John de Borman

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John de Borman (* 1954 in Paris ) is a British film cameraman who was born in France and who has overseen more than 35 international film productions as a cameraman in his 25-year film career. Among them are classics of modern cinema like all or nothing , grass whispering , because you exist , may I ask? or love at second sight . He was also the President of the British Society of Cinematographers (BSC) from 2010 to 2014 .

life and career

John de Borman, born in Paris in 1954, experimented extensively with photo equipment and Super 8 cameras in his youth. After attending the Chelsea School of Art (now the College of Art and Design), where he studied sculpture, he began shooting video productions for pop artists with the camera in the 1980s. He worked early on with prominent personalities in show business such as Prince and Madonna .

In 1988 he finally started working as a cameraman for British film. In the late 1980s, de Borman was still in charge of independent productions such as that of the filmmaker Anders Palm, but a few years later he made a name for himself in cinema productions for directors such as Stephen Norrington and Philip Ridley .

In 1996 Scottish director Gillies MacKinnon hired him for his award-winning drama Small Faces . In the same year he worked on his film Trojan Eddie for the same director and in 1998 he provided the pictures for the drama Marrakech with Kate Winslet in the lead role. In 1997, director Peter Cattaneo had already hired him for his Oscar- winning comedy All or not at all . In 2002 Gillies MacKinnon signed him two more times for his film drama Pure and in 2005 for the cinema production Ein Haus in Irland .

In 2000 he worked for the director Nigel Cole for the first time as a cameraman for the original crime comedy Grasgeflüster , in 2005 the film So Was wie Liebe followed and in 2010 he took his place behind the camera for the third time in its directing We Want Sex .

In 2001, the British director Peter Chelsom entrusted him with the camerawork again in 1998 after the successful mutual partnership on The Mighty - Together they are strong , this time in the intelligently staged comedy Because There You Are, with John Cusack and Kate Beckinsale in the leading roles. In 2004 the romantic drama May I ask? in the cast Richard Gere and Jennifer Lopez for a third collaboration.

In 2008 he provided the pictures for the romantic drama Love at Second Sight with Dustin Hoffman and Emma Thompson directed by Joel Hopkins. Dustin Hoffman then hired him in 2012 as a cameraman for his quartet directing work .

Since the beginning of the 2000s, John de Borman has worked as a cameraman with directors Michael Almereyda , Suri Krishnamma, John Hay, Daisy von Scherler Mayer , Tommy O'Haver , Oliver Parker , Bharat Nalluri, Lone Scherfig and John Duigan .

As President of the British Society of Cinematographers (BSC), he took over the position within the Academy of Cinematographers in the United Kingdom from camerawoman Sue Gibson in 2010 .

Awards

Filmography (selection)

movie theater

watch TV

  • 1995: Crazy for a Kiss (TV movie)
  • 2006: Tsunami - Die Killerwelle (Tsunami: The Aftermath) (TV movie)
  • 2009: Cupid (TV series, pilot episode)
  • 2015: Indian Summers (TV miniseries, 1 episode)
  • 2015: Coalition (TV movie)
  • 2016: Do Not Disturb (TV movie)
  • 2016: Indian Summer (TV miniseries, 3 episodes)
  • 2017: Will (TV series, 3 episodes)
  • 2019: World on Fire (TV series, 1 episode)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Biographical data by John de Borman in: Conversations with Cinematographers , by David A. Ellis, Scarecrow Press, 2012, p. 37
personal data
SURNAME Borman, John de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British cameraman at the film
DATE OF BIRTH 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris , France