Ann Druyan
Ann Druyan is an American author and producer specializing in productions about cosmology and popular science. She was a co-writer of the 1980 PBS documentary series Cosmos, hosted by Carl Sagan, whom she married in 1981.
Works
Untitled Carl Sagan Documentary
Serving as an intimate and cinematic portrait of Sagan, the Untitled Carl Sagan Documentary will explore his love story with partner Ann Druyan and with science. The film will include exclusive audio recordings, archival clips and animation, along with interviews with his family, friends and colleagues. With the full support of Sagan’s family and friends, the film will present a fascinating look into the life and career of one of the world’s most inspiring and revolutionizing scientists of our time.
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Voyagers
The film is set in 1977 as NASA prepared to launch humanity’s first interstellar probes. But what starts out as a mission becomes an epic, unexpected love story between Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan.
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Cosmos: Possible Worlds
Returning for its third installment, the Emmy and Peabody Award-winning COSMOS will once again be executive-produced, written and directed by Ann Druyan (NASA’s Voyager Record, “Cosmos: A Personal Voyage,” “Contact”); executive-produced by Seth MacFarlane, Brannon Braga and Jason Clark; and hosted by Neil deGrasse Tyson, the famed pop-culture icon and astrophysicist.
Release Date: 2020-03-09
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 13
Vote Count: 8
Bill Nye: Science Guy
Bill Nye is retiring his kid show act in a bid to become more like his late professor, astronomer Carl Sagan. Sagan dreamed of launching a spacecraft that could revolutionize interplanetary exploration. Bill sets out to accomplish Sagan's mission, but he is pulled away when he is challenged by evolution and climate change contrarians to defend the scientific consensus. Can Bill show the world why science matters in a culture increasingly indifferent to evidence?
Release Date: 2017-04-10
Character: Self
Vote Count: 35
Cosmos
Famed astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson provides clarity for the vision of the cosmos as he voyages across the universe with never-before-told stories that delve into the scientific concepts of the laws of gravity and the origins of space and time.
Release Date: 2014-03-09
Department: Art
Job: Creative Director
Character: Kendisi
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 1549
The Heart is a Drum Machine
What is music? Many of today's top artists and scholars grapple with the question in this cinematic look at a uniquely human obsession. The Heart is a Drum Machine is a new feature documentary film project from the producers of Moog.
Release Date: 2010-03-09
Character: Self
Vote Count: 5
Real Time with Bill Maher
Each week Bill Maher surrounds himself with a panel of guests which include politicians, actors, comedians, musicians and the like to discuss what's going on in the world.
Release Date: 2003-02-21
Character: Self
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 209
Contact
A radio astronomer receives the first extraterrestrial radio signal ever picked up on Earth. As the world powers scramble to decipher the message and decide upon a course of action, she must make some difficult decisions between her beliefs, the truth, and reality.
Release Date: 1997-07-11
Department: Writing
Job: Story
Character: Ann Druyan
Vote Count: 4543
Cosmos: A Personal Voyage
Carl Sagan covers a wide range of scientific subjects, including the origin of life and a perspective of our place in the universe.
Release Date: 1980-09-28
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 13
Vote Count: 372