Janusz Kamiński
Janusz Kaminski (born 27 June 1959 Ziębice ) is a Polish cinematographer and director.
Kaminski left his native Poland after the imposition of martial law by General Jaruzelski in 1981 and went to the USA. From 1982 to 1987, he studied cinematography at Columbia College in Chicago and went to the final in Los Angeles.
After some work as a camera assistant in 1990, he turned his first film as cinematographer. The final breakthrough came when Steven Spielberg hired him for Schindler's List and he returned to this work in his native Poland to Krakow. For Schindler's List in 1994, he received his first Oscar, and he has since become the preferred cinematographer for Spielberg. In 1998 he received another Oscar nomination for Amistad and 1999 his second Oscar for Saving Private Ryan. A technical camera novelty was in this movie twenty minute long presentation of the Normandy landings, the Kaminski took up with a team of cameramen with hand-held cameras. His directorial debut was in 1999 with the horror film Lost Souls - Lost Souls. Starring Winona Ryder was seen. Later the films Hania (2007) and American Dream followed ( 2011).
Janusz Kaminski was married from 1995 to 2001 to actress Holly Hunter. He married in 2004, the ABC reporter Rebecca Rankin. He is uncle of the German actor André Emanuel Kaminski and was the father of the deceased in January 2009 Adam Kaminski.
In 1994, he joined the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC ), which he, however, left from unspecified reasons, in the year 2006.
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- From 9 February to 19 February 2006 Janusz Kaminski was a jury member at the International Film Festival in Berlin in 2006.
- In 2003 he filmed a video clip for the Polish rock band Myslovitz whose big fan he is.