Ken Burns

BirthDate BirthPlace	07/28/1953 Brooklyn, NY

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In 1990, was the director, producer, and music director for the series The Civil War, which won more than 40 television and film awards.
Started his production company, Florentine Films, at age 22.
Became co-owner of the Restaurant at L.A. Burdick Chocolate, which opened in 2000.
Received an Oscar nomination for producing his first documentary, Brooklyn Bridge, in 1981.
His 1994 documentary Baseball became, at the time, the most watched series in PBS history with over 45 million viewers.
Popularized a filming technique known as the Ken Burns Effect that involves zooming in on photographs and panning across the subjects in the still images.
Has cited the death of his mother and afterward seeing his father cry only while watching a movie as the reasons he became a filmmaker.