Barbara Kopple
Director

Barbara Kopple Net Worth

She has won two Academy Awards for Best Documentary Feature for Harlan County U.S.A. and American Dream. She has also been nominated for several other awards, including a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Documentary/Nonfiction Program for Shut Up & Sing. Kopple has been a major force in the documentary film industry for over four decades.
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Age, Biography and Wiki

Who is it? Director, Producer, Sound Department
Birth Day July 30, 1946
Birth Place  New York City, New York, United States
Age 77 YEARS OLD
Birth Sign Leo
Occupation Film director

💰 Net worth

Barbara Kopple is a highly talented and accomplished individual in the film industry as a Director, Producer, and Sound Department specialist. Known for her exceptional work in the United States, she has managed to establish a significant net worth estimated to be around $100K - $1M in 2024. With her exceptional skills and dedication, Kopple has created a remarkable impact within the industry, contributing to numerous successful projects throughout her career. Her net worth reflects not only her financial success but also the recognition and respect she has earned amongst her peers and the audience alike.

Biography/Timeline

1976

She has won two Academy Awards, the first in 1976 for Harlan County, USA, about a Kentucky miners' strike, and the second in 1991 for American Dream, the story of the Hormel Foods strike in Austin, Minnesota in 1985-86. She has directed episodes of the television drama series Homicide: Life on the Street and Oz, winning a Directors Guild of America award for the former. Kopple also directed A Conversation With Gregory Peck and Bearing Witness, as well as documentaries on Mike Tyson and Woody Allen. The latter film, Wild Man Blues, focuses on his Dixieland jazz tour and on Allen's relationship with Soon-Yi Previn.

1990

She was also among the 19 filmmakers who worked together anonymously (under the rubric Winterfilm Collective) to produce the film Winter Soldier, an anti-war documentary about the Winter Soldier Investigation. She has also done films for The Working Group, directing the 30-minute short documentary Locked Out in America: Voices From Ravenswood for the We Do the Work series. (We Do the Work aired in the mid-1990s on the PBS television series "P.O.V.", and Kopple's segment was based on the book Ravenswood: The Steelworkers' Victory and the Revival of American Labor.)

2005

Her first non-documentary feature film, Havoc, starred Anne Hathaway and Bijou Phillips as wealthy suburbanites who venture into East Los Angeles Latino gang territory, and was released straight to DVD in 2005. Kopple has recently ventured into advertising work that includes documentary-style commercials for Target Stores.

2006

In the fall of 2006, she released a documentary, Dixie Chicks: Shut Up and Sing, about the Dixie Chicks' George W. Bush-related controversy.

2012

In 2012 Kopple released two films. One is about Mariel Hemingway, the granddaughter of Ernest Hemingway, and the other is concerning the 150th Anniversary of The Nation magazine. The film on Hemingway, Running from Crazy, was shown at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival and on the Oprah Winfrey Network.

2014

In 2014 the UK's Sight and Sound magazine published a "Greatest Documentaries of All Time" list, in which Kopple's film Harlan County, USA (1976) was ranked 24th, tied with two other movies.

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