{{Short description|British-Canadian film sound editor}} '''Kenneth Heeley-Ray''' (October 26, 1916 - January 19, 2006) was a [[United Kingdom|British]]-[[Canada|Canadian]] film sound editor,<ref name=soundcareer>"A Genie for a sound career". ''[[The Globe and Mail]]'', October 21, 1993.</ref> most noted as a [[Canadian Film Award]] and [[Genie Award]] winner for [[Canadian Screen Award for Best Sound Mixing|Best Overall Sound]] and [[Canadian Screen Award for Best Sound Editing|Best Sound Editing]].<ref name=topalovich>Maria Topalovich, ''And the Genie Goes To...: Celebrating 50 Years of the Canadian Film Awards''. [[Stoddart Publishing]], 2000. {{ISBN|0-7737-3238-1}}.</ref>
Born and raised in [[Macclesfield]], [[Cheshire]], he began his career in British film before moving to Canada in 1952 to work for the [[National Film Board of Canada]]; initially a short-term contract, he remained with the agency for 12 years before beginning to work for commercial film studios in the 1960s.<ref name=adilman>Sid Adilman, "Genie shines on creative people behind the scenes". ''[[Toronto Star]]'', December 3, 1993.</ref> He was also an occasional producer, winning a CFA in 1966 as coproducer with his wife Ann of the short educational film ''The Scribe''.<ref name=topalovich/>
After his retirement from the film industry in the early 1990s, his colleagues began to organize a campaign to have the Genie Awards honour him with a lifetime achievement award. Their efforts quickly garnered enthusiastic support from Canadian and international industry figures including [[Oliver Stone]], [[Jean-Jacques Annaud]], [[Daniel Petrie]], [[Christopher Chapman]], [[Bob Clark]], [[Harold Greenberg]] and [[Garth Drabinsky]], all of whom wrote letters of tribute praising Heeley-Ray's dedication, professionalism and willingness to mentor younger colleagues entering the industry, to the point that even Genie publicist Maria Topalovich was moved to tears reading them.<ref name=adilman/> He received the lifetime achievement award at the [[14th Genie Awards]] in 1993.<ref name=soundcareer/>
He died in 2006 on [[Saltspring Island]], British Columbia.
==Awards== {| class="wikitable plainrowheaders sortable" |- ! Award ! Year ! Category ! Work ! Result ! Ref(s) |- | rowspan=3| [[Canadian Film Awards]] | [[18th Canadian Film Awards|1966]] | Best Training and Instruction Film | ''The Scribe''<br><small>with Ann Heeley-Ray, John Sebert</small> | {{won}} | <ref name=topalovich/> |- | [[20th Canadian Film Awards|1968]] | Best Sound Editing, Non-Feature | ''[[A Place to Stand (film)|A Place to Stand]]'' | {{won}} | <ref name=topalovich/> |- | [[26th Canadian Film Awards|1975]] | rowspan=5| [[Canadian Screen Award for Best Sound Editing|Best Sound Editing]] | ''[[Black Christmas (1974 film)|Black Christmas]]'' | {{won}} | <ref name=topalovich/> |- | rowspan=9| [[Genie Awards]] | rowspan=2| [[1st Genie Awards|1980]] | ''[[Agency (film)|Agency]]'' | {{nom}} | rowspan=2| <ref>[[Jay Scott]], "Changeling leads Canadian Film Award nominees". ''[[The Globe and Mail]]'', February 8, 1980.</ref> |- | ''[[Murder by Decree]]'' | {{nom}} |- | [[2nd Genie Awards|1981]] | ''[[Tribute (1980 film)|Tribute]]''<br><small>with Wayne Griffin, Patrick Drummond</small> | {{nom}} | <ref>[[Jay Scott]], "Genie nominations released". ''[[The Globe and Mail]]'', February 10, 1981.</ref> |- | rowspan=2| [[4th Genie Awards|1983]] | ''[[Quest for Fire (film)|Quest for Fire]]''<br><small>with Martin Ashbee,Kevin Ward, David Evans</small> | {{won}} | rowspan=2| <ref name=topalovich/> |- | [[Canadian Screen Award for Best Sound Mixing|Best Overall Sound]] | ''Quest for Fire''<br><small>with Claude Hazanavicius, Austin Grimaldi, Don White, Joe Grimaldi</small> | {{won}} |- | rowspan=2| [[5th Genie Awards|1984]] | Best Sound Editing | ''[[A Christmas Story]]''<br><small>with David Evans, Steven Cole, Wayne Griffin</small> | {{nom}} | rowspan=2| <ref>[[Jay Scott]], "11 nominations for Chapdelaine in Genie race". ''[[The Globe and Mail]]'', February 10, 1984.</ref> |- | Best Overall Sound | ''A Christmas Story''<br><small>with Dino Pigat, David Appleby</small> | {{nom}} |- | [[10th Genie Awards|1989]] | Best Sound Editing | ''[[Iron Eagle II]]''<br><small>with David Evans, Richard Cadger, Robin Leigh, Drew King</small> | {{nom}} | <ref>[[Jay Scott]], "Cronenberg film earns a dozen nominations: Dead Ringers tops Genie list". ''[[The Globe and Mail]]'', February 14, 1989.</ref> |- | [[14th Genie Awards|1993]] | colspan=2| Lifetime Achievement | {{won}} | <ref name=soundcareer/> |}
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== *{{imdb name|0373459}}
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