Career
He is best known to fans of independent art house fare for his work on Deepa Mehta"s "Elements trilogy", consisting of the films Fire (1996), Earth (1998) and Water (2005), as well as Mehta"s adaptation of Salman Rushdie"s epic novel Midnight"s Children (2012). Nuttgens began his career with the British Broadcasting Corporation television for the Natural History documentary unit in 1984, and rose up through the camera assistant ranks, and by the age of 25 he was one of the youngest film cameramen ever in the British Broadcasting Corporation. After many years living in Paris, he relocated to Barcelona in late 2003. He is fluent in English, French and Spanish.
He has also collaborated on more than one occasion with Scott McGehee and David Siegel on The Deep End and Bee Season, and David Mackenzie on Young Adam, Asylum and Hallam Foe.
Although best known for independent films, he also has worked on major commercial productions such as the recent Star Wars prequels, and Swimfan.