Randa Haines

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]