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Barbara Kopple (born July 30, 1946) 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.
Barbara Kopple was born on 30 July 1946 in New York City, New York, USA. She is a producer and director, known for Harlan County U.S.A. (1976), American Dream (1990) and Shut Up & Sing (2006).
Barbara Kopple is an American director and producer who is best known for her riveting documentaries that chronicle battles in the American labor movement in the 1970s and ’80s. She was the first woman to win two Academy Awards in the documentary category.
Aug 22, 2023 · The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS) announced Tuesday that anchor, journalist and author Wolf Blitzer and director/producer Barbara Kopple are the lifetime...
Aug 25, 2022 · In Barbara Kopple ’s 40-plus year career as one of America’s greatest documentary directors, she has won Academy Awards for the seminal 1976 documentary “Harlan County, U.S.A.” a portrait of a...
Jul 24, 2015 · In Barbara Kopple ’s 40-year career as one of America’s greatest documentary directors, the 68-year-old two-time Oscar winner (she turns 69 on July 30) has been on a quest for intimacy in...
Barbara Kopple was born on July 30, 1946 in New York City, New York, USA. She is a producer and director, known for Harlan County U.S.A. (1976), American Dream (1990) and Shut Up & Sing (2006).
“Two-time Academy Award-winning filmmaker Barbara Kopple takes a vérité approach to examine the experiences that have shaped Morial and Murguía into leaders of their diverse African American and Latinx American communities.”
Apr 26, 2018 · Barbara Kopple, this year’s Outstanding Achievement Retrospective recipient at Hot Docs, has always made films that encapsulate the contradictory greatness of the United States. Her roots in verité imbue her work with the power of observation.
Aug 27, 2020 · Documentary filmmaker Barbara Kopple’s films have tackled subjects ranging from labor strikes in her landmark Oscar-winners Harlan County, USA (1976) and American Dream (1990) to a feminist portrait of the Dixie Chicks in Shut Up and Sing (2006).
