A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
Los Angeles, California, USA
Born:
October 18, 1960
John Leonard Schwartzman, A.S.C. (born October 18, 1960) is an American cinematographer, best known for his work on Jurassic World, The Amazing Spider-Man, The Rock, and Seabiscuit, for which he received an Oscar nomination for Best Cinematography. Schwartzman was born on October 18, 1960, in Los Angeles, California. He is the son of producer Jack Schwartzman and the stepson of actress Talia Shire. He is the brother of Stephanie Schwartzman and half-brother to actors/musicians Jason Schwartzman and Robert Schwartzman. John graduated from the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts in 1985. His father was Jewish, whereas his mother was Catholic. Schwartzman works as a cinematographer. He is best known for his collaborations with directors Michael Bay, John Lee Hancock, Colin Trevorrow, James Foley, and Paul Feig. Description above from the Wikipedia article John Schwartzman, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Additional Camera:
1988 Heathers
Additional Photography:
1988 Heathers
2012 Red Dawn
Director of Photography:
1988 Heathers
1988 You Can't Hurry Love
1989 Red Surf
1990 Industrial Symphony No. 1: The Dream of the Brokenhearted
1990 Rockula
1993 Benny & Joon
1994 Airheads
1995 A Pyromaniac's Love Story
1996 Mr. Wrong
1996 The Rock
1997 Conspiracy Theory
1998 Armageddon
1999 EDtv
2001 Pearl Harbor
2002 The Rookie
2003 Seabiscuit
2004 Meet the Fockers
2007 National Treasure: Book of Secrets
2007 The Bucket List
2009 Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian
2011 The Green Hornet
2012 Red Dawn
2012 The Amazing Spider-Man
2013 Saving Mr. Banks
2014 Dracula Untold
2015 Jurassic World
2016 The Founder
2017 Fifty Shades Darker
2017 The Book of Henry
2018 A Simple Favor
2018 Fifty Shades Freed
2019 Last Christmas
2019 The Highwaymen
2019 The Unicorn
2021 The Little Things
2022 Jurassic World Dominion
2022 Mr. Harrigan's Phone
2022 The School for Good and Evil
2024 Atlas
2024 Jackpot!
2025 Another Simple Favor
Second Unit Director of Photography:
1988 Heathers
1988 Waxwork
1988 You Can't Hurry Love
1989 Red Surf
1990 Industrial Symphony No. 1: The Dream of the Brokenhearted
1990 Rockula
1993 Benny & Joon
1994 Airheads
1995 A Pyromaniac's Love Story
1996 Mr. Wrong
1996 The Rock
1997 Conspiracy Theory
1998 Armageddon
1999 EDtv
2001 Pearl Harbor
2002 The Rookie
2003 Seabiscuit
2004 Meet the Fockers
2007 National Treasure: Book of Secrets
2007 The Bucket List
2009 Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian
2011 The Green Hornet
2012 Red Dawn
2012 The Amazing Spider-Man
2013 Saving Mr. Banks
2014 Dracula Untold
2015 Jurassic World
2016 The Founder
2017 Fifty Shades Darker
2017 The Book of Henry
2018 A Simple Favor
2018 Fifty Shades Freed
2019 Last Christmas
2019 The Highwaymen
2019 The Unicorn
2021 The Little Things
2022 Jurassic World Dominion
2022 Mr. Harrigan's Phone
2022 The School for Good and Evil
2024 Atlas
2024 Jackpot!
2025 Another Simple Favor
Title Designer:
1986 Rad
1988 Heathers
1988 Waxwork
1988 You Can't Hurry Love
1989 Red Surf
1990 Industrial Symphony No. 1: The Dream of the Brokenhearted
1990 Rockula
1993 Benny & Joon
1994 Airheads
1995 A Pyromaniac's Love Story
1996 Mr. Wrong
1996 The Rock
1997 Conspiracy Theory
1998 Armageddon
1999 EDtv
2001 Pearl Harbor
2002 The Rookie
2003 Seabiscuit
2004 Meet the Fockers
2007 National Treasure: Book of Secrets
2007 The Bucket List
2009 Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian
2011 The Green Hornet
2012 Red Dawn
2012 The Amazing Spider-Man
2013 Saving Mr. Banks
2014 Dracula Untold
2015 Jurassic World
2016 The Founder
2017 Fifty Shades Darker
2017 The Book of Henry
2018 A Simple Favor
2018 Fifty Shades Freed
2019 Last Christmas
2019 The Highwaymen
2019 The Unicorn
2021 The Little Things
2022 Jurassic World Dominion
2022 Mr. Harrigan's Phone
2022 The School for Good and Evil
2024 Atlas
2024 Jackpot!
2025 Another Simple Favor
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Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.