The Crème de la Scéne
Many of the below films are unremarkable in many regards but they all feature some of the most stunning visuals ever committed to film.
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Robby Müller was born on 4 April 1940 in Willemstad, Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles. He was a cinematographer and actor, known for Breaking the Waves (1996), Paris, Texas (1984) and Repo Man (1984). He died on 3 July 2018 in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands.Alice in the Cities, The American Friend, Repo Man, Paris, Texas, To Live and Die in L.A., Down by Law, Barfly, Mystery Train, Dead Man, Breaking the Waves, Shattered Image, Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, Dancer in the Dark.- Cinematographer
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Darius Khondji was born on 21 October 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.Delicatessen, The City of Lost Children, Se7en, Stealing Beauty, Alien: Resurrection, In Dreams, The Ninth Gate, The Beach, Panic Room, Anything Else, The Interpreter, Funny Games, The Ruins, Midnight in Paris, To Rome With Love, Amour, The Immigrant, Magic in the Moonlight, Irrational Man, The Lost City of Z, Okja, Too Old to Die Young, Uncut Gems.- Cinematographer
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Michael Ballhaus was a German cinematographer. He worked on many American films, including Baby It's You (1983), Old Enough (1984), After Hours (1985), The Color of Money (1986), The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), Goodfellas (1990), Dracula (1992), The Age of Innocence (1993), Gangs of New York (2002), and The Departed (2006).
Ballhaus was nominated three times for the Academy Award for Best Cinematography, for Broadcast News (1987), The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989), and Gangs of New York (2002), but never won.
His son Florian Ballhaus is also a cinematographer who worked on Flightplan (2005) and The Devil Wears Prada (2006).
Ballhaus died on 11 April 2017, at the age of 81.Whity, Beware of a Holy Whore, The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, World on a Wire, Martha, Fox and His Friends, Satan's Brew, Chinese Roulette, The Marriage of Maria Braun, Lili Marleen, After Hours, Under the Cherry Moon, The Color of Money, The Last Temptation of Christ, Working Girl, Goodfellas, Guilty by Suspicion, Bangs of New York, The Departed.- Cinematographer
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Starting out in 1924 as a lab technician at MGM, John Alton left there for Paramount to become a cameraman. He traveled to France and then to South America, where he wrote, photographed and directed several Spanish-language films. Returning to Hollywood in 1937, he soon achieved a reputation as one of the industry's most accomplished cinematographers. In 1951, he and Alfred Gilks won an Academy Award for color photography for An American in Paris (1951).T-Men, Raw Deal, Reign of Terror, Border Incident, He Walked by Night, The Big Combo.- Cinematographer
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Tak Fujimoto was born on 12 July 1939 in San Diego, California, USA. He is a cinematographer and actor, known for The Silence of the Lambs (1991), The Sixth Sense (1999) and Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977).Badlands, Caged Heat, Last Embrace, Where the Buffalo Roam, Melvin and Howard, Swing Shift, Blackout, Pretty in Pink, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Something Wild, Married to the Mob, Miami Blues, The Silence of the Lambs, Singles, Night and the City, Philadelphia, Devil in a Blue Dress, Beloved, The Manchurian Candidate.- Cinematographer
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Harris Savides was born on 28 September 1957 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a cinematographer and actor, known for Elephant (2003), Zodiac (2007) and Birth (2004). He was married to Medine Chenet. He died on 9 October 2012 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.Heaven's Prisoners, The Game, The Yards, Gerry, Elephant, Birth, Last Days, Zodiac, Margot at the Wedding, American Gangster, Milk, Whatever Works, Greenberg, Somewhere, Restless, The Bling Ring.- Cinematographer
- Camera and Electrical Department
- Additional Crew
Sean Bobbitt was born on 29 November 1958 in Corpus Christi, Texas, USA. He is a cinematographer, known for 12 Years a Slave (2013), Hunger (2008) and Shame (2011).Hunger, Shame, The Place Beyond the Pines, Byzantium, 12 Years a Slave, Oldboy, Kill the Messenger, Widows, Judas and the Black Messiah.- Cinematographer
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- Camera and Electrical Department
Sayombhu Mukdeeprom was born in Thailand in 1970. He is a cinematographer who was first recognized for his work on Thai cinema for the movie Sang sattawat, and more recently in the west for his collaboration with director Luca Guadagnino in Call Me By Your Name and the still unreleased Guadagnino remake of Suspiria.Syndromes and a Century, Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, Arabian Nights: Volume 1 - The Restless One, Arabian Nights: Volume 2 - The Desolate One, Arabian Nights: Volume 3 - The Enchanted One, Antonia., Call Me by Your Name, Suspiria, The Staggering Girl, Born to Be Murdered, Memoria.- Cinematographer
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Adam Arkapaw is known for his work on films such as Macbeth (2015 - ASC spotlight award) Animal Kingdom (2010 - Camerimage Cinematographer Debuts Competition winner) The Snowtown Murders (2011) Light Between the Oceans (2016) Lore (2011) and Assassin's Creed (2016). He is also the Emmy Award-winning cinematographer of Top of the Lake (2013) and True Detective Season 1 (2014). Born in Bowral, a small town south of Sydney, Australia. Arkapaw studied at Melbourne's Victorian College of the Arts, getting his start making shorts and commercials.Animal Kingdom, The Snowtown Murders, Lore, Top of the Lake, True Detective, Macbeth, Flesh and Bone, The Light Between Oceans, Assassin's Creed, Light of My Life, The King.- Cinematographer
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Cinematographer Natasha Braier was born December 11th, 1974 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where both her parents practiced psychiatry and where she did her first studies including, as a child, dancing.Her family moved to Europe when she was 18, and where she lived in both Spain and England.She completed her degree at that time at the National Film and Television School in London ,and later moved once again, this time to Los Angeles, California, where she has been active in the industry.The Rover, The Neon Demon, Gloria Bell.- Cinematographer
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John A. Alonzo was born on 12 June 1934 in Dallas, Texas, USA. He was a cinematographer and actor, known for Chinatown (1974), The Magnificent Seven (1960) and Star Trek: Generations (1994). He was married to Suzanne L. Heltzel and Jan Murray. He died on 13 March 2001 in Beverly Hills, California, USA.Vanishing Point, Harold and Maude, Get to Know Your Rabbit, Chinatown, The Fortune, Farewell My Lovely, Black Sunday, Blue Thunder, Scarface, Internal Affairs, The Guardian.- Cinematographer
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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 in 1996 for Fly Away Home (1996), the fourth in 2000 for The Patriot (2000), the fifth for The Passion of the Christ (2004), and the sixth for Never Look Away (2018).
He is the father of actresses Emily Deschanel and Zooey Deschanel.The Black Stallion, Being There, Let's Spend the Night Together, The Right Stuff, The Natural, The Hunted, The Passion of the Christ, Ask the Dust, Killshot, My Sister's Keeper, Killer Joe, Dream House, Unforgettable.- Cinematographer
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Jordan Cronenweth was born on 20 February 1935 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was a cinematographer and actor, known for Blade Runner (1982), Peggy Sue Got Married (1986) and Altered States (1980). He was married to Carolyn June Ervin. He died on 29 November 1996 in Los Angeles, California, USA.Brewster McCloud, The Front Page, Citizens Band, Rolling Thunder, Altered States, Cutter's Way, Blade Runner, Stop Making Sense, Peggy Sue Got Married, Garden's of Stone, State of Grace, Final Analysis.- Cinematographer
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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 technical school. He enrolled at C.I.A.C (Italian Cinemagraphic Training Centre) and subsequently continued his education at the state cinematography school Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia. When he enrolled at the school at the age of 18, he was one of its youngest students ever.
At the age of 20, he was employed as an assistant cameraman and was promoted to camera operator within a year. Storaro spent several years visiting galleries and studying the works of great painters, writers, musicians and other artists. In 1966, he went back to work as an assistant cameraman on Before the Revolution (1964), one of the first films directed by Bernardo Bertolucci. Storaro earned his first credit as a cinematographer in 1968 for "Giovinezza, giovinezza". His third film was "The Spider's Stratagem (1970)" which began his long collaboration with Bertolucci. He also shot "The Conformist (1970)", "Last Tango in Paris (1972)", "Luna (1979)", "The Sheltering Sky (1990)_", "Little Buddha (1993)," for Bertolucci.
He won his first Oscar for the cinematography of "Apocalypse Now (1979)", for which director Francis Ford Coppola gave him free rein to design the visual look of the picture. Storaro originally had been reluctant to take the assignment as he considered Gordon Willis to be Coppola's cinematographer, but Coppola wanted him, possibly because of his having shot "Last Tango in Paris (1972), which had starred Marlon Brando. Brando's performance in the film had been semi-improvised, and Coppola has planned on a similar tack for his scenes in the jungle with Brando's character Colonel Kurtz.
The results of their collaboration were masterful, and he later shot the 3-D short "Captain EO (1986)", the feature films "One from the Heart (1981)" and "Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988)," and the "Life without Zoe" segment of "New York Stories (1989)" for Coppola. He won his second Oscar as the director of photography on Warren Beatty's "Reds (1981)" and subsequently shot "Dick Tracy (1990)" and "Bulworth (1998)" for Beatty He won his third Oscar as the director of photography on Bertolucci's Best Picture Academy Award-winner "The Last Emperor (1987)".
"All great films are a resolution of a conflict between darkness and light," Storaro says. "There is no single right way to express yourself. There are infinite possibilities for the use of light with shadows and colors. The decisions you make about composition, movement and the countless combinations of these and other variables is what makes it an art."
According to Storaro, "Some people will tell you that technology will make it easier for one person to make a movie alone but cinema is not an individual art." Storaro disagrees. "It takes many people to make a movie. You can call them collaborators or co-authors. There is a common intelligence. The cinema never has the reality of a painting or a photograph because you make decisions about what the audience should see, hear and how it is presented to them. You make choices which super-impose your own interpretations of reality."
Storaro believes that, "It is our obligation to defend the audiences' rights to see the images and to hear the sounds the way we have expressed ourselves as artists,".
During the 1970s, the metaphor of cinematography as 'painting with light' took hold. Storaro, however, adds motion to the mix. Cinematography, to the great D.P., is writing with light and motion, the literal translation of the word cinematography, which derives from Greek
"It describes the real meaning of what we are attempting to accomplish," Storaro says. "We are writing stories with light and darkness, motion and colors. It is a language with its own vocabulary and unlimited possibilities for expressing our inner thoughts and feelings."
As a cinematographer, he is highly innovative. He had Rosco International fabricate a series of custom color gels for his lighting, which he used to implement his theories about emotional response to color. The "Storaro Selection" of color gels is available for other cinematographers from Rosco.
He created the "Univision" film system, which is a 35mm format based on film stock with three perforation that provides an aspect ratio of 2:1, which Storaro feels is a good compromise between the 2.35:1 and 1.85:1 wide-screen ratios favored by most filmmakers. Storaro developed the new technology with the intention of 2:1 becoming the universal aspect ratio for both movies and television in the digital age. He first shot the television mini-series "Dune" with the Univision system.
Storaro is the youngest person to receive the American Society of Cinematographer's Lifetime Achievement Award, and only the second recipient after Sven Nykvist not to be a U.S. citizen.The Bird with the Crystal Plumage, The Conformist, The Spider's Stratagem, The Fifth Cord, Last Tango in Paris, Footprints on the Moon, 1900, Agatha, Apocalypse Now, Luna, One from the Heart, Reds, Ladyhawke, Ishtar, The Lat Emperor, The Sheltering Sky, Taxi, Bulworth, Tango, Dominion, Exorcist: The Beginning, Cafe Society, Wonder Wheel, A Rainy Day in New York, Bach.- Cinematographer
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Yorick Le Saux was born on 10 August 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).Swimming Pool, I Am Love, Arbitrage, Only Lovers Left Alive, Clounds of Sils Maria, A Bigger Splash, Personal Shopper, High Life, Little Women, We Are Who We Are.- Cinematographer
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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 Paul Thomas Anderson and has worked with George Clooney several times. He shot Clooney's black and white, multiple-Oscar nominated film Good Night, and Good Luck. Notably, Elswit shot the film in color, then converted the film into black and white in post production.
He received his first Academy Award nomination for Best Cinematography in 2006 for his work on the movie Good Night, and Good Luck. Two years later, he would again be nominated and this time win the Oscar for Best Cinematography, for his work on There Will Be Blood.Bad Influence, Paris Trout, The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, Waterland, The River Wild, Hard Eight, Boogie Nights, 8MM, Magnolia, Heist, Impostor, Punch-Drunk Love, Syriana, Michael Clayton, There Will Be Blood, Redbelt, The Town, Nightcrawler, Inherent Vice, Velvet Buzzsaw.- Cinematographer
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Born in Tahiti, the son of writer James Norman Hall, author of "Mutiny on the Bounty," Conrad Hall studied filmmaking at USC. He and two classmates formed a production company and sold a project to a local television station. Hall's company branched out into making industrial films and TV commercials. They were hired to shoot location footage for several feature films, including's Disney's The Living Desert (1953). In the early 1960s, Hall was hired as a camera assistant on several features and worked his way up to camera operator. He received his first cinematographer credit in 1965. Hall won acclaim for his rich and complex compositions, especially for In Cold Blood (1967) and won an Academy Award for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969). He won two more Oscars, for American Beauty (1999), in 2000, and Road to Perdition (2002).In Cold Blood, Fat City, Marathon Man, Black Widow, Tequila Sunrise, Class Action, Jennifer 8, Without Limits.- Cinematographer
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- Editorial Department
Luciano Tovoli was born on 30 October 1936 in Massa Marittima, Grosseto, Italy. He is a cinematographer, known for The Passenger (1975), The General of the Dead Army (1983) and Tenebrae (1982).We Won't Grow Old Together, Chung Kuo - Cina, The Passenger, Suspiria, The Mystery of Oberwald, Beyond the Door, Tenebrae, Voyage in Time, Bianca, Police, Reversal of Fortune, Single White Female, Kiss of Death, Before and After, Desperate Measures, Murder by Numbers, Amnesia.- Cinematographer
- Camera and Electrical Department
- Location Management
Anthony Dod Mantle was born on 14 April 1955 in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK. He is a cinematographer, known for Slumdog Millionaire (2008), Antichrist (2009) and The Last King of Scotland (2006).The Celebration, Julien Donkey-Boy, 28 Days Later, It's All About Love, Dogville, Dear Wendy, Manderlay, Slumdog Millionare, Antichrist, 127 Hours, Dredd, Trance, Rush.- Cinematographer
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- Camera and Electrical Department
Sacha Vierny was born on 10 August 1919 in Bois-le-Roi, Seine-et-Marne, France. He was a cinematographer and assistant director, known for The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989), The Pillow Book (1995) and Belle de Jour (1967). He died on 15 May 2001 in Vannes, Morbihan, France.Night and Fog, Hiroshima Mon Amour, Last Year at Marienbad, Muriel, or the Time of Return, The War Is Over, Belle de Jour, Stavisky, The Suspended Vocation, The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting, My American Uncle, Three Crowns of the Sailor, Love Unto Death, A Zed & Two Noughts, The Belly of an Architect, Drowning by Numbers, The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover, Prospero's Books, M is for Man, Music, Mozart, The Baby of Mâcon, The Pillow Book, 8 1/2 Woman, The Man Who Cried.- Cinematographer
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- Writer
Vadim Yusov was born on 20 April 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 23 August 2013 in Moscow, Russia.The Steamroller and the Violin, Ivan's Childhhod, Andrei Rublev, Solaris.- Cinematographer
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Georgi Rerberg was born on 28 September 1937 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]. He was a cinematographer and writer, known for Stalker (1979), Zvezdopad (1981) and Mirror (1975). He was married to Valentina Titova. He died on 28 July 1999 in Moscow, Russia.The Mirror, Stalker.- Cinematographer
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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 (1990). He began his collaboration with the Coen brothers in 1991 on the film Barton Fink. He received his first major award from the American Society of Cinematographers for his outstanding achievement in cinematography for the internationally praised major motion picture The Shawshank Redemption (1994).
He is also known for his work in The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007), No Country for Old Men (2007), True Grit (2010), Skyfall (2012), Sicario (2015), and Blade Runner 2049 (2017).
Deakins also worked as one of the visual consultants for Pixar's animated feature WALL-E.
In 2018 he won an Oscar for best cinematographer for his work in Blade Runner 2049.1984, Sid and Nancy, Stormy Monday, Barton Fink, Thunderheart, The Secret Garden, The Hudsucker Proxy, Dead Man Walking, Fargo, The Big Lebowski, The Man Who Wasn't There, House of Sand and Fog, No Country for Old Men, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Doubt, Prisoners, Sicario, Blade Runner 2049.- Cinematographer
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Christopher Doyle was born on 2 May 1952 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. He is a cinematographer and actor, known for Paranoid Park (2007), Hero (2002) and 2046 (2004).Chungking Express, Ashes of Time, Fallen Angels, Happy Together, Psycho, In the Mood for Love, 2046, Dumplings, Paranoid Park, The Limits of Control.- Cinematographer
- Camera and Electrical Department
- Actor
Irreversible, The Card Player, Calvaire, Innocence, Joshua, Vinyan, Enter the Void, The Runaways, Spring Breakers, Lost River, Colt 45, Love, Climax, The Sisters Brothers, The Beach Bum, Lux Æterna, After Exile.- Cinematographer
- Camera and Electrical Department
- Visual Effects
Stanley Cortez was born Samuel Krantz in New York City, New York, the son of Sarah (Lefkowitz) and Moses/Morris Krantz, Austrian Jewish immigrants. His famous actor brother, born Jacob Krantz, changed his name to Ricardo Cortez in order to acquire a more suitably romantic Hollywood image. Stanley changed his name accordingly. After studies at New York University he embarked on a photographic career, first as assistant to noted portrait photographers Streichan and Bachrach (he designed many of their lavish background sets), then as camera assistant for Pathé Revue and for various Manhattan-based film companies. Grabbing the chance to join Gloria Swanson Productions, Stanley then spent a lengthy apprenticeship in the 1920s and early 1930s learning the intricacies of his craft from such established Hollywood cinematographers as Lee Garmes and Hal Mohr. After moving from studio to studio, either as a camera assistant or shooting screen tests, he was signed to a seven-year contract by Universal in 1936, albeit consigned to its "B" unit. His first film as full director of photography was Four Days Wonder (1936). During World War II, he was assigned to the Army Pictorial Service of the Signals Corps.
Much of his subsequent career was spent on fairly routine and undistinguished second features and it was not until he started working for charismatic filmmakers like Orson Welles and David O. Selznick that he was able to fully develop some of his experimental techniques. One of his low-budget outings, a gothic old-dark-house horror/comedy entitled The Black Cat (1941), rather impressed the genial Mr. Welles who promptly hired him for The Magnificent Ambersons (1942). This was the first of two Cortez films generally regarded as visual masterpieces, with beautiful lighting effects, clever angles and lingering close-ups. Of particular note are the staircase scene and the famous long shot -- via hand-held camera -- of the abandoned mansion. Despite critical plaudits, "Ambersons" was a financial disaster for RKO (it cost $1,1 million and lost $624,000 at the box office) and Cortez was partly blamed for costly delays and extravagant scenes, some 40-50 minutes of which were cut by direct orders from studio boss George Schaefer without consulting either Welles or Cortez. The latter ended up being indirectly censured by receiving lesser assignments. What remained of "Ambersons" has become more appreciated as a sublime visual experience with the passing of time.
The second outstanding Cortez contribution was the chillingly dark, haunting thriller The Night of the Hunter (1955)--a brilliant allegory of good versus evil masterminded by Charles Laughton in his sole directorial effort. Cortez's lighting and use of irises are reminiscent of German expressionist cinema, or, at least, the work of Karl Struss and Charles Rosher on Sunrise (1927). Among many indelible images are the flowing hair of drowned Shelley Winters in the underwater current and the lights flickering across the water in what is an almost surreal nightly landscape.
A third Cortez effort deserving of mention is the superior psychological drama The Three Faces of Eve (1957), his differential lighting for the face of schizophrenic Eve White (Joanne Woodward) effectively contrasting the multiple personalities within her psyche. Sadly, by the end of the decade Cortez's career went into a decline. It continued that way through the 1960s, the quality of his assignments fluctuating wildly between the occasional "A" picture (The Bridge at Remagen (1969)) and Z-grade turkeys like The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini (1966) and The Navy vs. the Night Monsters (1966).The Magnificent Ambersons, The Night of the Hunter, Shock Corridor, The Naked Kiss, Chinatown.- Cinematographer
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Jost Vacano was born on 15 March 1934 in Osnabrück, Germany. He is a cinematographer, known for Das Boot (1981), Starship Troopers (1997) and RoboCop (1987).Soldier of Orange, Spetters, Das Boot, The NeverEnding Story, 52 Pick-Up, Robocop, Total Recall, Showgirls, Starship Troopers, Hollow Man.- Cinematographer
- Camera and Electrical Department
- Actor
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 with Michael Mann for the feature Manhunter (1986). From that experience, Spinotti became one of the most appreciated cinematographer in Hollywood. His particular vision gives a movie a great sense of reality. Among his works are: The Last of the Mohicans (1992) (Academy Nomination), Heat (1995), L.A. Confidential (1997) (Academy Nomination), The Insider (1999) (Academy Nomination), and Wonder Boys (2000). He married his wife Marcella, and they live in Los Angeles, Rome, and Tolmezzo.Manhunter, Crimes of the Heart, Fair Game, The Comfort of Strangers, True Colors, Blink, Heat, L.A. Confidential, Goodbye Lover, The Insider, Wonder Boys, Red Dragon, Deception, Public Enemies, Traffik, Black and Blue, Fatale.- Cinematographer
- Camera and Electrical Department
- Production Manager
Agnès Godard was born on 29 May 1951 in Dun-sur-Auron, Cher, France. She is a cinematographer and production manager, known for Beau Travail (1999), Home (2008) and Wings of Desire (1987).I Can't Sleep, Nenette and Boni, Beau travail, Trouble Every Day, Friday Night, The Intruder, 35 Shots of Rum, Bastards, The Falling, Let the Sunshine In.- Cinematographer
- Camera and Electrical Department
- Actress
Caroline Champetier was born on 16 July 1954 in Paris, France. She is a cinematographer and actress, known for Holy Motors (2012), Annette (2021) and Marée haute (1999).Le Pont du Nord, Toute une nuit, Class Relations, Keep Your Right Up, The Gang of Four, The Sentinel, Oh, Woe Is Me, The School of Flesh, Alice and Martin, Holy Motors.- Cinematographer
- Visual Effects
- Camera and Electrical Department
Stephen H. Burum was born on 25 November 1939 in Visalia, California, USA. He is a cinematographer, known for The Untouchables (1987), The War of the Roses (1989) and Mission: Impossible (1996).The Escape Artist, The Entity, The Outsiders, Something Wicked This Way Comes, Rumble Fish, Body Double, St. Elmo's Fire, 8 Million Ways to Die, Nutcracker, The Untouchables, Casualties of War, Raising Cain, Carlito's Way, Mission: Impossible, Snake Eyes, Mission to Mars.- Cinematographer
- Camera and Electrical Department
- Producer
Acácio de Almeida was born on 29 June 1938 in Souto, Portugal. He is a cinematographer and producer, known for A Sombra dos Abutres (1998), Rage (2018) and Objectos de Luz (2022).City of Pirates, Vanishing Point, Régime sans pain, Treasure Island, Mammame, Dans un miroir.- Cinematographer
- Camera and Electrical Department
- Actor
Dick Pope was born in August 1947 in Bromley, Kent, England, UK. He is a cinematographer and actor, known for The Illusionist (2006), Mr. Turner (2014) and Vera Drake (2004).The Reflecting Skin, Life is Sweet, Naked, Secrets & Lies, Career Girls, Topsy-Turvy, All or Nothing, Vera Drake, Happy-Go-Lucky, Another Year, Mr. Turner, Peterloo.- Cinematographer
- Camera and Electrical Department
- Actor
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 Christoffer Boe on the feature films Everything Will Be Fine (2010), Allegro (2005) and Reconstruction (2003), which went on to win the Camera d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.
Claro has won numerous international accolades for his work. With an impressive 24 nominations and 12 wins, Claro has won awards at the Venice Film Festival, Camerimage, the Cannes Film Festival, and the European Film Awards. Additionally Claro's movies have premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, the Venice Film Festival, the Toronto International Film Festival, the Sundance Film Festival and the Berlin International Film Festival.
Recent credits include The Chorus Girls directed by Ditte Hansen and Louise Mieritz for TV2 Danmark in February, The Pact (2021) directed by Billie August for Motor Productions, five episodes of The Kingdom Exodus (Season 3, 2022) directed by Lars Von Trier for Zentropa Entertainment and A Taste of Hunger (2021) directed by Christoffer Boe for Zentropa Entertainment.
Claro has lensed commercials for many brands including H&M, Sony, IKEA, Canon, Nokia, Maersk, Momondo, Persil, Philadelphia, Synoptik, Tulip, Velux, Zeta. He has shot music videos for a wide range of artists, including FKA Twigs, Paloma Faith, Rhye, Sons of Raphael.
Born in Santiago, Chile and raised in Denmark, Claro studied still photography in Milan and worked as an assistant photographer before attending the prestigious National Film School of Denmark to study cinematography. Claro currently resides in Copenhagen with his partner and two children. He is fluent in Danish, English and Spanish.Melancholia, Nymphomaniac Vol. I, Nymphomaniac Vol. II, The House That Jack Built, Études.- Director
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- Camera and Electrical Department
Ernest Roscoe Dickerson A.S.C., aka. Ernest R. Dickerson, is an American film director and cinematographer. As a cinematographer, he is known for his frequent collaborations with Spike Lee. As a director, he is known for films such as Juice (1992), Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight (1995), Bones (2001) and Never Die Alone (2004). He has also directed several episodes of acclaimed television series such as Once Upon a Time (2011), The Wire (2002), Dexter (2006), and The Walking Dead (2010).The Brother from Another Planet, Krush Groove, She's Gotta Have It, School Daze, Do the Right Thing, Mo' Better Blues, Jungle Fever, Malcolm X.- Camera and Electrical Department
- Cinematographer
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 career as a clapper boy, the lowest member of a camera crew. By the early 1960s he had worked his way up to focus puller, the #3 position on a camera crew after the lighting cameraman and camera operator. As a focus puller Alcott was responsible for measuring the distances between the camera and the subject being shot, which is critical during traveling shots, and more vitally, he was tasked with adjusting the lens when the camera is following a subject.
By the mid-'60s Alcott was a member of the camera team of master cinematographer Geoffrey Unsworth, working on Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). When Unsworth had to leave the project during its two-year-long shoot to meet other commitments, Alcott was elevated to lighting cameraman by Kubrick. Thus began a collaboration that would reach its zenith a decade later with Barry Lyndon (1975). His association with Kubrick propelled him to the top of his craft, in terms of both style and in pushing the technical aspects of the discipline.
Alcott preferred lighting that appeared natural and did not draw attention to itself. His ideas meshed perfectly with those of Kubrick, and the two developed their ideas about "natural" lighting in two landmark films, A Clockwork Orange (1971) and "Barry Lyndon", which incorporated scenes shot entirely by candlelight. The idea of using candlelight solely for illumination was discussed by Alcott and Kubrick after the wrap of "2001" for Kubrick's planned film about the life of Napoleon, but there wasn't a fast-enough lens in existence then.
After a search, Kubrick located three unique 50mm f/0.7 still-camera camera lenses designed by the Zeiss Corporation for use by NASA in its Apollo moon-landing program in order to shoot still pictures in the low light levels of outer space. The lens was 2 f stops faster than the fastest movie camera lens made at the time.
Kubrick tasked Cinema Products Corp. to adapt a standard 35mm non-reflexed Mitchell BNC movie camera so that the camera could accept the lens. The camera was outfitted with a side viewfinder from one of the old Technicolor three-strip cameras that used mirrors rather than prisms (like a modern camera) to show what it "sees", the mirrors providing a much brighter image than did a prism-based single-lens reflex system, which could not obtain enough light to register an image. There was no real problem with parallax, as the viewfinder was mounted close to the lens.
Cinema Products also created two special lenses by mating a 70mm projection lens with the remaining 0.7 Zeiss 50mm lenses. This battery of three lenses allowed Kubrick and Alcott to shoot the indoor scenes using nothing but candlelight. It was a formidable task, as the lenses could not be focused by eye. Metal shields also had to be installed above the sets, which were filmed in actual castles and manor houses in Ireland and England, to keep the heat and smoke from the candles from damaging the ceilings. Fortitously, the shields also reflected the candlelight back into the scene (this approach was later used successfully by lighting cameraman Alwin H. Küchler on the western The Claim (2000), which shot its saloon interiors in very low light). The candles had to be constantly replaced to keep continuity during the scenes, and shooting was hampered by the fact that many of the manor houses were open to the public and the crew had to wait until the intervals between tours to film a scene.
Alcott told "American Cinematographer" in a December 1975 interview that the ultra-fast lens had no depth of field at all. This necessitated the scaling of the lens by doing hand tests. Alcott's focus puller, Douglas Milsome (who would succeed him as Kubrick's cinematographer), used a closed-circuit video camera at a 90-degree angle to the film camera to keep track of the distances to maintain focus. A grid was placed over the TV screen and, by taping the various actors' positions in the set, the distances could be transferred to the TV grid to allow the actors a limited scope of movement during the scene, while keeping in focus.
Alcott won an Academy Award for his work on "Barry Lyndon", which is considered one of the most visually beautiful movies ever made. (Three of Alcott's movies were ranked in the top 20 of "Best Shot" movies in the period after 1950-97 by the American Society of Cinematographers: "2001" at #3, "Barry Lyndon" at #16, and "A Clockwork Orange", for which he won the British Academy Award, at #19.) Alcott realized Kubrick's vision by evoking the paintings of Corot, Gainsborough, and Watteau, creating gorgeous tableaux. It was the aesthetic opposite of the cubism evoked by "A Clockwork Orange",
While shooting what would turn out to be his last film for Kubrick, The Shining (1980), Alcott lit the hotel sets with "practicals" (sources of lighting that are visible on screen as part of the set, such as lighting fixtures). As on "Barry Lyndon", Alcott supplemented the lighting with illumination coming into the set from outside the windows, though the "windows" on "The Shining" were part of a set. The high temperatures (110 degrees Fahrenheit) caused by the 700,000 watts of illumination outside the set's "windows" Alcott used to create the high white effect favored by Kubrick caused the set to burn down.
Alcott, who shot films and TV commercials for other directors in the UK, moved to the US in 1981 in order to obtain more steady work than was possible in the ailing British film industry. His non-Kubrick projects as a cinematographer included three films with director Stuart Cooper and two with Roger Spottiswoode. Alcott could not shoot Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket (1987), which commenced shooting in 1985 and -- like any Kubrick shoot -- would involved a substantial commitment of time, as Alcott was committed to other projects (Kubrick hired Douglas Milsome, who had been Alcott's focus puller on "Barry Lyndon" and "The Shining", to shoot "Jacket"). His non-Kubrick oeuvre was eccentric, and included the Canadian slasher film My Bloody Valentine (1981), but he was able to bring his outstanding visual quality to such movies as Fort Apache the Bronx (1981), The Beastmaster (1982), Under Fire (1983) and Hugh Hudson's Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984).
Alcott suffered a massive heart attack and died on July 28, 1986, in Cannes, France. At the time of his death he was considered one of the film industry's great artist-technicians, someone who through his ability to push back the boundaries of what was technically possible, linked technology to aesthetic needs and contributed to the development of cinema as an art form. His last film, No Way Out (1987), was dedicated to his memory. The British Society of Cinematographers named one of its awards the "BSC John Alcott ARRI Award" in his honor to commemorate his role as a lighting cameraman in the development of film as an art form.A Clockwork Orange, Barry Lyndon, The Shining, Terror Train, Vice Squad, Under Fire, No Way Out.- Cinematographer
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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 underexposed film, as well as in his control of lighting and exposure to create the sepia tones that denoted period scenes in The Godfather Part II (1974).
In the seven-year period up to 1977, Willis was the director of photography on six films that received among them 39 Academy Award nominations, winning 19 times, including three awards for Best Picture. During this time he did not receive a single nomination for Best Cinematography.
He directed one film of his own, Windows (1980). His last film as a cinematographer was The Devil's Own (1997), directed by Alan J. Pakula.
Willis died of cancer on May 18, 2014, ten days before his 83rd birthday, at the age of 82.Klute, The Godfather, Bad Company, The Paper Chase, The Parallax View, The Godfather: Part II, All the President's Men, Annie Hall, Interiors, Manhattan, Windows, Stardust Memories, Pennies from Heaven, Zelig, Broadway Danny Rose, The Purple Rose of Cairo, Presumed Innocent, The Godfather: Part III, Malice, The Devil's Own.- Cinematographer
Distinguished veteran cinematographer John F. Seitz had eighteen patents for various photographic processes to his name. These included illuminating devices, processes for making dissolves and the matte shot, which he perfected during filming of Rex Ingram's Trifling Women (1922). Seitz started with Essanay in Chicago, then joined the St. Louis Motion Picture Company as a lab tech in 1909. Within another four years, he had progressed to director of photography. He was signed by Metro in 1920, doing his best work in collaboration with Ingram, most notably on The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921) and The Prisoner of Zenda (1922). Personally selected by William Randolph Hearst, Seitz was also behind the camera for The Patsy (1928), one of the major hits for Hearst's mistress, Marion Davies. By this time, he was the highest paid cinematographer in Hollywood.
Seitz's trademark was low key lighting and differentially illuminating different regions of the screen (ie. background, foreground and middle). His colour photography was characterised by a tendency to favor tan or beige as backgound colours, and vivid colours for costumes or props. Seitz's career in the 1930's, spent at 20th Century Fox (1931-36) and MGM (1937-40), was generally unremarkable. However, he enjoyed a massive resurgence at Paramount (1941-52), working on some of the best films made by Preston Sturges (Sullivan's Travels (1941), Hail the Conquering Hero (1944) and The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1943)) and Billy Wilder (Double Indemnity (1944), The Lost Weekend (1945) and Sunset Boulevard (1950)). Add to that another two excellent films noir, This Gun for Hire (1942) and Lucky Jordan (1942) - both directed by Frank Tuttle and starring Alan Ladd. He was a master at creating atmosphere through ominous shadows and looming close-ups.Double Indemnity, The Lost Weekend, Sunset Blvd.- Cinematographer
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Edward Lachman was born on 31 March 1948 in Morristown, New Jersey, USA. He is a cinematographer and director, known for Carol (2015), Far from Heaven (2002) and Ken Park (2002).The Lords of Flatbush, Union City, Desperately Seeking Susan, True Stories, Less Than Zero, Light Sleeper, Touch, The Limey, The Virgin Suicides, Erin Brockovich, S1m0ne, Ken Park, Far From Heaven, A Prairie Home Companion, Life During Wartime, Mildred Pierce, Dark Blood, Carol, Wiener-Dog, Dark Waters.- Cinematographer
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Almost universally considered one of the greatest cinematographers of all time, Jack Cardiff was also a notable director. He described his childhood as very happy and his parents as quite loving. They performed in music hall as comedians, so he grew up with the fun that came with their theatrical life in pantomime and vaudeville. His father once worked with Charles Chaplin. His parents did occasional film appearances, and young Jack appeared in some of their films, such as My Son, My Son (1918), at the age of four. He had the lead in Billy's Rose (1922) with his parents playing his character's parents in the film. Jack was a production runner, or what he would call a "general gopher", for The Informer (1929) in which his father appeared. For one scene he was asked by the first assistant cameraman to "follow focus", which he said was his first real brush with photography of any kind, but he claimed that it was the lure of travel that led to him joining a camera department making films in a studio. He had, however, become impressed with the use of light and color in paintings by the age of seven or eight, and described how he watched art directors in theaters painting backdrops setting lights. His friend Ted Moore was also a camera assistant in this period when both worked in a camera department run by Freddie Young, who would also become a legendary cinematographer. He worked for Alfred Hitchcock during the filming of The Skin Game (1931).
By 1936 Cardiff had risen to being a camera operator at Denham Studios when the Technicolor Company hired him on the basis of what he told them in interview about the use of light by master painters. This led to his operating camera for the first Technicolor film shot in Britain, Wings of the Morning (1937). He finally was offered the full position of director of photography by Michael Powell for A Matter of Life and Death (1946), ironically working in B&W for the first time in some sequences. His next assignment was on Black Narcissus (1947), where he acknowledged the influence of painters Vermeer and Caravaggio and their use of shadow. He won the Academy Award for best color cinematography for this film. Jack certainly got to travel when it was decided to shoot The African Queen (1951) on location in the Congo. Errol Flynn offered Jack the chance to direct The Story of William Tell (1953) that would star Flynn. It would have been the second film made in CinemaScope had it been completed, but the production ran out of money part way through filming in Switzerland.
It has been said that Marilyn Monroe requested that Jack photograph The Prince and the Showgirl (1957). Although he had already directed some small productions, he had a critical breakthrough with Sons and Lovers (1960). He continued directing other films through the 1960s, including the commercial hit Dark of the Sun (1968), but for the most part returned to working for other directors as a very sought-after cinematographer in the 1970s and beyond. He continued to work into the new century, almost until his death. He was made an OBE in 2000 and received a lifetime achievement award at the 73rd Academy Awards.A Matter of Life and Death, Black Narcissus, The Red Shoes, The Black Rose, Pandora and the Flying Dutchman, The African Queen, The Barefoot Contessa, War and Peace.- Cinematographer
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After studying film and photography at the San Francisco Art Institute, Lance moved to New York to assist photographer/filmmaker Bruce Weber. He began his career as a cinematographer shooting music videos and commercials with close friend and collaborator Spike Jonze. Lance quickly became one of the industry's most sought after cinematographers and shot seminal music videos for directors Michel Gondry, Mark Romanek, Stéphane Sednaoui, and Dayton Faris. In 2001 he won the MTV Music Award for Best Cinematography for Fatboy Slim's Weapon of Choice.
Lance's feature Cinematography debut was Vincent Gallo's cult classic Buffalo 66. His long list of credits include Sofia Coppola's Lost in Translation (BAFTA nomination for Best Cinematography), Marie Antoinette as well as Spike Jonze's Being John Malkovich, Adaptation and Where the Wild Things Are.
In the late 90's Lance began his transition into directing and in 1998, together with his business partner Jackie Kelman Bisbee, founded the production company Park Pictures. Over the years, he has received 35 Cannes Lions for his work with clients such as Nike, Apple, HP, VW, P&G, Subaru and more. He was nominated Best Commercial Director by the DGA in 2003, 2011, 2012, and 2017. In 2011, Lance's Super Bowl spot for Volkswagen, The Force, became the undisputed highlight of the year's Super Bowl broadcast. The Force was named the best ad of 2011 by AdWeek, Creativity, and YouTube, and consistently ranks on lists of the greatest Super Bowl ads of all time.
His Apple film "Misunderstood" won the 2014 Emmy Award for Outstanding Commercial. In 2019 Lance won his second Emmy Award for Nike "Dream Crazy," starring Colin Kaepernick.Buffalo '66, Being John Malkovich, Adaptation., Lost in Translation, Marie Antoinette, Where the Wild Things Are, God's Pocket.- Director
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During his last years at school he spent most of his time writing a thesis on 'the future of film' On leaving school he joined Gaumont British Studios at Lime Grove as an apprentice to a stills photographer for a year. He claimed this taught him more about the art of photography than any other form of training could. He then became a clapper boy at B.I.P. Studios at Elstree then moved to British Dominion where he became a a camera assistant. Next was a move to Pinewood and his call up for war duty much of which was spent as a one man film unit based at Aldershot where he learnt more about his craft than about soldering.. After the war he returned to Shepperton Studios to work for Alexander Korda and Powell and Pressburger. He also worked for John Huston on 'Moby Dick' for which he was responsible for all the second unit photography and special effects.Sons and Lovers, The Innocents, Night Must Fall, The Elephant Man, The French Lieutenant's Woman, The Executioner's Song, Dune, Return to Oz, Glory, Cape Fear, The Straight Story.- Cinematographer
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Peter Deming was born in Beirut, Lebanon. He is a cinematographer and actor, known for Mulholland Drive (2001), The Menu (2022) and The Continental (2023).Evil Dead II, Drop Dead Fred, On the Air, Hotel Room, Lost Highway, Scream 2, Music of the Heart, Mulholland Drive, Scream 3, From Hell, Twisted, I Heart Huckabees, The Jacket, Drag Me to Hell, Scream 4, The Cabin in the Woods, Oz the Great and Powerful, Twin Peaks, Unrecorded Night.- Cinematographer
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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 most natural look imaginable. Indeed, Mr. Nykvist prided himself on the simplicity and naturalness of his lighting schemes. Nykvist used light to create mood and, more significantly, to bring out the natural flesh tones in the human face so that the emotion of the scene could be played out on the face without the light becoming intrusive.
Nykvist entered the Swedish film industry when he was 19 and worked his way up to becoming a director of photography. He first worked with the legendary Swedish director Ingmar Bergman on the film Sawdust and Tinsel (1953), but his collaboration with Bergman began in earnest with The Virgin Spring (1960). From that point on, Nykvist replaced the great Gunnar Fischer as Bergman's cameraman, and the two men started a collaboration that would last for a quarter of a century. The switch from Fischer to Nykvist created a marked difference in the look of Bergman's films. In many respects, it was like the difference between Caravaggio and Rembrandt. Fischer's lighting was a study in light and darkness, while Nykvist preferred a more naturalistic, more subtle approach that in many ways relied on the northern light compositions of the many great Scandinavian painters.
Nykvist's work with Bergman is one of the most glorious collaborations in movie history. Nykvist created a markedly different look for each installment of Bergman's Faith Trilogy. Through a Glass Darkly (1961) had an almost suffocating quality to it, and The Silence (1963) hearkened back to the days of German Expressionism. Winter Light (1963), the middle part of the trilogy, may very well be the most perfect work of Nykvist's repertoire. Having studied the light in a real provincial church carefully, he then recreated the subtle changes in the light as the day went on on a Stockholm sound stage. Indeed, it's hard to believe that the film was shot on a stage and not in a real church in Northern Sweden. For Persona (1966), Nykvist relied heavily on Sweden's famous Midnight Sun. In The Passion of Anna (1969), Nykvist was able to capture the chilly, soggy, and melancholy look of Faro, one of Nykvist's first color films. Both Nykvist and Bergman were both very reluctant to film in color. He created a fascinating study of white and red in Cries & Whispers (1972), for which Nykvist won an Oscar. He won an Oscar again for the last feature-length theatrical film that Bergman made, Fanny and Alexander (1982).
During the late 1970s, Nykvist began making films elsewhere in Europe and in the United States, working for directors such as Louis Malle (Pretty Baby (1978)), Philip Kaufman (The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988)), Bob Fosse (Star 80 (1983)), Nora Ephron (Sleepless in Seattle (1993)), Woody Allen (Another Woman (1988), Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)), Richard Attenborough (Chaplin (1992)), and fellow Swede Lasse Hallström (What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993)). The documentary Ljuset håller mig sällskap (2000) paid homage to Nykvist, although it does not grant us any real secrets about his working methods. Nykvist died in 2006.Sawdust and Tinsel, The Virgin Spring, Through a Glass Darkly, Winter Light, The Silence, Persona, Hour of the Wolf, Shame, The Passion of Anna, First Love, The Touch, Cries and Whispers, Scenes from a Marriage, The Magic Flute, Black Moon, Face to Face, The Tenant, The Serpent's Egg, Pretty Baby, Autumn Sonata, The Postman Always Rings Twice, Fanny and Alexander, Star 80, Swann in Love, Dream Lover, The Sacrifice, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Another Woman, New York Stories, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Chaplin, Sleepless in Seattle, What's Eating Gilbert Grape, Lumière and Company, Celebrity.- Cinematographer
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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 a sequence of 5 minutes long showing the exodus of countrymen and soldiers on an infernal rainy night was the inspiration of Pablo Picasso. This sequence can be found in the second half of the movie - from minute 51 to minute 56 -. If you search "Jose Luis Alcaine and the Guernica" in the internet you will find the theory very well explained.Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!, Bad Education, Volver, The Skin I Live In, Pain and Glory.- Cinematographer
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Caroline Champetier was born on 16 July 1954 in Paris, France. She is a cinematographer and actress, known for Holy Motors (2012), Annette (2021) and Marée haute (1999).- Cinematographer
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Eric Gautier was born on 2 April 1961 in Paris, France. He is a cinematographer, known for The Motorcycle Diaries (2004), Into the Wild (2007) and Ash Is Purest White (2018).Irma Vep, Tykho Moon, Pola X, Clean, Private Fears in Public Places, Into the Wild, Wild Grass, Miral, Hitchcock/Truffaut, Both Sides of the Blade, Stars at Noon.- Cinematographer
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Sayombhu Mukdeeprom was born in Thailand in 1970. He is a cinematographer who was first recognized for his work on Thai cinema for the movie Sang sattawat, and more recently in the west for his collaboration with director Luca Guadagnino in Call Me By Your Name and the still unreleased Guadagnino remake of Suspiria.Syndromes and a Century, Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, Arabian Nights: Volume 1-3, Antonia, Call Me By Your Name, Suspiria, The Staggering Girl, Memoria, Beckett, Challengers.