THE GREATEST CINEMATOGRAPHERS OR/AND DIRECTORS OF PHOTOGRAPHY
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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
- Camera and Electrical Department
- Director
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.- Cinematographer
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Thierry Arbogast was born in 1957 in France. He is a cinematographer, known for The Fifth Element (1997), Léon: The Professional (1994) and La Femme Nikita (1990).- 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.- Editor
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- Producer
Though he's cut celluloid for some of the best in the business, chances are many film lovers wouldn't even recognize the name Pietro Scalia in a lineup of Hollywood's best film editors. Born in Sicily in 1960, Scalia resided in Switzerland before heading to Los Angeles to continue his education. After receiving his M.F.A. in Film and Theater Arts from U.C.L.A. in 1985, Scalia began his career as an assistant editor to Oliver Stone on such features as Wall Street (1987) and Talk Radio (1988). Later coming into his own with such films as JFK (1991) (for which he received a Best Editing Oscar) and Sam Raimi's The Quick and the Dead (1995), Scalia continued to work on such high-profile films as Stealing Beauty (1996) and G.I. Jane (1997). Scalia also received Best Editor Oscar nominations for Good Will Hunting (1997) and Gladiator (2000), though he would have to wait until the following year for his next win at the Oscars, as he received the Best Editing Award for director Ridley Scott's Black Hawk Down (2001).- 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.