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Ken Burns

Filmregisseur / Schauspieler / Drehbuchautor / Filmproduzent / Kameramann / Regisseur | * 29.07.1953 (70) | Brooklyn, New York (Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika (USA))
Kenneth Lauren "Ken" Burns (* 29. Juli 1953 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York) ist ein US-amerikanischer Dokumentarfilmer. Zwei seiner Dokumentationen wurden für einen Academy Award (Oscar) und sechs seiner Arbeiten für einen oder mehrere Emmy Awards nominiert. Er gewann insgesamt drei Emmy Awards für The Civil War, für Baseball und für Unforgivable Blackness. Das Real Screen Magazine nennt Ken Burns neben Robert Flaherty the most influential documentary maker of all time. Der renommierte Historiker Stephen Ambrose (Band of Brothers) sagt über Ken Burns More Americans get their history from Ken Burns than any other source ("Durch Ken Burns informieren sich mehr Amerikaner über Geschichte als aus jeder anderen Quelle"). ()
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Celebrated American documentarian who gradually amassed a considerable reputation and a devoted audience with a series of reassuringly traditional meditations on Americana. Burns' works are treasure troves of archival materials; he skillfully utilizes period music and footage, photographs, periodicals and ordinary people's correspondence, the latter often movingly read by seasoned professional actors in a deliberate attempt to get away from a "Great Man" approach to history. Like most non-fiction filmmakers, Burns wears many hats on his projects, often serving as writer, cinematographer, editor and music director in addition to producing and directing. He achieved his apotheosis with The Civil War (1990), a phenomenally popular 11-hour documentary that won two Emmys and broke all previous ratings records for public TV. The series' companion coffee table book--priced at a hefty $50--sold more than 700,000 copies. The audio version, narrated by Burns, was also a major best-seller. In the final accounting, "The Civil War" became the first documentary to gross over $100 million. Not surprisingly, it has become perennial fund-raising programming for public TV stations around the country. Burns arrived upon the scene with the Oscar-nominated Brooklyn Bridge (1981), a nostalgic chronicle of the construction of the fabled edifice. The film was more widely seen when rebroadcast on PBS the following year. Though Burns has made other nonfiction films for theatrical release, notably an acclaimed and ambiguous portrait of Depression-era Louisiana governor Huey Long (1985), PBS would prove to be his true home. He cast a probing eye on such American subjects as The Statue of Liberty (1985), The Congress (1988) (PBS), painter Thomas Hart Benton (1988) (PBS) and early radio with Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio (1991) (PBS). Burns returned to long-form documentary with his most ambitious project to date, an 18-hour history of Baseball (1994), which aired on PBS in the fall of 1994. He approached the national pastime as a template for understanding changes in modern American society. Ironically, this was the only baseball on the air at the time, as the players and owners were embroiled in a bitter strike.

Häufigste Genres für diese Person: Dokumentationen | Talk-Shows | Historie / Geschichte

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Awards / Auszeichungen & Nominierungen für Ken Burns

Lincoln-Preis National Humanities Medal Emmy Grammy Award for Best Traditional Folk Album Grammy Award for Best Audio Book, Narration, and Storytelling Recording Lady Bird Johnson Environmental Award Charles Frankel Prize Fellow of The American Academy of Arts and Sciences Jefferson Lecture Guggenheim-Stipendium Christopher Award Grammy Award for Best Traditional Folk Album Grammy Award for Best Audio Book, Narration, and Storytelling Recording Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Documentaries Independent Spirit Award for Best Documentary Feature Writers Guild of America Award for Best Documentary Screenplay

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Filme mit Ken Burns als Schauspieler(7)

TV-Shows/Serien mit Ken Burns als Schauspieler(16)

als er selbst2022 Die USA und der Holocaust
als er selbst2012 Finding Your Roots
als er selbst2007 Craft in America
als er selbst2005 The Colbert Report
als er selbst1996 The Daily Show
als Self - Guest1994 Baseball
als Self - Guest1993 Late Night with Conan O'Brien
als er selbst1980 CNN Special Report
als er selbst1968 60 Minutes
als er selbst??? Today

Filme mit Ken Burns als Crew-Mitglied(30)

Production/Executive Producer2020 East Lake Meadows: A Public Housing Story
Directing/Co-Director2018 The Mayo Clinic
Directing/Director2018 The Mayo Clinic
Directing/Director2016 Defying the Nazis: The Sharps' War
Production/Executive Producer2016 Defying the Nazis: The Sharps' War
Crew/Thanks2014 Interstellar
Directing/Director2014 The Address
Directing/Director2012 Die Fünf vom Central Park
Writing/Screenplay2012 Die Fünf vom Central Park
Directing/Director2010 Baseball: The Tenth Inning
Writing/Writer2010 Baseball: The Tenth Inning
Directing/Director2004 Er wollte kein Sklave sein
Camera/Director of Photography2002 Mark Twain
Directing/Director2002 Mark Twain
Production/Producer2002 Mark Twain
Directing/Director1989 Thomas Hart Benton
Production/Producer1989 Thomas Hart Benton
Directing/Director1989 The Congress
Directing/Director1985 The Statue of Liberty
Production/Producer1985 The Statue of Liberty
Directing/Director1985 Huey Long
Production/Producer1985 Huey Long
Camera/Director of Photography1981 Brooklyn Bridge
Directing/Director1981 Brooklyn Bridge

TV-Shows/Serien mit Ken Burns als Crew-Mitglied(43)

Production/Producer2023 The American Buffalo
Production/Executive Producer2023 The American Buffalo
Production/Executive Producer2022 Hiding in Plain Sight: Youth Mental Illness
Directing/Director2022 Benjamin Franklin
Directing/Director2022 Die USA und der Holocaust
Production/Producer2022 Die USA und der Holocaust
Directing/Director2021 Hemingway
Production/Producer2021 Hemingway
Production/Producer2020 Das Gen
Production/Executive Producer2019 Country Music
Directing/Director2019 Country Music
Directing/Director2016 Jackie Robinson
Production/Producer2015 Krebs: Eine Biografie
Production/Producer2012 The Dust Bowl
Directing/Director2012 The Dust Bowl
Production/Executive Producer2011 Prohibition - Eine amerikanische Erfahrung
Production/Executive Producer2008 The War - Die Gesichter des Krieges
Production/Producer2001 Jazz
Directing/Director2001 Jazz
Directing/Director1997 Thomas Jefferson
Crew/Creator1997 Thomas Jefferson
Production/Executive Producer1996 The West
Writing/Writer1994 Baseball
Directing/Director1994 Baseball
Production/Producer1994 Baseball
Production/Executive Producer1994 Baseball
Crew/Cinematography1994 Baseball
Sound/Music Director1994 Baseball
Camera/Director of Photography1961 Supercar
Production/Executive Producer1961 Supercar

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Vollständiger Name: Ken Kenneth Laurent Burns
Geburtsdatum: Mittwoch, 29.07. 1953 (Juli) in Brooklyn, New York (Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika (USA)) (aktuelles Alter: 70 Jahre + 244 Tage)
Sternzeichen: Löwe (Chinesisches Sternzeichen: Schlange)
Sprachen: Englisch (EN, Muttersprache)
Ausgebildet an: Pioneer High School, Hampshire College
Mitglied bei: American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Kinder: Sarah Burns
Vater: Robert Kyle Burns
Mutter: Lynn Smith Burns
Andere Namen für Ken Burns (Spitznamen, Fremdsprachen etc.):
"Kenneth Lauren Burns"
Ken Burns arbeitet häufig zusammen mit diesen Personen:
Tress MacNeille (36x, Schauspielerin)
Pamela Hayden (23x, Schauspielerin)
Kevin Michael Richardson (17x, Schauspieler)
Maggie Roswell (17x, Schauspielerin)
John Lithgow (15x, Schauspieler)
Tom Hanks (14x, Schauspieler)
Jon Stewart (13x, Schauspieler)
Lynn Novick (13x, Crew)
Anderson Cooper (13x, Schauspieler)
Stephen Colbert (12x, Schauspieler)
Bob Costas (11x, Schauspieler)
Amy Stechler (7x, Crew)
WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:11953, Hinzugefügt: 06.05.2018, Zuletzt aktualisiert: 25.03.2024