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Deborah Oppenheimer is an American film and television producer. She won an Academy Award in 2001 for best documentary feature for producing Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport (2000). [1] Oppenheimer co-authored a companion book for the film with Mark Jonathan Harris, and also produced the film's soundtrack. [2]
Deborah Oppenheimer was born and raised in Valley Stream, New York. [3] After graduating from Valley Stream South High School, [3] she matriculated to Buffalo State University where she graduated magna cum laude with a degree in English secondary education. [4] [5] [6]
She started as an editor for John Wiley & Sons before moving into television at Lorimar Productions in 1981. [2] While at Lorimar, Oppenheimer was associate producer for the Cable ACE Award-winning production of the Showtime / PBS drama Master Harold...and the Boys . [6]
As president of Mohawk Productions at Warner Bros. from 1996 to 2010, Oppenheimer executive produced all of the company's television shows and oversaw day-to-day operations. [2] After leaving Mohawk, she was named executive vice-president of NBC Universal International TV Production in September 2010. [7]
As Executive Vice President of Carnival Films, Oppenheimer developed and executive produced the television series from Christopher Guest, Family Tree for HBO and BBC1. She later conceived and led U.S. strategies as a production consultant to the Carnival Films television series, Downton Abbey . [8]
In December 2012, she was selected to be a member of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council by US President Barack Obama. [9] [10]
Her feature-length documentary, Foster received the National Council for Adoption's "Excellence in Foster Care Media Award" in November 2019. [11]
| Year | Award | Category | Nominated work | Result | Notes |
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| 2000 | Heartland Film Festival | Crystal Heart Award | Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport | Won | Shared with Mark Jonathan Harris |
| International Documentary Association | Video Source Award | Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport | Nominated | Shared with Mark Jonathan Harris | |
| 2001 | Academy Award | Best Documentary, Feature | Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport | Won | Shared with Mark Jonathan Harris |
| Evening Standard British Film Awards | Best Documentary, Feature | Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport | Won | Shared with Mark Jonathan Harris | |
| Long Island International Film Expo | Filmmaker Achievement Award | Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport | Won | ||
Lorimar Productions, Inc., later known as Lorimar Television and Lorimar Distribution, was an American production company that was later a subsidiary of Warner Bros., active from 1969 until 1993, when it was folded into Warner Bros. Television. It was founded by Irwin Molasky, Merv Adelson, and Lee Rich. The company's name was a portmanteau of the name of Adelson's then wife, Lori, and Palomar Airport.
Family Matters is an American television sitcom that originally aired on ABC for eight seasons from September 22, 1989, to May 9, 1997, then moved to CBS for its ninth and final season from September 19, 1997, to July 17, 1998. A spin-off of Perfect Strangers, the series was created by William Bickley and Michael Warren, and revolves around the Winslow family, an African-American middle class family living in Chicago, Illinois. Midway through the first season, the show introduced the Winslows' nerdy neighbor Steve Urkel, who was originally scripted to appear as a one-time character. However, he quickly became the show's breakout character, joining the main cast.
Agnieszka Holland is a Polish film and television director and screenwriter, best known for her political contributions to Polish cinema. She began her career as an assistant to directors Krzysztof Zanussi and Andrzej Wajda, and emigrated to France shortly before the 1981 imposition of the martial law in Poland.
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Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport is a 2000 documentary film about the British rescue operation known as the Kindertransport, which saved the lives of over 10,000 Jewish and other children from Nazi Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, and Danzig by transporting them via train, boat, and plane to Great Britain. These children, or Kinder in German, were taken into foster homes and hostels in Britain, expecting eventually to be reunited with their parents. The majority of them never saw their families again. Written and directed by Mark Jonathan Harris, produced by Deborah Oppenheimer, narrated by Judi Dench, and made with the cooperation of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, it utilized rare and extensive footage, photographs, and artifacts, and is told in the words of the child survivors, rescuers, parents, and foster parents.
Home Box Office (HBO) is an American pay television network, which is the flagship property of namesake parent-subsidiary Home Box Office, Inc., itself a unit owned by Warner Bros. Discovery. The overall Home Box Office business unit is based at Warner Bros. Discovery's corporate headquarters inside 30 Hudson Yards in Manhattan. Programming featured on the network consists primarily of theatrically released motion pictures and original television programs as well as made-for-cable movies, documentaries, occasional comedy, and concert specials, and periodic interstitial programs.
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