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Joshua Oppenheimer
American film director / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about the film director. For the screenwriter, see Thomas Dean Donnelly and Joshua Oppenheimer.
Joshua Lincoln Oppenheimer (born September 23, 1974) is an American film director based in Copenhagen, Denmark.[1][2] He is known for his Oscar-nominated films The Act of Killing (2012) and The Look of Silence (2014), Oppenheimer was a 1997 Marshall Scholar[3] and a 2014 recipient of the MacArthur fellowship.[4]
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Born | Joshua Lincoln Oppenheimer (1974-09-23) September 23, 1974 (age 49) |
Alma mater | Harvard College (B.A.) Central Saint Martins (Ph.D.) |
Occupation | Film director |
Years active | 1995–present |
Notable work | The Act of Killing The Look of Silence |
Awards | MacArthur Fellowship Marshall Scholarship BAFTA European Film Award Grand Jury Prize (Venice Film Festival) |
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