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Joshua Oppenheimer (Joshua Lincoln Oppenheimer) was born on 23 September, 1974 in Austin, Texas, U.S., is an American film director. Discover Joshua Oppenheimer's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 49 years old?
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Joshua Lincoln Oppenheimer |
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Film director |
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49 years old |
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Virgo |
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23 September, 1974 |
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23 September |
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Joshua Oppenheimer Height, Weight & Measurements
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Joshua Oppenheimer Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Joshua Oppenheimer worth at the age of 49 years old? Joshua Oppenheimer’s income source is mostly from being a successful Film director. He is from . We have estimated Joshua Oppenheimer's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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Timeline
It went on to win many prizes Worldwide, 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.
His debut feature film about the individuals who participated in the Indonesian mass killings of 1965–66, The Act of Killing (2012), premiered at the 2012 Telluride Film Festival.
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, including an Independent Spirit Award, an IDA Award for Best Documentary, a Gotham Award for Best Documentary, and three Cinema Eye Honors, including Best Film and Best Director.
Joshua Lincoln Oppenheimer (born September 23, 1974) is an American film director based in Copenhagen, Denmark.
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.
It was nominated for Best Documentary Feature at the 88th Academy Awards.
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.
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 and a 2014 recipient of the MacArthur fellowship.
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 Professor of Film at the University of Westminster.
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.
Oppenheimer's next film, The Look of Silence (2014), is a companion piece to The Act of Killing.
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 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."
Cinema Eye Honors named him a decade-defining filmmaker in 2016, and both his films as decade-defining films.
In July 2016, he was named as a member of the main competition jury for the 73rd Venice International Film Festival.
In October 2017, the U.S. government declassified thousands of files related to the killings, with officials citing the impact of Oppenheimer's films.
In September 2017 he was the guest director for the Telluride Film Festival.
In 2021, film production company Neon announced Oppenheimer will direct a feature-film musical starring Tilda Swinton, Stephen Graham and George MacKay.
Oppenheimer is openly gay and lives with his partner Shu in Copenhagen, Denmark.