Simcha Jacobovici’s numerous awards include a Gold Medal from the International Documentary Festival of Nyon, a certificate of Special Merit from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Los Angeles, a Genie Award, three U.S. Cable Ace Awards, two Gemini Awards, an Alfred I. Dupont-Columbia University Award, as well as the 1996 and 1997 U.S. Emmy Awards for "Outstanding Investigative Journalism". 

In 2005, he won the American Overseas Press Club Award for Impact of Terror (CNN) and in 2006 he won the British Broadcast Award for Best Documentary for Sex Slaves (CBC, C4 and PBS Frontline). Most recently, he won a Gold World Medal at the 2007 NYFF for The Exodus Decoded (History Channel) which he co-produced with James Cameron. 

An Israeli-born Canadian, Mr. Jacobovici has a B.A. in Philosophy from McGill University and a M.A. in International Relations from the University of Toronto.

James Cameron moved from writing to directing with The Terminator in 1984, which he filmed from his own script. He subsequently wrote and directed Aliens, released in 1986, which was nominated for seven Academy Awards. He then wrote, directed and produced The Abyss (1989), Terminator 2: Judgment Day (the highest grossing film of 1991), True Lies (the second-highest grossing film of 1994) and Titanic (1997). Titanic remains the highest grossing movie in history, with 1.8 billion dollars in ticket sales, and was the recipient of 14 Academy Award nominations and the winner of 11 Oscars. Cameron personally received Oscars for editing, directing, and Best Picture.

His 2001 expedition to explore the interior of the Titanic with miniature robotic vehicles that he co-designed was the subject of his 3-D Imax movie, Ghosts of The Abyss. In May of 2002, Cameron guided his camera vehicles inside the wreck of the battleship Bismarck, lying 16,000 feet down in the North Atlantic. These images which were revealed in the Discovery Channel documentary, James Cameron’s Expedition: Bismarck. He then led expeditions in 2002 and 2003 to hydrothermal vents in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, which are the subject of Aliens of the Deep, his latest 3D IMAX film. Cameron returned again to the Titanic in July 2005 to complete his archeological survey inside the wreck. This expedition was showcased in the Discovery Channel’s program, Last Mysteries of the Titanic.

Cameron and his motion picture production company, Lightstorm Entertainment, are currently in production on his next directorial outing, Avatar, which will be shot with his proprietary Fusion 3D digital camera system. Avatar will be released in 2009 in digital 3D. Cameron continues to develop new robotic and camera technology for exploration and filmmaking, and remains committed to documentaries as well as feature films. Cameron’s most recent credit was as executive producer of the ground-breaking archeology documentary The Exodus Decoded, directed by two-time Emmy award winning Simcha Jacobovici.