Ken Burns

 Ken Burns is an American producer and director who has an estimated net worth of $3.5 million. American filmmaker Ken Burns is well-known for his many documentaries and documentary series on historical subjects. Some of his most well-known films include "The Civil War,"" "Jazz," "Prohibition," "The Roosevelts," and "The Vietnam War." Burns films have been noted for its utilization of archival footage as well as slow zooms in and out of photographs which is known as the "Ken Burns effect. Burns has been awarded more than 20 honorary degrees. His film "The Civil War" received more than 40 major awards for television and film, including two Emmy Awards, two Grammy Awards, Producer of the Year Award from the Producers Guild of America, an award from the Producers Guild of America, a People's Choice Award, a Peabody Award, a duPont-Columbia Award and the D. W. Griffith Award, as well as the $50,000 Lincoln Prize. The documentary of 2017 "The Vietnam War" was also highly appreciated. There is an Ken Burns Wing at Hampshire College's Jerome Liebling Center for Film Photography, Film and Video. In 2004, Burns received the S. Roger Horchow Award for the most outstanding public service by Private Citizen, a prize handed to him annually by the Jefferson Awards.