Barbara Kopple
Born 1946 · American film/documentary director
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.
Barbara Kopple, in order
- 1972 Winter Soldier: directed
- 1976 Harlan County, USA: directed, wrote, produced
- 1980 No Nukes: directed
- 1990 American Dream: directed, produced
- 1993 Fallen Champ: The Untold Story of Mike Tyson: directed
- 1997 Wild Man Blues: directed · critics 85%, audiences 66%
- 1999 A Conversation With Gregory Peck: directed, produced
- 2000 My Generation: directed
- 2002 American Standoff: produced · directed by Kristi Jacobson
- 2003 I Married... (TV series): directed
- 2005 Havoc: directed
- 2006 Shut Up & Sing: directed, produced
- 2007 High School Musical: The Music in You: directed
- 2011 These Amazing Shadows: acted · directed by Kurt Norton and Paul Mariano
- 2013 Running from Crazy: directed, produced
- 2015 Miss Sharon Jones!: directed
- 2016 Killing the Colorado: directed
- 2018 ReMastered: Tricky Dick & The Man in Black: directed
- Desert One: directed