About

Known credits:
52
Birthday:
1946-11-28
Place of birth:
Uxbridge, Massachusetts, USA
Website:
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Jeannine Oppewall

Overview

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

Acting

2017 Remembering Reno: Reflections on the Making of Desert Hearts Actor N/A
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2014 And the Oscar Goes To... Actor Self - Interviewee 59
Average
2012 Casablanca: An Unlikely Classic Actor Self 58
Average
2008 Sunlight and Shadow: The Visual Style of 'L.A. Confidential' Actor Self 58
Average
2008 Whatever You Desire: Making 'L.A. Confidential' Actor Self 58
Average
2008 An Old Fashioned Love Story: Making 'The Bridges of Madison County' Actor Self 59
Average
2004 The Making of 'Seabiscuit' Actor Self N/A
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2003 Catch Me If You Can: Behind the Camera Actor Self 59
Average
1978 Blue Collar Actor Woman with Bicycle (uncredited) 62
Fair

Art

2022 Deep Water Art Production Design 58
Average
2017 Wakefield Art Production Design 60
Fair
2016 Rules Don't Apply Art Production Design 58
Average
2016 Last Days in the Desert Art Production Design 58
Average
2014 5 to 7 Art Production Design 64
Fair
2013 A Perfect Man Art Production Design 57
Average
2013 The Face of Love Art Production Design 59
Average
2010 How Do You Know Art Production Design 54
Average
2010 Peacock Art Production Design 59
Average
2008 The Happening Art Production Design 54
Average
2006 The Good Shepherd Art Production Design 62
Fair
2003 Seabiscuit Art Production Design 66
Fair
2002 Catch Me If You Can Art Production Design 79
Good
2002 Waking Up in Reno Art Production Design 57
Average
2002 The Sum of All Fears Art Production Design 62
Fair
2000 Wonder Boys Art Production Design 63
Fair
1999 Snow Falling on Cedars Art Production Design 59
Average
1998 Pleasantville Art Production Design 69
Fair
1997 L.A. Confidential Art Production Design 76
Good
1996 The Rich Man's Wife Art Production Design 58
Average
1996 Primal Fear Art Production Design 74
Good
1995 The Bridges of Madison County Art Production Design 73
Good
1995 Losing Isaiah Art Production Design 59
Average
1994 Corrina, Corrina Art Production Design 62
Fair
1993 The Wrong Man Art Production Design 58
Average
1993 The Vanishing Art Production Design 59
Average
1992 School Ties Art Production Design 61
Fair
1990 Sibling Rivalry Art Production Design 57
Average
1990 White Palace Art Production Design 59
Average
1989 Music Box Art Production Design 61
Fair
1989 Music Box Art Set Designer 61
Fair
1989 Animal Behavior Art Production Design 58
Average
1989 Rooftops Art Production Design 58
Average
1987 Ironweed Art Production Design 59
Average
1987 Light of Day Art Production Design 58
Average
1986 The Big Easy Art Production Design 59
Average
1985 Desert Hearts Art Production Design 61
Fair
1984 Maria's Lovers Art Production Design 58
Average
1984 Racing with the Moon Art Set Designer 59
Average
1983 Love Letters Art Art Direction 58
Average
1983 Tender Mercies Art Art Direction 60
Fair
1982 Cat People Art Set Designer 59
Average
1981 Blow Out Art Set Designer 70
Good