 |
Donald McAlpine | |
|---|---|
| Born | 13 April 1934 Quandialla, New South Wales, Australia |
| Occupation | Cinematographer |
| Years active | 1972–present |
Donald McAlpine ACS, ASC (born 13 April 1934) is an Australian cinematographer.
|
Donald McAlpine | |
|---|---|
| Born | 13 April 1934 Quandialla, New South Wales, Australia |
| Occupation | Cinematographer |
| Years active | 1972–present |
Donald McAlpine ACS, ASC (born 13 April 1934) is an Australian cinematographer.
McAlpine was a physical education teacher in Parkes, New South Wales, Australia. [1] He began using a 16mm camera to film athletes preparing for the Melbourne Olympic Games. [1]
In Australia, from 1972 to 1981, McAlpine collaborated with Bruce Beresford. [2] McAlpine filmed many of Beresford's early films, including The Adventures of Barry McKenzie , [3] Barry McKenzie Holds His Own , Don's Party , The Getting of Wisdom , Money Movers , Breaker Morant and The Club . McAlpine also worked with director Gillian Armstrong on My Brilliant Career .
After My Brilliant Career, Breaker Morant and The Getting of Wisdom were released, Paul Mazursky offered him work on the film Tempest .[ citation needed ]
McAlpine was nominated for an Academy Award for his work in Moulin Rouge! .[ citation needed ] He is a member of both the Australian Cinematographers Society and the American Society of Cinematographers.[ citation needed ] The A.S.C. honored him with the 2009 International Achievement Award. [4] In 2016 McAlpine received an honorary doctorate in Arts from Edith Cowan University in Perth, Western Australia. [2]
Short film
| Year | Title | Director |
|---|---|---|
| 1969 | Leonard French's Stained Glass Screens | Michael Thornhill |
| 1970 | No Roses for Michael | Chris McGill |
| 1973 | Irrigation: The Ord River Scheme and the M.I.A. | Oliver Howes Meg Stewart |
TV movie
| Year | Title | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 | The Children of An Lac | John Llewellyn Moxey | |
| 2009 | Mega Piranha | Eric Forsberg Stuart Gillard | With Bryan Olinger |
TV series
| Year | Title | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Lambs of God | Jeffrey Walker | Episode "The Devil into Paradise" |
| 2022 | Savage River | Jocelyn Moorhouse | Mini-series |
Film
| Year | Title | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970 | Or Forever Hold Your Peace | ||
| 1974 | Whatever Happened to Green Valley? | Peter Weir | With Nick Ardizzone |
Short film
| Year | Title | Director |
|---|---|---|
| 1974 | Play Safe | Dennis Hill |
Television
Academy Awards
| Year | Category | Title | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | Best Cinematography | Moulin Rouge! | Nominated |
BAFTA Awards
| Year | Category | Title | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | Best Cinematography | Moulin Rouge! | Nominated |
Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts
| Year | Category | Title | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1979 | Best Cinematography | My Brilliant Career | Won |
| 1980 | Breaker Morant | Won | |
| 2001 | Moulin Rouge! | Won |
Satellite Awards
| Year | Category | Title | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | Best Cinematography | Romeo + Juliet | Nominated |
| 2001 | Moulin Rouge! | Nominated |
Bruce Beresford is an Australian film director and screenwriter. He has made more than 30 feature films over a 50-year career, both locally and internationally in the United States.
Russell Stewart Boyd,, ACS, ASC, is an Australian cinematographer. He rose to prominence with his highly praised work on Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975), the first of several collaborations with director Peter Weir. Boyd is a member of both the Australian Cinematographers Society since 1975 and the American Society of Cinematographers since 2004.
Breaker Morant is a 1980 Australian war drama film directed by Bruce Beresford, who co-wrote the screenplay based on Kenneth G. Ross's 1978 play of the same name.
The Adventures of Barry McKenzie is a 1972 Australian comedy film directed by Bruce Beresford and starring Barry Crocker and Barry Humphries.
Jonathan Hardy was a New Zealand-Australian film and television actor, writer and director.
William Ashman Fraker, A.S.C., B.S.C. was an American cinematographer, film director and producer. He was nominated five times for the Academy Award for Best Cinematography. In 2000, he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) honoring his career. Fraker graduated from the USC School of Cinematic Arts in 1950.
Kenneth Graham Ross is an Australian playwright, screenwriter, and lyricist best known for writing the 1978 stage play Breaker Morant, that was based on the life of Australian soldier Harry "Breaker" Morant.
Seamus McGarvey, ASC, BSC is a cinematographer from Armagh, Northern Ireland. He lives in Tuscany, Italy.
Owen Roizman was an American cinematographer. He received five Academy Award nominations for Best Cinematography, for the films The French Connection (1971), The Exorcist (1973), Network (1976), Tootsie (1982), and Wyatt Earp (1994). He served on the Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and was president of the American Society of Cinematographers.
Barry McKenzie Holds His Own is a 1974 Australian comedy film directed by Bruce Beresford and starring Barry Crocker, Barry Humphries and Donald Pleasence.
William M. Anderson is an Irish film editor who was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Editing for the film Dead Poets Society (1989). He has had an extended, notable association with the director Peter Weir, beginning with the film Gallipoli (1981), including Dead Poets Society (1989), and continuing through to the The Truman Show (1998). Anderson was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Quandialla is a village in the Central West region of New South Wales Australia. The town is 412 kilometres (256 mi) west of Sydney. It is situated on the plains of The Bland country at the western edge of the Weddin Shire. The town of Grenfell is 46 kilometres (29 mi) to the north-east, Young is 65 kilometres (40 mi) to the south-east and West Wyalong is 57 kilometres (35 mi) to the west. The Weddin Mountains are within sight.
The Getting of Wisdom is a 1977 Australian film directed by Bruce Beresford and based on the 1910 novel of the same title by Henry Handel Richardson.
Breaker Morant: A Play in Two Acts is an Australian play written by Kenneth G. Ross, centred on the court-martial and the last days of Lieutenant Harry "Breaker" Morant (1864–1902) of the Bushveldt Carbineers (BVC), that was first performed at the Athenaeum Theatre, in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, on Thursday, 2 February 1978, by the Melbourne Theatre Company.
Donald William Peterman,ASC was an American cinematographer whose numerous feature film credits included Flashdance, Cocoon, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, Point Break, and Men in Black. He was a regular collaborator of directors like Ron Howard, Ron Underwood and Barry Sonnenfeld. He was a two-time Academy Award nominee and a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the American Society of Cinematographers since 1984.
The 22nd Australian Film Institute Awards ceremony, presented by the Australian Film Institute (AFI), honoured the best Australian feature films of 1980, and took place on 17 September 1980 at Regent Theatre, in Sydney, New South Wales. The ceremony was hosted by Graham Kennedy and televised in Australia on ABC.
Anna Senior is an Australian costume designer who has been nominated for an Academy Award and has won two awards from the Australian Film Institute.
Fabian Wagner is a German cinematographer. His roles in the production of the television shows Sherlock and Game of Thrones have earned him two Creative Arts Emmy Award nominations. In 2017 and 2020 respectively, he won the American Society of Cinematographers Award for Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography in Regular Series for his work on the Game of Thrones episode "Battle of the Bastards" and for his work on season 3 of The Crown.
The Sammy Awards were Australian television and film awards held annually between 1976 and 1981, initially supported by the TV Times and the Seven Network.
| International | |
|---|---|
| National | |
| Artists | |
| Other | |
