Semi Chellas - Awards & Nominations

Date of Birth	1969
Place of Birth	Palo Alto (Santa Clara County, United States of America, Silicon Valley, California, San Francisco Bay Area, Area code 650)
Nationality	United States of America
Profession	Screenwriter, Television producer, Writer, Film director
Semi Chellas is a writer and screenwriter who has written for film, television and magazines. She was born in Palo Alto, California in 1969 and grew up in Calgary, Alberta. Chellas was the co-creator, executive producer and head writer of the Canadian prime-time dramatic television series The Eleventh Hour, two-time winner of the Gemini Award for Best Series. Chellas and Tassie Cameron shared the Gemini for Best Writing in 2005 for the series finale, "Bumpy Cover". As well as being critically acclaimed, the series was nominated for over 30 other Geminis and won nine. Most recently, she adapted Linda Spalding’s Who Named the Knife into a television movie, Murder on Her Mind; she also executive produced. She wrote the script for Picture Claire, a low-budget feature directed by Bruce McDonald, that premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2001. She also wrote The Life Before This, a low-budget feature directed by Jerry Ciccoritti that premiered at TIFF in 1999; she was also an associate producer. Her script for the Showtime/CBC television movie Restless Spirits garnered her both a Gemini and a day-time Emmy nomination.

Awards by Semi Chellas

Check all the awards nominated and won by Semi Chellas.

2014

Canadian Screen Awards - Margaret Collier Award

Nominations 2014 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Writers Guild of America Award for Television: Dramatic Series	Mad Men
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series	Mad Men

2013

Writers Guild of America Award for Television: Episodic Drama

Honored for : The Other Woman

(From the TV Series: Mad Men)

Nominations 2013 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
WGA Award for Best Drama Series - Television	Mad Men
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series	Mad Men
Writers Guild of America Award for Television: Episodic Drama	Mad Men For episode \"The Other Woman\"

2012

Nominations 2012 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing - Drama Series	Mad Men \"Far Away Places\"
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing - Drama Series	Mad Men \"The Other Woman\"

2009

Nominations 2009 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Gemini Award for Best TV Movie	Of Murder and Memory

2005

Gemini Award for Best Writing in a Dramatic Series

Honored for : The Eleventh Hour

(Bumpy Cover)

Gemini Award for Best Dramatic Series

Honored for : The Eleventh Hour

Nominations 2005 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Gemini Award for Best Dramatic Series	The Eleventh Hour
Gemini Award for Best Writing in a Dramatic Series	The Eleventh Hour Bumpy Cover

2004

Nominations 2004 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Gemini Award for Best Dramatic Series	The Eleventh Hour

2003

Gemini Award for Best Dramatic Series

Honored for : The Eleventh Hour

Nominations 2003 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Gemini Award for Best Dramatic Series	The Eleventh Hour
Gemini Award for Best Writing in a Dramatic Series	The Eleventh Hour Not Without My Reefer

2002

Nominations 2002 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television Award for Best Live Action Short Drama	Three Stories From the End of Everything

2000

Nominations 2000 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Gemini Award for Best Writing in a Dramatic Program or Mini-series	Restless Spirits
Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing In A Children/Youth/Family Special	Restless Spirits

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