Adam Arkapaw | |
---|---|
Born | Bowral, Australia |
Occupation | Cinematographer |
Years active | 2001–present |
Spouse | |
Children | 1 |
Website | www |
Adam Arkapaw is an Australian cinematographer. He is best known for his work on the television series Top of the Lake and True Detective , for which he has won two Creative Arts Emmy Awards. He is also known for his collaborations with director Justin Kurzel, whom he worked with on Snowtown , Macbeth , and Assassin's Creed .
Arkapaw was born in Bowral, a New South Wales town south of Sydney, and attended Bowral High School. [1] He studied at the University of Melbourne's Victorian College of the Arts, graduating in 2006 with a Bachelor of Film and Television. [2] [3]
In addition to numerous short films, Arkapaw photographed three Australian features over the next several years: Animal Kingdom (2010), Snowtown (2011), and Lore (2012). [4] He received a nomination for the AACTA Award for Best Cinematography in 2010 for his work on Animal Kingdom and in 2011 he was named one of Variety magazine's "10 Cinematographers to Watch". [1]
Arkawpaw next worked on Jane Campion's television miniseries Top of the Lake , which was filmed in New Zealand and broadcast in 2013. That year he won a Creative Arts Emmy Award for Outstanding Cinematography for a Miniseries or Movie. [4] In 2014 he won his second Emmy Award, for Outstanding Cinematography for a Single-Camera Series, in recognition of his work on the HBO television series True Detective . [3] True Detective was filmed in Louisiana and Arkapaw's cinematography received wide praise, especially for a six-minute single-take long take that was planned over months and took one and a half days to film. [5]
Arkapaw was the cinematographer of the 2015 film Macbeth , directed by Justin Kurzel, with whom Arkapaw previously worked on Snowtown. [2] He also photographed McFarland, USA , an American sports film released in 2015, [6] and the drama film The Light Between Oceans . He collaborated with Kurzel for a third time on the action-adventure film Assassin's Creed , which was released in the United States in December 2016. [7]
He is married to American cinematographer Autumn Durald; [8] the couple has one son, Aedan. [9]
Year | Title | Director |
---|---|---|
2004 | The Road Not Taken | Ruby Hamad |
2005 | In the Shadows | Jessica Leski |
The City Eats Its Weak | Sasha Whitehouse | |
2006 | Invisible | Jonathan Murray |
Booth Story | Kasimir Burgess Edwin McGill | |
End of Town | Julius Avery | |
Anne & Richard | Christine Rogers | |
2007 | Songs for Running Away | Jessica Leski |
2008 | I Love Sarah Jane | Spencer Susser |
Jerrycan | Julius Avery | |
Little Wings | Polly Staniford | |
Wanderlust/Wanderlost | Keri D. Light | |
Ahmad's Garden | Aaron Wilson | |
Dissection | Callum Cooper | |
Directions | Kasimir Burgess | |
Love Apples | Ali Kasap | |
2009 | 27 | Jordan Molloy |
The Last Supper | Angus Sampson | |
Jen in the Painting | Matthew Aveiro | |
Apricot | Ben Briand | |
2010 | Foreign Parts | Michael Cody |
2011 | Bear | Nash Edgerton |
2012 | Yardbird | Michael Spiccia |
Dumpy Goes to the Big Smoke | Mirrah Foulkes | |
2014 | The Apprentice | Steve Baker Damon Escott |
Documentary short
Year | Title | Director |
---|---|---|
2007 | Podlove: Our Brilliant Second Life | Shelley Matulick |
Year | Title | Director | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
2009 | Blind Company | Alkinos Tsilimidos | |
2010 | Animal Kingdom | David Michôd | |
2011 | Snowtown | Justin Kurzel | |
2012 | Lore | Cate Shortland | |
2015 | McFarland, USA | Niki Caro | |
Macbeth | Justin Kurzel | ||
2016 | The Light Between Oceans | Derek Cianfrance | |
Assassin's Creed | Justin Kurzel | ||
2019 | Light of My Life | Casey Affleck | |
The King | David Michôd | ||
2022 | The Chess Game | Will Taylor | With Rob White |
2024 | The Order | Justin Kurzel | |
2025 | Magazine Dreams | Elijah Bynum |
Documentary film
Year | Title | Director |
---|---|---|
2007 | We Will Be Remembered For This | David Schmidt |
2010 | Return to Gaza | Michael Weatherhead |
The Ball | Jessica Leski |
Year | Title | Director | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
2013 | Top of the Lake | Jane Campion Garth Davis | 7 episodes |
2014 | True Detective | Cary Joji Fukunaga | Season 1 |
2015 | Flesh and Bone | David Michôd | Episode "Bulling Through" |
2024 | Masters of the Air | Cary Joji Fukunaga | 4 episodes |
Award | Year | Category | Nominated work | Result |
---|---|---|---|---|
AACTA Awards | 2012 | Best Cinematography | Snowtown | Nominated |
2013 | Lore | Nominated | ||
2014 | Best Cinematography in Television | Top of the Lake | Won | |
2015 | Byron Kennedy Award | Adam Arkapaw | Won | |
2019 | Best Cinematography | The King | Won | |
ASC Awards | 2015 | Spotlight Award | Macbeth | Won |
Australian Film Institute Awards | 2006 | Outstanding Achievement in Short Film Screen Craft | End of Town | Nominated |
2010 | Best Cinematography | Animal Kingdom | Nominated | |
British Independent Film Awards | 2015 | Best Technical Achievement | Macbeth | Nominated |
Manaki Film Festival | Silver Camera 300 | Won | ||
Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards | 2013 | Outstanding Cinematography | True Detective | Won |
2014 | Outstanding Cinematography for a Single-Camera Series | Won | ||
Stockholm International Film Festival | 2012 | Best Cinematography | Lore | Won |
Sir Roger Alexander Deakins is an English cinematographer. He is the recipient of five BAFTA Awards for Best Cinematography, and two Academy Awards for Best Cinematography from sixteen nominations. He has collaborated multiple times with directors such as the Coen brothers, Sam Mendes, and Denis Villeneuve. His best-known works include The Shawshank Redemption (1994), Fargo (1996), O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000), A Beautiful Mind (2001), Skyfall (2012), Sicario (2015), Blade Runner 2049 (2017), and 1917 (2019), the last two of which earned him Academy Awards.
Assassin's Creed (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) is the soundtrack to the 2016 film Assassin's Creed directed by Justin Kurzel, based on the video game franchise of the same name. The film featured musical score composed by singer-songwriter Jed Kurzel. The album was released through Verve Music on December 21, 2016.
Cary Joji Fukunaga is an American filmmaker. He is known for directing critically acclaimed films such as the thriller Sin nombre (2009), the period drama Jane Eyre (2011), the war drama Beasts of No Nation (2015) and the 25th James Bond film, No Time to Die (2021). He also co-wrote the Stephen King adaptation It (2017). He was the first director of East Asian descent to win the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series, as the director and executive producer of the first season of the HBO series True Detective (2014). He also directed and executive produced the Netflix limited series Maniac (2018), and executive produced and directed several episodes of the Apple TV+ miniseries Masters of the Air (2024).
Peter James is an Australian cinematographer and director of photography. James is a member of the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC), an organization that offers membership to directors of photography only "by invitation, based on an individual’s body of work".
Snowtown is a 2011 Australian biographical crime drama directed by Justin Kurzel in his directorial debut and written by Shaun Grant based on the true story of the Snowtown murders.
Justin Dallas Kurzel is an Australian film director. His films include Snowtown (2011), Macbeth (2015), Assassin's Creed (2016), True History of the Kelly Gang (2018), Nitram (2021) and The Order (2024).
Ric Waite was an American cinematographer whose numerous film and television credits included Red Dawn, Footloose, 48 Hrs., and The Long Riders. Waite received four Emmy nominations during his career. He won his only Emmy for his work on the 1976 television miniseries Captains and the Kings.
Daniel Cohen, BSC is an English cinematographer. A member of the British Society of Cinematographers, he has worked on many feature films and television series, and is known for his collaborations with Tom Hooper, Stephen Frears, Shane Meadows, and Lenny Abrahamson. He has worked with Hooper on five occasions: Longford (2006), John Adams (2008), The King's Speech (2010), Les Misérables (2012), and The Danish Girl (2015). He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Cinematography for The King's Speech, the BAFTA Award for Best Cinematography for Les Miserables, and the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Cinematography for a Limited Series for John Adams.
True Detective is an American anthology crime drama television series created by Nic Pizzolatto. The series, broadcast by the premium cable network HBO in the United States, premiered on January 12, 2014. Each season of the series is structured as a self-contained narrative, employing new cast ensembles, and following various sets of characters and settings.
Autumn Cheyenne Durald Arkapaw is an American cinematographer.
Assassin's Creed is a 2016 historical science fiction action film based on the video game franchise published by Ubisoft. The film is directed by Justin Kurzel, written by Michael Lesslie, Adam Cooper and Bill Collage, and stars Michael Fassbender, as well as Marion Cotillard, Jeremy Irons, Brendan Gleeson, Charlotte Rampling and Michael K. Williams. The film is set in the same universe as the video games but features an original story that expands the series' mythology. The plot revolves around Callum "Cal" Lynch (Fassbender), who is abducted by the Abstergo Foundation because of his heritage. Cal's ancestor, Aguilar de Nerha, was a member of the Assassin Brotherhood—a fictional organization inspired by the real-life Order of Assassins—active during the Spanish Inquisition in the late 15th-century, who swore to protect the Apple of Eden, an artifact believed to contain the key to humanity's free will. Cal must accept his Assassin heritage and stop Abstergo, the Templar Order of the modern-day, from finding the Apple and using it to enslave humanity.
The first season of True Detective, an American anthology crime drama television series created by Nic Pizzolatto, premiered on January 12, 2014, on the premium cable network HBO. The principal cast consisted of Matthew McConaughey, Woody Harrelson, Michelle Monaghan, Michael Potts, and Tory Kittles. The season had eight episodes, and its initial airing concluded on March 9, 2014. Each following True Detective season has its own self-contained story, following a disparate set of characters in various settings.
Jed Danyel Kurzel is an Australian singer-songwriter-guitarist and film composer. He is a founding member of The Mess Hall, a blues rock duo. His older brother Justin Kurzel is a film director and screenwriter.
The 18th British Independent Film Awards nominations were announced on 3 November 2015.
Mátyás Erdély is a Hungarian cinematographer.
The 30th American Society of Cinematographers Awards were held on February 15, 2016, at the Hollywood & Highland Ray Dolby Ballroom, honoring the best cinematographers of film and television in 2015.
James Hawkinson is an American cinematographer known for his work in television, music videos, and film. He is best known for his critically acclaimed work on the Hannibal and The Man in the High Castle television series', for which he has received numerous accolades including a Primetime Emmy Award and a nomination for an ASC Award.
Florian Hoffmeister, B.S.C., is a German cinematographer and director, best known for his work on Tár, which earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Cinematography. Projects he has worked on include Five Days, House of Saddam and AMC's The Terror. He has collaborated with director Terence Davies on two occasions, working on The Deep Blue Sea and A Quiet Passion. His other credits include In Secret, Mortdecai and Johnny English Strikes Again.
Ari Wegner, ACS, ASC, is an Australian cinematographer. Her work includes films such as Lady Macbeth (2016), True History of the Kelly Gang (2019), and Zola (2020). In 2021, she served as cinematographer on The Power of the Dog for which she received widespread critical acclaim including an Academy Award nomination for Best Cinematography, becoming only the second woman to do so in the award's 94-year history.
Shaun Grant is an Australian screenwriter and producer. He is well known for his frequent collaborations with Justin Kurzel; Snowtown (2011), True History of the Kelly Gang (2020) and Nitram (2021). Grant has also written screenplay adaptions for several Australian novels and worked on David Fincher's Mindhunter.