Jonathan Oppenheim

Jonathan Louis Oppenheim (November 10, 1952 – July 16, 2020) was an American film and television editor, producer, and writer.

Biography The son of Judy Holliday, an actress, and David Oppenheim, a clarinetist and television producer, Oppenheim was mainly employed on documentary films. He was known for his work on The Oath (2010) and Paris Is Burning (1990). Oppenheim was a fellow, and a continual and long term mentor and advisor, at the Sundance Institute's Documentary Edit and Story Laboratory.

Oppenheim died from brain cancer on July 16, 2020, aged 67. He was interred at Mount Carmel Cemetery in Queens.

The Jonathan Oppenheim Editing Award commemorates him.

Partial filmography Year Title Role 1984 Streetwise Associate editor 1990 Paris Is Burning Editor 1998 Arguing the World Editor 2001 Children Underground Coeditor 2004 Out of the Shadow Editor, coproducer 2009 Strongman Coeditor 2010 The Oath Editor, coproducer