Favourite Cinematographers
by almakharek | created - 24 Mar 2019 | updated - 24 Mar 2019 | PublicMasters of light, camera and composition
1. Sven Nykvist
Cinematographer | The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Sven Nykvist was considered by many in the industry to be one of the world's greatest cinematographers. During his long career that spanned almost half a century, Nyvist perfected the art of cinematography to its most simple attributes, and he helped give the films he had worked on the simplest and...
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. Vadim Yusov
Cinematographer | Solyaris
Vadim Yusov was born on April 20, 1929 in Klavdino, Leningrad Oblast, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Russia]. He was a cinematographer and writer, known for Solaris (1972), The Black Monk (1988) and Pasport (1990). He was married to Inna Zelentsova. He died on August 23, 2013 in Moscow, Russia.
4. 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.
5. Pavel Lebeshev
Cinematographer | ...Pervaya lyubov
Pavel Lebeshev was born on February 15, 1940 in Moscow, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Russia]. He was a cinematographer and actor, known for ...Pervaya lyubov (1995), The Barber of Siberia (1998) and Nezhnyy vozrast (2000). He died on February 23, 2003 in Moscow, Russia.
6. 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...
7. Yves Bélanger
Cinematographer | Brooklyn
Yves Bélanger was born on July 7, 1960 in Montréal, Québec, Canada. He is a cinematographer, known for Brooklyn (2015), Dallas Buyers Club (2013) and Wild (2014).
8. 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 (...
9. 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 ...
10. 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 ...
11. 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 ...
12. John Toll
Cinematographer | The Last Samurai
John Toll is an American cinematographer. His filmography spans a wide variety of genres, including epic period drama, comedy, science fiction, and contemporary drama. He won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography in both 1994 and 1995 for Legends of the Fall and Braveheart respectively.
He has ...
13. Néstor Almendros
Cinematographer | Days of Heaven
One of the highest appraised contemporary cinematographers. He was born in Spain but moved to Cuba by age 18 to join his exiled anti-Franco father. In Havana, he founded a cineclub and wrote film reviews. Then, he went on to study in Rome at the Centro Sperimentale. He directed six shorts in Cuba ...
14. Sergey Urusevskiy
Cinematographer | Kavalier zolotoy zvezdy
Sergei Urusevsky is an Soviet cinematographer best known for his work on the films of the Mikhail Kalatozov.
He started as a painter and photographer studying under the great graphic artist Vladimir Favorsky at the Institute of Fine Art in Moscow. Bringing a pictorial tradition to cinema, Urusevsky ...
15. Leonid Kalashnikov
Cinematographer | Tema
Leonid Kalashnikov was born on September 19, 1926 in Krasnodar, Severo-Kavkazskiy kray, RSFSR, USSR [now Krasnodarskiy kray, Russia]. He was a cinematographer, known for The Theme (1979), One Hundred Days After Childhood (1975) and Tetri karavani (1964). He was married to Inna Zelentsova. He died ...
16. Mikhail Agranovich
Cinematographer | Prikhodi na menya posmotret
Mikhail Agranovich was born on September 8, 1946 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]. He is a cinematographer and director, known for Come Look at Me (2001), Repentance (1984) and La delegazione (1994).
17. Gregg Toland
Cinematographer | Citizen Kane
Born in Illinois in 1904, the only child of Jennie and Frank Toland, Gregg and his mother moved to California several years after his parents divorced in 1910. Through Jennie's work as a housekeeper for several people in the movie business, Gregg may had gotten a $12-a-week job at age 15 as an ...
18. Carlo Di Palma
Cinematographer | Mighty Aphrodite
Carlo Di Palma was born on April 17, 1925 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He was a cinematographer and director, known for Mighty Aphrodite (1995), Blow-Up (1966) and Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993). He was married to Adriana Chiesa Di Palma. He died on July 9, 2004 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.
19. 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 ...
20. Mikhail Krichman
Cinematographer | Vozvrashchenie
Mikhail Krichman was born on June 17, 1967 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]. He is a cinematographer and writer, known for The Return (2003), Loveless (2017) and Leviathan (2014).
21. Alisher Khamidkhodzhaev
Cinematographer | Bumazhnyy soldat
Alisher Khamidkhodzhaev was born on July 20, 1969 in Tashkent, Uzbekskaya SSR, USSR [now Uzbekistan]. He is a cinematographer, known for Paper Soldier (2008), 4 (2004) and Snegir (2023).
22. Sergey Astakhov
Actor | Korolyov
Sergey Astakhov was born on May 28, 1969 in Krasny Liman, Voronezh Oblast, RSFSR, USSR. He is an actor and writer, known for Korolyov (2007), Pobeg (2005) and Beyond the Edge (2018).
23. Vladislav Opelyants
Cinematographer | Solnechnyy udar
Vladislav Opelyants was born on January 7, 1968 in Russia. He is a cinematographer, known for Sunstroke (2014), Petrov's Flu (2021) and Persian Lessons (2020).
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