Known For
Art
Born
Nov 28, 1946
Place of Birth
Uxbridge, Massachusetts, USA
Credits
51 titles
Jeannine Oppewall
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
Deep Water
Production Design
Remembering Reno: Reflections on the Making of Desert Hearts
Wakefield
Production Design
Rules Don't Apply
Production Design
Last Days in the Desert
Production Design
5 to 7
Production Design
And the Oscar Goes To...
Self - Interviewee
A Perfect Man
Production Design
The Face of Love
Production Design
Casablanca: An Unlikely Classic
Self
How Do You Know
Production Design
Peacock
Production Design
Whatever You Desire: Making 'L.A. Confidential'
Self
Sunlight and Shadow: The Visual Style of 'L.A. Confidential'
Self
The Happening
Production Design
An Old Fashioned Love Story: Making 'The Bridges of Madison County'
Self
The Good Shepherd
Production Design
The Making of 'Seabiscuit'
Self
Seabiscuit
Production Design
Catch Me If You Can: Behind the Camera
Self
Catch Me If You Can
Production Design
Waking Up in Reno
Production Design
The Sum of All Fears
Production Design
Wonder Boys
Production Design
Snow Falling on Cedars
Production Design
Pleasantville
Production Design
L.A. Confidential
Production Design
The Rich Man's Wife
Production Design
Primal Fear
Production Design
The Bridges of Madison County
Production Design
Losing Isaiah
Production Design
Corrina, Corrina
Production Design
The Wrong Man
Production Design
The Vanishing
Production Design
School Ties
Production Design
Sibling Rivalry
Production Design
White Palace
Production Design
Music Box
Set Designer
Animal Behavior
Production Design
Rooftops
Production Design
Ironweed
Production Design
Light of Day
Production Design
The Big Easy
Production Design
Desert Hearts
Production Design
Maria's Lovers
Production Design
Racing with the Moon
Set Designer
Love Letters
Art Direction
Tender Mercies
Art Direction
Cat People
Set Designer
Blow Out
Set Designer