Ron Leshem

Ron Leshem (Hebrew: רון לשם‎; born December 20, 1976), is an Israeli-American television and film writer and producer, best known for the television series Euphoria, and for the film Beaufort, which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. He is also a bestselling author, translated to 20 languages, and a winner of the Sapir Prize, Israel's top literary award.

Ron Leshem
Ron Leshem, by Eldad Refaeli at the 2006 Sapir Prize
Born
Ron Leshem

(1976-12-20) December 20, 1976
Tel-Aviv, Israel
NationalityAmerican, Israeli
Occupation
  • author
  • filmmaker
  • producer
  • television executive
Years active1998–present

Writing

As a novelist he has won some of the top literary Israeli awards, among them the prestigious annual literary award the Sapir Prizefor Literature for his debut novel Beaufort[1] Beaufort was on the Israel bestseller list for 2 years selling over 150,000 copies in Israel and was translated into more than 20 languages. The film version of Beaufort, which Leshem co-wrote, was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, and won the Berlin International Film Festival Silver Bear for Best Director. Leshem’s second book The Underground Bazaar reached also the bestseller list and was translated into numerous languages. Leshem created and co-wrote the drama series The Gordin Cell, 2011), which received 11 nominations for the Israeli Academy of Film and Television awards. The TV series was adapted by NBC as an American remake,Allegiance. Furthermore, Leshem co-created and co-wrote the series Euphoria, for Hot (2012) (largest Israeli Cable T.V company).

Leshem serves as an executive producer on the HBO's series Euphoria.

The Israeli film Incitement by Yaron Zilberman, which Leshem co-wrote, premiered at the 2019 Toronto Film Festival. The film received 10 nominations for the Israeli Academy of Film and Television awards.

Alongside his long-time writing partner, Amit Cohen, Leshem co-wrote and co-created the Syrian Civil War drama No Man's Land, an American-French co-production, which Hulu and Arte ordered straight to series on spring 2019. He served as a story editor for the series Beauty and the Baker. On summer 2019, production began on Israel’s Biggest-Budget TV Drama Series Valley Of Tears, 8-Part Mini Set Against Yom Kippur War, which Leshem co-created with Cohen.

From 2006 until 2009, Leshem served as head of content and programming for Keshet Broadcasting. He was responsible for the development and production of some of the most popular and successful Israeli TV series, receiving outstanding industry awards. Series include: Arab Labor, the A-word, Traffic Light, and Homeland (the original Israeli show Prisoners of War adapted and screened for two seasons after being sold to 20th Century Fox Television for Showtime cable channel).

In 2019, Leshem published in Israel his novel When we were beautiful (Hebrew: יפים כמו שהיינו‎), and announced it will be translated to English by Jessica Cohen.

Media career

Leshem served as a soldier in the Intelligence Corps of the Israel Defense Forces. Subsequently, he spent three years as an Israeli reporter from the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, later on he was promoted as head of the news division at the most widely circulated newspaper in Israel Yediot Ahronot, for which he also wrote as an analyst for military affairs. By the age of 26, he started serving as deputy chief editor for Ma'ariv newspaper (one of the three major newspapers in Israel).[2]

Additionally, he wrote short stories for Le Monde newspaper (France) as well as various columns in several European newspapers.

Leshem is often invited as a speaker to the most distinguished universities around the world, including: Harvard, Yale, BU, Berkeley, to name a few. Leshem has also taken part in more than 60 festivals and book fairs worldwide.

Filmography

Television
Year Title Credited as
Creator Writer Producer Editor
2011-2013 The Gordin Cell Yes Yes Yes No
2012 Euphoria Yes Yes Yes No
2015 Allegiance No Yes[3] Yes No
2015 Spy Yes No No No
2013–2015 Beauty and the Baker No No No Yes
2019-present Euphoria (HBO) No Yes[4] Yes No
2020-preseent No Man's Land[5] Yes Yes Yes No
2020-preseent Valley of tears[6] Yes Yes Yes No

Film
Year Title
Director Writer Executive
Producer
2007 Beaufort No Yes[7] Yes
2019 Incitement No Yes Yes

As development executive

Accolades
Year Award Category Work Result Ref.
2006 The Sapir Prize for Literature Best Novel of The Year Beaufort Won [8]
Yitzhak Sadeh Prize Best Novel of The Year Beaufort Won
2007 Silver Bear at the 2007 Berlin Film Festival The official competition, the 57th Berlinale Beaufort Won [9]
Ophir Award, Israeli Academy Awards Best Screenplay Beaufort Nominated [10]
2008 80th Academy Awards Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film,[11] Beaufort Nominated
2012 Israeli Television Academy Awards Best Drama Series The Gordin Cell Nominated [12]
Best Screenplay for Drama Series Nominated
Series Mania Festival Forum Des Images[13] Nominated
2013 Israeli Television Academy Awards Best Drama Series Euphoria Nominated
Best Screenplay for Drama Series Nominated
2014 Israeli Television Academy Awards Best Drama Series The Gordin Cell (2nd season) Nominated
Best Screenplay for Drama Series Nominated
2019 Ophir Award, Israeli Academy Awards Best Film for 2019 Incitement Won [14]
2020 Series Mania Festival The Official Competition No Man's Land Nominated [15]
Valley of Tears[16] Nominated
British Academy Television Awards Best International Programme Euphoria Nominated

Notes
  1. Beaufort, British trade paperback edition. London: Harvill Secker
  2. http://library.osu.edu/sites/users/galron.1/00653.php
  3. Based on his original series "The Gordin Cell".
  4. Based on his original series "Euphoria".
  5. A Hulu and Arte series, premieres in October 2020
  6. Filming began on spring 2019
  7. Based on his novel by the same name.
  8. "Sapir Prize goes to Ron Leshem".
  9. "Beaufort, Berlin 2007".
  10. "Beaufort, Academy Awards".
  11. "80th Academy Awards Nominations Announced" (Press release). Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. 2008-01-22. Archived from the original on 27 January 2008. Retrieved 2008-01-22.
  12. "Ron Leshem – Awards".
  13. "Forum Des Images, Paris 2020".
  14. "Incitement wins the Israeli Oscars".
  15. "Leshem's two series entering the Series Mania 2020 official competition".
  16. "Official SeriesMania Competition 2020".
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