{{Short description|American filmmaker (1937–2020)}} '''Nancy Lee Dine''' (née '''Nancy Lee Minto''';<ref name="NYTimes" /> March 7, 1937 – September 6, 2020) was an American filmmaker.<ref name="NYTimes">{{cite web |last1=Green |first1=Penelope |date=September 14, 2020 |title=Nancy Dine, Filmmaker and Muse of Artist Jim Dine, Dies at 83 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/14/arts/nancy-dine-jim-artist-dead-83.html |website=The New York Times |issn=1553-8095}}</ref> Her documentary ''Jim Dine: A Self-Portrait on the Walls'' was nominated for an Academy award in 1996.<ref name="ArtnewsObit">{{cite web |title=Nancy Dine, a Filmmaker Who Redefined the Role of the 'Artist's Wife,' Has Died at 83 |url=https://news.artnet.com/art-world/nancy-dine-obituary-1908482 |website=artnet News |date=15 September 2020}}</ref>
==Early life== Nancy Dine was born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1937.<ref name="ArtnewsObit" /> Her parents were a steelworker and a stay-at-home mother.<ref name="ArtnewsObit" /> She graduated with a degree from Ohio University, where she met and married Jim Dine.<ref name="ArtnewsObit" />
==Creative career== Throughout her marriage to Jim Dine, Nancy Dine had a frequent role as either assistant, model, muse or producer of his works.<ref name="ArtnewsObit" /><ref>{{cite book |last1=Art |first1=Katonah Museum of |title=Block/plate/stone: What a Print is |year=1994 |publisher=Katonah Museum of Art |isbn=978-0-915171-32-3 |page=21 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tHtIAQAAIAAJ&q=%22nancy+dine%22+muse |language=en}}</ref><ref name="CharlieRose">{{cite web |title=Jim and Nancy Dine - Charlie Rose |url=https://charlierose.com/videos/12191 |website=charlierose.com}}</ref> In her 50s she took up filmmaking,<ref name="ArtnewsObit" /><ref name="CharlieRose" /> producing a number of short films.<ref name="CSMonitor">{{cite web |last1=Goodale |first1=Gloria |title=Making Movies About Art and a Famous Husband Named Jim |url=https://www.csmonitor.com/1996/1203/120396.feat.interview.2.html |website=Christian Science Monitor |date=3 December 1996}}</ref> Her film ''Jim Dine: A Self-Portrait on the Walls'' was nominated for an Academy award in the category of Best Documentary: Short Subject in 1996.<ref name="CSMonitor"/>
==Filmography== *1990 ''Debut''<ref name="CSMonitor" /> *1991 ''Bali Beyond the Postcard''<ref name="CSMonitor" /> *1995 ''Jim Dine: A Self-Portrait on the Walls''<ref name="NYTfilmReview">{{cite web |last1=Holden |first1=Stephen |title=Tracing The Process Of an Artist |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/01/22/movies/tracing-the-process-of-an-artist.html |website=The New York Times |date=22 January 1997}}</ref> *1996 ''All About Looking''<ref>{{cite web |title=All About Looking {{!}} IDFA |url=https://www.idfa.nl/en/film/0bb79980-831b-4068-82ae-4eae7787e5ec/all-about-looking |website=Oberon Amsterdam}}</ref><ref name="NYTfilmReview"/>
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