
Person
Deborah Hoffmann
Directing · Born 1947-10-17 · New York
Biography
Deborah Hoffmann received an Academy Award nomination in 1995 for her documentary, Complaints of a Dutiful Daughter and again for Long Night's Journey into Day in 2000. She is widely acclaimed as editor of such classic documentaries as the Oscar winning The Times of Harvey Milk, Ethnic Notions, and Mullholland's Dream. She has received two National Emmys, a Peabody, a DuPont Columbia Award, and a Rockefeller Fellowship. Deborah has been a lecturer at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism since 2000. She has served on juries for the Sundance, San Francisco and Mill Valley Film Festivals and on the Independent Spirit Awards, and Gotham Awards. She is a member of the documentary branch of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences.
Known for

Cadillac Desert
Editor

Ethnic Notions
Editor

Color Adjustment
Editor

The Times of Harvey Milk
Editor

Unrest
Executive Producer

Long Night's Journey into Day
Director

Sing Faster: The Stagehands' Ring Cycle
Editor

Television: The Enchanted Mirror
Assistant Camera
Straight from the Heart
Editor
Squatters: The Other Philadelphia Story
Editor
Filmography
- 2017UnrestExecutive Producer
- 2000Long Night's Journey into DayDirector
- 1999Sing Faster: The Stagehands' Ring CycleEditor
- 1997Cadillac DesertEditor
- 1995Skin DeepEditor
- 1994Complaints of a Dutiful DaughterDirector
- 1994Straight from the HeartEditor
- 1993The Faces of AidsEditor
- 1992Color AdjustmentEditor
- 1986Ethnic NotionsEditor
- 1984The Times of Harvey MilkEditor
- 1984Squatters: The Other Philadelphia StoryEditor
- 1981Television: The Enchanted MirrorAssistant Camera
- —Free Zone: Democracy Meets the Nuclear ThreatEditor
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