James Sanders

James Sanders is an architect, author, and filmmaker, who, with Ric Burns, wrote the acclaimed eight-part PBS series NEW YORK: A Documentary Film. His landmark study of the city and film, Celluloid Skyline: New York and the Movies, published by Knopf in 2001, won a Theatre Library Association Award and was hailed as a “marvelous—miraculous—book” by Jane Jacobs. James has written for the New Yorker, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and Vanity Fair, has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and Emmy Award, and in 2021 became a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, the AIA’s highest membership honor.