- Ewan McGregor
I was born on March 31, 1971, in Perth Royal Hospital, Scotland. I was the second son of teachers Jim and Carol McGregor. My brother Colin, a tornado fighter pilot, is two years older than me. I grew up in the small town of Crieff
- Paul Edwards
Paul A. Edwards is an American cinematographer, camera operator and television director. He has worked as a camera operator and cinematographer on various mainstream films and has also directed episodes of Lost on television.
- Rob Whitehurst
Robert B. Whitehurst (November 14 1951) is an American production sound mixer and audio engineer. Born in Tampa, Florida, Whitehurst is a prominent sound mixer in the film and television industry. In 2005 and 2006, he worked on popular television shows such as American Idol, Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, The Biggest Loser, The Apprentice: Martha Stewart, Hey Rookie (an NFL Films production) and the Christian independent film Facing the Giants.
- Haskell Wexler
Born in Chicago, Wexler attended the University of California at Berkeley for a year before joining the Merchant Marines. He stayed at sea for five years, became a second officer, then returned to Chicago where he spent ten years making documentary and educational films before moving to California in 1955.
- Dean Cundey
Dean Cundey is a celebrated cinematographer born 12 March 1946 in Alhambra, California, USA. He has worked on some of the most influential special effects films in history and has collaborated extensively with directors John Carpenter and Robert Zemeckis.
- Wim Wenders
Ernst Wilhelm ("Wim") Wenders is a German film director, playwright, photographer, and producer. He was born in Düsseldorf.
- Roger Deakins
Roger Deakins has established himself as a successful cinematographer in America and Britain. While growing up in Torquay as a young adolescent, Roger spent most of his time in and out of school focusing on his primary interest: painting. Several years later, Roger enrolled in the Bath School of Art and Design (in the city of Bath) – where he studied graphic design. While studying in Bath, Roger discovered his love of still photography.
- Jonathan Demme
Jonathan Demme (born February 22 1944, in Baldwin, New York) is an Academy Award winning American film director, producer and writer. Demme broke into feature film directing working for Roger Corman. His first mainstream feature "Melvin and Howard" caught the eye of Hollywood and he was signed to direct the Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell vehicle "Swing Shift".
- Giovanni Ribisi
Antonino Giovanni Ribisi (born December 17, 1974) is an American actor.
- Robert Elswit
Robert Elswit is an American cinematographer. Some of the notable films he has worked on include: *Syriana (2005) *Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005) *Punch-Drunk Love (2002) *Magnolia (1999) *Boogie Nights (1997) *Hard Eight (1996)
- Dean Semler
Dean Semler (born 1943, in Renmark, South Australia, Australia) is an Australian cinematographer. Over his career, he has worked as a cinematographer, camera operator, director, second unit director, and assistant director.
- Rosanna Arquette
Rosanna Lauren Arquette (born August 10, 1959) is a Golden Globe-nominated American actress, film director, and film producer.
- Vittorio Storaro
Vittorio Storaro (born 24 June, 1940 in Rome, Italy) is a three-time Academy Award winning Italian cinematographer.
- Alan Hume
Alan Hume (b. October 17, 1924, in London, England) is a British cinematographer. His early credits as camera operator included "Great Expectations" (1948), "Madeleine" (1950) and "The End of the Affair" (1955). He was a cameraman for the successful "Carry On" comedy films, eventually alternating with Ernest Steward as the series' regular Director of Photography, beginning in 1961 with "Carry On Regardless".
- Sven Nykvist
Sven Vilhem Nykvist (3 December 1922 - 20 September 2006) was a Swedish cinematographer. He worked on over 120 films, but is known especially for his work with director Ingmar Bergman. He won Academy Awards for his work on two Bergman films, "Cries and Whispers" ("Viskningar och rop") in 1973 and "Fanny and Alexander" ("Fanny och Alexander") in 1983. His work is generally noted for its naturalism and simplicity.
- Jack Cardiff
Jack Cardiff (born 18 September 1914) is an Academy Award-winning British cinematographer, director and photographer. His career spans the development of cinema, from silent film, through early experiments in Technicolor (and, less successfully, Smell-o-vision), to filmmaking in the 21st century. He is best known for his influential cinematography for directors such as Powell, Huston and Hitchcock. In 2000 he was awarded an OBE.
- Nicolas Roeg
Nicolas Jack Roeg, born on August 15, 1928 in London, England is an internationally-known cinematographer and film director. Contributing to the visual look of "Lawrence of Arabia" and Roger Corman's "The Masque of the Red Death", and co-directing "Performance", he would later become the guiding force behind such landmark films as "Don't Look Now", "Walkabout" and "The Man Who Fell to Earth", which starred David Bowie.
- Alex Thomson
Alexander Thomson was a British cinematographer. Born in London, England, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Cinematography for "Excalibur" (1981), and his other films included "Year of the Dragon" (1985), "Legend" (1985), "Labyrinth" (1986), "The Krays" (1990), "Alien³" (1992), "Cliffhanger" (1993), "Demolition Man" (1993), "Executive Decision" (1996) and "Hamlet" (1996).
- Wally Pfister
Wally Pfister is an American cinematographer who is best known for his nomination for the Academy Award for Best Cinematography in 2005 for "Batman Begins". Pfister has also been the cinematographer for "Memento", "Insomnia", "The Italian Job", and "The Prestige"
- Hiro Narita
Hiro Narita , A.S.C. a Japanese American cinematographer, was born June 26, 1941 in Seoul, South Korea in the clinic owned by his physician father [verification needed]. In 1945, along with his parents, four siblings and grandmother [verification needed], Narita moved to Japan where he spent his childhood. Following his father's early death and his mother's remarriage [verification needed], he immigrated in 1957 to Honolulu, Hawaii where he graduated from Kaimuki High School.
- Allen Daviau
Allen Daviau (born June 14,1942 in New Orleans) is a five-time Academy Award nominated American cinematographer.
- Chris Menges
Chris Menges (born September 15, 1940 in Kingston, Herefordshire) is an English cinematographer and film director.
- Tak Fujimoto
Tak Fujimoto is a celebrated cinematographer who has contributed to many important and influential motion pictures. A graduate of the London Film School, he has often worked with filmmakers Jonathan Demme, M. Night Shyamalan, John Hughes, and Howard Deutch. Early in his career he worked on the second unit of the first Star Wars movie. His feature film debut was in Terrence Malick's "Badlands" in 1973.
- Douglas Slocombe
Douglas Slocombe (b. February 10, 1913) is a British cinematographer who has enjoyed a long career in the British film industry. His many films as director of photography include "Robbery" (1967), "The Italian Job" (1969), "Nijinsky" (1980), the James Bond film "Never Say Never Again" in 1983, and the three Indiana Jones films between 1981 and 1989. His early films as cinematographer included many of the most famous Ealing comedies, …
- Emmanuel Lubezki
Emmanuel Lubezki (born Emmanuel Lubezki Morgenstern 1964, in Mexico City) is an award-winning Mexican cinematographer, known for his groundbreaking techniques and characteristic style. His nickname is "Chivo" and he was born into a Jewish family.
- Dante Spinotti
Dante Spinotti (born August 22nd, 1943 in Tolmezzo, Italy) is a well respected Academy Award nominated cinematographer. Some of the more notable films he has worked include "The Last of the Mohicans", "Heat", and "L.A. Confidential". Spinotti has also been the cinematographer for Brett Ratner's films, such as "Red Dragon" (2002), "After the Sunset" (2004), and more recently "X-Men: The Last Stand" (2006).
- Renny Harlin
Renny Harlin is a film director and producer mostly known for action movies. Harlin moved to the U.S. in the mid 1980s and initially started directing low-budget films. Harlin gained attention after directing "A Nightmare on Elm Street 4", which proved to be a success. His next film, the Andrew Dice Clay film "The Adventures of Ford Fairlane" failed at the box office, but Harlin achieved financial success with "Die Hard 2".
- Florian Ballhaus
Florian Ballhaus, born 1965 in Baden-Baden, Germany, is a cinematographer who has worked on several recent major Hollywood releases. He is the son of noted German cinematographer Michael Ballhaus. At the age of 17 he moved to the U.S. with his family when his father began working on American films such as "After Hours". He began working as a second cinematographer's assistant and then later as a camera assistant and operator.
- Rodrigo Garcia
Rodrigo Garcia is a Colombian television and film director. He is the son of Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez. Garcia has directed a variety of independent films and several episodes of the HBO series, "Six Feet Under" and "Carnivàle". Currently Rodrigo Garcia lives in United States. He has also worked as a camera operator and a cinematographer for several independent films such as "Gia", "The Birdcage" and "Great Expectations".
- Adrian Biddle
Adrian Biddle, (born on 20 July 1952 in Woolwich, London - 7 December 2005 in London), was an English cinematographer.
- Davis Guggenheim
Davis Guggenheim (1964-) is an Academy Award-winning American film director and producer.
- Douglas Milsome
Douglas Milsome is an English cinematographer. Sometimes credited as Doug Milsome, his most widely seen work to date is Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves.
- Alexander Witt
Alexander B. Witt (b. 1952, Santiago, Chile) is a Hollywood filmmaker who has worked mostly as a camera operator and second unit director. His feature directorial debut came in 2004 with "Resident Evil: Apocalypse", based on the popular Capcom video game series. Witt also became the 2nd Unit Director on the James Bond movie "Casino Royale" in 2006.
- Mario Bava
Mario Bava (July 31 1914 - April 27 1980) was an Italian director and cinematographer remembered as one of the greatest names from the golden age of Italian horror films.
- Mikael Salomon
Mikael Salomon (b. February 24, 1945) is a Danish director and cinematographer from Copenhagen, Denmark. Some of the films he acted as cinematographer on include The Abyss, Always, Arachnophobia, Backdraft and Far and Away. He has also directed several films including A Far Off Place, Hard Rain, [[Aftershock: Earthquake in New York], Salem's Lot "Based on the Novel By Stephen King" and Sole Survivor. Salomon has also directed episodes of several television series, …
- Atom Egoyan
Atom Egoyan, OC (born July 19, 1960) is a critically acclaimed Canadian-Armenian film maker. His work often explores themes of alienation and isolation, featuring characters whose interactions are mediated through technology, bureaucracy or other power structures. Stylistically, Egoyan's films often follow non-linear plot-structures, in which events are placed out of sequence in order to elicit specific emotional reactions from the audience by withholding key information.
- Victor J. Kemper
Victor J. Kemper (born April 14, 1927 in Newark, New Jersey, USA) is an American cinematographer who has worked on over fifty films. He is a member of the American Society of Cinematographers, and was its president twice, from 1993 to 1996, and from 1999 to 2001. Kemper won an Emmy for Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography for his work on the 1987 television movie, "Kojak: The Price of Justice".
- Matthew F. Leonetti
Matthew F. Leonetti is a cinematographer. His credits include: *Star Trek:First Contact *Star Trek:Insurrection *Commando *Weird Science *Red Heat *Another 48 Hrs. *Raise the Titanic! *Action Jackson *Angels in the Outfield *Leap of Faith *The Ice Pirates *Accepted *Jumpin' Jack Flash *Santa's Slay *Fever Pitch *Poltergeist *Along Came a Spider *Fast Times at Ridgemont High *The Butterfly Effect *Species II
- Ron Balicki
Ron Balicki is an actor and stuntman for various films and television series. He is also a well known martial arts practitioner, teacher and author. He is a student and the son-in-law of Dan Inosanto.
- Bruce Surtees
Bruce Surtees (27 July 1937, Los Angeles, California, USA) is an Academy Award and Emmy Award nominated American cinematographer best known for his extensive work in Clint Eastwood films, mostly westerns of the 1970s and early 1980s. His filming style has been compared to that of the Dollars films of Sergio Leone. He began as a camera operator working on Eastwood's films during the late 1960s, his credits including Coogan's Bluff and Two Mules for Sister Sara.