Mandy Walker

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Mandy Walker (* 1963 in Bundoora near Melbourne , Victoria ) is an award winning Australian cinematographer in the film, which supervised over 20 productions, including feature films as Lantana , Australia , traces , Hidden Figures - Unrecognized Heroines or between two lives .

life and career

Walker began her career in the film industry at the age of 18 after high school, taking courses from actor and academic John Flaus. She later made independent student films, small documentaries and music videos with, among others, the Melbourne-born cameraman and director Ray Argall. It was Argall who hired her for his film debut as a director for the drama The Return in 1989. The film was released in 1990 and in 1993 led to another collaboration with Ray Argall in the film production Eight Ball . In 1996, Mandy Walker shot the pictures for Kathryn Millard's drama Parklands, starring Cate Blanchett . Her camera work for Parklands has received several awards, including the AACTA Award in the Best Cinematography in a Non-Feature Film category . Further film commissions in the 1990s included Love Serenade with Miranda Otto , as well as her contributions to the film dramas Life for director Lawrence Johnston and The Well for director Samantha Lang. For the latter, she received nominations from the Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards and the Australian Film Institute .

In 2000 she worked for the director Shirley Barrett for their comedy Walk the Talk , before she worked as a camerawoman for the mystery drama Lantana by director Ray Lawrence with Anthony LaPaglia , Geoffrey Rush and Barbara Hershey in 2001 . For the film Lantana she won the Award of Distinction from the Australian Cinematographers Society . One year later, in 2002, she photographed Paul Goldman's sports drama Australian Rules , and in 2003 the historical drama Lies and Truths - Shattered Glass with Hayden Christensen, for which she received an Independent Spirit Award nomination . In 2008, the film epic Australia with Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman in the leading roles was followed by the second collaboration with director Baz Luhrmann, with whom she had already worked on the short film Chanel N ° 5: The Film in 2004. She received numerous other awards for the film drama Australia , including the Satellite Award 2008 . She was also honored with the 2008 Hollywood Film Award for Cinematographer of the Year .

In 2011 she photographed director Daniel Barnz's fantasy drama Beastly with actors Alex Pettyfer , Vanessa Hudgens and Mary-Kate Olsen . In the same year she worked on the fantasy horror film production Red Riding Hood - Under the Wolf Moon by director Catherine Hardwicke . In 2013 she made the film Traces under her camera work for which she received further honors and film awards. Including nominations from the Australian Film Institute , the Asia Pacific Screen Awards and the Australian Film Critics Association Awards . She was honored with the Award of the Australian Cinematographers Society and the FCCA Award of the Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards in the category Best Cinematography .

Walker has been a member of the Australian Cinematographers Society since 1999 and of the American Society of Cinematographers since 2011 .

Awards (selection)

  • 1996: Nomination for the AACTA Award of the Australian Film Institute in the category Best Cinematography in a Non-Feature Film for Parklands
  • 1997: Honored with the Award of Distinction of the Australian Cinematographers Society in the category Fictional Drama Shorts - Cinema & TV for Parklands
  • 1997: Nomination for the AACTA Award of the Australian Film Institute in the category Best Achievement in Cinematography for The Well
  • 1998: Nomination for the FCCA Award of the Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards in the category Best Cinematography for The Well
  • 2001: Nomination with the IF Award in the category Best Cinematography for Lantana
  • 2002: Nomination for the FCCA Award of the Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards in the category Best Cinematography for Lantana
  • 2002: Nomination for the FCCA Award of the Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards in the category Best Cinematography for Australian Rules
  • 2002: Honored with the Award of Distinction from the Australian Cinematographers Society in the Feature Productions Cinema category for Lantana
  • 2004: Nomination for the Independent Spirit Award in the category Best Cinematography for Lies and Truths - Shattered Glass
  • 2008: Honored with the Satellite Award in the Best Cinematography category for Australia
  • 2008: Honored with the SLFCA Award of the St. Louis Film Critics Association, US in the category Best Cinematography for Australia
  • 2008: Honored with the Vision Award of the Women in Film Lucy Awards
  • 2008: Honored with the Hollywood Film Award in the Cinematographer of the Year category
  • 2008: Nomination for the Awards Circuit Community Award in the category Best Cinematography for Australia
  • 2008: Nomination for the CFCA Award of the Chicago Film Critics Association Awards in the category Best Cinematography for Australia
  • 2009: Honored with the FCCA Award of the Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards in the category Best Cinematography for Australia
  • 2013: Nomination for the Asia Pacific Screen Award in the category Achievement in Cinematography for Tracks
  • 2014: Honored with the NSW & ACT Gold Award of the Australian Cinematographers Society in the category Features - Cinema for Tracks
  • 2015: Honored with the FCCA Award of the Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards in the category Best Cinematography for Tracks
  • 2015: Nomination for the AFCA Award of the Australian Film Critics Association Awards in the category Best Cinematography for Tracks

Filmography (selection)

movie theater

watch TV

  • 1992: Everyman (TV documentary series, 1 episode)
  • 1997: Raw FM (TV series, 1 episode)
  • 2013: Gilded Lilys (TV movie)
  • 2014: Only Human (TV movie)

Short and documentary films

  • 1988: AIDS, Not Adults Only (short documentary)
  • 1992: Koorie Culture, Koorie Control (short documentary)
  • 1994: Bernie's Magic Moment (short film)
  • 2004: Chanel N ° 5: The Film (short film)
  • 2019: The Debriefing (short film)

literature

  • Mandy Walker In: Kate Bales Cinematographers, Production Designers, Costume Designers & Film Editors Guide. , Lone Eagle, 1999, p. 10

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mandy Walker In: Cinematographers.
personal data
SURNAME Walker, Mandy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Walker, Amanda (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian camerawoman filming
DATE OF BIRTH 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Bundoora near Melbourne , Victoria