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]

Randa Haines
Born	Randa Jo Haines[citation needed] (1945-02-20) February 20, 1945 (age 80) Los Angeles, California
Occupation(s)	Film director Screenwriter
Years active	1979 – present

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]

Filmography

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)

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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	[33]
1986	Directors Guild of America Awards	Outstanding Directing		Nominated	[34][14]
1984		Best Movies For Television And Mini-Series	Something About Amelia	Nominated	[16]
	Emmy Awards	Outstanding Directing In A Limited Series Or A Special		Nominated	[15]