Sean Bobbitt

Sean Francis Bobbitt, B.S.C. (born 29 November 1958) is an American-born Britishcinematographer.[1]

Contents
Early life
Career
Awards and nominations
Filmography
Television
Short films
References
External links

Early life
Sean Bobbitt was born in Corpus Christi, Texas on November 29, 1958.[1]

Career
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. Bobbitt won a BIFA in
2008 for his work on Hunger. He was again nominated in 2011 for Shame, starring Academy Award nominee Carey Mulligan
alongside Fassbender. In 2012, Bobbitt won the Carlo Di Palma European Cinematographer of the Year Award at the European Film
Awards for his work on Shame.[2] 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 the2003 South Korean film of the same name. The end of 2013 saw the
release of 12 Years a Slave, which ultimately won the coveted Best Picture Award at the 2014 Oscars. In 2014 he went on to work on
Kill the Messenger and Barry Levinson's Rock the Kasbah, starring Bill Murray.

Awards and nominations

Bobbitt won an Independent Spirit Award for Best Cinematography for his work on 12 Years a Slave.[3] In the same year he was also
nominated for a BAFTA, American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) Award, Satellite Award, Broadcast Film Critics Association
Award, amongst many others.

Filmography
 Year Title Director Notes
1999 Wonderland Michael Winterbottom
Chunky Monkey Greg Cruttwell
2001 Tom Hunsinger
Lawless Heart
Neil Hunter
2002 Summer Things Michel Blanc
Cargo Clive Gordon
2006
The Situation Philip Haas
The Baker Gareth Lewis
2007
Mrs Ratcliffe's Revolution Bille Eltringham
2008 Hunger Steve McQueen
2010 Africa United Debs Gardner-Paterson
Shame Steve McQueen
2011
Hysteria Tanya Wexler
Everyday Michael Winterbottom
The Place Beyond the Pines Derek Cianfrance
2012
Byzantium Neil Jordan
Trashed Candida Brady Documentary
12 Years a Slave Steve McQueen
2013
Oldboy Spike Lee
2014 Kill the Messenger Michael Cuesta
2015 Rock the Kasbah Barry Levinson
2016 Queen of Katwe Mira Nair
On Chesil Beach Dominic Cooke
2017
Stronger David Gordon Green
2018 Widows Steve McQueen

Television
 Year Title Director Notes
1994 Watergate Mick Gold
Daniel Percival Mini-Series documentary
1998 Ancient Inventions
Phil Grabsky
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Stephen
Nickleby Whittaker
2001 TV movie
David
Sweet Revenge
Morrissey
Spooks Rob Bailey Episodes: "One Last Dance" and "Traitor's Gate"
2002
Jeffrey Archer: The Truth Guy Jenkin
TV movie
Second Generation Jon Sen

2003 Mini-Series;
Marc Munden
The Canterbury Tales Episodes "The Knight's Tale" and "The Man of
Julian Jarrold
Law's Tale"
Bille
2004 The Long Firm
Eltringham
John
2008 Sense and Sensibility
Alexander Mini-Series
2009 Unforgiven David Evans
Steve
2016 Codes of Conduct
McQueen

Short films

Year Title Director

2000 Maisie's Catch Dan Weldon
Dog Andrea Arnold
2001
Ladies Night Caroline Hicks
2002 Western Deep
Steve McQueen
2004 Charlotte
2006 Normal for Norfolk Gareth Lewis
Weddings and Beheadings Amir Jamal
2007
Gravesend Steve McQueen
The Death of Pentheus Philip Haas
2009 Static
Giardini Steve McQueen
2016 Mr. Burberry

References
1. "Sean Bobbitt" (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0090312/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm). IMDb. Retrieved 4 March 2014.
2. "Joe Walker and Sean Bobbitt are awarded for their work on Shame"(http://www.casarotto.co.uk/news/joe-walker-an
d-sean-bobbitt-are-awarded-for-their-work-on-shame-at-this-years-european-film-awards-17229).
3. "Sean Bobbitt" (http://www.spiritawards.com/nominees_2014/sean-bobbitt). Film Independent Spirit Awards.
Retrieved 4 March 2014.
External links
Sean Bobbitt on IMDb
Interview with Bright Lights Film Journal

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