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Kenneth Lauren "Ken" Burns〔 (born July 29, 1953) is an American filmmaker, known for his style of using archival footage and photographs in documentary films. His most widely known documentaries are ''The Civil War'' (1990), ''Baseball'' (1994), ''Jazz'' (2001), ''The War'' (2007), ''The National Parks: America's Best Idea'' (2009), ''Prohibition'' (2011), ''The Central Park Five'' (2012), and ''The Roosevelts'' (2014). Also widely known is his role as executive producer of ''The West'' (1996, directed by Stephen Ives), and ''Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies'' (2015, directed by Barak Goodman). Burns's documentaries have been nominated for two Academy Awards and have won Emmy Awards, among other honors. His latest assignment is to be the grand marshal of the 2016 Tournament of Roses Parade on January 1, 2016 in Pasadena, California. ==Early life and education== Burns was born on July 29, 1953 in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Lyla Smith (née Tupper) Burns,〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Ken Burns )〕 a biotechnician, and Robert Kyle Burns, at the time a graduate student in cultural anthropology at Columbia University in Manhattan.〔 According to his website,〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Ken Burns )〕 Ken Burns's brother is the documentary filmmaker Ric Burns. He is a distant relative of poet Robert Burns.〔Stated on ''Finding Your Roots'', PBS, October 7, 2014〕 Burns's academic family moved frequently. Among places they called home were Saint-Véran, France; Newark, Delaware; and Ann Arbor, where his father taught at the University of Michigan.〔 Burns's mother was found to have breast cancer when Burns was 3 and died when he was 11,〔 a circumstance that he said helped shape his career; he credited his father-in-law, a psychologist, with a signal 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, (Ann Arbor Public Schools Alumni ) (accessed 29 October 2013).〕 Turning down reduced tuition at the University of Michigan, he attended Hampshire College, an alternative school 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.〔 He worked in a record store to pay his tuition.〔 Studying under photographers Jerome Liebling and Elaine Mayes and others, Burns earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in film studies and design in 1975. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ken Burns」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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