Jeannine Oppewall
- Known for
- Art
- Born
- 28 November 1946 · Uxbridge, Massachusetts, USA
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
art 42
- 2022Deep Water · production design
- 2017Wakefield · production design
- 2016Rules Don't Apply · production design
- 2016Last Days in the Desert · production design
- 20145 to 7 · production design
- 2013A Perfect Man · production design
- 2013The Face of Love · production design
- 2010How Do You Know · production design
- 2010Peacock · production design
- 2008The Happening · production design
- 2006The Good Shepherd · production design
- 2003Seabiscuit · production design
- 2002Catch Me If You Can · production design
- 2002Waking Up in Reno · production design
- 2002The Sum of All Fears · production design
- 2000Wonder Boys · production design
- 1999Snow Falling on Cedars · production design
- 1998Pleasantville · production design
- 1997L.A. Confidential · production design
- 1996The Rich Man's Wife · production design
- 1996Primal Fear · production design
- 1995The Bridges of Madison County · production design
- 1995Losing Isaiah · production design
- 1994Corrina, Corrina · production design
- 1993The Wrong Man · production design
- 1993The Vanishing · production design
- 1992School Ties · production design
- 1990Sibling Rivalry · production design
- 1990White Palace · production design
- 1989Music Box · production design
- 1989Animal Behavior · production design
- 1989Rooftops · production design
- 1987Ironweed · production design
- 1987Light of Day · production design
- 1986The Big Easy · production design
- 1985Desert Hearts · production design
- 1984Maria's Lovers · production design
- 1984Racing with the Moon · set designer
- 1983Love Letters · art direction
- 1983Tender Mercies · art direction
- 1982Cat People · set designer
- 1981Blow Out · set designer
Acting 9
- 2017Remembering Reno: Reflections on the Making of Desert Hearts
- 2014And the Oscar Goes To... as Self - Interviewee
- 2012Casablanca: An Unlikely Classic as Self
- 2008Sunlight and Shadow: The Visual Style of 'L.A. Confidential' as Self
- 2008Whatever You Desire: Making 'L.A. Confidential' as Self
- 2008An Old Fashioned Love Story: Making 'The Bridges of Madison County' as Self
- 2004The Making of 'Seabiscuit' as Self
- 2003Catch Me If You Can: Behind the Camera as Self
- 1978Blue Collar as Woman with Bicycle (uncredited)