Colin Watkinson is an English cinematographer. [1] He won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Cinematography for a Single-Camera Series (One Hour) for "Offred", the Pilot episode of The Handmaid's Tale , and was nominated in the same category for subsequent series. [2] He was director of photography for Tarsem Singh's The Fall in 2006. [3]
Short film
Year | Title | Director |
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2003 | Confused | Camille Griffin |
2011 | J. Arthur | Justin Leibow |
2012 | Exquisite | |
2018 | Hell Hath Enlarged Herself | Gerald McMorrow |
2019 | A Story Takes Flight | Reed Morano |
2020 | Tunnel Beach | Nina Kiri |
Feature film
Year | Title | Director |
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2006 | The Fall | Tarsem Singh |
2018 | Off The Rails | Damian Fitzsimmons |
2022 | Luckiest Girl Alive | Mike Barker |
Television
Year | Title | Director | Notes |
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2008 | Entourage | Mark Mylod | 6 episodes |
2011 | Wonder Woman | Jeffrey Reiner | Unaired pilot |
2013 | Monday Mornings | Bill D'Elia | Episode "Pilot" |
2017 | Emerald City | Tarsem Singh | All 10 episodes |
2017-2019 | The Handmaid's Tale | Reed Morano Mike Barker Floria Sigismondi Kate Dennis Kari Skogland Jeremy Podeswa | 19 episodes; Also directed 3 episodes |
2019 | Truth Be Told | Mikkel Nørgaard | Episode "Monster" |
2023 | The Power | Logan Kibens Ugla Hauksdóttir Lisa Gunning | Episodes "A Better Future is in Your Hands" and "The World is on Fu*king Fire" |
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The Primetime Emmy Awards, or Primetime Emmys, are part of the extensive range of Emmy Awards for artistic and technical merit for the American television industry. Bestowed by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (ATAS), the Primetime Emmys are presented in recognition of excellence in American primetime television programming. The award categories are divided into three classes: the regular Primetime Emmy Awards, the Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards to honor technical and other similar behind-the-scenes achievements, and the Primetime Engineering Emmy Awards for recognizing significant contributions to the engineering and technological aspects of television. First given out in 1949, the award was originally referred to as simply the "Emmy Award" until the International Emmy Award and the Daytime Emmy Award were created in the early 1970s to expand the Emmy to other sectors of the television industry.
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