Creative Arts Emmy for Letterkenny's Michael Harte

Letterkenny's Michael Harte has won the Creative Arts Emmy for his work on Still: A Michael J Fox Movie.

The film directed by Davis Guggenheim won Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Special on Sunday on the second night of the Creative Arts Emmys ceremony in Los Angeles. Guggenheim also won Outstanding Directing for a Documentary/Nonfiction Program; the film’s picture editor, Michael Harte, was honored for his work and composer John Powell won for his score for Still.

The film came into the night with a leading seven nominations — the most of any nonfiction contender — and picked up wins in four of those seven categories. Harte was nominated in the Outstanding Picture Editing for a Nonfiction Program category.

The film, which incorporates documentary, archival and scripted elements, recounts Fox’s extraordinary story in his own words — the improbable tale of an undersized kid from a Canadian army base who rose to the heights of stardom in 1980s Hollywood, to his battles with Parkinson's Disease.

Harte’s mother is Mary, whose late father Mick Galligan was a Garda for 40 years, based in Carrick for a spell and married to Anna, who still Iives in Glenties. And Michael’s father is Jimmy Harte, the former Labour senator originally from Raphoe and the son of Paddy, who served for 36 years as TD for Donegal North-East.

Last October, Harte edited 'Beckham' with the former England and Manchester United midfielder's own company, Studio 99, in association with Ventureland. The four-part documentary speaks to Beckham, his family, friends, and teammates about the former footballer’s life and career to date.