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John Schwartzman was born on 18 October 1960 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is a cinematographer and actor, known for Seabiscuit (2003), Pearl Harbor (2001) and Atlas (2024).- Cinematographer
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Howard Atherton was born on 12 August 1947 in Ilford, Essex, England, UK. He is a cinematographer, known for Deep Rising (1998), Bad Boys (1995) and Black Rain (1989).- 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).- Cinematographer
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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).- Camera and Electrical Department
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Mitchell "Mitch" Amundsen grew up in Larkspur in Marin County outside of San Francisco. During his high school years he became interested in still photography and studied film at the Montana State University in Bozeman. There, he took classes on motion pictures, which sparked his interest in cinematography.
In 1980, Mitch left the university to work for $100/week on the production of the Francis Ford Coppola film One from the Heart (1981), and his subsequent features, Rumble Fish (1983) and The Outsiders (1983), working as a production assistant. He worked his way up as a camera assistant, then a camera operator, and debuted as a cinematographer on the comedy The Country Bears (2002).
Mitch has continued to amass credits as a cinematographer working on tent-poles such as Transformers (2007), Wanted (2008) and Now You See Me (2013). In 2008, he was named one of Variety's "10 Cinematographers to Watch". Mitch lives with his wife in Mammoth Lakes, CA.- Cinematographer
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Amir Mokri was born in Iran. He is a cinematographer and writer, known for Man of Steel (2013), Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014) and Lord of War (2005). He is married to Winnie Mokri.- Cinematographer
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Paul Cameron, ASC's visually groundbreaking work as a director and a director of photography has helped shape the craft of cinematography in the 21st century. Cameron recently directed multiple episodes of "Special Ops: Lioness", created by Taylor Sheridan for Paramount+, as well as multiple episodes of HBO's acclaimed "Westworld" series. Previously, Cameron was Cinematographer on "Reminiscence", starring Hugh Jackman and Rebecca Ferguson, "21 Bridges", and "The Commuter", starring Liam Neeson. His other DP credits include: "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales", "Man on Fire", "Déjà Vu", "Collateral", "Dead Man Down", "Total Recall", "Swordfish", and "Gone in Sixty Seconds", among others. Cameron is on the Board of Governors for The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, has won both Clio and AICP awards, and is represented by DDA.- Cinematographer
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Dariusz Wolski is a Polish film and music video cinematographer. He is best known for Crimson Tide (1995), Dark City (1998), the Pirates of the Caribbean film series, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007), The Martian (2015) and All the Money in the World (2017).
Many of his collaborations include working with film directors like Ridley Scott, Rob Marshall, Tony Scott, Gore Verbinski and Tim Burton.
Wolski has also worked on several music videos with artists such as Elton John, Eminem, David Bowie, Sting, Aerosmith, and Neil Young.- Cinematographer
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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 BAFTA nominations for Best Cinematographer.
Prior to regularly collaborating with well-known directors like Oliver Stone and Quentin Tarantino, Richardson served an apprenticeship shooting second unit on Repo Man while filming television documentaries for PBS and the BBC. His work in television led Stone to hire Richardson to shoot both Salvador and Platoon. From there, he worked almost exclusively with Stone, filming Wall Street, Born on the Fourth of July and The Doors, while occasionally branching out to shoot films like John Sayles' Eight Men Out and City of Hope.
Richardson also shot Stone's Natural Born Killers, Nixon and U-Turn. He then began collaborating with Martin Scorsese and Quentin Tarantino. Scorsese chose him as DP on 1999's Bringing Out the Dead, while Tarantino snapped him up for Kill Bill, Vol. 1 and Kill Bill, Vol. 2.
Richardson continued to make his mark as Tarantino's DP on 2012's Django Unchained and 2015's The Hateful Eight, as well as on Ben Affleck's 2016 film Live By Night. He shot Director Andy Serkis's 2017 Breathe starring Andrew Garfield and Claire Foy; 2018's Adrift for Director Balthasar Kormakur starring Shailene Woodley and Sam Claflin for STX, and 2018's A Private War for Director Matthew Heineman starring Rosamund Pike. Richardson then shot Tarantino's 2020 hit Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, which starred Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt, and 2021's Venom 2 for Sony/Director Andy Serkis.
Recent credits include 2022's Emancipation again with Fuqua for Apple Studios, 2023's Air directed by Ben Affleck for Amazon Studios, and The Equalizer 3 for Director Antoine Fuqua and for Columbia Pictures.- Cinematographer
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Peter Levy was born in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. He is known for Predator 2 (1990), Lost in Space (1998) and The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (2004).- Cinematographer
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Jeffrey L. Kimball was born on 29 May 1943 in Wichita, Kansas, USA. He is a cinematographer, known for Mission: Impossible II (2000), Paycheck (2003) and Star Trek: Nemesis (2002).- Cinematographer
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Alexander Gruszynski was born on 19 June 1950 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland. He is a cinematographer and director, known for The Craft (1996), Barefoot (2014) and Tremors (1990).- Cinematographer
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Mauro Fiore was born on 15 November 1964 in Marzi, Calabria, Italy. He is a cinematographer, known for Avatar (2009), Training Day (2001) and The Island (2005). He has been married to Christine Vollmer since 2000. They have three children.- Cinematographer
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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 Alfonso Cuarón. The two have been friends since they were teenagers and attended the same film school at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. Together they have worked on six motion pictures: Love in the Time of Hysteria (1991), A Little Princess (1995), Great Expectations (1998), And Your Mother Too (2001), Children of Men (2006), and Gravity (2013). His work with Cuarón on Children of Men (2006), has received universal acclaim. The film utilized a number of new technologies and distinctive techniques. The "roadside ambush" scene was shot in one extended take utilizing a special camera rig invented by Doggicam systems, developed from the company's Power Slide system. For the scene, a vehicle was modified to enable seats to tilt and lower actors out of the way of the camera. The windshield of the car was designed to tilt out of the way to allow camera movement in and out through the front windscreen. A crew of four, including Lubezki, rode on the roof. Children of Men (2006) also features a seven-and-a-half-minute battle sequence composed of roughly five seamless edits.
Lubezki has been nominated for eight Academy Awards for Best Cinematography, winning three, for Gravity (2013), Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014), and The Revenant (2015). He is the first cinematographer in history to win three consecutive Academy Awards.- Cinematographer
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Ben Seresin B.S.C., A.S.C., has lensed a number of notable features with big-name directors. He collaborated with Michael Bay on Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen and on Pain and Gain. He shot Marc Forster's World War Z starring Brad Pitt (sharing credit with Robert Richardson, A.S.C.), and Tony Scott's Unstoppable for which he was nominated for the Satellite Award for Best Cinematography. The movie starred Denzel Washington and Chris Pine. More recently, Seresin worked with Doug Liman on 2021's Chaos Walking starring Daisy Ridley and Tom Holland, 2021's Godzilla vs. Kong featuring Alexander Skarsgard and Millie Bobby Brown, and Niki Caro's upcoming feature, The Mother, starring Jennifer Lopez and Ralph Fiennes, set to debut in May 2023. He's currently filming the sequel to Godzilla vs. Kong.
Seresin grew up in New Zealand and moved to the UK to pursue his dream in film. He built a stellar reputation in the commercial and television world before making his feature film debut on Mike Barker's The James Gang. He was able to strengthen his action prowess as 2nd unit director of photography on such films as Lara Croft: Tomb Raider and Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines. His major break came when he took over for Dariusz Wolski, A.S.C. on first unit for Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, after Wolski had to leave early to start work on another project.
In between films, Seresin uses commercials and music videos as a creative testing ground for new equipment and techniques. Seresin's PUMA commercial with director Ringan Ledwidge After Hours Athlete, was awarded the Film Grand Prix at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity in 2011. And the NIKE commercial he lensed, Winner Stays On, was used as NIKE's main commercial during the final of the 2014 FIFA World Cup.- Cinematographer
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Russell Carpenter was born on 9 December 1950 in Van Nuys, California, USA. He is a cinematographer and producer, known for Avatar: The Way of Water (2022), Titanic (1997) and Ant-Man (2015).- Cinematographer
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Oliver Wood was born on 21 February 1942 in London, England, UK. He was a cinematographer and actor, known for The Bourne Ultimatum (2007), The Other Guys (2010) and Morbius (2022). He was married to Jane Forth and Sabine Groh. He died on 13 February 2023 in Hollywood, California, USA.- Camera and Electrical Department
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Born in California, David grew up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He became interested in movies at an early age, making stop-motion animated films in his basement starting at age 12.
He attended the New York University Tisch School of the Arts film school from 1985-1989; winning awards for cinematography and becoming interested in Steadicam. He spent three years as an apprentice to New York Operator, Ted Churchill, bought a Steadicam, and began working his way up the ladder.
He moved up to A Camera/Steadicam Operator on "The Green Mile" and has been working in that capacity ever since.
He lives in Hollywood with his unbelievably fantastic wife, Liz Vassey.
He has yet to figure out why he wrote this in the third person.- Cinematographer
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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 other film's as an cinematographer includes Amistad (1997), A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001), Catch Me If You Can (2002), The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007), War Horse (2011), Lincoln (2012), Bridge of Spies (2015), The BFG (2016), and Ready Player One (2018).- Cinematographer
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Slawomir Idziak was born on 25 January 1945 in Katowice, Slaskie, Poland. He is a cinematographer and writer, known for Three Colors: Blue (1993), Black Hawk Down (2001) and Gattaca (1997). He was previously married to Maria Gladkowska.- 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.- Cinematographer
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Dietrich Lohmann was born on 9 March 1943 in Schnepfenthal, Thuringia, Germany. He was a cinematographer and writer, known for Deep Impact (1998), Color of Night (1994) and Ein großer graublauer Vogel (1970). He died on 14 November 1997 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Cinematographer
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Arthur Wong, a famous cinematographer, is the permanent president of HKSC. Began his film career in 17 years old, he has participated in over 120 films with well-known directors, such as Ann Lee, John Woo, Hark Tsui, Jackie Chan, Peter Chan, Woo-ping Yuen and Teddy Chan. He has won Hong Kong Film Awards for Best Cinematography in 9 times, and was also the first three consecutive awards winner. Arthur Wong is not only a famous cinematographer but also a producer, director and actor too.- 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.- Cinematographer
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Dean Semler was born on 26 May 1943 in Renmark, South Australia, Australia. He is a cinematographer and assistant director, known for Apocalypto (2006), Dances with Wolves (1990) and Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981). He is married to Annie Semler.