Lawrence Hott
American filmmaker
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Lawrence "Larry" Hott is an American academic and documentary filmmaker.
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Hott on production in the Everglades working on the film John James Audubon | |
| Born | 6 October 1950 New York, U.S. |
| Occupation | Documentary Filmmaker |
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Hott is a co-founding partner of Florentine Films, joining Ken Burns, Roger Sherman and Buddy Squires in documentary production in 1978.[1][2] He has produced and directed documentary films for PBS, the Library of American Landscape History, the American Antiquarian Society and others. He has twice been nominated for an Academy Award,[3] received a Peabody Award, the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award, and five blue ribbons from the American Film Festival.[1] Hott has taught courses in the University Without Walls program of the University of Massachusetts Amherst.[4]
Hott is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.[5] Hott has been a Fulbright Program Fellow in both Vietnam and Great Britain.[6]
Filmography
- The Old Quabbin Valley 1982
- The Garden of Eden 1983
- The Adirondacks 1986
- Sentimental Women Need Not Apply 1988
- The Wilderness Idea 1989
- Wild by Law 1991
- Rebuilding the Temple: Cambodians in America 1992
- Knute Rockne and His Fighting Irish 1994
- Defending Everybody: The Story of the ACLU 1998
- The People's Plague: Tuberculosis in America
- The Boyhood Of John Muir 1998
- Divided Highways 1998
- Writing Alone and With Others
- Ohio: 200 Years
- Imagining Robert: My Brother, Madness and Survival
- The Harriman Alaska Expedition Retraced 2002
- John James Audubon: Drawn from Nature 2006
- Niagara Falls 2006
- On Thin Ice
- Through Deaf Eyes 2006
- The American Antiquarian Society
- Library of American Landscape History
- The Return of the Cuyahoga
- Frederick Law Olmsted: Designing America
- Rising Voices 2014
- Scitech Band: Pride of Springfield 2017
- The Warrior Tradition 2019
- The Niagara Movement: The Early Battle for Civil Rights 2023