The final session of the World Congress of Science and Factual Producers in Stockholm in December 2016 took the form of a competition to see which extract from the world’s 2016 programming most elegantly explained complex science. This clip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2DdmEBXTpo from ‘The Joy of Data’, presented by Hannah Fry and produced and directed by Cat Gale, won Congress’s so-called ‘Noble’ Prize, triumphing over fellow finalists Brian Cox’s ‘Forces of Nature’, WGBH’s Nova and Morgan Freeman’s Through the Wormhole.
'The Joy of Winning' WINS the top award at AFO, Europe's biggest science film festival
April 2019: This is the third prize for the 'Joy of...' franchise at AFO: in 2015 'The Joy of Logic' also picked up Best International Film and in 2017 'The Joy of Data' received an honourable mention in the same category.
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