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cinematographer

Sean Francis Bobbitt, Bachelor of Science

Background

Sean Bobbitt was born in Corpus Christi, Texas on November 29, 1958.

Career

Born 29 November 1958) is an American-born British cinematographer. In 2008, Bobbitt worked with artist-turned-director Steve McQueen on British film Hunger, a hard-hitting film about the Northern Irish hunger striker, Bobby Sands. With this film Bobbitt, McQueen, editor Joe Walker and actor Michael Fassbender formed a collaborative award-winning team that have gone on to make a further two films, Shame and 12 Years a Slave.

Also in 2012, Bobbitt completed filming on The Place Beyond the Pines, which stars Ryan Gosling, Bradley Cooper, Eva Mendes and Ray Liotta, a film starring Saoirse Ronan, Gemma Arterton and Jonny Lee Miller called Byzantium, and he concluded five years of working on Michael Winterbottom drama-film Everyday.

In early 2013, he completed work on Oldboy, the Spike Lee-directed American remake of the 2003 South Korean film of the same name. In 2014 he went on to work on Kill the Messenger and Barry Levinson"s Rock the Kasbah, starring Bill Murray.

Achievements

  • Bobbitt won an Independent Spirit Award for Best Cinematography for his work on 12 Years a Slave. In the same year he was also nominated for a British Academy of Film and Television Arts, American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) Award, Satellite Award, Broadcast Film Critics Association Award, amongst many others

Membership

British Society of Cinematographers.