Cinematographers
by ptamagnolia82 | created - 09 Jan 2018 | updated - 28 Feb 2021 | Public
1. Benoît Delhomme
Cinematographer | Lady Chatterley's Lover
Benoit was born in Nanterre in the west suburb of Paris in 1961 and spent his childhood in Cherbourg, in Normandy. He started to study cinema in 1980 at the Paris Sorbonne University and at the Ecole Louis Lumiere where he specialized in cinematography mentored by Robert Bresson's favorite camera ...
2. Vittorio Storaro
Cinematographer | Apocalypse Now
Vittorio Storaro, the award-winning cinematographer who won Oscars for "Apocalypse Now (1979)", "Reds (1981)" and "The Last Emperor (1987)". He was born on June 24, 1940 in Rome, where his father was a projectionist at the Lux Film Studio. At the age of 11, he began studying photography at a ...
3. Robert Richardson
Cinematographer | Kill Bill: Vol. 1
Robert Richardson has won three Academy Awards and earned seven Academy Award nominations for his cinematography. His work on director Oliver Stone's JFK earned him his first Oscar. His second and third came with The Aviator and Hugo directed by Martin Scorsese. These two films also garnered him ...
4. Emmanuel Lubezki
Cinematographer | Children of Men
Lubezki began his career in Mexican film and television productions in the late 1980s. His first international production was the 1993 independent film Twenty Bucks (1993), which followed the journey of a single twenty-dollar bill.
Lubezki is a frequent collaborator with fellow Mexican filmmaker ...
5. Elliot Davis
Cinematographer | Out of Sight
Elliot Davis was born on May 23, 1948 in the USA. He is a cinematographer, known for Out of Sight (1998), Twilight (2008) and Forces of Nature (1999).
6. Lyle Vincent
Cinematographer | A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
Lyle Vincent is known for A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014), The Bad Batch (2016) and Cooties (2014).
7. Shane Carruth
Composer | Upstream Color
Writer-director Shane Carruth, a former software engineer, burst onto the independent movie scene with his extremely low-budget science-fiction film Primer (2004) in 2004. Carruth also played one of the two leads in the film and composed its music. "Primer" won the Grand Jury Prize and the Alfred P...
8. Daniel Landin
Cinematographer | Under the Skin
Daniel Landin is known for Under the Skin (2013), Sexy Beast (2000) and The Uninvited (2009).
9. Thomas Townend
Cinematographer | You Were Never Really Here
Thomas Townend is known for You Were Never Really Here (2017), Attack the Block (2011) and Harry Brown (2009).
10. Janusz Kaminski
Cinematographer | War Horse
Janusz Kaminski is a Polish cinematographer and film director. He has established a partnership with Steven Spielberg, working as a cinematographer on his movies since 1993. He won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography for his work on Schindler's List (1993) and Saving Private Ryan (1998).
His ...
11. Hoyte Van Hoytema
Cinematographer | Tenet
Hoyte Van Hoytema was born in Horgen, Switzerland. Van Hoytema is a Dutch-Swedish director of photography known for his work on The Fighter (2010), Her (2013), Interstellar (2014), and Dunkirk (2017). Van Hoytema always wanted to be a filmmaker, therefore he wished to attend a film school in The ...
12. Mihai Malaimare Jr.
Cinematographer | The Master
Mihai Malaimare Jr. was born in 1975 in Bucharest, Romania. He is a cinematographer, known for The Master (2012), Jojo Rabbit (2019) and The Harder They Fall (2021).
13. David Gallego
Cinematographer | El abrazo de la serpiente
David Gallego was born in 1977 in Bogota, Colombia. David is a cinematographer and editor, known for Embrace of the Serpent (2015), Birds of Passage (2018) and I Am Not a Witch (2017).
14. Caleb Deschanel
Cinematographer | The Passion of the Christ
Caleb Deschanel is an American film cinematographer and film/television director. He has been nominated for six Academy Awards, each time in the field of cinematography. The first nomination came in 1983 for the film The Right Stuff (1983). His second was in 1984 for The Natural (1984), the third ...
15. Benoît Debie
Cinematographer | Enter the Void
Benoît Debie is known for Enter the Void (2009), Climax (2018) and Spring Breakers (2012).
16. Darius Khondji
Cinematographer | Amour
Darius Khondji was born on October 21, 1955 in Tehran, Iran. He is a cinematographer and actor, known for Amour (2012), Se7en (1995) and Delicatessen (1991). He is married to Marianne Khondji. They have three children.
17. Maxime Alexandre
Cinematographer | Shazam!
Maxime Alexandre was born in Renaix, Belgium, 1971. At five years old, he moved to Rome, Italy, with his mother, sisters, and brother. His stepfather, Inigo Lezzi (during that period A.D. for Marco Bellocchio, Gianni Amelio, and Nanni Moretti), let Maxime discover the Italian cinema sets one by one...
18. Yorick Le Saux
Cinematographer | High Life
Yorick Le Saux was born on August 10, 1968 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France. He is a cinematographer and producer, known for High Life (2018), Personal Shopper (2016) and Little Women (2019).
19. Michael McDonough
Cinematographer | Winter's Bone
Michael McDonough was born in 1967 in Paisley, Scotland, UK. Michael is a cinematographer and director, known for Winter's Bone (2010), Starred Up (2013) and Albert Nobbs (2011).
20. Trent Opaloch
Cinematographer | District 9
Trent Opaloch is a Canadian cinematographer best known for his work with directors Neill Blomkamp and the Russo brothers.
His major works include District 9 (2009), Elysium (2013), Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014), Chappie (2015), Captain America: Civil War (2016) Avengers: Infinity War (...
21. Chung-hoon Chung
Cinematographer | Ah-ga-ssi
Chung-hoon Chung was born on June 15, 1970 in Seoul, South Korea. He is a cinematographer and writer, known for The Handmaiden (2016), Oldboy (2003) and Last Night in Soho (2021).
22. Diego Martínez Vignatti
Director | La cantante de tango
Diego Martínez Vignatti was born in 1971 in Argentina. He is a cinematographer and director, known for La cantante de tango (2009), La tierra roja (2015) and Japan (2002).
23. José Luis Alcaine
Cinematographer | La piel que habito
Jose Luis Alcaine has a theory that the Frank Borzage movie A Farewell to Arms (1932) after a story by Ernest Hemingway, was the main and total inspiration for Pablo Picasso in the creation of the "Guernica", one of the most important painting of the 20th century. He believes that several images of...
24. Hong Kyung-pyo
Cinematographer | Gisaengchung
Hong Kyung-pyo is known for Parasite (2019), The Wailing (2016) and Snowpiercer (2013).
25. Robert Elswit
Cinematographer | There Will Be Blood
Robert Elswit is an American cinematographer. He is best known for Boogie Nights (1997), Magnolia (1999), Good Night, and Good Luck (2005), There Will Be Blood (2007), Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (2011), Inherent Vice (2014), and Nightcrawler (2014).
Elswit frequently works with director ...
26. Drew Daniels
Cinematographer | It Comes at Night
Drew Daniels is a Texan cinematographer whose credits include the 2016 Sundance Grand Jury Award winning short film, Thunder Road as well as Krisha, the 2015 SXSW Grand Jury and Audience Award winning feature film. He shoots features, shorts, music videos and commercials all around the world but ...
27. Ben Davis
Cinematographer | Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Ben Davis was born in 1961 in London, England, UK. He is a cinematographer and producer, known for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017), The Banshees of Inisherin (2022) and Guardians of the Galaxy (2014). He is married to Camille Griffin. They have three children.
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