Question: Thomas Rickman is an American film director and screenwriter known for a biographical film which tells the story of what country music singer? 

full_context: Document 1: Beverly D'Angelo: Beverly Heather D'Angelo (born November 15, 1951) is an American actress and singer, who starred as Ellen Griswold in the "National Lampoon's Vacation" films (1983–2015). She has appeared in over 60 films and was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for her role as Patsy Cline in "Coal Miner's Daughter" (1980), and for an Emmy Award for her role as Stella Kowalski in the TV film "A Streetcar Named Desire" (1984). Her other film roles include Sheila Franklin in "Hair" (1979) and Doris Vinyard in "American History X" (1998).
Document 2: Tom Hooper: Thomas George "Tom" Hooper (born 5 October 1972) is an English film and television director of English and Australian background. Hooper began making short films as a teenager, and had his first professional short, "Painted Faces", broadcast on Channel 4 in 1992. At Oxford University Hooper directed plays and television commercials. After graduating, he directed episodes of "Quayside", "Byker Grove", "EastEnders" and "Cold Feet" on British television.
Document 3: Foxfire (play): Foxfire is a play with songs, book by Susan Cooper, Hume Cronyn, music by Jonathan Brielle (Holtzman) and lyrics by Susan Cooper, Hume Cronyn, and Jonathan Brielle. The show was based on the "Foxfire" books, about Appalachian culture and traditions in north Georgia and the struggle to keep the traditions alive. The 1982 Broadway production starred Jessica Tandy, who won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play and the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for her performance. It costarred Hume Cronyn as well as Keith Carradine who played a country music performer selling out the old traditions to make a buck. Carradine sang most of the songs in the show and most notable were the close of Act 1, "My Feet Took T' Walkin'." It was later adapted as a TV movie, where Tandy played the same role and won an Emmy Award. Carradine was replaced with John Denver for the Hallmark movie. Other songs in the show included: "Sweet Talker," "Dear Lord," "Young Lady Take A Warning," and "Red Ear."
Document 4: Thomas Newman: Thomas Montgomery Newman (born October 20, 1955) is an American composer best known for his many film scores.
Document 5: Coal Miner's Daughter (film): Coal Miner's Daughter is a 1980 American biographical film which tells the story of country music singer Loretta Lynn. It stars Sissy Spacek as Loretta, a role that earned her the Academy Award for Best Actress. Tommy Lee Jones as Loretta's husband Mooney Lynn, Beverly D'Angelo and Levon Helm also star. The film was directed by Michael Apted.
Document 6: Ralph Thomas: Ralph Philip Thomas MC (10 August 1915 – 17 March 2001) was an English film director, born in Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire. He is perhaps best known for directing the "Doctor" series of films.
Document 7: Thomas Rickman (writer): Thomas Rickman (sometimes credited as Tom Rickman) is an American film director and screenwriter known for such films as "Coal Miner's Daughter", "Hooper", "Tuesdays with Morrie" and "Truman".
Document 8: Tom Laughlin: Thomas Robert Laughlin, Jr. (August 10, 1931 – December 12, 2013) was an American actor and director, screenwriter, author, educator, and political activist.
Document 9: Diane Ladd: Diane Ladd (born November 29, 1932) is an American actress, film director, producer and author. She has appeared in over 120 film and television roles. For the 1974 film "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore", she won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She went on to win the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress on Television for "Alice" (1980–81), and to receive Academy Award nominations for "Wild at Heart" (1990) and "Rambling Rose" (1991). Her other film appearances include "Chinatown" (1974), "Ghosts of Mississippi" (1996), "Primary Colors" (1998), "28 Days" (2000), and "American Cowslip" (2008). Ladd is the mother of actress Laura Dern, with her ex-husband, actor Bruce Dern.
Document 10: Alan Trustman: Alan Trustman (born December 16, 1930) is an American lawyer, screenwriter, pari-mutuel operator and currency trader. He is best known for writing the 1968 film, "The Thomas Crown Affair", "Bullitt", and "They Call Me Mr. Tibbs!", in his movie career.
Document 11: Loretta Lynn: Loretta Lynn (née Webb; born April 14, 1932) is an American country music singer-songwriter with multiple gold albums over a career of almost 60 years. She has received numerous awards and other accolades for her groundbreaking role in country music, including awards from both the Country Music Association and Academy of Country Music as a duet partner and an individual artist. She is the most awarded female country recording artist and the only female ACM Artist of the Decade (1970s).
Document 12: Harlan County, USA: Harlan County, USA is a 1976 Oscar-winning documentary film covering the "Brookside Strike", an effort of 180 coal miners and their wives against the Duke Power Company-owned Eastover Coal Company's Brookside Mine and Prep Plant in Harlan County, southeast Kentucky in 1973. Directed and produced by Barbara Kopple, who has long been an advocate of workers' rights, "Harlan County, U.S.A." is less ambivalent in its attitude toward unions than her later "American Dream", the account of the Hormel Foods strike in Austin, Minnesota in 1985-86.
Document 13: Harper Valley PTA (film): Harper Valley PTA is a 1978 American comedy film inspired by the popular 1968 country song "Harper Valley PTA" written by Tom T. Hall and performed by country singer Jeannie C. Riley. The film starred Barbara Eden, Nanette Fabray, Ronny Cox, Louis Nye and Susan Swift, directed by Richard Bennett, and was mainly released to drive-in theaters throughout the summer of 1978. The film has a cult following in fans of the original song.
Document 14: Tom Barman: Thomas Andrew Barman, normally known as Tom Barman (born 1 January 1972), is a Belgian musician and film director.
Document 15: Sissy Spacek: Mary Elizabeth "Sissy" Spacek ( ; born December 25, 1949) is an American actress and singer. She began her career in the early 1970s and first gained attention for her role in the film "Badlands" (1973). Her major breakthrough came in 1976 when she played the title character of Carrie White in Brian De Palma's horror film "Carrie", based on the first novel by Stephen King, for which she earned an Oscar nomination (a rare feat for an actor or actress in a horror movie). She won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her portrayal of Loretta Lynn in the 1980 film "Coal Miner's Daughter," and also earned a Grammy nomination for the song "Coal Miner's Daughter" from the film's soundtrack. She went on to receive further Oscar nominations for her roles in "Missing" (1982), "The River" (1984) and "Crimes of the Heart" (1986). "Coal Miner's Daughter" and "Crimes of the Heart" also won her the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy.
ground_truth: Loretta Lynn