John de Borman
John de Borman (born 1954 in Paris ) is a French born British film cameraman, who was in charge in his 25 -year film career over 35 international film productions as cinematographer. Including classics of modern cinema like The Full Monty, Saving Grace, Serendipity, may I ask? or love at second sight. He is also the President of the British Society of Cinematopgraphers (BSC ).
Life and career
John de Borman, born in Paris in 1954, already experimented extensively in his youth with photo equipment and Super 8 cameras. After his visit to the Chelsea School of Art (now the College of Art and Design) where he studied sculpture, he began to photograph with the camera in the 1980s, video productions for pop artists. He worked earlier together with prominent personalities of show business like Prince or Madonna.
In 1988, he finally began as a cameraman for the British film. Supervised de Borman end of the 1980s was still independent productions, as the filmmaker Anders Palm, he made a few years later, already a name in theater productions for directors such as Stephen Norrington and Philip Ridley.
In 1996 he was engaged by the Scottish director Gillies MacKinnon for his award-winning drama Small Faces. In the same year was created for the same director then the work to the film Trojan Eddie and 1998 he delivered for the drama Marrakech with Kate Winslet in the title role on the pictures. In 1997 it had been the director Peter Cattaneo Full Monty obliged for his Oscar-winning comedy. 2002 obliged him Gillies MacKinnon then two more times for his film drama Pure and 2005 for the theatrical production A house in Ireland.
For the director, Nigel Cole, he worked in 2000 for the first time as a cameraman for the original crime comedy Saving Grace, 2005, the film was followed by A Lot Like Love and 2010, he then took on the directing Dagenham a third time his place behind the camera.
2001 entrusted him with the British director Peter Chelsom after successful joint partnership with The Mighty - Together they are strong in 1998, again the camera work, this time with the intelligent staged comedy film Serendipity with John Cusack and Kate Beckinsale in the lead roles. 2004, there were in the romantic drama Shall We Dance? in the occupation of Richard Gere and Jennifer Lopez to third collaboration.
In 2008, he provided the images for the romantic drama Love at second sight with Dustin Hoffman and Emma Thompson, directed by Joel Hopkins. Dustin Hoffman signed him in 2012 then as a cinematographer for his work as a director to a quartet.
Since the early 2000s, John de Borman worked as a cinematographer, among others, with the directors Michael Almereyda, Suri Krishnamma, John Hay, Daisy von Scherler Mayer, Tommy O'Haver, Oliver Parker, Bharat Nalluri, Lone Scherfig and John Duigan together.
As president of the British Society of Cinematopgraphers (BSC ), he took over the office within the Academy of camera men and women in the United Kingdom by the camera wife Sue Gibson.
Awards
- 2000: Evening Standard British Film Award for Best Technical / Artistic Achievement category for Marrakech
- 2001: Independent Spirit Award nomination in the Best Cinematography category for Hamlet
- 2007: BAFTA Award nomination in the category Best Photography & Lighting Fiction / Entertainment for Tsunami - The Killer Wave
- 2009: British Society of Cinematographers Award nomination in the category of Best Cinematography Award for An Education
- 2009 Sundance Film Festival in the category World Cinema - Dramatic for An Education