Joshua Oppenheimer

Joshua Oppenheimer is a filmmaker I genuinely admire for his nerve. The Act of Killing in 2012 and The Look of Silence in 2014 are not easy watches, asking perpetrators of Indonesia's mass killings to reenact their own atrocities, and both earned Oscar nominations. A Texas-born, Harvard-educated Marshall Scholar and MacArthur Fellow now based in Copenhagen, he clearly chases the hardest moral questions. What I respect most is that he didn't repeat himself, branching into narrative with The End in 2024. To me he's a documentarian who treats cinema as a tool for confronting unspeakable history rather than just recording it.

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Name (English)

Joshua Oppenheimer

Name (Japanese)

ジョシュア・オッペンハイマー

Reading

じょしゅあ・おっぺんはいまー

Born

September 23, 1974 (age 52)

Origin

Austin, Texas, United States

Occupation

film director / film producer / executive producer / director

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Libra / Tiger

High school

Montgomery Blair High School

University

Harvard University

Awards & achievements

• Marshall Scholarship
• MacArthur Fellows Program
• 2013 European Film Award for Best Documentary

• Official sitehttp://thelookofsilence.com
• Xhttps://x.com/joshuaoppenheim
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua%20Oppenheimer
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A7%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A5%E3%82%A2%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AA%E3%83%83%E3%83%9A%E3%83%B3%E3%83%8F%E3%82%A4%E3%83%9E%E3%83%BC%20(%E6%98%A0%E7%94%BB%E7%9B%A3%E7%9D%A3)
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6290103

Tags

• Texas
• film director
• film producer
• executive producer

Last updated

November 2, 2026

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