Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film (2006)

Ric Burns’s portrait of the most resoundingly influential American artist of the second half of the twentieth century.  The film aired in September of 2006 as the premiere episode in the 20th Anniversary season of the PBS series, American Masters.  Combining on-camera interviews and never-before-seen still and archival motion picture footage, the film was the first to exploit the immense archives at the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh. It was also the first to explore the complete spectrum of Andy Warhol’s astonishing artistic output, stretching across five decades from the late 1940’s, to his untimely death in the 1980’s. New York Magazine described the film as “Hypnotic, powerful and revealing” and Stephen Holden of the New York Times wrote “the movie is an entirely absorbing, occasionally revelatory portrait of a brilliant talent driven to greatness by an inner chorus of demons and angels.”

A CO-PRODUCTION OF STEEPLECHASE FILMS, DANIEL WOLF, HIGH LINE PRODUCTIONS AND THIRTEEN/WNET NEW YORK

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DIRECTED BY: Ric Burns

WRITTEN BY: James Sanders and Ric Burns

PRODUCED BY: Donald Rosenfeld, Daniel Wolf and Ric Burns

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Peter Brant, Larry Gagosian and Diane Von Furstenberg

EDITED BY: Li-Shin Yu and Juliana Parroni

NARRATED BY: Laurie Anderson

VOICE OF ANDY WARHOL: Jeff Koons

CO-PRODUCERS: Marilyn Ness, Mary Recine and Robin Espinola

CO-EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Roger Kass

SENIOR PRODUCER: Mary Recine

CINEMATOGRAPHY: Buddy Squires, Peter Nelson, Allen Moore, Michael Chin and Don Lenzer

SENIOR CREATIVE CONSULTANT: Judy Crichton

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER FOR AMERICAN MASTERS: Susan Lacy

AWARDS:

George Foster Peabody Award
Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for Nonfiction Programming
Emmy Nomination for Outstanding Nonfiction Series: American Masters