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Jeannine Oppewall
Uxbridge, Massachusetts, USA
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 (…
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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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2022
Deep Water
Movie Production Design
- 2017
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2017
Wakefield
Movie Production Design
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2016
Rules Don't Apply
Movie Production Design
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2016
Last Days in the Desert
Movie Production Design
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2015
Good Girls Revolt
TV show Production Design
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2014
5 to 7
Movie Production Design
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2014
And the Oscar Goes To...
Movie Self - Interviewee
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2013
A Perfect Man
Movie Production Design
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2013
The Face of Love
Movie Production Design
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2012
Casablanca: An Unlikely Classic
Movie Self
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2010
How Do You Know
Movie Production Design
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2010
Peacock
Movie Production Design
- 2008
- 2008
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2008
The Happening
Movie Production Design
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- 2008
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2006
The Good Shepherd
Movie Production Design
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2004
The Making of 'Seabiscuit'
Movie Self
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2003
Seabiscuit
Movie Production Design
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2003
Catch Me If You Can: Behind the Camera
Movie Self
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2002
Catch Me If You Can
Movie Production Design
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2002
Waking Up in Reno
Movie Production Design
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2002
The Sum of All Fears
Movie Production Design
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2000
Wonder Boys
Movie Production Design
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1999
Snow Falling on Cedars
Movie Production Design
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1998
Pleasantville
Movie Production Design
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1997
L.A. Confidential
Movie Production Design
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1996
The Rich Man's Wife
Movie Production Design
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1996
Primal Fear
Movie Production Design
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1995
The Bridges of Madison County
Movie Production Design
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1995
Losing Isaiah
Movie Production Design
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1994
Corrina, Corrina
Movie Production Design
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1993
The Wrong Man
Movie Production Design
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1993
The Vanishing
Movie Production Design
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1992
School Ties
Movie Production Design
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1990
Sibling Rivalry
Movie Production Design
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1990
White Palace
Movie Production Design
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1989
Music Box
Movie Set Designer
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1989
Animal Behavior
Movie Production Design
