Adam Arkapaw

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Adam Arkapaw (* in Bowral , New South Wales ) is an Australian cameraman .

Life

Adam Arkapaw studied film studies at the Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne University . From 2004 he made his first short films. He has received several awards for his work. Among other things, he received the award for Best Student Cinematography at the Palm Springs International ShortFest for his camera work in the short film The City Eats Its Week from 2005 . For the short film Catch Fish (2006) and the documentary Road to Palestine (2008) Arkapaw was responsible for directing the camera work as well.

In 2010 he made his feature film debut with David Michôd's drama Kingdom of Crime . This work earned him a nomination for Best Cinematography at the AFI Awards of the Australian Film Institute one. In Snowtown Arkapaw worked with director Kurzel Justin together. For his next work, the international co-production Lore , he was nominated for the German Film Prize 2013 , among others .

Arkapaw then worked on two television series: the Jane Campion- directed first season of Top of the Lake and Cary Fukunaga's True Detective . He won a Creative Arts Emmy for both series in 2013 and 2014 . In 2015 he worked again with director Justin Kurzel for Macbeth . In 2016, the filming of the computer game Assassin's Creed was the third joint work by the two of them.

In 2012 Arkapaw was in a relationship with actress Elisabeth Moss . Since 2015 he has been married to the cinematographer Autumn Durald , with whom he has a son.

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. 2010 Winners & Nominees at aacta.org, accessed on September 8, 2016
  2. ^ German Film Prize 2013. All at a glance: the Lola nominations . In: Tagesspiegel of March 22, 2013
  3. ^ Whitney Friedlander: How Cinematographer Adam Arkapaw Captured 'True Detective' . In: Variety of August 5, 2014
  4. ^ Sarah Bull: Mad Men's Elisabeth Moss and new cinematographer boyfriend Adam Arkapaw make their public debut . In: Daily Mail of June 18, 2012
  5. ^ Kristopher Tapley: Ryan Coogler on 'Creed,' Filmmaking as Journalism and the Need for Female Voices (Q&A) . In: Variety of January 5, 2016