Randa Haines

Randa Haines
Born
Randa Jo Haines[citation needed]

(1945-02-20) February 20, 1945 (age 81)
Los Angeles, California
OccupationsFilm director
Screenwriter
Years active1979 – present

Randa Jo Haines (born February 20, 1945, in Los Angeles) is an American film and television director and producer. 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. 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. Haines also won the Silver Bear at the 37th Berlin International Film Festival. In 1989 she was a member of the jury at the 39th Berlin International Film Festival. In 2002 she was a member of the jury at the 24th Moscow International Film Festival.

In 1993, the company entered production, where she partnered with Wrestling Ernest Hemingway producer Todd Black, after dissolving its partnership with Joe Wizan, to form Black/Haines Productions, but the company quickly shuttered when Black started working at Mandalay Entertainment. Jason Blumenthal, who was also advisor of the Black/Haines group before he started working for Mandalay Entertainment.

Haines received a Directors Guild of America Award nomination for the film Children of a Lesser God (1986) and was nominated both for the DGA Award and an Emmy Award in 1984 for the television movie Something About Amelia.

Filmography

Feature film

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TV movies

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Awards and nominations

Year Award Category Work Result Notes
1987 Berlin International Film Festival Silver Bear for an outstanding artistic contribution Children of a Lesser God Won
1986 Directors Guild of America Awards Outstanding Directing Nominated
1984 Best Movies For Television And Mini-Series Something About Amelia Nominated
Emmy Awards Outstanding Directing In A Limited Series Or A Special Nominated

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