Gabriel Awards

View the 58th Annual Gabriel Awards List of Winners and Runners Up

The 2024 program is now closed. Information about the 2025 program will be released in October. In the meantime, you may review last year's program here:

About the 2025 Program

The Catholic Media Association is honored to sponsor the Gabriel Awards, a premier program honoring excellence in film, broadcast, and digital media productions released in the United States and Canada. (CMA Membership is not required for the Gabriel Awards.)

The Gabriel Awards were created in 1965 to “recognize outstanding artistic achievement in a television or radio program or series that entertains and enriches with a true vision of humanity and true vision of life.”

A Gabriel-worthy award entry is dedicated to authenticity and excellence. It affirms and highlights values of dignity, community, tolerance, justice, or compassion.

The primary goal of the Gabriel Awards is to encourage media professionals to serve, enrich, challenge, and uplift their audiences.

The Gabriel Awards Committee accepts professional entries for work in film, radio, English and Spanish language television and digital media projects completed in the 2024 calendar year. Categories are listed in that order on the following pages.

Judges recognize productions that:

  • Are dedicated to authenticity and excellence.
  • Highlight values of dignity, community, tolerance, justice, or compassion.

First-place recipients receive a coveted Gabriel statue. Runners-up receive a beautiful certificate of accomplishment.

Finalists were announced in April 2024. Winners were revealed at the Gabriel Awards Reception on June 20, taking place during the Catholic Media Conference, June 18-21, in Atlanta.

Enter the 59th Annual Gabriel Awards starting Nov. 1  2024.  Awards are presented during the Gabriel Awards Reception at the Catholic Media Conference, June 24-27 in Phoenix, and announced in The Catholic Journalist with comments from judges, as well as on the CMA website and on social media.

2025 Rates and Dates
Dates
  • Open Submission Period: Nov. 1, 2024 - Jan. 31, 2025 at 11:59 p.m. CT
  • Extension Period: Feb. 1-7, 2025 at 11:59 am CT
  • Payment Deadline: Feb. 9, 2025

Entry Fees
  • Film: $200 during Open Submission Period; $225 during Extension Period
  • Radio: $125 during Open Submission Period; $150 during Extension Period
  • Television: $150 during Open Submission Period; $175 during Extension Period
  • Digital Media: $150 during Open Submission Period; $175 during Extension Period
  • Personal Achievement: $150 during Open Submission Period; $175 during Extension Period
Questions?

Email Gabriel Awards Marketing and Project Manager, Kathleen Holloway at  kholloway@catholicmediaassociation.org