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Dion Beebe (b. 1968)

Birthplace:
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Born:
May 18, 1968

Biography from TheMovieDB

Dion Beebe A.C.S. A.S.C. (/ˈdiːɒn ˈbiːbi/ DEE-on BEE-bee; born 18 May 1968) is an Australian–South African cinematographer. Originally from Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, his family moved to Cape Town, South Africa, in 1972. Dion studied cinematography at the Australian Film, Television and Radio School from 1987 to 1989.[citation needed] Beebe was nominated for an Academy Award and a BAFTA for his work on Rob Marshall's Chicago, and won the 2006 Academy Award for his work on the director's later Memoirs of a Geisha. He is known for his use of stylized, highly saturated colour palettes and for his experimental use of high-speed digital video on Michael Mann's Collateral (for which he won a BAFTA for Best Cinematography) and Miami Vice. He is also a member of the Australian Cinematographers Society (ACS) and the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC). Dion was inducted into the ACS' Hall of Fame at the National Awards on 16 May 2020.

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Cinematography:
1996  What I Have Written

Director of Photography:
1992  Crush
1995  Vacant Possession
1996  Floating Life
1996  What I Have Written
1997  40,000 Years of Dreaming
1997  Down Rusty Down
1998  Memory & Desire
1998  My Own Country
1999  Holy Smoke
1999  Praise
2000  Forever Lulu
2000  The Goddess of 1967
2001  Charlotte Gray
2002  Chicago
2002  Equilibrium
2003  In the Cut
2004  Collateral
2005  Memoirs of a Geisha
2006  Miami Vice
2006  Tony Bennett: An American Classic
2007  Rendition
2009  Land of the Lost
2009  Nine
2011  Green Lantern
2012  The Zen of Bennett
2013  Gangster Squad
2014  Edge of Tomorrow
2014  Into the Woods
2016  13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi
2017  The Snowman
2018  Mary Poppins Returns
2018  The Legend of Red Hand
2019  Gemini Man
2020  I Am Woman
2023  The Little Mermaid
2025  Michael

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