Ken Burns

個人簡介

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.

生日

1953年07月29日

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年份	電影	職務
2026	Henry David Thoreau 監製	監製
2023	Spirit of Golf 飾演 Self	飾演 Self
2018	梅奧診所:信仰、希望與科學 Co-Director 導演 Writer Executive Producer	Co-Director 導演 Writer Executive Producer
2017	Walden Executive Producer	Executive Producer
2016	阻擊納粹：夏普家的戰爭導演 Executive Producer	導演 Executive Producer
2014	星際效應 Thanks	Thanks
2012	中央公園五罪犯導演 Screenplay Writer 監製	導演 Screenplay Writer 監製
2006	Wordplay 飾演 Self	飾演 Self
2004	罪無可赦：拳王傑克·強生沉浮錄導演	導演
2000	Chuck Jones: Extremes and In-Betweens - A Life in Animation 飾演 Self	飾演 Self
1991	空中帝國：無線電的製造者導演監製 Cinematography Executive Producer Music Director Director of Photography	導演監製 Cinematography Executive Producer Music Director Director of Photography
1989	Thomas Hart Benton 導演監製	導演監製