Barbara Kopple
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American film/documentary director
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Why Is Barbara Kopple Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, 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. She has won two Academy Awards, for Harlan County, USA , about a Kentucky miners' strike,[1] and for American Dream , the story of the 1985–86 Hormel strike in Austin, Minnesota.[2] Consequently, she is the first woman to have won twice in the Oscars' Best Documentary category.
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