Cinematographers

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.

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.

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).

Allen Daviau was born on 14 June 1942 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. He was a cinematographer and writer, known for E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), Empire of the Sun (1987) and Bugsy (1991). He died on 15 April 2020 in Woodland Hills, California, USA.

Australian cinematographer Peter Menzies, Jr., ACS Director of Photography, is internationally known for his diverse and critically acclaimed body of work which spans more than 30 major feature films, along with numerous television pilots, mini-series and commercials.

He is probably most recognized for his work on action/adventure dramas including Die Hard with a Vengeance, The General's Daughter, Shooter, Four Brothers, White Sand, The Getaway, Hard Rain, A Time to Kill, and the period adventures The Thirteenth Warrior and The Great Raid.

Menzies' work in the fantasy/action genre and his expertise in VFX production on films such as Clash of the Titans, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, The Incredible Hulk, and Gods of Egypt made him uniquely qualified to film Director Will Gluck's blockbuster hybrid interpretation of Beatrix Potter's Peter Rabbit in 2018 and Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway in 2021.

Other recent projects include 2019's A Dog's Way Home, an American family adventure film directed by Charles Martin Smith for Columbia Pictures, starring Ashley Judd and Edward James Olmos. The movie was made for $18 million and garnered $80 million at the box office.

Like most DPs, Menzies enjoys the unique director/cinematographer creative collaboration, and has worked with a variety of legendary directors from across the globe, including Bruce Beresford, John Singleton, Simon West, Mikael Salomon, Jon Turteltaub, Roger Donaldson, Sam Raimi, Joel Schumacher, John Dahl, David Nutter, Charles Martin Smith, John McTiernan, Gabrielle Muccino, Will Gluck and Alex Proyas.

Menzies has been married for over 25 years to his wife and business partner, Denise. The couple have three daughters. He is a keen sailor and sports enthusiast; particularly when it comes to Formula One racing or international rugby. He is also a member of the Australian Cinematographer's Society and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Stuart Dryburgh was born on 30 March 1952 in London, England, UK. He is a cinematographer, known for The Piano (1993), The Great Wall (2016) and The Painted Veil (2006).

Mike Gioulakis is known for It Follows (2014), Us (2019) and Old (2021).

Bill Pope was born on 19 June 1952 in Bowling Green, Kentucky, USA. He is a cinematographer and director, known for The Matrix (1999), The Jungle Book (2016) and Spider-Man 2 (2004). He is married to Sharon Oreck. They have one child.

Jess Hall was born on March 16, 1971 in England. He is known for his work on Hot Fuzz (2007), Grindhouse (2007), The Spectacular Now (2014), Ghost In The Shell (2017) and WandaVision (2021). He attended Saint Martins School of Art and New York University where he studied film and fine art. Hall states; 'I grew up experiencing two very different kinds of light. The Caribbean light is intense, powerful and high contrast. And on the other hand, there was the soft, silver-gray light of northern Europe. Much of my work exists in this tension between these two sensibilities'.

Simon Duggan was born in Wellington, New Zealand. He is a cinematographer, known for The Great Gatsby (2013), Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024) and Hacksaw Ridge (2016).

Remi Adefarasin was born on 2 February 1948 in London, England, UK. He is a cinematographer, known for Elizabeth (1998), Match Point (2005) and Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007).

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.

Nick was born in Buckinghamshire to an Anglo-Indian mother and a British father, and grew up in Adelaide, Australia. In recent times he was awarded "Cinematographer of the Year" by the ACS, as well as being named by Hollywood's Variety magazine as one of the "10 cinematographers to watch" for Hotel Mumbai. He lives between Europe and the US, and is represented by Tara Kromer at The Gersh Agency in New York City.

Benoît Debie is known for Climax (2018), Enter the Void (2009) and The Sisters Brothers (2018).

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. Maxime soon worked as a young actor in several movies, including "Une Page d'Amour" directed by Elie Chouraqui, with Anouk Aimée and Bruno Cremer and Nanni Moretti's "Bianca" in 1984. A few years later, Maxime discovered his Photography passion on a set of a short-movie directed by his stepfather. In the late 1980s, Maxime moved with his family to Paris, where he began his career in the camera department working in commercials, learning from great Cinematographers like Darius Kondji, J.Y. Escoffier, P. Lhomme, Vilko Filak, and Italian cinematographers including Tonino Delli Colli and Franco Di Giacomo. His earliest work as a Director of Photography was shooting the second unit of a commercial for Michel Gondry. In 2001, Maxime met Alexandre Aja and Gregory Levasseur, working in the second unit for Aja's father, Alexandre Arkadi, on the movie "Break of Dawn" written by Aja and Levasseur. The three collaborated on Aja's directorial debut, "High Tension," two years later. The movie was internationally recognized as the beginning of the French New Wave of horror in the 2000s and was picked up for distribution by Lions Gate Films.

Maxime, Alexandre, and Gregory collaborated again on the remake of "The Hills Have Eyes" and "Mirrors." During the making of Hills Have Eyes, Maxime met Wes Craved, with whom he worked on "Paris, Je T'aime," an anthology film that grouped works from Alexander Payne, The Coen Brothers, Vincenzo Natali, and others, and the film was selected to screen at Un Certain Regard at the Cannes Film Festival, the second time for Maxime after "Marock," a movie directed by Laila Marrakchi in 2005.

In 2006, Maxime was recognized by Variety as one of its Ten Cinematographers to Watch.

Several other films have followed, including P2, directed by Franck Khalfoun; The Crazies, by Breck Eisner; The Voices, directed by Marjane Satrapi; The Crawl, by Alexandre Aja; Shazam, by David F. Sandberg and soon-to-be-release Never let go by Alexandre Aja and Paris Paradis by Marjane Satrapi.

Laurie Rose is known for The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (2022), Rebecca (2020) and Peaky Blinders (2013).

Lorenzo Senatore was born on 2 March 1974 in London, England, UK. He is a cinematographer, known for Wonder Woman (2017), Venom: The Last Dance (2024) and Spectre (2015).

Greg Gardiner was born in New York, New York, USA. He is known for Race to Witch Mountain (2009), To Live and Die in L.A. (1985) and Men in Black II (2002).

Michael Fimognari is an American director, producer, and cinematographer, best known for his work on the To All the Boys trilogy (To All the Boys I've Loved Before (2018), To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You (2020), and To All the Boys: Always and Forever (2021)) and his collaboration with Mike Flanagan (The Fall of the House of Usher (2023), Doctor Sleep (2019), and The Haunting of Hill House (2018) among others).

A graduate of the USC School of Cinematic Arts and the Pennsylvania State University , Michael directed an Emmy Award-winning short film while at USC.

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 (2018) and Avengers: End Game (2019).

He also had small roles in the short film Terminus (2007) and Pearl Jam's Retrograde music video in which he was also the cinematographer.

Yves Bélanger was born on 7 July 1960 in Montréal, Québec, Canada. He is a cinematographer, known for Brooklyn (2015), Dallas Buyers Club (2013) and Wild (2014).

Cinematographer Daniel Pearl was born in the Bronx, New York City and grew up in New Jersey. His father was a mechanical engineer as well as an alumnus from the University of Texas in Austin. The first film Pearl made was an 8mm movie about skateboarding that he shot and edited at the age of 13. Daniel has both a Bachelor of Science in Radio, Film, & TV and a Master of Arts in Communication (Film) from the University of Texas in Austin. Pearl shot his first feature The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) in Texas for Tobe Hooper. Daniel eventually moved to Los Angles, California in 1976. Outside of his film work, Pearl has also shot numerous music videos and TV commercials.

Brandon Trost was born on 29 August 1981. He is a cinematographer and director, known for An American Pickle (2020), The Disaster Artist (2017) and This Is the End (2013).

John Mathieson came up through the traditional camera ranks. Before his start as a cinematographer in feature films he shot many music videos, documentaries and TV commercials. He also worked in cutting rooms and has always considered himself as a film maker, interested in all areas of the process, rather than a dedicated cinematographer.

Michael Coulter was born in 1952 in Glasgow, Scotland, UK. He is a cinematographer, known for Sense and Sensibility (1995), Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994) and Notting Hill (1999).