Awards & Winners

Simcha Jacobovici

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 »

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

2011


Nominations 2011 »

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

2008


Nominations 2008 »

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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 »

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

2006


Nominations 2006 »

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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


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

2001


Nominations 2001 »

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

2000


Nominations 2000 »

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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 »

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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