Ken Burns - Awards and Honors

Awards and Honors

• 1982 nomination, Academy Award for Documentary Feature: Brooklyn Bridge (1981);
• 1986 nomination, Academy Award for Documentary Feature: The Statue of Liberty (1985);
• 1995 Emmy Award for Outstanding Informational Series: Baseball (1994);
• 2010 Emmy Award for Outstanding Non-fiction Series: The National Parks: America's Best Idea (2009).

Burns is the recipient of more than 20 honorary degrees.

The Civil War has received more than 40 major film and television awards, including two Emmy Awards, two Grammy Awards, the Producer of the Year Award from the Producers Guild of America, a People's Choice Award, a Peabody Award, a duPont-Columbia Award, a D.W. Griffith Award, and the $50,000 Lincoln Prize.