Since the 1980s, Paul Wagner has directed documentary films for the Smithsonian Institution about old-time medicine shows, museum education, family traditions, fishmongers, Southern pottery, the U.S. Postal Service, the Columbian Quincentenary, and anthropological rituals around the world. He served as executive producer for films on the history of insane asylums and on the French novelist Marcel Proust, both broadcast nationally on PBS. He has co-authored two books, both companion volumes to his documentary films, "Out of Ireland" (1995, TV) and "A Paralyzing Fear: the Triumph Over Polio in America" (1998, TV). Wagner has been awarded many grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the D.C. Humanities Council, the D.C. Commission on the Arts and from the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic Media Fellowship Programs. In addition to the Oscar® and the Emmy®, his films have won many regional Emmy Awards, CINE Golden Eagles, the Irish Silver Harp Award, Blue and Red Ribbons from the American Film Festival and the Grand Prize from the National Educational Film Festival. Some of his other producing/directing credits include MILES OF SMILES, YEARS OF STRUGGLE (1982), THE STONE CARVERS (1984), THE CONGRESS OF WONDERS (1994), WINDHORSE (1998), ANGELS (2004) and THE GOD OF A SECOND CHANCE (2006).  Documentary (Short Subjects) 1984: THE STONE CARVERS - Producer (w. Marjorie Hunt) 1 nomination, 1 Award