Jeannine Oppewall
Art
Born 1946-11-28
Uxbridge, Massachusetts, USA
51 credits
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Jeannine Oppewall entered the film industry in the late 1970s after a six-year association with the great design innovators, Charles and Ray Eames. She worked as a set designer (Blue Collar, Blow Out, The Rose, Honky Tonk Freeway) before rising to the position of production designer in 1983 with Tender Mercies, the modestly budgeted ‘slice of life’ film, which brought Robert Duvall an Academy Award.
For the next several years, Ms Oppewall designed an impressive variety of motion pictures for a diverse list of directors, many with international credentials. These range from the Russian Andrei Konchalovsky (Maria’s Lovers) and the Brazilian Hector Babenco (Ironweed), to include Costa-Gavras (The Music Box) and Luis Mandoki (White Palace). Other credits include Love Letters, The Big Easy, Rooftops, Wonder Boys and Sibling Rivalry.
Other films for which she is known are Seabiscuit (starring Jeff Bridges), Catch Me if You Can (Directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Tom Hanks and Leonardo DiCaprio), The Sum of All Fears (starring Morgan Freeman), and Robert DeNiro’s The Good Shepherd, released at the end of 2006.
Claudia has received 4 Oscar Award nominations for her films and received the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Production Design, 1998 for Pleasantville. She also won the Art Directors’ Guild’s award for Excellence in Production Design for Catch Me If You Can, and was nominated for 5 others of her films for the same. She served on the Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for 9 years and is currently the co-chairperson of its Museum Committee.
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Filmography
Other credits
40 credits
Catch Me If You Can
L.A. Confidential
Primal Fear
Deep Water
The Happening
The Sum of All Fears
The Bridges of Madison County
The Good Shepherd
Maria's Lovers
How Do You Know
Pleasantville
Seabiscuit
White Palace
Wonder Boys
School Ties
The Vanishing
Corrina, Corrina
Wakefield
Losing Isaiah
The Big Easy
Rules Don't Apply
Tender Mercies
Peacock
Snow Falling on Cedars
Waking Up in Reno
5 to 7
Last Days in the Desert
Desert Hearts
Light of Day
Ironweed
Music Box
Love Letters
The Rich Man's Wife
The Face of Love
Sibling Rivalry
Rooftops
The Wrong Man
A Perfect Man
Animal Behavior
Remembering Reno: Reflections on the Making of Desert Hearts
Acting
12 credits
Blow Out
Cat People
Blue Collar
Racing with the Moon
Music Box
Catch Me If You Can: Behind the Camera
And the Oscar Goes To...
Whatever You Desire: Making 'L.A. Confidential'
An Old Fashioned Love Story: Making 'The Bridges of Madison County'
The Making of 'Seabiscuit'
Sunlight and Shadow: The Visual Style of 'L.A. Confidential'
Casablanca: An Unlikely Classic
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