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Claudia Weill
New York City, New York, USA
Claudia Weill is an American film director best known for her film Girlfriends (1978), starring Melanie Mayron, Christopher Guest, Bob Balaban and Eli Wallach, made independently…
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Claudia Weill is an American film director best known for her film Girlfriends (1978), starring Melanie Mayron, Christopher Guest, Bob Balaban and Eli Wallach, made independently and sold to Warner Brothers after multiple awards at Cannes, Filmex and Sundance. Girlfriends would be one of 82 films made by a female director to compete at Cannes. In 2019, Girlfriends was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the National Film Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". It's My Turn (1980 for Columbia Pictures)—with Jill Clayburgh, Michael Douglas, and Charles Grodin—won her the Donatello, or International Oscar for best new director. Earlier work includes 30 films for Sesame Street, freelancing as a camerawoman, and numerous documentaries, notably The Other Half of the Sky: A China Memoir, a documentary about the first women's delegation to China in 1973, headed by Shirley MacLaine, nominated for an Academy Award and released theatrically and on PBS. Description above from the Wikipedia article Claudia Weill, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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1999
Once and Again
TV show Director
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1998
Giving Up the Ghost
Movie Director
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1996
Critical Choices
Movie Director
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1994
Chicago Hope
TV show Director
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1994
My So-Called Life
TV show Director
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1994
Birdland
TV show Director
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1992
A Child Lost Forever: The Jerry Sherwood Story
Movie Director
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1991
Face of a Stranger
Movie Director
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1990
WIOU
TV show Director
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1988
Calling the Shots
Movie Self
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1987
thirtysomething
TV show Director
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1987
Once a Hero
Movie Director
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1986
Johnny Bull
Movie Director
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1986
Fast Times
TV show Director
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1985
The Twilight Zone
TV show Director
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1982
Cagney & Lacey
TV show Director
More credits
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1980
It's My Turn
Movie Director
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1978
Girlfriends
Movie Story
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1978
The Scenic Route
Movie
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1975
The Other Half of the Sky: A China Memoir
Movie Director
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1974
Spécial cinéma
TV show Self
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1973
Year of the Woman
Movie Camera Operator
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1973
Matina Horner: Portrait of a Person
Movie Director
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1972
Joyce at 34
Movie Director of Photography
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1972
Roaches' Lullaby
Movie Director
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1970
Commuters
Movie Director
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1970
This is the Home of Mrs. Levant Graham
Movie Director
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1970
Aspen, 1970
Movie Director
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1968
Revolution
Movie Still Photographer
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1968
Fran
Movie Director
