Harry Rasky - Awards & Nominations

Date of Birth	09-May-1928
Place of Birth	Toronto (Ontario, Canada)
Nationality	Canada
Profession	Film Producer, Screenwriter, Film director
Harry Rasky, CM, O.Ont was a Canadian documentary film producer. He was born in Toronto into a Jewish family, where he completed studies at University College. He participated in CBC Television's first four years writing and producing CBC Newsmagazine. He also produced a documentary for the 1961 debut evening of CTV Television Network. He earned more than 200 awards during his career in which his films numbered more than 400. In late 1950s Rasky moved to New York where he was hired by towering figures in the broadcasting world such as Murrow and Cronkite. After learning the tricks of the trade Rasky became a freelance director and began to travel around the world documenting every inch of his journey. Throughout the 1960s Harry made films on Castro, Che Guevera, Lady Bird Johnson, Eleanor Roosevelt, The Nobel Prize Winners in 1964 and many more individuals. He also made two wildly different docudramas entitled "Hall of Kings" - for which he won an Emmy - and "Upon This Rock" which starred Orson Welles. His films were called "Raskymentaries" by the New York Times and Los Angeles Times and noted for their poetry of the screen.

Awards by Harry Rasky

Check all the awards nominated and won by Harry Rasky.

1996

Nominations 1996 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Gemini Award for Best Writing in an Information/Documentary Program or Series	Prophecy

1992

Margaret Collier Award

1988

Nominations 1988 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Gemini Award for Best Writing in an Information/Documentary Program or Series	To Mend the World

1986

Nominations 1986 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Gemini Award for Best Documentary, Single Program or Series	Karsh: The Searching Eye

1985

Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Documentaries

Honored for : Homage to Chagall: The Colours of Love

Nominations 1985 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Documentaries	Homage to Chagall: The Colours of Love

1982

Nominations 1982 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Genie Award for Best Feature Length Documentary	Being Different

1977

Nominations 1977 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature	Homage to Chagall: The Colours of Love

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