Ken Burns

 American producer and director Ken Burns has a net worth $3.5 million. Ken Burns is an American filmmaker and producer, well-known for his numerous documentaries as well as documentary series that cover a range of historical topics. Some of his most well-known films include "The Civil War,"" "Jazz," "Prohibition," "The Roosevelts," and "The Vietnam War." Burns films are well-known for his use of slow zooms into and out of images and footage from archives. This technique is known as the "Ken Burns effect". Burns has been awarded more than 20 honorary degrees. The film "The Civil War" was awarded more than 40 major film and television awards, including two Emmy Awards, two Grammy Awards, Producer of the Year Award from the Producers Guild of America, and a People's Choice Award, a Peabody Award, a duPont-Columbia Award and a D. W. Griffith Award as well as the $50,000 Lincoln Prize. The documentary he made in 2017 "The Vietnam War" was also lauded.There is a Ken Burns Wing at the Jerome Liebling Center for Film, Photography and Video at Hampshire College. Burns was given the S. Roger Horchow award for greatest public service by a private citizen in 2004, an award that Jefferson Awards gives out each year.