Joshua Oppenheimer

This article is about the film director. For the screenwriter, see Thomas Dean Donnelly and Joshua Oppenheimer. For the basketball player and coach, see Josh Oppenheimer.

Joshua Oppenheimer
Born
Joshua Lincoln Oppenheimer

(1974-09-23) September 23, 1974
Austin, Texas, U.S.
Citizenship
  • United States
  • United Kingdom
  • Denmark
Alma materHarvard College (B.A.)
Central Saint Martins (Ph.D.)
OccupationFilm director
Years active1995–present
Notable workThe Act of Killing
The Look of Silence
The End
AwardsMacArthur Fellowship
Marshall Scholarship
BAFTA
European Film Award
Grand Jury Prize (Venice Film Festival)

Joshua Lincoln Oppenheimer (born September 23, 1974) is an American and British film director based in Copenhagen, Denmark. He directed the Oscar-nominated films The Act of Killing (2012) and The Look of Silence (2014), as well as his 2024 narrative debut, The End. Oppenheimer was a 1997 Marshall Scholar and a 2014 recipient of the MacArthur fellowship.

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