Joshua Oppenheimer

Two-time Oscar® nominee Joshua Oppenheimer’s work has moved from fiction to documentary and back again. His early fiction shorts won top honors at the Chicago, Telluride, and San Francisco film festivals. His debut feature, the musical documentary-fiction hybrid, The Act of Killing, was named Film of the Year in 2013 by the Guardian and the Sight and Sound Film Poll, and won 72 awards, including a European Film Award, a BAFTA, an Asia Pacific Screen Award, a Berlinale Audience Award, and the Guardian Film Award for Best Film. His second film, The Look of Silence, premiered at the Venice Film Festival, where it won five awards, including the Grand Jury Prize. Since then, The Look of Silence has received 72 awards, including an Independent Spirit Award, a Gotham Award. In response to public discussion around The Act of Killing and The Look of Silence, the US government has declassified 30,000 previously secret files detailing America’s complicity in the Indonesian genocide. Cinema Eye Honors named Joshua Oppenheimer a decade-defining filmmaker in 2016, and both his films as decade-defining films. In 2014, Oppenheimer was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship (popularly known as the ‘genius grant’). Joshua Oppenheimer was the 2017 Guest Director of the Telluride Film Festival, 2017 Tribute at the Sarajevo Festival Festival, centerpiece of The Act of Killing retrospective at 2016 San Sebastian Film Festival, winner of the City of Cologne’s 2016 Phoenix Prize, and served on the jury of the 2016 Venice
Film Festival (main competition). Joshua Oppenheimer is a partner at Final Cut for Real ApS in Copenhagen.