# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/barbara-kopple
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:50:32.053Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/barbara-kopple"
name: "Barbara Kopple"
slug: "barbara-kopple"
description: "Barbara Kopple is an American film director known primarily for her documentary work. She is credited with pioneering a renaissance of cinema vérité, and bringing the historic French style to a modern American audience. Known for her \"fly-on-the-wall\" filmmaking style, Kopple captured raw, real-life events without interrupting the action. She has won two Academy Awards, for Harlan County, USA (1976), about a Kentucky miners' strike, and for American Dream (1990), the story of the 1985–86 Hormel strike in Austin, Minnesota, making her the first woman to win two Oscars in the Best Documentary category."
tagline: "American film/documentary director"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Barbara_Kopple_at_the_2026_Sundance_Film_Festival_012326.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1946-07-30"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           52.4
  momentum:             3.423044575273339
  historical:           12.49649066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0465932/"
    handle:    "nm0465932"
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    title: "باربرا کوپل"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Barbara Kopple"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Kopple"
    title: "Barbara Kopple"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Kopple"
    title: "Barbara Kopple"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A7_%DA%A9%D8%A7%D9%BE%D9%84"
    title: "باربارا کاپل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Kopple"
    title: "Barbara Kopple"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Kopple"
    title: "Barbara Kopple"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ברברה קופל"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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    title: "Barbara Kopple"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump