Seamus McGarvey (b. 1967)

Birthplace:
Armagh, Northern Ireland, UK

Born:
June 29, 1967

Seamus McGarvey, ASC, BSC (born 29 June 1967) is a cinematographer from Armagh, Northern Ireland. He lives in Tuscany, Italy.  He has received two Academy Award nominations for his cinematography, on Joe Wright's 2007 drama Atonement and his 2012 adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's novel Anna Karenina.  In addition to the Oscar nominations, McGarvey won the British Society of Cinematographers (B.S.C.) award for Anna Karenina and for Nocturnal Animals, as well as a nomination for Atonement, and earned BAFTA nominations for Atonement, Anna Karenina, and Nocturnal Animals. He received A.S.C. nods for Atonement and Anna Karenina. Atonement earned him nominations for the British Independent Film Award, the Chicago Film Critics Association, and the Online Film Critics Society, and he received the top honour from the Phoenix Film Critics Society.  McGarvey has won three Evening Standard British Film Awards for Atonement, Anna Karenina, and Stephen Daldry's The Hours, and six Irish Film & Television Awards for Atonement, Anna Karenina, Sahara, We Need to Talk About Kevin, Nocturnal Animals, and The Greatest Showman. In 2004, he was awarded the Royal Photographic Society's prestigious Lumiere Medal, along with Jack Cardiff, Freddie Francis, Roger Deakins, and Ridley Scott, for contributions to the art of cinematography.

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Assistant Camera:
1990  The Garden

Camera Technician:
1990  The Garden
1992  Floating

Cinematography:
1990  The Garden
1992  Floating
1997  Flying Saucer Rock 'n' Roll
1998  The End
2013  A Fuller Life
2021  Oaxacalifornia: The Return
????  Gerry Adams: A Ballymurphy Man

Director of Photography:
1990  The Garden
1992  Floating
1995  Butterfly Kiss
1995  Hello, Hello, Hello
1995  Skin
1997  Flying Saucer Rock 'n' Roll
1997  Harald
1997  Jump the Gun
1997  The Slab Boys
1997  The Winter Guest
1998  Stand and Deliver
1998  The End
1999  A Map of the World
1999  I Could Read the Sky
1999  The Big Tease
1999  The War Zone
2000  High Fidelity
2000  The Name of This Film Is Dogme95
2001  Enigma
2001  Wit
2002  The Hours
2003  The Actors
2004  Along Came Polly
2005  Sahara
2006  Charlotte's Web
2006  Destricted
2006  World Trade Center
2007  Atonement
2008  Love You More
2009  Nowhere Boy
2009  The Soloist
2011  We Need to Talk About Kevin
2012  Anna Karenina
2012  Lost Angels: Skid Row Is My Home
2012  The Avengers
2013  A Fuller Life
2013  Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction
2014  Godzilla
2015  Fifty Shades of Grey
2015  Pan
2016  Kitty
2016  Nocturnal Animals
2016  The Accountant
2017  Life
2017  The Greatest Showman
2018  Bad Times at the El Royale
2018  The Human Voice
2019  Greta
2021  Cyrano
2021  Oaxacalifornia: The Return
2024  M. Il Figlio del Secolo
2024  Without Blood
2025  The Accountant 2
????  Die, My Love
????  Gerry Adams: A Ballymurphy Man

Director of Photography:
2011  Black Mirror
2021  The Nevers

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