Awards & Winners

John Kemeny

Date of Birth 17-April-1925
Place of Birth Budapest
(Hungary, Central Hungary)
Nationality Canada, Hungary
Profession Television Producer, Film Producer, Film Editor
John Kemeny was a Hungarian-born Canadian film producer whom the Toronto Star dubbed "the forgotten giant of Canadian film history." His production credits included the well-known 1974 film, The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, which starred Richard Dreyfuss, directed by Ted Kotcheff, based on a novel by Mordecai Richler. Kemeny also produced the 1980 romantic comedy, Atlantic City, starring Burt Lancaster and Susan Sarandon. Kemeny left Hungary after the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 and moved to Montreal, where he found work as a film editor at the National Film Board of Canada in 1959. He went on to produce such NFB films as Memorandum, Ladies and Gentlemen... Mr. Leonard Cohen, The Best Damn Fiddler from Calabogie to Kaladar and Don't Let the Angels Fall until leaving the NFB in 1972 to work in the private sector. Kemeny died from cancer at his home in Sedona, Arizona, on November 23, 2012, at the age of 87.

Awards by John Kemeny

Check all the awards nominated and won by John Kemeny.

1991


Special Achievement Genie

Nominations 1991 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Special Achievement Genie
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama or Comedy Special and Miniseries The Josephine Baker Story

1988


Golden Reel Award
Honored for : The Gate

1985


Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television Award for Best Motion Picture
Honored for : The Bay Boy

Nominations 1985 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television Award for Best Motion Picture The Bay Boy

1983


Nominations 1983 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television Award for Best Motion Picture Quest for Fire

1981


Nominations 1981 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Picture Atlantic City