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Jeannine Oppewall

Art · Born 1946-11-28 · Uxbridge, Massachusetts, USA

Biography

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.

Known for

Filmography

2022Deep WaterProduction Design
2017Remembering Reno: Reflections on the Making of Desert Hearts
2017WakefieldProduction Design
2016Rules Don't ApplyProduction Design
2016Last Days in the DesertProduction Design
20145 to 7Production Design
2014And the Oscar Goes To...Self - Interviewee
2013A Perfect ManProduction Design
2013The Face of LoveProduction Design
2012Casablanca: An Unlikely ClassicSelf
2010How Do You KnowProduction Design
2010PeacockProduction Design
2008Sunlight and Shadow: The Visual Style of 'L.A. Confidential'Self
2008Whatever You Desire: Making 'L.A. Confidential'Self
2008The HappeningProduction Design
2008An Old Fashioned Love Story: Making 'The Bridges of Madison County'Self
2006The Good ShepherdProduction Design
2004The Making of 'Seabiscuit'Self
2003SeabiscuitProduction Design
2003Catch Me If You Can: Behind the CameraSelf
2002Catch Me If You CanProduction Design
2002Waking Up in RenoProduction Design
2002The Sum of All FearsProduction Design
2000Wonder BoysProduction Design
1999Snow Falling on CedarsProduction Design
1998PleasantvilleProduction Design
1997L.A. ConfidentialProduction Design
1996The Rich Man's WifeProduction Design
1996Primal FearProduction Design
1995The Bridges of Madison CountyProduction Design
1995Losing IsaiahProduction Design
1994Corrina, CorrinaProduction Design
1993The Wrong ManProduction Design
1993The VanishingProduction Design
1992School TiesProduction Design
1990Sibling RivalryProduction Design
1990White PalaceProduction Design
1989Music BoxSet Designer
1989Animal BehaviorProduction Design
1989RooftopsProduction Design
1987IronweedProduction Design
1987Light of DayProduction Design
1986The Big EasyProduction Design
1985Desert HeartsProduction Design
1984Maria's LoversProduction Design
1984Racing with the MoonSet Designer
1983Love LettersArt Direction
1983Tender MerciesArt Direction
1982Cat PeopleSet Designer
1981Blow OutSet Designer
1978Blue CollarWoman with Bicycle (uncredited)

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