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CINEMATOGRAPHER · BORN 1954 · FRANCE

Caroline Champetier

Austere, luminous images across more than a hundred films.

Born
1954
Country
France
Field
Cinematographer
Caroline Champetier
Portrait: Elena Ternovaja, CC BY-SA 3.0

KNOWN FOR

  1. 2010Of Gods and Men
  2. 2012Holy Motors

WHY THEY MATTER

Cesar Award for Of Gods and Men (2011); president of the French Society of Cinematographers (2009-2012); Berlinale Camera for lifetime achievement (2023).

THE LIFE

Champetier is a French cinematographer who has worked on more than one hundred films since 1979. She won the Cesar Award for Best Cinematography in 2011 for Xavier Beauvois's Of Gods and Men. From 2009 to 2012 she was president of the French Society of Cinematographers. In 2023 the Berlin festival gave her the Berlinale Camera for lifetime achievement.

Source: Wikipedia

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