Biography

Nathaniel Kahn is an award-winning filmmaker. Kahn's Oscar-nominated documentary My Architect (2003; rereleased 2026), about his father Louis Kahn, won the Director's Guild of America Award, and was nominated for an Emmy. It is now in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art. Kahn’s film Two Hands, about the late concert pianist Leon Fleisher, was also nominated for an Academy Award and an Emmy. His film The Price of Everything, about the contemporary art world, was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance and was picked up by HBO. His film The Hunt for Planet B was broadcast by CNN and won an Emmy in 2022. Most recently, Kahn directed the IMAX film Deep Sky about NASA’s JWST telescope. The film, narrated by actress Michelle Williams, was released in over 300 IMAX theatres nationwide. Kahn is a voting member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and is currently completing a short fiction film, which he directed.

Project Summary

Nathaniel Kahn plans to complete a screenplay for a psychological mystery film with an historian as its central character. Additionally, he plans to conduct research in the I Tatti music collection for recordings that could be included in the soundtrack for the film.