The 10th annual Critics Choice Documentary Awards are hitting New York, and this year Ken Burns will receive the Critics Choice Impact Award at the event on Nov. 9.
Burns has been making documentary films for almost 50 years. After the Oscar-nominated Brooklyn Bridge in 1981, he went on to direct and produce The Civil War, Baseball, Jazz, The War, The National Parks: America’s Best Idea, Prohibition, The Roosevelts: An Intimate History, The Vietnam War, Country Music, The U.S. and the Holocaust, The American Buffalo, and most recently, Leonardo da Vinci. Future film projects include The American Revolution, Emancipation to Exodus, and LBJ & the Great Society, among others.
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Burns has received several statuettes for his work including 17 Emmys, two Grammys, and two Oscar nominations.
Rachel Grady and Heidi Ewing
Also being feted at the gala is powerhouse directing duo Rachel Grady and Heidi Ewing, who will receive the Pennebaker Award (formerly the Lifetime Achievement Award). They are the codirectors of the Oscar-nominated film Jesus Camp, the Emmy-nominated The Boys of Baraka, and the recent Folktales, which premiered earlier this year at Sundance. Together they run Loki Films.
Hosting the evening’s festivities at the Edison Ballroom will be actor and comedian Aasif Mandvi.
At last year’s awards Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story and Will & Harper split the top honor for Best Documentary Feature.
Here’s the official timeline:
Final deadline for submissions: Sept.19
Nominations announced: Oct. 20
Critics Choice Documentary Awards Gala: Nov. 9
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