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Birthday: July 30, 1946
Documentarian Barbara Kopple is best known for Harlan County, USA (1986), her Academy Award-winning chronicle of a Kentucky miner's strike. A native of New York City, she made her first films while studying clinical psychology at a West Virginia college, and also gained experience working in various capacities with cinema verité documentarians the Maysles Brothers. When she was 26, ...more
- 2006
- Women Film Critics Circle
- Courage in Filmmaking
- Shut Up & Sing
- win
- 1998
- National Board of Review
- Best Documentary
- Wild Man Blues
- win
- 1990
- Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie
- Best Documentary Feature
- American Dream
- win
- 1977
- Los Angeles Film Critics Association
- Special Award
- Harlan County, USA
- win
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