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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...
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...
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...
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).
Apr 1, 2023 · Barbara Kopple spent much of her twenties living among desperate Appalachian miners, documenting their bloody fight to unionize in a world of pickup trucks, shotguns, and brutally hard work. Her resulting film, Harlan County, USA, won the Oscar for Best Documentary in 1976 and helped invent the modern doc.
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. Kopple’s films give voice to Americans who are silenced by the establishment and the status quo.
Barbara Kopple, right, with Nagra recorder in hand, gets down and dirty while filming her first feature, the Oscar-winning Harlan County, U.S.A. (1976), which involved following miners into a two-foot-high under-ground passage. She's with cameraman Hart Perry and associate director Anne Lewis.
