Julian Krainin
Julian Krainin (born January 24, 1941) is an American film producer, film director, cinematographer and scriptwriter, winner of a 1974 Oscar for best documentary short film for Princeton: A Search for Answers.
Life
Krainin began his career in 1962 as a film producer and cameraman of the documentary short film The John Glenn Story. In the following decades, he devoted himself mainly to documentary films and documentary short films, and also in film production for cinema and television films.
Together with DeWitt Sage, he was first nominated for an Oscar in 1972 for best documentary short film for Art Is... (1972). In 1974, he won the Best Short Documentary Oscar with DeWitt Sage for Princeton: A Search for Answers.
In 1995, he shared an Academy Award nomination as co-producer with Michael Jacobs, Michael Nozik and Robert Redford for Quiz Show (1994). Earlier, he had produced a documentary about the quiz show scandal for PBS's American Experience series, basing the story on interviews with participants who had sometimes not been interviewed in 30 years.[1]
In 1997, he and his co-producers won the CableACE Best Miniseries Award for George Wallace and were nominated for an Emmy. For the television movie Something the Lord Made, (2004) he shared an Emmy and a Christopher Award for outstanding television film.[2]
Selected filmography
- 1988: Disaster at Silo 7
- 1990: Night Visions, television film directed by Wes Craven
- 1992: The Quiz Show Scandals (PBS documentary aired by The American Experience)
- 1994: Quiz Show (feature film)
- 1997: Wallace
- 2004: Something the Lord Made
External links
References
- ^ Brennan, Patricia (January 6, 1992). "A Call They Dreaded for 30 Years : Quiz shows: Only some '50s participants are talking--and Charles Van Doren isn't one of them". Los Angeles Times. Los Angeles Times. Washington Post. Retrieved 27 January 2018.
- ^ Julian Krainin Emmy Awards. URL accessed January 27, 2018.