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Birthday: July 29, 1953
After earning his BA at Hampshire College, Brooklyn-born Ken Burns pursued a career as a documentary filmmaker. At age 22, he formed Florentine Films in his home base of Walpole, New Hampshire. Dissatisfied with dry, scholarly historical documentaries, Burns wanted his films to "live," and to that end adopted the technique of cutting rapidly from one still picture to another in a fluid, ...more
- 2005
- Academy of Television Arts and Sciences
- Best Directing for Nonfiction Programming
- Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
- nom
- 1985
- Sundance Film Festival
- In Competition
- Ken Burns' America: Huey Long
- f
- 1985
- Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie
- Best Documentary Feature
- Ken Burns' America: The Statue of Liberty
- nom
- 1981
- Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie
- Best Documentary Feature
- Ken Burns' America: Brooklyn Bridge
- nom
- 2000
- Ken Burns' Jazz, Episode 1: Gumbo, Beginnings to 1917
- Narrator
- 1993
- Gettysburg
- Hancock's Aide
- 2008
- Medal of Honor
- Executive Producer
- 2007
- Ken Burns' The War (TV Documentary Series)
- Director
- 2007
- Ken Burns' The War (TV Documentary Series)
- Producer
- 2007
- Ken Burns' The War (TV Documentary Series)
- Executive Producer
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