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{{Short description|American documentarian and filmmaker (born 1953)}}{{for-multi|the English football referee|Ken Burns (referee)|other people named Kenneth Burns|Kenneth Burns (disambiguation)}}{{Use mdy dates|date=December 2017}}







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| birth_place = Brooklyn, New York, U.S.Democratic Party (United States)>DemocraticHampshire College (Bachelor of Arts>BA)| occupation = Filmmaker| years_active = 1970–present ‘’The Civil War (miniseries) (1990) > Baseball (TV series) (1994) > (The National Parks: America’s Best Idea (2009) > The Roosevelts (miniseries) (2014) > The Vietnam War (TV series) (2017) > Country Music’’ (2019)}} {{marriageAmy Stechler Burns>1982end=div}} Julie Deborah Brown|2003}}}} Sarah Burns (writer filmmaker) > Lilly Burns Willa Burns}}| relatives = Ric Burns (brother)kenburns.com}}}}Kenneth Lauren Burns (born July 29, 1953) is an American filmmaker and historian known for his documentary films and television series, many of which chronicle American history and culture. His work is often produced in association with WETA-TV and/or the National Endowment for the Humanities and distributed by PBS.His widely known documentary series include The Civil War (1990), Baseball (1994), Jazz (2001), The War (2007), (The National Parks: America’s Best Idea) (2009), Prohibition (2011), The Roosevelts (2014), The Vietnam War (2017), and Country Music (2019). He was also executive producer of both The West (1996), and (Cancer (film)|Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies) (2015).NEWS, Genzlinger, Neil, Review: In ‘Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies,’ Battling an Opportunistic Killer,www.nytimes.com/2015/03/28/arts/television/review-in-cancer-the-emperor-of-all-maladies-battling-an-opportunistic-killer.html, March 27, 2015, The New York Times, March 31, 2015, Burns’s documentaries have earned two Academy Award nominations (for 1981’s Brooklyn Bridge and 1985’s The Statue of Liberty) and have won several Emmy Awards, among other honors.

Early life and education

Burns was born on July 29, 1953,WEB,www.filmreference.com/film/76/Ken-Burns.html, Ken Burns Biography (1953–), Filmreference.com, August 19, 2011, in Brooklyn, New York, to Lyla Smith (née Tupper) Burns,BOOK,www.bookrags.com/biography/ken-burns/, Ken Burns, Encyclopedia of World Biography via BookRags.com, n.d., a biotechnician,WEB,www.online-communicator.com/kenburns.html, Good Eye. The Interview With Ken Burns: The renowned filmmaker of ‘The Civil War’ turns his eye from the nation’s past to our national pastime, Joan, Walsh, San Francisco Focus, KQED (TV), KQED via Online-Communicator.com, 1994,www.online-communicator.com/kenburns.html," title="web.archive.org/web/20120327000654www.online-communicator.com/kenburns.html,">web.archive.org/web/20120327000654www.online-communicator.com/kenburns.html, March 27, 2012, live, and Robert Kyle Burns Jr., at the time a graduate student in cultural anthropology at Columbia University in Manhattan. The documentary filmmaker Ric Burns is his younger brother.WEB,www.florentinefilms.com/ffpages/KB-frameset.html,arquivo.pt/wayback/20160517082302/http://www.florentinefilms.com/ffpages/KB-frameset.html, dead, May 17, 2016, Ken Burns, biography at FlorentineFilms.com, n.d., NEWS, Wadler, Joyce, November 17, 1999, PUBLIC LIVES; No Civil War, but a Brotherly Indifference, The New York Times,www.nytimes.com/1999/11/17/nyregion/public-lives-no-civil-war-but-a-brotherly-indifference.html, November 4, 2016, Burns’s academic family moved frequently. Among places they called home were Saint-Véran, France; Newark, Delaware; and Ann Arbor, Michigan, where his father taught at the University of Michigan.Burns’s mother was found to have breast cancer when he was three, and she died when he was 11, a circumstance that he said helped shape his career; he credited his psychologist father-in-law, Gerald Stechler,WEB, GERALD STECHLER OBITUARY,www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/nytimes/name/gerald-stechler-obituary?id=23733039, The New York Times, 29 August 2022, 19 December 2013, with a significant insight: “He told me that my whole work was an attempt to make people long gone come back alive.” Well-read as a child, he absorbed the family encyclopedia, preferring history to fiction.Upon receiving an 8 mm film movie camera for his 17th birthday, he shot a documentary about an Ann Arbor factory. He graduated from Pioneer High School in Ann Arbor in 1971.Ann Arbor Public Schools Educational Foundation, annarboralumni.org/?sitePage=custom&pageURL=school_files%2Fannarboralumni%2Fpages%2Fnotable_alumni.html" title="https:/-/web.archive.org/web/20161013073950annarboralumni.org/?sitePage=custom&pageURL=school_files%2Fannarboralumni%2Fpages%2Fnotable_alumni.html">weblink (accessed October 29, 2013, recovered from Internet Archive). Turning down reduced tuition at the University of Michigan, he attended Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts, where students are graded through narrative evaluations rather than letter grades and where students create self-directed academic concentrations instead of choosing a traditional major.Burns worked in a record store to pay his tuition. Living on as little as $2,500 in two years in Walpole, New Hampshire,WEB,www.online-communicator.com/kenburns.html, The Online Communicator: Ken Burns, Online-communicator.com, 2019-05-06, April 8, 2012,www.online-communicator.com/kenburns.html," title="web.archive.org/web/20120408164010www.online-communicator.com/kenburns.html,">web.archive.org/web/20120408164010www.online-communicator.com/kenburns.html, dead, Burns studied under photographers Jerome Liebling, Elaine Mayes, and others. He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in film studies and designWEB,www.museum.tv/eotvsection.php?entrycode=burnsken, Burns, Ken: U.S. Documentary Film Maker, The Museum of Broadcast Communications, n.d., Gary, Edgerton,www.museum.tv/eotvsection.php?entrycode=burnsken," title="web.archive.org/web/20110629014442www.museum.tv/eotvsection.php?entrycode=burnsken,">web.archive.org/web/20110629014442www.museum.tv/eotvsection.php?entrycode=burnsken, June 29, 2011, live, in 1975.{{Anchor|Florentine Films}}

Florentine Films

In 1976, Burns, Elaine Mayes, and college classmate Roger Sherman founded a production company called Florentine Films in Walpole, New Hampshire. The company’s name was borrowed from Mayes’s hometown of Florence, Massachusetts. Another Hampshire College student, Buddy Squires, was invited to succeed Mayes as a founding member one year later.NEWS,www.documentary.org/magazine/florentine-four-ken-burns-and-partners-look-back-30-years-documentary-production, The Florentine Four: Ken Burns and Partners Look Back on 30 Years of Documentary Production, International Documentary Association, September 19, 2017, en, NEWS,www.documentary.org/magazine/outstanding-documentary-achievement-cinematography-award-visual-poet-buddy-squires, Outstanding Documentary Achievement in Cinematography Award: The Visual Poet: Buddy Squires, International Documentary Association, September 19, 2017, en, The trio were later joined by a fourth member, Lawrence “Larry” Hott. Hott did not actually matriculate at Hampshire, but worked on films there. Hott had begun his career as an attorney, having attended nearby Western New England Law School.Each member works independently, but releases content under the shared name of Florentine Films.WEB,www.florentinefilms.com/, Florentine Films – Burns, Hott, Sherman & Squires, Florentinefilms.com, September 18, 2017, As such, their individual “subsidiary” companies include Ken Burns Media, Sherman Pictures, and Hott Productions. Burns’s oldest child, Sarah, is also an employee of the company as of 2020.NEWS,kenburns.com/the-filmmakers/, The Filmmakers – Ken Burns, kenburns.com, September 19, 2017, en-US,

Career

File:Ken Burns (48980694488) (cropped).jpg|thumb|upright|Burns speaks at the Library of CongressLibrary of CongressBurns initially worked as a cinematographer for the BBC, Italian television, and others. In 1977, having completed some documentary short films, he began work on adapting David McCullough’s book The Great Bridge, about the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge. Developing a signature style of documentary filmmaking in which he “adopted the technique of cutting rapidly from one still picture to another in a fluid, linear fashion [and] then pepped up the visuals with ‘first hand’ narration gleaned from contemporary writings and recited by top stage and screen actors”, Burns made the feature documentary Brooklyn Bridge (1981),PRESS RELEASE,www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/academy-award-nominated-and-emmy-winner-ken-burns-joins-masterclass-to-teach-documentary-filmmaking-300694893.html, Academy Award Nominated and Emmy Winner Ken Burns Joins MasterClass to Teach Documentary Filmmaking, MasterClass, PR Newswire, en, 2019-12-05, which was narrated by David McCullough, and earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Documentary and ran on PBS in the United States.Following another documentary, (The Shakers: Hands to Work, Hearts to God) (1984), Burns was Oscar-nominated again for The Statue of Liberty (1985). Burns frequently collaborates with author and historian Geoffrey C. Ward, notably on documentaries such as The Civil War, Jazz, Baseball, and the 10 part TV series The Vietnam War (aired September 2017).Burns has built a long, successful career directing and producing well-received television documentaries and documentary miniseries. His oeuvre covers diverse subjects including art (Thomas Hart Benton, 1988), mass media ((Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio), 1991), sports (Baseball, 1994, updated with 10th Inning, 2010), political history (Thomas Jefferson, 1997), music (Jazz, 2001; Country Music, 2019), literature (Mark Twain, 2001; Hemingway, 2021), environmentalism ((The National Parks: America’s Best Idea|The National Parks), 2009), and war (the 15-hour World War II documentary The War, 2007; the 11-hour The Civil War, 1990, which All Media Guide says “many consider his ‘chef d’oeuvre{{’“}}).NEWS,movies.nytimes.com/person/83608/Ken-Burns/biography,movies.nytimes.com/person/83608/Ken-Burns/biography," title="web.archive.org/web/20071029155713movies.nytimes.com/person/83608/Ken-Burns/biography,">web.archive.org/web/20071029155713movies.nytimes.com/person/83608/Ken-Burns/biography, dead, October 29, 2007, Ken Burns biography, Hal, Erickson, Movies & TV Dept., The New York Times, Hal Erickson (author), 2007, September 22, 2011, This single source gives two birthplaces. Under the header list, it reads “Birthplace: Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.” In the prose biography, it reads “Brooklyn-born Ken Burns...“In 2007, Burns made an agreement with PBS to produce work for the network well into the next decade.WEB,www.britannica.com/biography/Ken-Burns, Ken Burns {{!, Biography, Documentaries, & Facts |website=Encyclopedia Britannica|language=en|access-date=2019-08-08}} According to a 2017 piece in The New Yorker, Burns and his company, Florentine Films, have selected topics for documentaries slated for release by 2030. These topics include country music, the Mayo Clinic, Muhammad Ali, Ernest Hemingway, the American Revolution, Lyndon B. Johnson, Barack Obama, Winston Churchill, the American criminal justice system, and African-American history from the Civil War to the Great Migration.MAGAZINE, Parker, Ian, Ken Burns’s American Canon,www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/09/04/ken-burns-american-canon, October 5, 2017, The New Yorker, September 4, 2017, On April 5, 2021, Hemingway, a three-episode, six-hour documentary, a recapitulation of Hemingway’s life, labors, and loves, debuted on the Public Broadcasting System, co-produced and directed by Burns and Lynn Novick.What to “Watch on Monday: The start of Ken Burns’ ‘Hemingway’ documentary”, News & Observer, Brooke Cain, April 5, 2021. Retrieved April 8, 2021.

Personal life

In 1982, Burns married Amy Stechler. The couple had two daughters, Sarah and Lilly.WEB,www.imdb.com/name/nm3951003/, Lilly Burns, IMDb.com, 2019-07-09, Their marriage ended in divorce in 1993.{{As of|2017}}, Burns was residing in Walpole, New Hampshire. He and Julie Deborah Brown, daughter of Leslie Mundjer and the Smith Barney senior vice president Richard Brown and stepdaughter of Ellen Brown, married on October 18, 2003. Julie Deborah Brown founded Room to Grow, a non-profit providing aid to babies in poor families.NEWS,www.nytimes.com/2003/10/19/style/weddings-celebrations-julie-brown-ken-burns.html, Weddings/Celebrations; Julie Brown, Ken Burns, The New York Times, October 19, 2003,www.nytimes.com/2003/10/19/style/weddings-celebrations-julie-brown-ken-burns.html," title="web.archive.org/web/20111005162223www.nytimes.com/2003/10/19/style/weddings-celebrations-julie-brown-ken-burns.html,">web.archive.org/web/20111005162223www.nytimes.com/2003/10/19/style/weddings-celebrations-julie-brown-ken-burns.html, October 5, 2011, live, They have two daughters.Burns is a descendant of Johannes de Peyster Sr. through Gerardus Clarkson, an American Revolutionary War physician from Philadelphia, and he is a distant relative of Scottish poet Robert Burns.Stated on Finding Your Roots, PBS, October 7, 2014WEB,www.pri.org/programs/studio-360/nerding-out-ken-burns-rebranding-marijuana, Nerding Out with Ken Burns & Rebranding Marijuana, Public Radio International, In 2014, Burns appeared in Henry Louis Gates’s Finding Your Roots where he discovered that he is a descendant of a slave owner from the Deep South, in addition to having a lineage which traces back to Colonial Americans of Loyalist allegiance during the American Revolution.NEWS,www.detroitnews.com/story/entertainment/television/2014/09/22/gates-pbs-genealogy-vance-stephen-king/16073071/, Henry Louis Gates probes celebs’ origins on PBS, Susan, Whitall, September 23, 2014, August 26, 2015, The Detroit News, Burns is an avid quilt collector. About one-third of the quilts from his personal collection were displayed at The International Quilt Study Center & Museum at the University of Nebraska from January 19 to May 13, 2018.WEB,www.quiltstudy.org/exhibitions/nowshowing/kenburns/uncovered.html, ‘Uncovered: The Ken Burns Collection’ Opens, January 8, 2018, February 17, 2019, International Quilt Study Center & Museum,www.quiltstudy.org/exhibitions/nowshowing/kenburns/uncovered.html," title="web.archive.org/web/20180503153249www.quiltstudy.org/exhibitions/nowshowing/kenburns/uncovered.html,">web.archive.org/web/20180503153249www.quiltstudy.org/exhibitions/nowshowing/kenburns/uncovered.html, May 3, 2018, dead, mdy-all, When asked if he would ever make a film regarding his mother Lyla, Burns responded: “All of my films are about her. I don’t think I could do it directly, because of how intensely painful it is.”

Politics

Burns is a longtime supporter of the Democratic Party, describing himself as a “Yellow dog Democrat” and contributing almost $40,000 in political donations.WEB,www.newsmeat.com/celebrity_political_donations/Ken_Burns.php, Ken Burns’s Federal Campaign Contribution Report, Newsmeat, dead,www.newsmeat.com/celebrity_political_donations/Ken_Burns.php," title="web.archive.org/web/20110815003542www.newsmeat.com/celebrity_political_donations/Ken_Burns.php,">web.archive.org/web/20110815003542www.newsmeat.com/celebrity_political_donations/Ken_Burns.php, August 15, 2011, In 2008, the Democratic National Committee chose Burns to produce the introductory video for Senator Ted Kennedy’s August 2008 speech to the Democratic National Convention, a video described by Politico as a “Burns-crafted tribute casting him [Kennedy] as the modern Ulysses bringing his party home to port.“NEWS,www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2008/aug/24/filmmaker-ken-burns-behind-documentary-tribute-sen/, Filmmaker Ken Burns behind documentary tribute to Sen. Ted Kennedy, August 24, 2008, M.E. Sprengelmeyer, Rocky Mountain News, August 26, 2009,www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2008/aug/24/filmmaker-ken-burns-behind-documentary-tribute-sen/," title="archive.today/20130208174034www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2008/aug/24/filmmaker-ken-burns-behind-documentary-tribute-sen/,">archive.today/20130208174034www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2008/aug/24/filmmaker-ken-burns-behind-documentary-tribute-sen/, February 8, 2013, live, NEWS, Rogers, David, Ailing Kennedy: ‘The dream lives on’,www.politico.com/news/stories/0808/12826.html, June 19, 2011, Politico, August 26, 2008, In August 2009, Kennedy died, and Burns produced a short eulogy video at his funeral. In endorsing Barack Obama for the U.S. presidency in December 2007, Burns compared Obama to Abraham Lincoln.NEWS, MacGillis, Alec, Ken Burns Compares Obama to Lincoln,voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2007/12/18/ken_burns_compares_obama_to_li.html, June 19, 2011, The Washington Post, December 18, 2007, He said he had planned to be a regular contributor to Countdown with Keith Olbermann on Current TV.NEWS, Guthrie, Marisa, Michael Moore to Be a Contributor on Keith Olbermann’s New Show,www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/michael-moore-be-a-contributor-187483, June 19, 2011, The Hollywood Reporter, May 11, 2011, In 2016, he also gave a commencement speech for Stanford University criticizing Donald Trump.NEWS, Gladnick, P. J.,news.stanford.edu/2016/06/12/prepared-text-2016-stanford-commencement-address-ken-burns/, Prepared text of the 2016 Stanford Commencement address by Ken Burns, Stanford News, June 12, 2016, July 19, 2018, NEWS, Filmmaker Ken Burns destroys Donald Trump during Stanford Speech,filmindustry.network/filmmaker-ken-burns-destroys-donald-trump-stanford-speech/31359, Film Industry Network, June 13, 2016, In 2020, Burns endorsed Ed Markey in the Massachusetts Senate Democratic Primary.WEB,www.edmarkey.com/press/filmmaker-ken-burns-endorses-ed-markey-for-united-states-senate/, Filmmaker Ken Burns Endorses Ed Markey for United States Senate, Ed Markey for Senate, In 2023, a 2013 photograph of Ken Burns and Clarence Thomas at a Koch Brothers fundraising event was made public in a Pro Publica article about Justice Thomas’ ties to right wing activists.WEB, Kaplan, Joshua, Elliot, Justin, Mierjeski, Alex, Clarence Thomas Secretly Participated in Koch Network Donor Events,www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-secretly-attended-koch-brothers-donor-events-scotus, Pro Publica, September 22, 2023, 23 September 2023, Burns stated that the encounter was a brief social encounter resulting from Charles Koch’s support of PBS programming.WEB, Huston, Kaitlin, Ken Burns Distances Himself From Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas After Photo,www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/ken-burns-justice-clarence-thomas-photo-1235597073/, Variety, September 22, 2023, 23 September 2023,

Awards and honors

File:Ken Burns 2014.jpg|thumb|upright|Burns with the Peabody Award for The Central Park Five in 2014]]Altogether Burns’s work has garnered several awards, including two Oscar nominations, two Grammy Awards and 15 Emmy Awards.WEB,www.pbs.org/kenburns/about-the-filmmakers/ken-burns, Pbs.org, About the filmmakers, July 12, 2017, July 15, 2017,www.pbs.org/kenburns/about-the-filmmakers/ken-burns," title="web.archive.org/web/20170715163831www.pbs.org/kenburns/about-the-filmmakers/ken-burns,">web.archive.org/web/20170715163831www.pbs.org/kenburns/about-the-filmmakers/ken-burns, dead, The Civil War received more than 40 major film and television awards, including two Emmy Awards, two Grammy Awards (one for Best Traditional Folk Album), the Producer of the Year Award from the Producers Guild of America, a People’s Choice Award, a Peabody Award, a duPont-Columbia Award, a D. W. Griffith Award, and the $50,000 Lincoln Prize.{{Citation|title=The Civil War|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098769/awards|access-date=September 19, 2017}}WEB,www.nonesuch.com/albums/the-civil-war, Nonesuch Records The Civil War [Soundtrack], Nonesuch.com, November 30, 1990, en, September 19, 2017, WEB,www.pbs.org/kenburns/civil-war/about/about-overview/#/, About the Series {{!, The Civil War {{!}} PBS|website=Pbs.org|access-date=September 19, 2017}}In 1991, Burns received the National Humanities Medal, then called the Charles Frankel Prize in the Humanities.In 1991, Burns received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement.WEB, Golden Plate Awardees of the American Academy of Achievement, www.achievement.org, American Academy of Achievement,achievement.org/our-history/golden-plate-awards/, In 2004, Burns received the S. Roger Horchow Award for Greatest Public Service by a Private Citizen, an award given out annually by Jefferson Awards.WEB,www.jeffersonawards.org/pastwinners/national, National Winners | public service awards, Jefferson Awards.org, December 25, 2013,jeffersonawards.org/pastwinners/national," title="web.archive.org/web/20101124043935jeffersonawards.org/pastwinners/national,">web.archive.org/web/20101124043935jeffersonawards.org/pastwinners/national, November 24, 2010, dead, In 2008 Burns was honored by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences with a Lifetime Achievement Award.In 2008 Burns received The Lincoln Forum’s Richard Nelson Current Award of Achievement.The Lincoln ForumIn 2010, the National Parks Conservation Association honored him and Dayton Duncan with the Robin W. Winks Award for Enhancing Public Understanding of National Parks. The award recognizes an individual or organization that has effectively communicated the values of the National Park System to the American public.WEB,www.npca.org/resources/3286-awards-and-recognition, Awards and Recognition, National Parks Conservation Association, {{as of|2010}}, there is a Ken Burns Wing at the Jerome Liebling Center for Film, Photography and Video at Hampshire College.WEB,kuhnriddle.com/portfolio/educational/liebling-center/, Kuhn Riddle Architects, Hampshire College – The Ken Burns Wing, 2010,kuhnriddle.com/portfolio/educational/liebling-center/," title="web.archive.org/web/20120402192616kuhnriddle.com/portfolio/educational/liebling-center/,">web.archive.org/web/20120402192616kuhnriddle.com/portfolio/educational/liebling-center/, April 2, 2012, dead, mdy-all, Burns was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2011.WEB, APS Member History,search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?creator=ken+burns&title=&subject=&subdiv=&mem=&year=&year-max=&dead=&keyword=&smode=advanced, 2021-04-02, search.amphilsoc.org, In 2012, Burns received the Washington University International Humanities Medal.“Ken Burns Recognized for Epic Contributions to the Humanities” {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160616154541magazine.wustl.edu/2013/February/Pages/Ken-Burns-Wash-U-Humanities-Medal.aspx |date=June 16, 2016 }}, Washington Magazine, February 2013. The medal, awarded biennially and accompanied by a cash prize of $25,000, is given to honor a person whose humanistic endeavors in scholarship, journalism, literature, or the arts have made a difference in the world. Past winners include Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk in 2006, journalist Michael Pollan in 2008, and novelist and nonfiction writer Francine Prose in 2010.WEB,pages.wustl.edu/figure/humanities-medal-jan-2014, Washington University’s International Humanities Medal | the Figure in the Carpet, dead,web.archive.org/web/20150930172215/https://pages.wustl.edu/figure/humanities-medal-jan-2014, September 30, 2015, mdy-all, In 2013, Burns received the John Steinbeck Award, an award presented annually by Steinbeck’s eldest son, Thomas, in collaboration with the John Steinbeck Family Foundation, San Jose State University, and The National Steinbeck Center.WEB,blogs.sjsu.edu/today/2013/ken-burns-to-receive-steinbeck-award/, Ken Burns to Receive Steinbeck Award, SJSU News, December 25, 2013, In May 2015, Burns gave the commencement address at Washington University in St. Louis and received an honorary doctorate of humanities.WEB, 2015-05-15, Ken Burns’ 2015 Commencement address at Washington University in St. Louis - The Source - Washington University in St. Louis,source.wustl.edu/2015/05/ken-burns-2015-commencement-address-at-washington-university-in-st-louis/, 2022-06-12, The Source, en-US, Burns was the Grand Marshal for the 2016 Pasadena Tournament of Roses’ Rose Parade on New Year’s Day in Pasadena, California.NEWS, Cormaci, Carol,www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-ken-burns-grand-marshal-20151110-story.html, Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns named 2016 Rose Parade grand marshal, Los Angeles Times, November 10, 2015, March 12, 2016, The National Endowment for the Humanities selected Burns to deliver the 2016 Jefferson Lecture, the U.S. federal government’s highest honor for achievement in the humanities, on the topic of race in America.NEWS, Manly, Lorne,artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/01/18/ken-burns-to-discuss-race-in-jefferson-lecture/, Ken Burns to Discuss Race in Jefferson Lecture, The New York Times, January 18, 2016, March 12, 2016, He was the 2017 recipient of The Nichols-Chancellor’s Medal at Vanderbilt University.WEB,news.vanderbilt.edu/2017/05/11/ken-burns-follow-the-better-angels-of-their-nature-grads-are-told/, Follow the better angels of their nature, grads are told, Jim, Patterson, Vanderbilt University, In 2019, he received an honorary degree from Brown University.WEB,www.providencejournal.com/news/20190423/ken-burns-john-krasinski-to-get-honorary-degrees-from-brown-university, Ken Burns, John Krasinski to get honorary degrees from Brown University, providencejournal.com, In 2022 he served as the commencement speaker at the University of Pennsylvania and received an Honorary Doctor of Arts.WEB,almanac.upenn.edu/articles/penns-2022-commencement-speaker-and-honorary-degree-recipients#:~:text=Penn’s%202022%20Commencement%20Speaker%20and%20Honorary%20Degree%20Recipients,-March%201%2C%202022&text=Award%2Dwinning%20documentary%20filmmaker%20Ken,an%20honorary%20degree%20from%20Penn., Penn’s 2022 Commencement Speaker and Honorary Degree Recipients, University of Pennsylvania Alamanac,

Style

Burns frequently incorporates simple musical leitmotifs or melodies. For example, The Civil War features a distinctive violin melody throughout, “Ashokan Farewell”, which was performed for the film by its composer, fiddler Jay Ungar. One critic noted, “One of the most memorable things about The Civil War was its haunting, repeated violin melody, whose thin, yearning notes seemed somehow to sum up all the pathos of that great struggle.“NEWS,www.salon.com/weekly/west2960909.html, Shame and Glory: The West holds a mirror before the double face of a nation, Gary, Kamiya, Salon.com, n.d., dead,www.salon.com/weekly/west2960909.html," title="web.archive.org/web/20090413131926www.salon.com/weekly/west2960909.html,">web.archive.org/web/20090413131926www.salon.com/weekly/west2960909.html, April 13, 2009, File:Ken Burns effect.ogv|thumb|Ken Burns effectKen Burns effectBurns often gives life to still photographs by slowly zooming out subjects of interest and panning from one subject to another. It has long been used in film production where it is known as the “rostrum camera”. This technique, possible in many professional and home software applications, is now termed the “Ken Burns effect” in Apple’s iPhoto, iMovie, and Final Cut Pro X software applications.Burns stated in a 2009 interview that he initially declined to have his name associated with the software because of his stance to refuse commercial endorsements. However, Apple chief Steve Jobs negotiated to give Burns Apple equipment, which Burns donated to nonprofit organizations.WEB, Allen, Austin, Big Think Interview with Ken Burns, December 10, 2009,bigthink.com/videos/big-think-interview-with-ken-burns, Big Think, April 23, 2014, As a museum retrospective noted, “His PBS specials [are] strikingly out of step with the visual pyrotechnics and frenetic pacing of most reality-based TV programming, relying instead on techniques that are literally decades old, although Burns reintegrates these constituent elements into a wholly new and highly complex textual arrangement.“In a 2011 interview, Burns stated that he admires and is influenced by filmmaker Errol Morris.JOURNAL,reason.com/blog/2011/10/03/ken-burns-on-pbs-funding-being, Ken Burns on PBS Funding, Being a ‘Yellow-Dog Democrat,’ & Missing Walter Cronkite, Meredith, Bragg, Nick, Gillespie, October 3, 2011, Reason (magazine), Reason,reason.com/blog/2011/10/03/ken-burns-on-pbs-funding-being," title="web.archive.org/web/20120503155636reason.com/blog/2011/10/03/ken-burns-on-pbs-funding-being,">web.archive.org/web/20120503155636reason.com/blog/2011/10/03/ken-burns-on-pbs-funding-being, May 3, 2012, live,

Filmography

File:“The Vietnam War” Preview and Conversation with Ken Burns.webm|thumb|Conversation with Ken Burns about The Vietnam War. Video by the LBJ Library]]

Future releases

Short films

These three short films are collected and distributed together as Seeing, Searching, Being: William Segal.

As an executive producer

As an actor

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Notes

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References

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External links

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