Janusz Kamiński

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Janusz Kamiński (2014)

Janusz Kamiński (born June 27, 1959 in Ziębice ) is a Polish cameraman and director .

Life

Kamiński left his home country Poland after General Jaruzelski declared martial law in 1981 and went to the USA . From 1982 to 1987 he studied cinematography at Columbia College in Chicago and after graduation went to Los Angeles .

After working as a camera assistant, he made his first film in 1990 as the responsible cameraman. He made his final breakthrough when Steven Spielberg hired him for Schindler's List and he returned to Krakow in his native Poland for this work . He received his first Oscar for Schindler's List in 1994 , and he's been Spielberg's preferred cameraman ever since. In 1998 he received another Oscar nomination for Amistad and in 1999 his second Oscar for Saving Private Ryan . A technical innovation in this film was the twenty-minute representation of the landing in Normandy , which Kamiński recorded with a team of cameramen with handheld cameras . He made his directorial debut in 1999 with the horror film Lost Souls . Winona Ryder played the leading role . The films Hania (2007) and American Dream (2011) followed later.

Janusz Kamiński was married to actress Holly Hunter from 1995 to 2001 . He married the ABC reporter Rebecca Rankin in 2004 . He is the uncle of the German actor André Emanuel Kaminski and was the father of Adam Kaminski, who died in January 2009.

In 1994 he joined the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC), which he left again in 2006 for reasons that were not known.

Filmography

Awards

Oscar
Chicago Film Critics Association Award

Others

  • From February 9th to February 19th, 2006 Janusz Kamiński was a member of the jury at the 2006 International Film Festival in Berlin .
  • In 2003 he shot a video clip for the Polish rock band Myslovitz , of which he is a big fan.

supporting documents

  1. ^ Rebecca Rankin and Janusz Kaminski . In: Variety . Reed Business Information. February 16, 2004. Retrieved February 27, 2013.

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personal data
SURNAME Kamiński, Janusz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION polish cameraman
DATE OF BIRTH June 27, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Ziębice