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Sean Francis Bobbitt, B.S.C. (born 29 November 1958) is an American-born British cinematographer. [1] He is known for his collaborations with director Steve McQueen working on his films Hunger (2008), Shame (2011), 12 Years a Slave (2013), and Widows (2018). He earned a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Cinematography for his work on Judas and the Black Messiah (2021)
Sean Bobbitt was born in Corpus Christi, Texas on 29 November 1958. [1]
Bobbitt started his career as a news and documentary cameraman, a role which took him to the most conflicted spots of the globe.
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]
In 2011, Bobbitt worked on the pilot of HBO's acclaimed series Game of Thrones . The following year, Bobbitt completed filming on The Place Beyond the Pines , which stars Ryan Gosling, Bradley Cooper, Eva Mendes and Ray Liotta, a Neil Jordan 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 the 2003 South Korean film of the same name. The end of 2013 saw the release of 12 Years a Slave , for which he received multiple cinematography award nominations, and which ultimately won the coveted Best Picture Award at the 2014 Oscars.
Over the next few years, he worked on Kill the Messenger with Jeremy Renner, Rock the Kasbah with Bill Murray, Queen of Katwe with David Oyelowo, On Chesil Beach with Saoirse Ronan, Stronger with Jake Gyllenhaal. In 2018, he collaborated with McQueen again on heist movie Widows .
In 2019, he shot Judas and the Black Messiah for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Cinematography. The film was released on HBO Max in 2021, having been postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
In 2021, Bobbitt filmed The Marvels , directed by Nia DiCosta.
Mini-series
Year | Title | Director | Notes |
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2003 | Canterbury Tales | Marc Munden Julian Jarrold | Episodes "The Knight's Tale" and "The Man of Law's Tale" |
2004 | The Long Firm | Bille Eltringham | |
2008 | Sense and Sensibility | John Alexander | |
2009 | Unforgiven | David Evans | |
2016 | Codes of Conduct | Steve McQueen | |
TV movies
Year | Title | Director |
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2001 | The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby | Stephen Whittaker |
Sweet Revenge | David Morrissey | |
2002 | Jeffrey Archer: The Truth | Guy Jenkin |
2003 | Second Generation | Jon Sen |
TV series
Year | Title | Director | Notes |
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2002 | Spooks | Rob Bailey | Episodes "One Last Dance" and "Traitor's Gate" |
Year | Title | Director | Notes |
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2000 | Maisie's Catch | Dan Weldon | |
2001 | Dog | Andrea Arnold | |
Ladies Night | Caroline Hicks | ||
2004 | Charlotte | Steve McQueen | |
2006 | Normal for Norfolk | Gareth Lewis | |
2007 | Weddings and Beheadings | Amir Jamal | |
Gravesend | Steve McQueen | ||
2009 | The Death of Pentheus | Philip Haas | |
Static | Steve McQueen | ||
Giardini | |||
2016 | Mr. Burberry | ||
2022 | Avengers: Quantum Encounter | Danny Handke Chris Waitt | Shared credit with David Stump and Sam Renton |
Film
Year | Title | Director |
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2010 | Crack House USA | Anthony Wonke |
2012 | Trashed | Candida Brady |
Miniseries
Year | Title | Director |
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1994 | Watergate | Mick Gold |
1998 | Ancient Inventions | Daniel Percival Phil Grabsky |
Short films
Year | Title | Director |
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2002 | Western Deep | Steve McQueen |
Sir Steve Rodney McQueen is a British film director, film producer, screenwriter, and video artist. Known for directing films that deal with intense subject matters, he has received several awards including an Academy Award, two BAFTA Awards and a Golden Globe Award. He was honoured with the BFI Fellowship in 2016 and was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 2020 for services to art and film. In 2014, he was included in Time magazine's annual Time 100 list of the "most influential people in the world".
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Hunger is a 2008 historical drama film about the 1981 Irish hunger strike. It was directed by Steve McQueen and starred Michael Fassbender, Liam Cunningham, and Liam McMahon.
The 6th Irish Film & Television Awards took place on 14 February 2009 at the Burlington Hotel in Dublin, and was hosted by Ryan Tubridy. It honoured Irish film and television released in 2008.
Shame is a 2011 British erotic psychological drama film, set in New York, directed by Steve McQueen, co-written by McQueen and Abi Morgan, and starring Michael Fassbender and Carey Mulligan as grown siblings. It was co-produced by Film4 and See-Saw Films. The film's explicit scenes reflecting the protagonist's sexual addiction resulted in a rating of NC-17 in the United States. Shame was released in the United Kingdom on 13 January 2012. It received generally positive reviews, with praise for Fassbender's and Mulligan's performances, realistic depiction of sexual addiction, and direction.
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The 17th Online Film Critics Society Awards, honoring the best in film for 2013, were announced on 16 December 2013.
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