Biography
Barbara Kopple is an American film director known primarily for her documentary work. She is credited with pioneering a renaissance of cinema vérité, and bringing the historic French style to a modern American audience. Known for her "fly-on-the-wall" filmmaking style, Kopple captured raw, real-life events without interrupting the action. She has won two Academy Awards, for Harlan County, USA (1976), about a Kentucky miners' strike, and for American Dream (1990), the story of the 1985–86 Hormel strike in Austin, Minnesota, making her the first woman to win two Oscars in the Best Documentary category.
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Awards & recognition
- Maya Deren Award · 1994
- Dorothy Arzner Directors Award · 1993
- Academy Award — Best Documentary Feature Film · 1991
- Directors Guild of America Award · 1991
- Guggenheim Fellowship · 1979
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- Academy Award — Best Documentary Feature Film · 1976
Filmography28 titles
Homicide: Life on the Street
Oz
Winter Soldier
Hearts and Minds
Marjoe
30 for 30
Harlan County U.S.A.
These Amazing Shadows
American Dream
A Murder in Mansfield
Miss Sharon Jones!
Gumbo Coalition
We the Economy: 20 Short Films You Can't Afford to Miss
The Super Models
Helter Skelter: An American Myth
Shut Up & Sing
ReMastered: Tricky Dick & The Man in Black
Hot Type: 150 Years of The Nation
Running Wild: One Man's Quest to Save the Wild Mustang
Desert One
Killing the Colorado
The Hamptons
When Women Kill
Beyond JFK: The Question of Conspiracy
Addiction
Havoc
The View
Woodstock: Now & Then