Randa Haines


Randa Jo Haines 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, 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.
Haines received a Directors Guild of America Award nomination for the film Children of a Lesser God 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
  • The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
  • Something About Amelia
  • The Outsider
  • The Ron Clark Story
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Awards and nominations