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Ken Burns

Ken Burns
Nome de nascimento: Ken Burns
Data de nascimento: 29 de julho de 1953 ( 72 anos)
Atividades: Diretor
Local de nascimento: Brooklyn, New York, USA
Anos ativo: 1981 - presente

Ken Burns

Ken Burns (born 1953) is a highly 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.

Filmografia ( 54 obras)

Atuação em filmes

Ano Nota Título Personagem
2024 - Ken Burns: One Nation, Many Stories -
2023 - Spirit of Golf Self
2022 - The Unmaking of a College Self
2020 - Ken Burns: Here & There Himself
2020 - Here For A Good Time Self
2019 - Muito Ralph: Vida e Obra de Ralph Lauren Self
2019 - Henry Louis Gates Jr.: Uncovering America Self - Director and Producer
2014 - Interestelar Thanks
2014 - OETA's On the Record: Ken Burns Self
2012 - Plimpton! Starring George Plimpton as Himself Himself
2010 - A Hall for Heroes: The Inaugural Hall of Fame Induction of 1939 -
2006 - Wordplay Self
2000 - Chuck Jones: Extremes and In-Betweens - A Life in Animation Self
1991 - Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio Music Director
1985 - The Statue of Liberty Cinematography
1984 - The Shakers: Hands to Work, Hearts to God Cinematography
1981 - Brooklyn Bridge Cinematography

Produção Executiva em filmes

Ano Nota Título
2023 - Homecoming
2020 - East Lake Meadows: A Public Housing Story
2018 - The Mayo Clinic
2017 - Walden
2016 - Defying the Nazis: The Sharps' War
1991 - Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio

Produção em filmes

Ano Nota Título
2020 - East Lake Meadows: A Public Housing Story
2002 - Mark Twain
1991 - Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio
1990 - Lindbergh
1989 - Thomas Hart Benton
1985 - The Statue of Liberty
1985 - Huey Long
1984 - The Shakers: Hands to Work, Hearts to God

Direção em filmes

Ano Nota Título
2018 - The Mayo Clinic
2016 - Defying the Nazis: The Sharps' War
2014 - The Address
2013 - Yosemite — A Gathering of Spirit
2012 - Os Cinco do Central Park
2010 - Baseball: The Tenth Inning
2010 - Seeing, Searching, Being: William Segal
2004 - Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
2003 - Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip
2002 - Mark Twain
1991 - Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio
1989 - Thomas Hart Benton
1989 - The Congress
1985 - The Statue of Liberty
1985 - Huey Long
1984 - The Shakers: Hands to Work, Hearts to God
1981 - Brooklyn Bridge

Roteiro em filmes

Ano Nota Título
2018 - The Mayo Clinic
2010 - Baseball: The Tenth Inning

Roteiro em filmes

Ano Nota Título
2012 - Os Cinco do Central Park

Fotografia em filmes

Ano Nota Título
2002 - Mark Twain
1991 - Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio
1981 - Brooklyn Bridge

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