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Jennifer Lame

Known For
Editing

Known Credits
2

Gender
Female

Birthday
Birthday not available

Place of Birth
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Jennifer Lame

Biography

Jennifer Lame (born 1981/1982) is an American film editor. She is known for her work on Manchester by the Sea, Hereditary, Tenet, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, 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.

Jennifer Lame was born in 1981 or 1982 in Philadelphia. Her father is Tony Lame, a former contributor to The Philadelphia Inquirer as well as KYW-TV. She attended Episcopal Academy and, in 2004, graduated from Wesleyan University.

Lame started editing films with Price Check. She has become a recurring collaborator on Noah Baumbach's films, including Frances Ha, While We're Young, Mistress America, The Meyerowitz Stories, and Marriage Story. She also edited Paper Towns, Manchester by the Sea, Tyrel, Hereditary, Midsommar, Tenet, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, and Oppenheimer. Just before winning her first Oscar, she was named Time's Person of the Week" for her role as a prominent female editor.

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Known For

Editing

2026The Odyssey...Editor
2023Oppenheimer...Editor
2022Black Panther: Wakanda Forever...Editor
2022Don't Worry Darling...Additional Editor
2022Blonde...Additional Editor
2021Judas and the Black Messiah...Additional Editor
2020Tenet...Editor
2019Marriage Story...Editor
2019Midsommar...Additional Editor
2018Hereditary...Editor
2018Tyrel...Editor
2017The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)...Editor
2016Manchester by the Sea...Editor
2016De Palma...Additional Editing
2015Mistress America...Editor
2015Paper Towns...Editor
2015While We're Young...Editor
2013Frances Ha...Editor
2013Palimpsest...Editor
2012Price Check...Editor
2012First Winter...Editor
2012Smash...Assistant Editor
2011Almost Perfect...Assistant Editor
2009The Lovely Bones...Assistant Editor
2009Sorry, Thanks...Assistant Editor

Crew

2025Sinners...Thanks
2022Causeway...Thanks

Acting

2020Looking at the World in a New Way: The Making of ‘Tenet’as Self
1953The Oscarsas Self