American publisher and editor
Kary Antholis
(born 1962) is an American publisher and editor of
CrimeStory.com
, former executive at the television network
HBO
and documentary filmmaker best known for the Oscar-winning short
One Survivor Remembers
, which was inducted into the
National Film Registry
in 2012. Antholis serves on the Board of Visitors of the
Georgetown University Law Center
and formerly served as co-chair of board of directors for
Young Storytellers
.
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Biography
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Antholis grew up in
Florham Park, New Jersey
and attended the
Delbarton School
in
Morris Township, New Jersey
.
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[3]
He is a 1984 graduate of
Bowdoin College
, earned a master's degree in History at
Stanford University
with a focus on the historical role European nations in Africa and graduated from the
Georgetown University Law Center
in 1989.
[4]
He has one brother,
William J. Antholis
, CEO of the
Miller Center
.
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Career
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Kary Antholis founded
Crime Story Media, LLC
in July 2019, after retiring as President of Miniseries and Cinemax Programming at
HBO
.
In over 25 years as a creative executive at HBO, Kary oversaw Academy Award, Emmy and Golden Globe-winning projects, including
Chernobyl
,
Angels in America
,
Olive Kitteridge
,
John Adams
,
The Pacific
,
The Night Of
,
Generation Kill
,
The Corner
,
Elizabeth I
,
The Gathering Storm
,
Wit
,
Show Me a Hero
,
Mildred Pierce
,
Elvis Presley: The Searcher
and
Educating Peter
. As head of Cinemax Programming since 2011, Kary led the channel’s branding strategy, commissioning breakthrough series including
Strike Back
,
Banshee
,
The Knick
,
Warrior
,
Jett
and
Tales from the Tour Bus
.
Kary began his film career as a documentarian, winning the
Academy Award
for Documentary Short Subject and the
Emmy
for Outstanding Informational Special for his film
One Survivor Remembers
, about Holocaust survivor,
Gerda Weissmann Klein
. One Survivor Remembers was the first HBO program added by the Librarian of Congress to the
National Film Registry
, an honor given to “culturally, historically or aesthetically” significant American films.
Kary serves on the Board of Visitors at
Georgetown Law
and as an adjunct professor at USC’s
School of Cinematic Arts
. He holds a JD from Georgetown Law, an MA in History from
Stanford University
, and a BA from
Bowdoin College
.
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One Survivor Remembers
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As a filmmaker he won the
Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject
(1995)
[7]
and the
Emmy
for Outstanding Information Special (1994?95)
[8]
for his film
One Survivor Remembers
about Holocaust survivor,
Gerda Weissmann Klein
. Exploring Gerda's story offered him an extraordinarily vivid connection to his own mother's experiences during the war. Antholis' mother Evanthia grew up in
Nazi
-occupied
Greece
during
World War II
. Weissmann's story helped Antholis understand what his mother went through when her father, Vassilios, was killed by Nazi collaborators.
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In 2005, the film was offered by the
Southern Poverty Law Center
as part of a
Teaching Tolerance
curriculum for high school teachers to teach their students about the realities of the Holocaust.
He currently serves on the Board of Visitors at
Georgetown Law
and formerly served as the co-chair of the board of directors for
Young Storytellers
, an arts education nonprofit organization based in Los Angeles.
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Antholis is currently Publisher/Editor at
Crime Story
.
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References
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a
b
"Our Team - Young Storytellers"
.
Young Storytellers
. Archived from
the original
on 2017-04-22
. Retrieved
2017-05-03
.
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Fiddes, Jessica.
"Looking for Diamonds"
Archived
2011-07-18 at the
Wayback Machine
,
Delbarton
Today
, Spring/Summer 2009. Accessed August 25, 2009.
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Stanmyre, Matthew.
"New Jersey high school sports traditions: Here is Delbarton's, tell us about yours"
,
The Star-Ledger
, October 13, 2009. Accessed February 15, 2011. "Delbarton, which is situated on a sprawling, tree-lined campus in Morristown, opened in 1939 and produced its first graduating class of 12 students in 1948. Today, there are 541 students at the school, which boasts alumni such as the NBA's Troy Murphy, former New Jersey congressman Mike Ferguson and Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker Kary Antholis."
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Wilson, David McKay.
"Making Masterpieces"
,
Bowdoin
Magazine
, Spring 2004. Accessed August 27, 2008.
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"William J. Antholis, Brookings Institution"
. The Brookings Institution
. Retrieved
10 August
2012
.
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Antholis, Kary (15 July 2019).
"Kary Antholis"
.
Crime Story
. Retrieved
2019-08-29
.
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Memorable Oscar® acceptance speech-Oscars on YouTube
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One Survivor Remembers (1995) - Awards - IMDb
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One Survivor Remembers (1995)|AllMovie
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Antholis, Kary (15 July 2019).
"Kary Antholis"
.
Crime Story
. Retrieved
2019-08-29
.
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