Seamus McGarvey
Seamus McGarvey , BSC (* 29. June 1967 in Armagh , Northern Ireland ) is a British cameraman for feature films and director of music videos .
Life
Seamus McGarvey studied cinematography at the Polytechnic of Central London for three years .
He began his film career as a still photographer before attending London's Guildhall School of Music and Drama , graduating in 1988. He then worked as a camera assistant and shot low-budget and short films with friends. Michael Winterbottom saw one of these short films and engaged McGarvey, then 24 years old, as cameraman for Butterfly Kiss (1995), his first feature film as responsible cameraman. He then began working on short films and documentaries , including the 1998 Turner Prize short film Atlantic . He has directed numerous music videos by British and Irish musicians, including for Robbie Williams , U2 , The Rolling Stones , Paul McCartney , Dusty Springfield and Coldplay . After a few short films, Stephen Frears hired him for his film High Fidelity (2000). From the mid-2000s, McGarvey took over camera work on films such as World Trade Center (2006), Atonement (2007), Nowhere Boy (2009), We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011), Marvel's The Avengers (2012) and Anna Karenina ( 2012). He has made several films with Sam Taylor-Johnson , including Fifty Shades of Gray , which won five golden raspberries in 2015.
Anna Karenina was his last film that he shot analog on celluloid . For all subsequent films he used digital cameras .
In 1998, McGarvey became the youngest ever member of the British Society of Cinematographers (BSC). Seamus McGarvey was 31 years old at the time.
Filmography (selection)
- 1995: Butterfly Kiss
- 1999: The Big Tease (The Big Tease)
- 1999: The War Zone
- 1999: Persecuted Innocently (A Map of the World)
- 2000: High Fidelity (High Fidelity)
- 2001: Enigma - The Secret (Enigma)
- 2001: The Hours - From Eternity to Eternity (The Hours)
- 2002: Ali G in da House (Ali G Indahouse)
- 2003: The Actors
- 2004: ... and then came Polly (Along Came Polly)
- 2005: Sahara - Adventure in the desert (Sahara)
- 2006: World Trade Center (World Trade Center)
- 2006: Wilbur the Pig and Friends (Charlotte's Web)
- 2007: Atonement (Atonement)
- 2008: Love You More
- 2009: The Soloist (The Soloist)
- 2009: Nowhere Boy
- 2011: We Need to Talk About Kevin
- 2012: Marvel's The Avengers (The Avengers)
- 2012: Anna Karenina
- 2014: Godzilla
- 2015: Fifty Shades of Gray
- 2015: Pan
- 2016: Nocturnal Animals
- 2016: The Accountant
- 2017: Life
- 2017: Greatest Showman (The Greatest Showman)
- 2018: Bad Times at the El Royale
- 2018: Greta
Awards
In addition to the two Oscar nominations for Atonement and Anna Karenina , he won 13 film awards and was nominated for a further 34.
Web links
- Seamus McGarvey in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b The fine art of cinematography - interview with Seamus McGarvey ASC, BSC accessed on August 2, 2019
- ↑ Black Mirror 'DP Seamus McGarvey Talks About Finding the' Photographic Heart 'of' Nosedive Interview in: Variety, August 16, 2017, accessed August 2, 2019
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SURNAME | McGarvey, Seamus |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British cinematographer for feature films and director of music videos |
DATE OF BIRTH | June 29, 1967 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Armagh , Northern Ireland |