Awards & Winners

Louis Clyde Stoumen

Date of Birth 15-July-1917
Place of Birth Springtown
(Bucks County, Pennsylvania)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Clyde Stouman, Lou Stoumen, Louis Stouman
Profession Film director, Film Producer, Screenwriter, Film Editor, Cinematographer
Louis Clyde Stoumen was an American film director and producer. He won two Academy Awards; the first in 1957 for Best Documentary Short Subject, and the second in 1963 for Best Documentary Feature. He was born in Springtown, Pennsylvania and died in Sonoma County, California. Stoumen also taught at UCLA Film School. He spoke of his innovation in The True Story of the Civil War. He invented a track for the camera to move back and forth over historic photos and paintings. It also tracked up and down. The technique is often referred to today as "The Ken Burns Effect." Stoumen also received Colin Higgin's Masters Thesis, a screenplay called Harold and Maude. Stoumen spoke of his enjoyment of the writing, but doubted it would ever be produced. He wasn't unhappy when proven wrong by the film's success. After his death in 1991, the Stoumen Estate gifted the entire archive of Stoumen's work, including copyright, to the Museum of Photographic Arts. MOPA created a special exhibition and catalog entitled Seduced by Life: The Art of Lou Stoumen in celebration of acquiring the Stoumen Archive. Copyright for Stoumen's work is currently administered by the Museum of Photographic Arts.

Awards by Louis Clyde Stoumen

Check all the awards nominated and won by Louis Clyde Stoumen.

1962


Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature
Honored for : Black Fox: The Rise and Fall of Adolf Hitler

Nominations 1962 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Black Fox: The Rise and Fall of Adolf Hitler

1956


Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject
Honored for : The True Story of the Civil War

Nominations 1956 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature The Naked Eye
Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject The True Story of the Civil War