Jennifer Lame (born 1981/1982) is an American film editor. She is known for her work on Manchester by the Sea, Hereditary, Tenet, , and the films of Noah Baumbach. In 2023, Lame edited Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Film Editing. She is a native to Narberth, Pennsylvania and is married to film producer Craig Shilowich.
2007 | Before the Devil Knows You're Dead | Sidney Lumet | Apprentice | |
Reservation Road | Terry George | Apprentice | ||
2009 | Sorry, Thanks | Dia Sokol Savage | Assistant | |
The Lovely Bones | Peter Jackson | Second assistant | ||
2011 | Almost Perfect | Bertha Bay-Sa Pan | Assistant | |
2012 | Price Check | Michael Walker | ||
Frances Ha | Noah Baumbach | First collaboration with Noah Baumbach | ||
2014 | While We're Young | Second collaboration with Noah Baumbach | ||
2015 | Paper Towns | Jake Schreier | With Jacob Craycroft | |
Mistress America | Noah Baumbach | Third collaboration with Noah Baumbach | ||
2016 | De Palma | Noah Baumbach Jake Paltrow | Additional editor Fourth collaboration with Noah Baumbach | |
Manchester by the Sea | Kenneth Lonergan | Nominated - American Cinema Editors Award for Best Edited Feature Film – Dramatic Nominated - BAFTA Award for Best Editing Nominated - Central Ohio Film Critics Association Award for Best Film Editing | ||
2017 | The Meyerowitz Stories | Noah Baumbach | Fifth collaboration with Noah Baumbach | |
2018 | Tyrel | Sebastián Silva | ||
Hereditary | Ari Aster | First collaboration with Ari Aster | ||
2019 | Midsommar | Additional editor Second collaboration with Ari Aster | ||
Marriage Story | Noah Baumbach | Sixth collaboration with Noah Baumbach Nominated - American Cinema Editors Award for Best Edited Feature Film – Dramatic Nominated - Satellite Award for Best Editing Nominated - San Diego Film Critics Society Award for Best Editing Nominated - St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association Award for Best Film Editing | ||
2020 | Tenet | Christopher Nolan | First collaboration with Christopher Nolan Nominated - Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Editing Nominated - Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Editing Nominated - London Film Critics Circle Awards 2020 – Technical Achievement Award Nominated - Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Editing Nominated - San Diego Film Critics Society Award for Best Editing Nominated - San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle Awards 2020 for Best Editing Won - Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Awards 2020 for Best Editing Nominated - Saturn Award for Best Editing | |
2021 | Judas and the Black Messiah | Shaka King | Additional editor | |
2022 | Blonde | Andrew Dominik | Additional editor | |
Ryan Coogler | Nominated - Black Reel Awards for Outstanding Editing | |||
2023 | Oppenheimer | Christopher Nolan | Second collaboration with Christopher Nolan
Won - Academy Award for Best Film Editing Won - American Cinema Editors Award for Best Edited Feature Film – Dramatic Won - Austin Film Critics Association Award for Best Film Editing Won - BAFTA Award for Best Editing Won - Boston Online Film Critics Association Award for Best Editing Won - Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Editing Won - Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Editing Won - HPA Award for Outstanding Editing – Feature Film Won - Indiana Film Journalists Association Award for Best Editing Won - Las Vegas Film Critics Society Award for Best Film Editing Won - Phoenix Film Critics Society Award for Best Editing Won - Saturn Award for Best Editing Won - St. Louis Film Critics Association Award for Best Editing Won - Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Award for Best Editing Nominated - Alliance of Women Film Journalists Award for Best Editing Nominated - Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Editing Nominated - San Diego Film Critics Society Award for Best Editing Nominated - Astra Film and Creative Award for Best Editing Pending - Utah Film Critics Association Award for Best Film Editing | |
Postcard from Earth | Darren Aronofsky | Documentary | ||
2025 | The Wizard of Oz at Sphere | Victor Fleming | Immersive version of the 1939 film Originally edited by Blanche Sewell |
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