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AMERICAN DREAM

Barbara Kopple
US 1990    100'
⚬ Human Rights 

Synopsis

Winner of the 1991 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, Barbara Kopple’s American Dream unflinchingly details the explosive 1985–86 labor strike against Hormel Foods in Austin, Minnesota, a city ripped apart in the tumult

 

 

Quotes

"the kind of movie you watch in horrified fascination" - Roger Ebert

Credits

Director

Barbara Kopple

Producers

Barbara Kopple, Arthur Cohn

Production Company

Cabin Creek

Cinematography

Peter Gilbert, Kevin Keating, Hart Perry, Mark Petersson, Mathieu Roberts

Editor

Cathy Caplan, Tom Haneke, Lawrence Silk

Music

Michael Small

Sound

Barbara Kopple

Awards

Academy Award Best Feature Documentary 1991

Audience Award

Sundance 1990

Grand Jury Prize

Sundance 1990

Best Documentary

National Society of Film Critics 1993

Best Documentary

New York Film Critics Circle Award 1991

Best Documentary

Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award 1991

IDA Award

International Documentary Association 1991

Best Documentary

Directors Guild of America Award 1992

 

Festivals

New York Film Festival 1990

Sundance 1990

 

Film Details

Runtime 100'
Spoken Languages English
Production Countries USA

Biography

Barbara Kopple has dedicated her career to directing and producing powerful and emotionally affecting films about important social issues – including labor justice, freedom of speech, transgender acceptance, and anti-war advocacy – alongside a wide range of musical documentaries. She is the two-time Academy Award winning director of Harlan County, U.S.A. (1976) and American Dream (1990). In 1991, Harlan County, U.S.A. was added to the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress and designated as an American Film Classic. The director founded the New York-based production company Cabin Creek Films and her projects have frequently premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, and DOC NYC. She most recently completed the documentary Gumbo Coalition (2022) for HBO Max, about national social justice leaders Marc Morial and Janet Murguía; the film had its World Premiere at DOC NYC, as the festival’s Centerpiece film, and its European premiere at IDFA. Previously, she also directed Desert One (2019), about the daring and ill-fated US Special Ops mission in the midst of the Iranian Hostage Crisis, which is currently available to stream on HISTORY. New Homeland (2018), a film which documented the experiences of refugee children from Syria and Iraq at a summer camp in the Canadian wilderness; A Murder In Mansfield (2017) examined the murder trial in the nineties, where a son testified against his father for the murder of his mother. Other recent films include This Is Everything: Gigi Gorgeous (2017), Miss Sharon Jones! (2015), Hot Type: 150 Years of The Nation (2013), Running from Crazy (2013), and Shut Up and Sing (2006). For her continued work across nonfiction and narrative film & TV, she has been recognized with a Lifetime Achievement Emmy, the National Society of Film Critics Award, the Human Rights Watch Film Festival Irene Diamond Award, the Los Angeles Film Critics Award and more. She is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, the Director’s Guild of America, New York Women in Film and Television’s Honorary Board, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts.

 

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