/Paramount Domestic Television)
Urges Within (BBC/Discovery Health Channel)

TELEVISION TALK SHOW SERIES EPISODE
BET Tonight - "Drug Abuse" (Black Entertainment Television)
The Montel Willams Show - "Deadly Party Drugs" (Paramount Domestic Television/Letnom Productions)
The Ricki Lake Show - "I Slam Heroin and I'm Only a Teen… Ricki Help Me Before It's Too Late"
(Part I & Part II)(Columbia TriStar Television Distribution)
Trackers- "Life in Progress: Alcoholism" (Oxygen Media)
Trackers- "Life in Progress: Substance Abuse" (Oxygen Media)

TELEVISION MOVIE, MINISERIES OR DRAMATIC SPECIAL
The Corner (Blown Deadline Productions/Knee Deep Productions/HBO)
Holiday Heart (MGM Television Entertainment/Tribeca Productions/Showtime Networks)
The Natalie Cole Story (Robert Greenwald Productions/NBC Entertainment)
Trapped in a Purple Haze (The Thomas Carter Co./ABC Entertainment)

COMIC BOOK ISSUE OR CONTINUING STORYLINE
The Avengers - Vol. 3, #27 - "New Order" (Marvel Comics)
The Fantastic Four - Vol. 3, #37 - "There's No Business…" (Marvel Comics)
Iron Man - Vol. 3, #27 - "The Dream Machine" (Marvel Comics)
The X-Men - "Cecilia Reyes" X-Men - #106 - "Search and Rescue" * The Uncanny X-Men - #389 - "The Good Shepherd" (Marvel Comics)

COMMUNITY SERVICE EFFORT
ABC Classroom Connection (ABC Television Network)
CBS Cares (CBS Television Network)
NBC's The More You Know (NBC Television Network)
TEAM Awards X (Animaction/Kids WB!/The Cartoon Network/The WB Television Network/Sony Pictures Imageworks Online/Bohbot Kids Network)
Teen Files (Arnold Shapiro Productions/Paramount Television Stations)

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