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Kevin Burns (June 18, 1955September 27, 2020) was an American television and film producer, director, and screenwriter. His work can be seen on A&E, National Geographic Channel, E!, , AMC, Bravo, , , Lifetime, and The History Channel. Burns created and executive-produced more than 800 hours of television programming.

Biography
Early life
Born on June 18, 1955, Burns grew up in Niskayuna, New York. Filmreference.com Raised Roman Catholic, he graduated from St. Helen’s School before attending Niskayuna High School. In 1977, he graduated cum laude from Hamilton College. In 1981, he received both a master's degree in film from Boston University's College of Communication and a Student Academy Award from The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for his first film, I Remember Barbra, a humorous documentary short that profiled 's impact on her former , New York neighborhood. After graduation, Burns taught at the university, as well as heading the school's Film Unit, a group that allowed students to gain real-world experience by producing commercials, public service announcements, documentaries, and other projects for clients. In 1988, he moved to Los Angeles, where he began working as an executive at 20th Century Fox Television.

Career
While at Fox, Burns co-founded Foxstar Productions, the production unit responsible for creating a series of movies for television. In 1994, while serving as senior vice-president of Foxstar, he founded Van Ness Films, a non-fiction and documentary production unit. That same year, he met , a Fox film executive who shared his interest in the works of legendary Hollywood producer .

In 1999, Burns officially made a transition from his role as a studio executive to that of a full-time producer. While still under a production deal at Fox Television Studios, Burns and Jon Jashni formed Synthesis Entertainment and began developing and producing remakes and sequels of the Allen properties, most notably a Fox Television pilot for an updated version of The Time Tunnel (2002) and the feature film versions of Poseidon (2006) and Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.

In 1999, Burns also created Prometheus Entertainment, a company specializing in documentary, reality, and non-fiction programming and specials. Here, Burns continued to produce and direct a wide variety of programming, including the reality show The Girls Next Door on E! (about the adventures of founder 's three live-in girlfriends), High Maintenance 90210, Hollywood Science for the National Geographic Channel, and Bridget's Sexiest Beaches (both for the ) along with and Holly's World, both spin-offs of The Girls Next Door.

In 2002, Burns received his first of two Emmy Awards as executive producer for A&E's Biography series. That same year, he was selected by and to produce and direct the 150-minute documentary feature . Four years later, he was again selected by Lucas to produce and direct , a feature-length documentary that premiered on The History Channel and went on to earn three Emmy Award nominations. Other specials include , which Burns co-produced with director ; Spider-Man Tech; Indiana Jones and the Ultimate Quest; Batman Unmasked; Batman Tech; The Valkyrie Legacy, his second co-production with Bryan Singer; and in 2009.

Since 2010, Burns and his company Prometheus Entertainment have produced The History Channel TV series , America's Book of Secrets, "America's Book of Secrets", IMDb. and The Curse of Oak Island, as well as the reality TV series Kendra on Top for WEtv, and other non-fiction series and specials.

Along with his business partner Jon Jashni, Burns played an integral part in the development and creation of the Lost in Space reboot for and was serving as executive producer on the show.

Death
Burns died on September 27, 2020, of cardiac arrest at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in , California.

Awards and nominations
Primetime Emmy Awards
  • Nominated: Outstanding Cultural Music-Dance Program, Rodgers & Hammerstein: The Sound of Movies (1996)
  • Won: Outstanding Non-Fiction Series (Informational), Biography (2002)
  • Nominated: Outstanding Nonfiction Series, Biography (TV Series) (2006)
  • Nominated: Outstanding Writing for Nonfiction Programming, (2007)
  • Nominated: Outstanding Nonfiction Special, (2007)
  • Nominated: Outstanding Nonfiction Series, Biography (TV Series) (2007)
  • Nominated: Outstanding Directing for Nonfiction Programming, (2007)

Daytime Emmy Awards

  • Won: Outstanding Special Class Special, Hollywood Rocks the Movies: The 1970s (2003)

DVD Exclusive Awards

  • Nominated: Best New, Enhanced or Reconstructed Movie Scenes, Marilyn Monroe: The Final Days (2001)
  • Won: Best Original Retrospective Documentary, * Cleopatra: The Film That Changed Hollywood (2001)
  • Won: Best Behind the Scenes Program (New for DVD), (2005)

International Monitor Awards

  • Won: Documentaries – Director, Hollywood Aliens & Monsters (1998)

Student Academy Awards, US

  • Won: Documentary, I Remember Barbra (1981)

Filmography

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