Cinefotógrafos
by brucerodriguez | created - 16 Aug 2018 | updated - 01 Apr 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. 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 ...
3. G.W. Bitzer
Cinematographer | The Birth of a Nation
G.W. Bitzer was born on April 21, 1872 in Roxbury, Massachusetts, USA. He was a cinematographer and director, known for The Birth of a Nation (1915), Broken Blossoms or the Yellow Man and the Girl (1919) and Logging in Maine (1906). He was married to Ethel Boddy. He died on April 29, 1944 in ...
4. Tonatiuh Martínez Valdéz
Cinematographer | Sueño en otro idioma
Tonatiuh Martínez Valdéz is known for I Dream in Another Language (2017), El Más Buscado (2014) and Polvo (2019).
5. John Alcott
Cinematographer | Barry Lyndon
John Alcott, the Oscar-winning cinematographer best known for his collaboration with director Stanley Kubrick, was born in 1931, in Isleworth, England, the son of movie executive Arthur Alcott, who would become the production controller at Gainsborough Studios during the 1940s.
Alcott began his film...
6. Álex Phillips Jr.
Camera_department | Total Recall
Álex Phillips Jr. was born on January 11, 1935 in Mexico, Distrito Federal, Mexico. He was a cinematographer and actor, known for Total Recall (1990), Foxtrot (1976) and Zapata (1970). He died on February 12, 2007 in Mexico City, Mexico.
7. 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 ...
8. Larry Smith
Cinematographer | Only God Forgives
Larry Smith was born in London, England, UK. He is known for Only God Forgives (2013), Trafficker (2015) and The Guard (2011).
9. 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 ...
10. Donald McAlpine
Cinematographer | Moulin Rouge!
Donald McAlpine was born in 1934 in Quandialla, New South Wales, Australia. He is a cinematographer and director, known for Moulin Rouge! (2001), Romeo + Juliet (1996) and The Dressmaker (2015).
11. Russell Metty
Cinematographer | Spartacus
Cinematographer Russell Metty, a superb craftsman who worked with such top directors as John Huston, Stanley Kubrick, Steven Spielberg and Orson Welles, was born in Los Angeles on September 20, 1906. Entering the movie industry as a lab assistant, he apprenticed as an assistant cameraman and ...
12. Gordon Willis
Cinematographer | Zelig
Gordon Willis was an American cinematographer. He's best known for his work on Francis Ford Coppola's Godfather films, as well asWoody Allen's Annie Hall (1977) and Manhattan (1979).
His work on the first two Godfather films turned out to be groundbreaking in its use of low-light photography and ...
13. Maryse Alberti
Cinematographer | The Wrestler
Maryse Alberti is a French cinematographer. She is best known for her work in Velvet Goldmine (1998), The Wrestler (2008), Stone (2010), Creed (2015) and the HBO film My Dinner with Hervé (2018).
She also work as a cinematographer in The Visit (2015).
Alberti work as a cinematographer includes more ...
14. Jessica Lee Gagné
Cinematographer | Malgré la nuit
Jessica Lee Gagné is known for Despite the Night (2015), Daddy (2017) and Severance (2022).
15. Roger Deakins
Cinematographer | Blade Runner 2049
Roger Deakins is an English cinematographer best known for his work on the films of the Coen brothers, Sam Mendes, and Denis Villeneuve.
He is a member of both the American and British Society of Cinematographers.
Deakins' first feature film in America as cinematographer was Mountains of the Moon (...
16. Bernd Heinl
Camera_department | Rescue Dawn
Bernd Heinl was born on December 11, 1947 in Munich, Bavaria, Germany. He is a cinematographer and producer, known for Rescue Dawn (2006), Suburban Commando (1991) and Johnny Skidmarks (1998).
17. Ansel Adams
Art_department | Ben Casey
Ansel Adams is widely regarded as one of the most famous photographers of all time, particularly in reference to his striking images of the American wilderness. Adams placed great value upon technical mastery of his craft, carefully evaluating gradations of light in the image, manipulating degree ...
18. Gabriel Figueroa
Cinematographer | La perla
Gabriel Figueroa was born on April 24, 1907 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico. He was a cinematographer, known for The Pearl (1947), Maria Candelaria (1944) and The Young and the Damned (1950). He died on April 27, 1997 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico.
19. Manuel Alberto Claro
Cinematographer | Melancholia
Manuel Alberto Claro is a Chilean-Danish cinematographer best known for his work with director Lars von Trier on Melancholia (2011), Nymphomaniac: Vol 1 (2013), and The House That Jack Built (2018). Claro also shot the 2014 comedy Top Five starring Chris Rock and is known for his work with director...
20. Allen Daviau
Cinematographer | E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Allen Daviau was born on June 14, 1942 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. He was a cinematographer and writer, known for E.T. (1982), Empire of the Sun (1987) and Bugsy (1991). He died on April 15, 2020 in Woodland Hills, California, USA.
21. Dante Spinotti
Cinematographer | L.A. Confidential
Dante Spinotti was born in Tolmezzo, Udine, in the northeastern Italian Region of Friuli. He began his career at RAI (Italian TV), before that he spent lot of time in Kenia as cinematographer for his uncle. In 1985, producer Dino De Laurentiis offered him a chance to work in USA for the first time ...
22. Andrij Parekh
Cinematographer | Blue Valentine
Of Ukrainian and Indian descent, Andrij studied cinematography at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts (MFA, 2001) and the FAMU film school in Prague. He currently lives and works in New York, shooting features, commercials and music videos. In 2004 he was named one of Filmmaker Magazine's "25 New Faces ...
23. Fred Kelemen
Cinematographer | Abendland
Born in Berlin (West), Fred Kelemen studied painting, music, philosophy, science of religions and theatre sciences and worked in different theatres as a director's assistant before he began his studies at the German Film & TV Academy Berlin (dffb) in 1989. Since that time, he has made a number of ...
24. Georgi Rerberg
Cinematographer | Stalker
Georgi Rerberg was born on September 28, 1937 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]. He was a cinematographer and writer, known for Stalker (1979), Mirror (1975) and Zvezdopad (1981). He was married to Valentina Titova. He died on July 28, 1999 in Moscow, Russia.
25. Raoul Coutard
Director | Hoa-Binh
Raoul Coutard was born on September 16, 1924 in Paris, France. He was a cinematographer and director, known for Hoa Binh (1970), Alphaville (1965) and Z (1969). He died on November 8, 2016 in Labenne, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France.
26. Gilbert Taylor
Cinematographer | Star Wars
Gilbert Taylor was born on April 21, 1914 in Bushey Heath, Hertfordshire, England, UK. He was a cinematographer and director, known for Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977), Flash Gordon (1980) and The Omen (1976). He was married to Dee Vaughan and Eileen Donnelly. He died on August 23, 2013 ...
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