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Jonathan Oppenheim Editing Award

Sundance Film Festival award

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 8, 2026
Entity authorityQ124458558 ↗
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This is a list of winners of the Jonathan Oppenheim Editing Award for documentaries at the Sundance Film Festival.

History

Since 2021, this prize has been annually awarded by the U.S. Documentary jury to commemorate Jonathan Oppenheim, an editor best known for his work on Paris is Burning, an LGBQT+ film chronicling the ball culture of New York City and Black, Latino, gay, and transgender communities. He served as a longtime advisor and mentor at the Sundance Documentary Edit and Story Lab.

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This entry incorporates text from “Jonathan Oppenheim Editing Award” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.