The miniseries won the 4th Critics ' Choice Television Award for " Best Reality Series " , with Tyson awarded for " Best Reality Host " . The miniseries was also nominated for " Outstanding Achievement in News and Information " for the 30th TCA Awards and 12 Emmy Awards , including " Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series " . The program won the Emmy for " Outstanding Writing for Nonfiction Programming " and " Outstanding Sound Editing for Nonfiction Programming ( Single or Multi-Camera ) " , and Silvestri won the Emmys for both " Outstanding Original Main Title Theme Music " and " Outstanding Music Composition for a Series ( Original Dramatic Score ) " . The series won a 2014 Peabody Award within the Education category . In 2014 , the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry ( CSICOP ) presented '' Cosmos '' with the Robert B. Balles Prize in Critical Thinking . " '' Cosmos : A Spacetime Odyssey '' opened the eyes of a new generation to humanity ’s triumphs , its mistakes , and its astounding potential to reach unimagined heights . " The new miniseries has been criticized by some Christians and the religious right for some of the things stated during the show . Christian fundamentalists were upset that the scientific theories covered in the show opposed the Genesis creation narrative in the Bible . The Catholic League was upset that the science show " smears " Catholicism . A spokesman for the League noted how the show focused on Giordano Bruno , whom the Catholic Church turned over to secular authorities to be burnt at the stake for blasphemy , immoral conduct , and heresy in matters of dogmatic theology , in addition to some of the basic doctrines of his philosophy and cosmology , and stated that the show " skipped Copernicus and Galileo &mdash; two far more consequential men in proving and disseminating the heliocentric theory &mdash; because in their cases , the Church 's role was much more complicated "
4th Critics ' Choice Television Award
4th Critics' Choice Television Awards
Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey