Robert Elswit
Robert Christopher Elswit, ASC (born April 22, 1950) is an American cinematographer. He has collaborated with Paul Thomas Anderson on six of his films and won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography for There Will Be Blood. Elswit has also collaborated with directors and screenwriters Tony and Dan Gilroy on the six films that either brother directed. Elswit was born in Los Angeles. An early short film he worked on was the 1982 television adaptation of Ray Bradbury's short story All Summer in a Day. Elswit worked as a visual effects camera operator at John Dykstra's Apogee Productions Inc. on each film, including Star Trek: The Motion Picture, The Empire Strikes Back and E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, before shooting made-for-television films and shows. Elswit has been a fierce defender of shooting on film and, whenever possible, avoids using digital cameras. Images shot digitally, he said, have "no texture, no grain." He started shooting digitally, starting with Nightcrawler. Elswit has worked with George Clooney several times. He shot his black and white, multiple-Oscar-nominated film Good Night and Good Luck. Elswit shot the film in colour and converted the film into black and white in post-production. According to Elswit, the technique preserved the subtlety of the colours (as complex shades of blacks and greys). It made the overall look much richer in the final film. Elswit was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Cinematography for Good Night and Good Luck but lost to Dion Beebe for Memoirs of a Geisha. Elswit won the award for There Will Be Blood in 2008. Elswit has cited early independent filmmaker John Cassavetes as a major influence. Elswit is a graduate of the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts and worked there as a teaching assistant. Elswit is the godfather of actor Jake Gyllenhaal. Description above from the Wikipedia article Robert Elswit, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Syriana
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Magnolia
(Director of Photography)
Tomorrow Never Dies
(Director of Photography)
Bounce
(Director of Photography)
Michael Clayton
(Director of Photography)
Good Night, and Good Luck.
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Paris Trout
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Cadillac Dreams
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The End of August
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All Summer in a Day
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Amazing Grace and Chuck
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Long Gone
(Director of Photography)
Into the Homeland
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Return of the Living Dead Part II
(Director of Photography)
Opposites Attract
(Director of Photography)
The Summer My Father Grew Up
(Director of Photography)
A Murderous Affair: The Carolyn Warmus Story
(Director of Photography)
Behind the Red Door
(Director of Photography)
Fraternity Row
(Camera Operator)
Genesis: Four Billion Years in the Making
(Assistant Camera)
Shine a Light
(Camera Operator)
Star Trek: The Motion Picture
(Visual Effects Camera)
The Empire Strikes Back
(Visual Effects Lineup)
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
(Visual Effects Camera)
Return of the Jedi
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Impostor
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Boogie Nights
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Runaway Jury
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The Hand that Rocks the Cradle
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Heist
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The Town
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Gigli
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Punch-Drunk Love
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Hard Eight
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8MM
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There Will Be Blood
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Shine a Light
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American Dreamz
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The River Wild
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The Sure Thing
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Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol
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Waltz Across Texas
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Inherent Vice
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The Bourne Legacy
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The Children of Times Square
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The Incredible Book Escape
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Trick or Treat
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Nightcrawler
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A Killing in a Small Town
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Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation
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A Different Affair
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Bad Influence
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Prison Stories: Women on the Inside
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Gold
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Richard Lester!
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The Burning Plain
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Ella McCay
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Duplicity
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Salt
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The Pallbearer
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Desert Hearts
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Bob Marley: One Love
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Tiger Town
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Suburbicon
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The Men Who Stare at Goats
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Margaret Bourke-White
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Roman J. Israel, Esq.
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Write When You Get Work
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How I Got Into College
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Skyscraper
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Velvet Buzzsaw
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The King of Staten Island
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A Dangerous Woman
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Moving Violations
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Heart of Dixie
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Faster, Cheaper, Better
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Redbelt
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Boys
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Waterland
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Summerspell
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King Richard
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Animals
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The Night Of
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RIPLEY
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