Barbara Kopple is an American filmmaker whose enduring contributions across documentary, narrative feature, and television have earned her honors such as an Emmy Lifetime Achievement Award and accolades from the National Board of Review. She is a two-time Academy Award winner for Best Documentary Feature with Harlan County, U.S.A. (1976) and American Dream (1990), both chronicling labor movements. Continuing to explore social movements and labor struggles through her documentary work, she went on to direct films including Dixie Chicks: Shut Up and Sing (2006), Running from Crazy (2013), Miss Sharon Jones! (2015), and New Homeland (2018).
From Busan International Film Festival 2026, No. 31
