Jennifer Lame

Jennifer Lame was born in 1981 or 1982 in Philadelphia.^[1] 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.^[1][3]

Lame started editing films with Price Check.^[4] She has become a recurring collaborator on Noah Baumbach's films including Frances Ha,^[5] While We're Young,^[6] Mistress America,^[7] The Meyerowitz Stories,^[8] and Marriage Story.^[9] She also edited Paper Towns,^[10] Manchester by the Sea,^[11] Tyrel,^[12] Hereditary,^[13] Midsommar,^[14] Tenet,^[15] Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,^[16] and Oppenheimer.^[17] Just before winning her first Oscar, she was named Time's "Person of the Week" for her role as a prominent female editor.^[18] In 2025, she served as editor for an "immersive" version of the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz for Sphere in Las Vegas.^[19]

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Film

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Year	Title	Director	Notes	Refs
2007	Before the Devil Knows You're Dead	Sidney Lumet	Apprentice	[4]
	Reservation Road	Terry George	Apprentice	[4]
2009	Sorry, Thanks	Dia Sokol Savage	Assistant	[4]
	The Lovely Bones	Peter Jackson	Second assistant	[5]
2011	Almost Perfect	Bertha Bay-Sa Pan	Assistant	[4]
2012	Price Check	Michael Walker		[4]
	Frances Ha	Noah Baumbach	First collaboration with Noah Baumbach	[5]
2014	While We're Young		Second collaboration with Noah Baumbach	[6]
2015	Paper Towns	Jake Schreier	With Jacob Craycroft	[10]
	Mistress America	Noah Baumbach	Third collaboration with Noah Baumbach	[7]
2016	De Palma	Noah Baumbach Jake Paltrow	Additional editor Fourth collaboration with Noah Baumbach	[7]
	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	[11][20][21]
2017	The Meyerowitz Stories	Noah Baumbach	Fifth collaboration with Noah Baumbach	[8]
2018	Tyrel	Sebastián Silva		[12]
	Hereditary	Ari Aster	First collaboration with Ari Aster	[13]
2019	Midsommar		Additional editor Second collaboration with Ari Aster	[14]
	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	[9]
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	[22][23]
2021	Judas and the Black Messiah	Shaka King	Additional editor	[24]
2022	Blonde	Andrew Dominik	Additional editor	[25]
	Black Panther: Wakanda Forever	Ryan Coogler	Nominated - Black Reel Awards for Outstanding Editing	[16][26]
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	[17][27]
	Postcard from Earth	Darren Aronofsky	Documentary	[27]
2025	The Wizard of Oz at Sphere	Victor Fleming	Immersive version of the 1939 film Originally edited by Blanche Sewell	[28]
2026	The Odyssey	Christopher Nolan	Third collaboration with Christopher Nolan	[29]

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Television

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Year	Title	Director	Notes	Refs
2005	The Simple Life	Jeff Fisher	Digitizer Episode: "Mortuary"	[4]
2008	Brotherhood	Various	Assistant 5 episodes	[4]
2009	The Philanthropist	Various	Assistant 7 episodes	[4]
2010	Rubicon	Various	Assistant 5 episodes	[4]
2011	30 Rock	Tricia Brock	Assistant Episode: "Mrs. Donaghy"	[4]
2012	Smash	Michael Mayer	Assistant Episode: "Pilot"	[4]

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