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Bruno Delbonnel (b. 1957)

Alias:
Bruno Delbonnel, ASC, AFC

Birthplace:
Nancy, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France

Born:
January 1, 1957

Biography from TheMovieDB

Bruno Delbonnel, ASC, AFC, (born 1957) is a French cinematographer. He worked on the films Amélie (2001), A Very Long Engagement (2004), Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009), Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) and Darkest Hour (2017), and has appeared in Wes Anderson's The French Dispatch (2021) as Tip-Top.  Delbonnel's accolades include a César Award and a European Film Award, as well as six Academy Award nominations and four BAFTA Award nominations.  Delbonnel was born in Nancy, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France and graduated in 1978 from the ESEC (Paris, Île-de-France).  He has collaborated twice with fellow French director Jean-Pierre Jeunet for Amélie and A Very Long Engagement.  He then started collaborating with many other directors, such as Tim Burton, the Coen brothers and Joe Wright.  Delbonnel has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Cinematography five times, for the films Amélie (2001), A Very Long Engagement (2004), Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009), Inside Llewyn Davis (2013), and Darkest Hour (2017), and The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021).  He was appointed in 2019 at the head of the cinematography department of the Paris film school, La Fémis.  His work tends to feature very stylized color palettes, often very warm and featuring yellows and greens as prominent and ubiquitous colors which often tint the whole image. Also often in his work, the film stock used has a very apparent, well-defined grain structure.  Source: Article "Bruno Delbonnel" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

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"A" Camera Operator:
2018  The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

Director of Photography:
1982  The Bunker of the Last Gunshots
1983  No Rest for Billy Brakko
1996  C'est jamais loin
2001  Amélie
2001  The Cat's Meow
2003  Not For, or Against (Quite the Contrary)
2004  A Very Long Engagement
2006  Infamous
2006  Paris Je T'aime
2007  Across the Universe
2009  Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
2011  Faust
2012  Dark Shadows
2013  Inside Llewyn Davis
2014  Big Eyes
2015  Francofonia
2016  Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
2017  Darkest Hour
2018  The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
2021  The Tragedy of Macbeth
2021  The Woman in the Window
????  The Phoenician Scheme

Writer:
1982  The Bunker of the Last Gunshots
1983  No Rest for Billy Brakko
1990  Things I Like, Things I Don't Like
1996  C'est jamais loin
2001  Amélie
2001  The Cat's Meow
2003  Not For, or Against (Quite the Contrary)
2004  A Very Long Engagement
2006  Infamous
2006  Paris Je T'aime
2007  Across the Universe
2009  Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
2011  Faust
2012  Dark Shadows
2013  Inside Llewyn Davis
2014  Big Eyes
2015  Francofonia
2016  Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
2017  Darkest Hour
2018  The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
2021  The Tragedy of Macbeth
2021  The Woman in the Window
????  The Phoenician Scheme

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