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Robert Christopher Elswit, ASC (born April 22, 1950) is an American cinematographer. He has collaborated with Paul Thomas Anderson on six of his films and won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography for There Will Be Blood. Elswit has also collaborated with directors and screenwriters Tony and Dan Gilroy on the six films that either brother directed. Elswit was born in Los Angeles. An early short film he worked on was the 1982 television adaptation of Ray Bradbury's short story All Summer in a Day. Elswit worked as a visual effects camera operator at John Dykstra's Apogee Productions Inc. on each film, including Star Trek: The Motion Picture, The Empire Strikes Back and E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, before shooting made-for-television films and shows. Elswit has been a fierce defender of shooting on film and, whenever possible, avoids using digital cameras. Images shot digitally, he said, have "no texture, no grain." He started shooting digitally, starting with Nightcrawler. Elswit has worked with George Clooney several times. He shot his black and white, multiple-Oscar-nominated film Good Night and Good Luck. Elswit shot the film in colour and converted the film into black and white in post-production. According to Elswit, the technique preserved the subtlety of the colours (as complex shades of blacks and greys). It made the overall look much richer in the final film. Elswit was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Cinematography for Good Night and Good Luck but lost to Dion Beebe for Memoirs of a Geisha. Elswit won the award for There Will Be Blood in 2008. Elswit has cited early independent filmmaker John Cassavetes as a major influence. Elswit is a graduate of the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts and worked there as a teaching assistant. Elswit is the godfather of actor Jake Gyllenhaal. Description above from the Wikipedia article Robert Elswit, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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- wc Gender: Male
- calendar_month Birth Date: 1950-04-22
- event Death Date Unknown
- school Known for: Camera
- star Popularity: 3.3
- info Birth Place California, USA
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smart_display Movies and TV shows by Robert Elswit
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That Moment: Magnolia Diary
2000-01-01
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The Informer: Out of the Fog
2006-06-05
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Remembering Reno: Reflections on the Making of Desert Hearts
2017-11-14
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Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
2015-08-02
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Syriana
2005-11-23
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Magnolia
1999-12-17
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Tomorrow Never Dies
1997-12-11
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Bounce
2000-11-15
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Michael Clayton
2007-09-28
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Good Night, and Good Luck.
2005-09-16
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Paris Trout
1991-04-21
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The End of August
1981-11-19
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Return of the Living Dead Part II
1988-01-15
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Amazing Grace and Chuck
1987-05-22
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Genesis: Four Billion Years in the Making
1978-01-01
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Behind the Red Door
2003-01-12
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Fraternity Row
1977-06-03
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Cadillac Dreams
1988-01-01
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Into the Homeland
1987-01-01
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A Murderous Affair: The Carolyn Warmus Story
1992-09-13
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Shine a Light
2008-04-04
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All Summer in a Day
1982-01-01
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The Summer My Father Grew Up
1991-03-03
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Long Gone
1987-05-23
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Opposites Attract
1990-10-16
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E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
1982-06-11
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Return of the Jedi
1983-05-25
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Star Trek: The Motion Picture
1979-12-07
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The Empire Strikes Back
1980-05-20
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Impostor
2001-12-03
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Boogie Nights
1997-10-10
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Runaway Jury
2003-01-16
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The Hand that Rocks the Cradle
1992-01-10
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Heist
2001-11-09
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The Town
2010-09-15
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Gigli
2003-08-01
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Punch-Drunk Love
2002-10-11
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Hard Eight
1996-05-15
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8MM
1999-02-26
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There Will Be Blood
2007-12-26
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Shine a Light
2008-04-04
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American Dreamz
2006-03-04
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The River Wild
1994-09-30
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The Sure Thing
1985-03-01
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Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol
2011-12-07
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Waltz Across Texas
1982-10-01
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The Bourne Legacy
2012-08-08
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Inherent Vice
2014-12-12
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The Children of Times Square
1986-03-03
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The Incredible Book Escape
1980-06-03
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Trick or Treat
1986-10-24
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Nightcrawler
2014-10-23
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A Killing in a Small Town
1990-05-22
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Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation
2015-07-23
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A Different Affair
1987-03-24
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Bad Influence
1990-03-09
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Prison Stories: Women on the Inside
1991-01-26
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Gold
2016-02-03
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Richard Lester!
1998-09-16
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The Burning Plain
2008-11-07
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Ella McCay
2025-09-19
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Duplicity
2009-03-18
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Salt
2010-07-21
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The Pallbearer
1996-05-03
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Desert Hearts
1985-10-01
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Bob Marley: One Love
2024-02-14
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Tiger Town
1984-06-08
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Suburbicon
2017-10-26
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The Men Who Stare at Goats
2009-10-17
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Margaret Bourke-White
1989-04-24
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Roman J. Israel, Esq.
2017-11-17
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Write When You Get Work
2018-03-12
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How I Got Into College
1989-05-19
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Skyscraper
2018-07-11
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Velvet Buzzsaw
2019-02-01
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The King of Staten Island
2020-07-22
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A Dangerous Woman
1993-09-10
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Moving Violations
1985-04-19
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Heart of Dixie
1989-08-25
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Faster, Cheaper, Better
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Boys
1996-05-10
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Redbelt
2008-04-07
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Summerspell
1983-07-02
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Waterland
1992-08-21
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King Richard
2021-11-18
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The Night Of
2016-07-10
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RIPLEY
2024-04-04