Julian Krainin


Julian Krainin is an American film producer, film director, cinematographer and scriptwriter, winner of a 1974 Oscar for best documentary short film for .

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.... 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. 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.
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, he shared an Emmy and a Christopher Award for outstanding television film.

Selected filmography