Sydney Thaxton, an Honors College student at Mississippi College, received a 2025 EMMY Award for Outstanding Photography (Long Form) from the Southeast Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for her work on the documentary “Eudora,” produced by the Institute for Southern Storytelling at MC.
Thaxton was among the television industry’s brightest stars from Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, South Carolina and Ashville, North Carolina, to be honored during NAFTA’s annual awards ceremony June 14 in the Grand Ballroom of the Grand Hyatt Buckhead in Georgia. The event recognized integrity, innovation and impact in broadcast journalism and media arts.
The rising sophomore English major is the third member of her family to earn a Southeast EMMY. In 2022, her father, Anthony Thaxton, received a Southeast EMMY for Outstanding Documentary (Historical), and her brother, Bryant Thaxton, received a Southeast EMMY for Outstanding Music Composition/Arrangement for their work on the documentary, “Walter Anderson: The Extraordinary Life and Art of the Islander.”…