Sports Illustrated. Of the over 150 films in the Academy Award-winning and Emmy Award-winning 30 for 30 series, the New York Post and Vulture ranked The Two Escobars as the best one. In 2019, The Hollywood Reporter ranked the show the 5th best TV series of the decade behind Breaking Bad, Mad Men, Rectify, and Parks and Recreation. The Zimbalists shared the 2011 Peabody Award with this first season of ESPN Films 30 for 30 filmmakers. Since, the Zimbalist brothers also directed two other entries into the 30for30 series, including Arnold's Blueprint with Arnold Schwarzenegger and Youngstown Boys, featuring hall-of-famer Jim Brown, which won an Emmy in 2014. Pelé / Loving Pablo - 2011 to 2017 Zimbalist directed The Greatest Love Story Ever Told about the Bollywood film industry in India, produced by Academy Award winner Shekhar Kapur, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2011 and was theatrically distributed internationally by Wild Bunch. In 2014, the Zimbalist brothers wrote and directed a scripted feature film on the early life of soccer legend Pelé for Imagine Entertainment with Academy Award winner Brian Grazer producing and an original score from Academy Award winner AR Rahman. Pelé: Birth of a Legend was distributed theatrically worldwide. Pelé attended the premieres in-person at the Cannes Film Festival and Tribeca Film Festival. Zimbalist also wrote and produced Loving Pablo starring Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz, which premiered at the Venice International Film Festival and the Toronto International Film Festival and was released by Universal Studios. Momentum Generation / Nossa Chape / Give Us This Day - 2018 In 2018, Zimbalist won an Emmy and an Audience Award at the Tribeca Film Festival alongside 25 other international film festival awards, 5 New York Film & TV Gold Awards and the Grand Prize, and two Emmy nominations for his documentary Momentum Generation, starring Kelly Slater and Rob Machado and executive produced by Robert Redford. The same year, Zimbalist premiered Nossa Chape at the SxSw Film Festival. Nossa Chape was released theatrically in the US on June 1, 2018 by Fox with an introduction by Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and broadcast premiered during the World Cup on Fox June 23, 2018. Nossa Chape won Best Picture at the 2018 Los Angeles Film Awards, where Momentum Generation won Best Inspirational Film, and the Zimbalist Brother's feature documentary Give Us This Day, produced by Vince Vaughn, tracking 3 police