Awards & Winners

Harry Rasky

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

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