Background
Antholis grew up in Florham Park, New Jersey and attended the Delbarton School in Morris Township, New Jersey.
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Kary Antholis
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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.
Career
He has one brother, William J. Antholis, managing director of the Brookings Institution. 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 World War World War II Weissmann"s story helped Antholis understand what his mother went through when her father, Vassilios, was killed by Nazi collaborators.
Antholis is currently President for Miniseries at Home Box Office.
Achievements
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He is also an Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker. As an executive he has been responsible for Academy Award, Emmy and Golden Globe-winning projects, both dramatic and documentary, including Mildred Pierce, The Pacific, John Adams, Generation Kill, Elizabeth I, Angels in America, The Corner, Wit, The Gathering Storm, From the Earth to the Moon and Educating Peter. As a filmmaker he won the Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject (1995) and the Emmy for Outstanding Information Special (1994-1995) for his film One Survivor Remembers about Holocaust survivor, Gerda Weissmann Klein.
