Barry Ackroyd

Barry Ackroyd ( born May 12, 1954 in Manchester ) is a British cinematographer.

His first film, on which he collaborated, was Inside the Labyrinth of the year 1986.

Very often he collaborated with director Ken Loach. Their first production was the documentary The View from the Woodpile of 1989.

So far Ackroyd was nominated four times for the British Academy Film Awards ( BAFTA ): first in 1997 for his short film The Butterfly Man, then 2004 for the TV movie The Lost Prince and 2007 for Flight 93 for Ken Loach's The Wind That Shakes the Barley, he won in 2006, the European Film Awards.

In summer 2007 he turned, following Battle in Seattle, the directorial debut of actor Stuart Townsend, with director Kathryn Bigelow in Jordan, the war drama The Hurt Locker. For this turned on super 16 mm in documentary style work he was awarded in 2010 the BAFTA Award and his first Oscar nomination. In 2008, he turned with Green Zone Paul Greengrass another movie about the Iraq war.

Filmography (selection)