Awards & Winners

Allie Light

Allie Light is an American film producer, film director and film editor. Light co-directed, edited and produced the 1991 documentary film, In the Shadow of the Stars, with her husband, Irving Saraf. Light and Saraf won the Academy Award for producing In the Shadow of the Stars. Light married film producer Saraf, becoming his second wife. The couple formed a professional producing partnership beginning in 1981. In 1995, Light and Saraf were jointly nominated for a News and Documentary Emmy for their work on the PBS show, Dialogues with Madwomen. Light's husband of thirty-eight years, Irving Saraf, died from Lou Gehrig’s disease at their home in San Francisco, California, on December 26, 2012, at the age of 80.

Awards by Allie Light

Check all the awards nominated and won by Allie Light.

1995


News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Interview
Honored for : POV
(Dialogues with Madwomen)

1991


Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature
Honored for : In the Shadow of the Stars

Nominations 1991 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature In the Shadow of the Stars