Julia Reichert was at home — she lived in a commune of young political activists in Dayton, Ohio — on Feb. 21, 1978, when a local television reporter knocked on her door and asked her about the Oscar nomination her documentary “Union Maids” had just received. “We didn’t even know we were in the running,” recalls Reichert.
The film, about three women union organizers in Chicago during the Depression, was co-directed by Jim Klein and Miles Mogulescu. “We were bowled over and like, ‘Holy s–t.
At that point, we were very young leftists, so Hollywood was not something we admired,” she says. Reichert attended the Oscar ceremony but didn’t go home a winner.
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