Simcha Jacobovici - Awards & Nominations

Date of Birth	04-April-1953
Place of Birth	Petah Tikva (Central District, Israel)
Nationality	Canada, Israel
Profession	Journalist, Television Director, Television Producer, Film Producer, Film Director, Screenwriter, Writer
Simcha Jacobovici is a Canadian Israeli film director, producer, free-lance journalist, and writer. He is an Emmy winner for Outstanding Investigative Journalism and a New York Times best selling author. His filmmaking awards include a Gold Medal from the International Documentary Festival of Nyon, three U.S. Cable Ace Awards, two Gemini Awards, an Alfred I. Dupont-Columbia University Award and, from the Overseas Press Club of America, the Carl Spielvogel Award and Edward R. Murrow Award. In 2013 he won a Gold Dolphin from the Cannes Corporate Media & TV Awards. Jacobovici earned a B.A. in Philosophy and Political Science from McGill University and an M.A. in International Relations from the University of Toronto. He is an Adjunct Professor of Religious Studies at Huntington University, an affiliate of Laurentian University in Sudbury, Ontario Jacobovici has been a guest lecturer at numerous conferences and on various campuses including Yale, Johns Hopkins, McGill, UCLA and York University. He was one of the first to advocate for the airlift of the Ethiopian Jews to Israel. His New York Times op-ed pieces on the subject and his first documentary "Falasha: Exile of the Black Jews" caused a storm in the Jewish community worldwide and in the media. His film "The Plague Monkeys" caused a level four bio-safety lab slated for opening in Toronto to remain closed. In 2013 his film "Tales From the Organ Trade" has once again raised the issue of decriminalizing kidney sales. His 1991 film on the Palestinian/Israeli conflict "Deadly Currents" was runner up for the Peace Prize at the Berlin Film Festival, and was screened in Israeli and Palestinian settings.

Awards by Simcha Jacobovici

Check all the awards nominated and won by Simcha Jacobovici.

2014

Nominations 2014 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Investigative Journalism – Long Form	Tales from the Organ Trade HBO Documentary Film Series

2011

Nominations 2011 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Gemini Award for Best History Documentary Program	Discovery Channel Documentaries Finding Atlantis

2008

Nominations 2008 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Gemini Award for Best History Documentary Program	Charging the Rhino

2007

News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Investigative Journalism – Long Form

Honored for : Frontline

(Sex Slaves)

Nominations 2007 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Gemini Award for Best Writing in a Documentary Program or Series	The Lost Tomb of Jesus

2006

Nominations 2006 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
British Academy Television Award for Best Single Documentary	Sex Slaves
Gemini Award for Best Host or Interviewer in a General/Human Interest or Talk Program or Series	The Naked Archaeologist Delilah's People

2002

Nominations 2002 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Gemini Award for Best Performing Arts Program or Series or Arts Documentary Program or Series	Magic and Mystery Tour

2001

Nominations 2001 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Gemini Award for Best Science, Technology, Nature, Environment or Adventure Documentary Program	Investigative Reports Crime Evidence

2000

Nominations 2000 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Gemini Award for Best Sports Program or Series	Crossing the White Line
Genie Award for Best Feature Length Documentary	Quest for the Lost Tribes

1998

Donald Brittain Award for Best Social/Political Documentary Program

Honored for : The Selling of Innocents

Nominations 1998 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Gemini Award for Best Writing in a Documentary Program or Series	Hollywoodism Jews, Movies and the American Dream
Donald Brittain Award for Best Social/Political Documentary Program	The Selling of Innocents
Gemini Award for Best Sports Program or Series	The Dancing Game

1997

Gemini Award for Best Science, Technology, Nature, Environment or Adventure Documentary Program

Honored for : Ebola: The Plague Fighters: Nova

Nominations 1997 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Gemini Award for Best Science, Technology, Nature, Environment or Adventure Documentary Program	Ebola: The Plague Fighters: Nova

1992

Genie Award for Best Feature Length Documentary

Honored for : Deadly Currents

Nominations 1992 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Genie Award for Best Feature Length Documentary	Deadly Currents

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