Anthony Dod Mantle
Anthony Dod Mantle ( born 1955 in Oxford ) is a British cinematographer.
Life
Born half- Scot Dod Mantle is the son of a scientist and a painter and grew up in Oxford. After he finished college, he lived first in France. In 1979 he traveled to Denmark, where he discovered his passion for photography. It was followed by a stay in India. In 1980 he started at the London College of Printing an MA in photography. In 1983, he moved to Copenhagen where he studied from 1985 to 1989 at the Danish Film School. Here he led camera in short films, music videos and commercials. His first feature film was 1992, the German production The terrorists.
In 1998, he was a cameraman for the first Dogme 95 film The feast, then he turned two more films after the dogma criteria. With the main initiators of the movement Thomas Vinterberg and Lars von Trier, he also worked together to continue, for example, he was cinematographer on the dance sequences in Dancer in the Dark. Since 2001 he is also working regularly with the British director Danny Boyle. In 2003 he received the European Film Award for Lars von Trier's Dogville. For The Last King of Scotland ( Director: Kevin Macdonald ) he was awarded the 2006 British Independent Film Award.
Even his Dogma films, the festival and Julien Donkey -Boy and his first work with Danny Boyle (two BBC films and 28 Days Later ) had shot on mini - DV Dod Mantle. Since Dogville (2003 ), he is increasingly working with both HD technology as well as hybrids of analog and digital recording. Together with Christopher Doyle and other innovative DV / HD camera people he occasionally gives lectures in this area.
For the most part filmed with the flexible digital cinema camera SI -2K P S Technik / Silicon Imaging Slumdog Millionaire by Danny Boyle Dod Mantle finally won the 2009 British Academy Film Award and the Academy Award for best cinematography. Here, a protocol developed by pill Filmgeräteverleih and Stefan Ciupek backpack system was used, which made it possible to film quickly and without major precautions in Mumbai's slum Dharavi.
In 2009 he received the European Film Award for Slumdog Millionaire and Lars von Trier's Antichrist. In 2011 he was honored for his life's work with the 11th Marburg Camera price.