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CINEMATOGRAPHER · BORN 1955 · UNITED KINGDOM

Anthony Dod Mantle

Digital, kinetic and handheld, rooted in Dogme 95.

Born
1955
Country
United Kingdom
Field
Cinematographer

KNOWN FOR

  1. 2008Slumdog Millionaire
  2. 1998The Celebration
  3. 200228 Days Later

WHY THEY MATTER

Won the Academy Award and BAFTA for Slumdog Millionaire, the first cinematography Oscar for a film shot digitally; member of the British, Danish and American Societies of Cinematographers.

THE LIFE

Dod Mantle was born to Scottish parents in Witney, Oxfordshire, and was partly raised in India, where he became interested in photography. He studied at the London College of Communication and the National Film School of Denmark. A figure in the Dogme 95 movement, he became a pioneer of digital filmmaking with Lars von Trier, Thomas Vinterberg and Danny Boyle. With Boyle he made 28 Days Later and Slumdog Millionaire, which won the first cinematography Oscar given to a digitally shot film.

Source: Wikipedia

Also born in 1930–1959

Vilmos Zsigmond

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Vilmos Zsigmond

Pre-flashed, muted colour and atmospheric haze.

Close Encounters of the Third Kind, 1977Source: Wikipedia

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Gordon Willis

Top light and deep underexposure that earned him the name the Prince of Darkness.

The Godfather, 1972Source: Wikipedia

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John A. Alonzo

Naturalistic, cinema verite-inspired photography of the New Hollywood.

Chinatown, 1974Source: Wikipedia