Ken Burns

 American producer and director Ken Burns has a net value of $3.5 million. Ken Burns is an American filmmaker who is famous for his numerous documentaries and documentary series that cover a range of historical subjects. His most notable works include "The Civil War", "Jazz," Prohibition, "The Roosevelts" and "The Vietnam War". Burns films are known for his use of slow zooms into and out images and footage from archives. The technique is called the "Ken Burns effect". Burns has been honored with more than 20 honorary degrees. His film "The Civil War" was awarded more than 40 important film and television awards, 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 as well as a D. W. Griffith Award, and the $50,000 Lincoln Prize. The documentary of 2017 "The Vietnam War" was also highly appreciated. There is the Ken Burns Wing at Hampshire College's Jerome Liebling Center for Film, Photography, and Video. Burns was given the S. Roger Horchow award for the most outstanding public service performed by an individual citizen in 2004, an award that Jefferson Awards gives out each year.