Over its 11-year run, MASTERPIECE Studio has received significant awards recognition, including:
Winner of 10 Signal Awards, including Gold medals for Best Host, Individual Episode for my interview with Helena Bonham Carter, our Jane Austen 250th Birthday special, and Interview or Talk Show, Individual Episode for my interview with Anna Madeley; a Silver medal for Making MASTERPIECE; and multiple bronze medals for interviews with Susan Hampshire and Gaia Wise; and multiple Listeners' Choice Awards.
Winner of nine Webby Awards, including several Best Podcast trophies in categories such as Arts & Culture and Television & Film, as well as multiple honorees and People’s Voice Awards.
In 2017, the Webby Awards named MASTERPIECE Studio an Honoree in the Television & Film Podcast category.
In 2018, MASTERPIECE Studio was named Best Arts & Culture Podcast by the Webby Awards.
In 2019, MASTERPIECE Studio was named a Webby Award Honoree in the Television & Film Podcast category.
In 2020, MASTERPIECE Studio was again nominated by the Webby Awards for Best Podcast: Television & Film and took home the top prize for People’s Voice Award in the Podcasts, Television & Film category.
MASTERPIECE Studio’s documentary spinoff Making MASTERPIECE was named a 2022 Webby Award Honoree for Podcast Limited Series, Entertainment and was awarded a silver Signal Award (and the Listener’s Choice award) in January 2023.
In 2024, MASTERPIECE Studio was awarded a People’s Voice Webby Award for Best Film/TV Podcast (alongside entries from Netflix and HBO) for our Endeavour: The Story So Far episode — and was also named an honoree in the Interview/Talk Show category for our Sanditon finale interviews with series leads Rose Williams and Crystal Clarke. Also in 2024, the Signal Awards decorated MASTERPIECE Studio with both a Gold medal and the Listeners’ Choice Signal Award for Best Host, Individual Episode for my interview with Helena Bonham Carter.
In 2025, MASTERPIECE Studio was named an Honoree in the Television & Film Podcast category at the Webby Awards for our Wolf Hall Season 1 Recap episode. That same year, the Signal Awards bestowed MASTERPIECE Studio with a Gold medal for my interview with All Creatures Great and Small’s Anna Madeley in the Interview or Talk Show category as well as a Bronze medal — and a Listeners’ Choice Award — in the Television & Film category.
In 2026, MASTERPIECE Studio won the People’s Voice Webby Award in the Arts & Culture — Individual Episodes category for our episode on the 250th birthday of Jane Austen. We were also named an honoree in the Film & TV — Individual Episode category for my interview with Hugh Bonneville for The Gold… and MASTERPIECE Studio was named an honoree overall in Best Film & TV Podcast category, which is an exceptional honor.
Also in 2026, the Signal Awards bestowed four awards on MASTERPIECE Studio: a bronze award in the Companion Podcast category for our interview with All Creatures Great and Small’s Gaia Wise, a bronze award in the Individual Episode: Television & Film category for our interview with The Forsytes’ legendary Susan Hampshire, and a gold award for our episode on the 250th birthday of Jane Austen, as well as the Listener’s Choice award.