Randa Haines
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Randa Haines | |
|---|---|
| Born | February 20, 1945 |
| Occupation(s) | Film director Screenwriter |
| Years active | 1979 – present |
Randa Jo Haines (born February 20, 1945, in Los Angeles) is an American film and television director and producer.[1][2] Haines started her career as a script supervisor on several low-budget features in the 1970s, including Let's Scare Jessica to Death and The Groove Tube.[3] She is best known for directing the critically acclaimed feature film Children of a Lesser God (1986), which starred William Hurt and Marlee Matlin, for which Matlin won the 1987 Academy Award as Best Actress, and which was nominated for 5 Academy Awards including an Academy Award for Best Picture.[4][5][6][7][8][9] Haines also won the Silver Bear at the 37th Berlin International Film Festival.[10] In 1989 she was a member of the jury at the 39th Berlin International Film Festival.[11] In 2002 she was a member of the jury at the 24th Moscow International Film Festival.[12]
Haines received a Directors Guild of America Award nomination for the film Children of a Lesser God (1986)[13][14] and was nominated both for the DGA Award and an Emmy Award in 1984 for the television movie Something About Amelia.[15][16]
Feature film
- Children of a Lesser God (1986)
- The Doctor (1991)
- Wrestling Ernest Hemingway (1993)
- Dance with Me (1998) (Also producer)
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TV movies
- The Jilting of Granny Weatherall (1980)
- Something About Amelia (1984)
- The Outsider (2002)
- The Ron Clark Story (2006)
