Tak Fujimoto

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Takashi "Tak" Fujimoto (born July 12, 1939 in San Diego ) is an American cameraman .

Life

Fujimoto had attended the University of Berkeley and trained at the London Film School . He then worked as a camera assistant for the company of his colleague Haskell Wexler , 'Dove Films', advertising films before joining the cinema in 1973. There he was assigned as a simple cameraman for Terrence Malick's Road Movie Badlands - Shattered Dreams when he had to replace the sick head cameraman Brian Probyn .

In the following years Fujimoto worked with directors such as Jonathan Demme , M. Night Shyamalan , John Hughes and Howard Deutch . He is a member of the American Society of Cinematographers . He was nominated for an ASC Award in 1992 for The Silence of the Lambs . He received a BAFTA Award nomination in 2000 for his work on The Sixth Sense .

Filmography (selection)

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  1. ↑ Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 3: F - H. Barry Fitzgerald - Ernst Hofbauer. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 137.
personal data
SURNAME Fujimoto, Tak
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fujimoto, Takashi (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American cameraman
DATE OF BIRTH July 12, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH San Diego