Known For
Directing
Born
Jan 01, 1947
Place of Birth
New York City, New York, USA
Credits
30 titles
Claudia Weill
Biography
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.
Known For
Filmography
Once and Again
Director
Giving Up the Ghost
Director
Critical Choices
Director
Chicago Hope
Director
My So-Called Life
Director
Birdland
Director
A Child Lost Forever: The Jerry Sherwood Story
Director
Face of a Stranger
Director
WIOU
Director
Calling the Shots
Self
thirtysomething
Director
Once a Hero
Director
Johnny Bull
Director
Fast Times
Director
The Twilight Zone
Director
Cagney & Lacey
Director
It's My Turn
Director
Girlfriends
Story
The Scenic Route
The Other Half of the Sky: A China Memoir
Director
Spécial cinéma
Self
Year of the Woman
Camera Operator
Matina Horner: Portrait of a Person
Director
Joyce at 34
Director of Photography
Roaches' Lullaby
Director
Commuters
Director
This is the Home of Mrs. Levant Graham
Director
Aspen, 1970
Director
Revolution
Still Photographer
Fran
Director