Barry Ackroyd
Barry Ackroyd (born May 12, 1954 in Manchester ) is a British cameraman .
Life
The first film he worked on was Inside the Labyrinth from 1986. Very often he worked with director Ken Loach . Their first joint production was the 1989 documentary The View from the Woodpile .
Ackroyd has been nominated four times for the British Academy Film Award (BAFTA Award): first in 1997 for his short film The Butterfly Man in the Best Short Film category , then in 2004 for the television film The Lost Prince and in 2007 for Flight 93 . In 2006 he won the European Film Award for Ken Loach's The Wind That Shakes the Barley .
In the summer of 2007, following Battle in Seattle , he made the directorial debut of actor Stuart Townsend , with director Kathryn Bigelow in Jordan for the war drama The Hurt Locker . He received the BAFTA Award and his first Oscar nomination in 2010 for this documentary-style work shot on Super 16mm . In 2008 he made another film about the Iraq war with Green Zone by Paul Greengrass .
Ackroyd was President of the British Society of Cinematographers from 2014 to 2016 .
Filmography (selection)
- 1991: Riff-Raff
- 1993: Raining Stones
- 1995: Land and Freedom
- 1995: Anne Frank - contemporary witnesses remember
- 1996: Carla's Song
- 1997: Under the Skin
- 1998: My name is Joe
- 1999: The Lost Son
- 1999: Mauvaise passe
- 2000: Bread and Roses
- 2001: The Navigators
- 2002: Sweet Sixteen
- 2003: Os Imortais
- 2003: Eroica - The day that changed music forever
- 2004: Just a Kiss (Ae Fond Kiss)
- 2005: Gideon's Daughter
- 2006: Flight 93
- 2006: The Wind That Shakes the Barley
- 2007: Battle in Seattle
- 2008: Deadly Command - The Hurt Locker
- 2009: Looking for Eric
- 2010: Green Zone
- 2011: Coriolanus
- 2012: Contraband
- 2013: Captain Phillips
- 2015: Dark Places - Dangerous Memory (Dark Places)
- 2015: The Big Short
- 2016: Jason Bourne
- 2017: Detroit
- 2018: Outlaw King
- 2019: Bombshell - The End of Silence (Bombshell)
- 2020: The Old Guard
Web links
- Barry Ackroyd in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Barry Ackroyd Awards and Accolades
- Literature by and about Barry Ackroyd in the WorldCat bibliographic database
Individual evidence
- ^ Contender - Cinematography, Barry Ackroyd, The Hurt Locker. January 22, 2010, accessed August 29, 2020 .
- ↑ bscine.com, accessed May 23, 2016
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ackroyd, Barry |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British cameraman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 12, 1954 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Manchester |