Occupation Director, producer Role Director | Name Lynn Novick Years active 1997–present | |
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Awards Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Informational Series Nominations Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Non-fiction Series Similar People Ken Burns, Geoffrey Ward, Daniel Okrent, Keith David, David Mcmahon | ||
vietnam war filmmakers ken burns and lynn novick speak to tom brokaw nbc nightly news
Lynn Novick is an American director and producer of documentary films known for mostly for her work with Ken Burns.
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- vietnam war filmmakers ken burns and lynn novick speak to tom brokaw nbc nightly news
- Ken burns and lynn novick the vietnam war is the key to understanding america
- Early life
- Career
- References
Ken burns and lynn novick the vietnam war is the key to understanding america
Early life
Novick was born in 1962 and raised in New York City. She is a magna cum laude graduate of Yale University with honors in American Studies.
Career
Novick was a research assistant at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History before beginning her film career as a production assistant at WNET, Washington's public television station. She then worked on Bill Moyers' projects Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth and A World of Ideas with Bill Moyers before moving to Florentine Films in 1989 to work on Burns’s 1990 series, The Civil War, as associate producer for post production.
In 1994, she produced Burns’s nine-part series, Baseball, (1994) for which she received an Emmy Award. In 1998, she was director and producer (with Burns) of two-part biographical documentary, Frank Lloyd Wright, for which she received a Peabody Award. In 2001, Novick produced Burns’s 10-part series, Jazz.
Among her most recent collaborations with Burns are The War (2007), Baseball: The Tenth Inning (2010). and Prohibition (2011). Her latest collaboration is an 18-hour documentary film series, The Vietnam War, with Burns and Geoffrey Ward, scheduled to air beginning on September 17, 2017.
Novick's next project is Ernest Hemingway, a two-part biography of the writer to be broadcast in 2019.