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Cabin creek films barbara kopple biography
Barbara Kopple
American film director
Barbara Kopple | |
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Kopple at the May 2015 Montclair Film Festival | |
| Born | (1946-07-30) July 30, 1946 (age 78) New York City, US |
| Occupation | Film director |
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. She has won two Academy Awards, for Harlan County, USA (1977), about a Kentucky miners' strike,[1] and for American Dream (1991), the story of the 1985–86 Hormel strike in Austin, Minnesota,[2] making her the first woman to win two Oscars in the Best Documentary category.[3]
Kopple gained acclaim for the film Bearing Witness (2005), a documentary about five women journalists stationed in combat zones during the Iraq War.
She is also known for directing the documentary films Wild Man Blues (