RT received the seventh nomination for the international Emmy Award

A series of reports about the fire at the Winter Cherry shopping center in Kemerovo made it to the finals in the News category.

In 2018, a series of special reports on a humanitarian catastrophe in Iraqi Mosul and on mainstream media coverage of the situation received a nomination in the same category.

In 2017, Chris Hedges, host of the Contact There program on RT America, reached the finals of the American Emmy in the category "Best Host of Information Talk Show".

In 2016, a series of special reports dedicated to the 70th session of the UN General Assembly hit the finals of the international Emmy; in 2014, special reports on the hunger strike of prisoners in the American prison of Guantanamo (Cuba).

In 2012, RT became an Emmy finalist for coverage of Occupy Wall Street in the United States, and in 2010 for broadcasting the first visit of US President Barack Obama to Russia.

The Emmy Award is considered the television analogue of the Oscars. The next presentation ceremony will be held September 24 in New York.