John Zaritsky - Awards & Nominations

Date of Birth	1943
Place of Birth	St. Catharines (Ontario, Canada)
Nationality	Canada
Also know as	Johnny Zaritsky
Profession	Film Director, Film Producer, Screenwriter
John Zaritsky is a Canadian documentarian film maker. He was the recipient of an Academy Award in 1982 for his documentary Just Another Missing Kid. He also won a Cable Ace Award in 1987 for Rapists: Can They be Stopped, a Golden Gavel Award from the American Bar Association for My Husband is Going to Kill Me, a Robert F. Kennedy Foundation Award for â€œBorn in Africaâ€, and an DuPont-Columbia Award in 1994 for Romeo and Juliet in Sarajevo. Born in St. Catharines, Ontario, and a graduate of Denis Morris Catholic High School in 1961, he studied at the University of Toronto. Prior to entering film, Zaritsky worked as a newspaper reporter for seven years. In 1970, he received a Ford Foundation Fellowship to study at the Washington Journalism Center. In 1972, he won a National Newspaper Award for his investigative reporting at the Globe and Mail newspaper. His films have won awards at the New York Film Festival, the American Film Festival, Banff Television Festival, Houston International Film Festival, Columbus Ohio Film Festival, and the John Muir Medical Film Festival. Three films, â€œBroken Promisesâ€, â€œBorn in Africaâ€, and â€œRomeo and Juliet in Sarajevoâ€ were nominated for Emmy Awards. In addition, Zaritsky has won six Geminis, Canadaâ€™s national television award. In 1995-96, he was an artist-in-residence at the graduate school of journalism, University of California at Berkeley.

Awards by John Zaritsky

Check all the awards nominated and won by John Zaritsky.

2011

Nominations 2011 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Genie Award for Best Feature Length Documentary	Leave Them Laughing

2009

Nominations 2009 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Gemini Award for Best Direction in a Documentary Program	Doc Zone The Wild Horse Redemption

2008

Gemini Award for Best Writing in a Documentary Program or Series

Honored for : The Suicide Tourist

Nominations 2008 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Gemini Award for Best Direction in a Documentary Program	The Suicide Tourist
Gemini Award for Best Writing in a Documentary Program or Series	The Suicide Tourist

2005

Gemini Award for Best Direction in a Documentary Series

Honored for : College Days, College Nights

(Between Past and Present Tense)

Nominations 2005 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Gemini Award for Best Direction in a Documentary Series	College Days, College Nights Between Past and Present Tense

1997

Nominations 1997 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Gemini Award for Best Direction in a Documentary Program or Series	Frontline Murder on 'Abortion Row'
Gemini Award for Best Writing in a Documentary Program or Series	Frontline Murder on 'Abortion Row'

1995

Nominations 1995 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Gemini Award for Best Direction in an Information or Documentary Program or Series	Frontline Romeo and Juliet in Sarajevo

1994

Gemini Award for Best Direction in an Information or Documentary Program or Series

Honored for : Frontline

(An Appointment with Death)

Nominations 1994 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Gemini Award for Best Direction in an Information or Documentary Program or Series	Frontline An Appointment with Death

1992

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

Honored for : Frontline

(My Doctor, My Lover)

Nominations 1992 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Gemini Award for Best Direction in an Information or Documentary Program or Series	Frontline My Doctor, My Lover
Gemini Award for Best Writing in an Information/Documentary Program or Series	Frontline My Doctor, My Lover

1990

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

Honored for : Frontline

(Born in Africa)

Gemini Award for Best Direction in an Information or Documentary Program or Series

Honored for : Frontline

(Born in Africa)

Nominations 1990 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Gemini Award for Best Direction in an Information or Documentary Program or Series	Frontline Born in Africa
Gemini Award for Best Writing in an Information/Documentary Program or Series	Frontline Born in Africa

1989

Gemini Award for Best Direction in an Information or Documentary Program or Series

Honored for : Broken Promises

Nominations 1989 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Gemini Award for Best Direction in an Information or Documentary Program or Series	Broken Promises
Gemini Award for Best Writing in an Information/Documentary Program or Series	Broken Promises

1987

Nominations 1987 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Gemini Award for Best Documentary Program	Rapists: Can They Be Stopped?
Gemini Award for Best Variety Program	The Real Stuff

1986

Nominations 1986 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Genie Award for Best Feature Length Documentary	Tears Are Not Enough

1982

Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature

Honored for : Just Another Missing Kid

Nominations 1982 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature	Just Another Missing Kid

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