Nationality American Role Film director Occupation Film director Education Harvard University | Years active 1995–present Residence Copenhagen, Denmark Name Joshua Oppenheimer Nominations Golden Lion | |
Born September 23, 1974 (age 50) ( 1974-09-23 ) Austin, Texas, United States Alma mater Harvard UniversityUniversity of the Arts London Notable work The Act of KillingThe Look of Silence Movies The Act of Killing, The Look of Silence, These Places We’ve Learned to Call Home Awards Robert Award for Best Documentary Feature  Similar People Christine Cynn, Signe Byrge Sorensen, Errol Morris, Werner Herzog, Joram ten Brink | ||
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Joshua Lincoln Oppenheimer (born September 23, 1974) is an American-born British film director based in Copenhagen, Denmark. Best known for his Oscar-nominated films The Act of Killing (2012) and The Look of Silence (2014), Oppenheimer is a 2014 recipient of the MacArthur "Genius" Award and a 1997 Marshall Scholar.
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- Meeting joshua oppenheimer back to cinema ve rite
- Meeting joshua oppenheimer my years of work in indonesia as film maker
- Life and career
- Personal life
- Filmography
- Books
- References
Meeting joshua oppenheimer my years of work in indonesia as film maker
Life and career
Oppenheimer was born to a Jewish family in Austin, Texas, and grew up in and around Washington, D.C. and Santa Fe, New Mexico. Oppenheimer received a Bachelor of Arts (BA) summa cum laude in film-making from Harvard University and a PhD from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, University of the Arts London, while studying on a Marshall Scholarship. He is a professor of film at the University of Westminster.
His first film The Entire History of the Louisiana Purchase (1997) won a Gold Hugo from the Chicago International Film Festival (1998).
From 2004 to 2012, he produced a series of films in Indonesia. His debut feature film about the individuals who participated in the Indonesian killings of 1965–66, The Act of Killing (2012), premiered at the 2012 Telluride Film Festival. It went on to win many prizes world-wide, including the European Film Award for Best Documentary, a Panorama Audience Award, and a Prize of the Ecumenical Jury from the 63rd Berlin International Film Festival. The film also received the Robert Award by the Film Academy of Denmark, a Bodil Award by Denmark's National Association of Film Critics, and the Aung San Suu Kyi Award at the Human Rights Human Dignity International Film Festival 2013
Oppenheimer appeared on The Daily Show on August 13, 2013 to talk about The Act of Killing.
The Act of Killing won the BAFTA for Best Documentary, European Film Award for Best Documentary, the Asia Pacific Screen Award for Best Documentary, and was nominated for Best Documentary Feature at the 86th Academy Awards.
Oppenheimer's next film, The Look of Silence (2014) is a companion piece to The Act of Killing. It was screened in competition at the 71st Venice International Film Festival and won the Grand Jury Prize, the International Film Critics Award (FIPRESCI), the Italian online critics award (Mouse d'Oro), the European Film Critics Award (F.E.D.E.O.R.A.) for the Best Film of Venezia 71, as well as the Human Rights Nights Award. Since then, it has gone on to win a further 70 international awards (as of March 2016).
In a 2015 interview with The New York Times, Oppenheimer stated that the West shares "a great deal" of responsibility for the mass killings in Indonesia, noting in particular that "the United States provided the special radio system so the Army could coordinate the killings over the vast archipelago. A man named Bob Martens, who worked at the United States Embassy in Jakarta, was compiling lists of thousands of names of Indonesian public figures who might be opposed to the new regime and handed these lists over to the Indonesian government." In 2014, after a screening of The Act of Killing for US Congress members, Oppenheimer called on the US to acknowledge its role in the killings.
In July 2016 he was named as a member of the main competition jury for the 73rd Venice International Film Festival.
Personal life
Oppenheimer is openly gay and lives with his partner Shu in Copenhagen, Denmark.