Awards & Winners

Eric Bercovici

Date of Birth 27-February-1933
Place of Birth New York City
(New York, United States of America, Area code 917)
Nationality United States of America
Profession Screenwriter, Television Producer, Film Producer
Eric Bercovici was an American television/film producer and screenwriter. He was best known for producing and adapting the screenplay for the 1980 television miniseries Shōgun. Born in New York City in 1933 to screenwriter Leonardo Bercovici, he studied theater at Yale University. His career had barely begun when his father was blacklisted from the late 1940s through the late 1950s. Eric Bercovici then went to Europe to work on films, returning to the U.S. in 1965. He then began writing episodes of The Man from U.N.C.L.E., I Spy, and The Danny Thomas Hour. He wrote the screenplays for the 1968 films Hell in the Pacific and Day of the Evil Gun. In the 1970s, he wrote episodes for Hawaii Five-O and created the series Assignment Vienna and its pilot Assignment: Munich. In 1977, he adapted John Ehrlichman's novel, The Company, into a miniseries titled Washington: Behind Closed Doors. In 1980, Bercovici adapted James Clavell's 1975 novel, Shōgun, about an English seaman marooned in 17th century Japan, into a nine-hour miniseries of of the same name. He was also a producer of the series. Shōgun won three of its 14 Emmy nominations, including Outstanding Miniseries, and all three of its Golden Globe nominations, including Best TV Series – Drama. At the time, it was also one of the highest-rated miniseries in television history, second only to Roots.

Awards by Eric Bercovici

Check all the awards nominated and won by Eric Bercovici.

1981


Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Miniseries
Honored for : Sh?gun
(Outstanding Limited Series)

Nominations 1981 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing - Miniseries, Movie or Dramatic Special Sh?gun
Outstanding Writing in a Limited Series or A Special
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Miniseries Sh?gun

1978


Nominations 1978 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Miniseries Washington: Behind Closed Doors
Outstanding Limited Series

1973


Nominations 1973 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Drama The Culpepper Cattle Co.

1971


Nominations 1971 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Edgar Award for Best Television Episode Teleplay The Other Man
Series: Movie of the Week