How to Use cinematographer in a Sentence

cinematographer

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  • The man is in his late 20s and works as a cinematographer.
    — Sara Ashley O'Brien, CNN, 7 June 2022
  • Fuller and the cinematographer Joseph Biroc give much of the film a noirish cast, which only ratchets up the tension.
    — David Mermelstein, WSJ, 27 July 2022
  • So the cinematographer and I went back to our room that night and essentially rewrote the script.
    — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 13 Dec. 2022
  • Lukasz Zal, his cinematographer, arrived early to the shoot and made some initial studies of the house.
    — Giles Harvey, New York Times, 19 Dec. 2023
  • The cinematographer, Erik Messerschmidt, likes to mount a camera down low, next to the left wheel arch of a race car, or else behind the cockpit, staring ahead.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2023
  • Hell or High Water cinematographer Giles Nuttgens will lens the movie.
    — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Feb. 2024
  • The actor was practicing a cross-draw when the gun fired, striking the cinematographer.
    — Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 21 Apr. 2023
  • For an extra scoop of the macabre, the Oscar-winning cinematographer Robert Elswit shot the series in stark black and white.
    — Erik Piepenburg, Los Angeles Times, 3 June 2024
  • The actor went on to say that the late cinematographer told him to start cocking the hammer for a particular shot.
    — Thr Staff, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Aug. 2022
  • Decades ago, a cinematographer advised me to pay as much attention to actors’ hands as to their faces.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 15 Feb. 2024
  • For other shots, the cinematographer placed cameras on the roads to capture the shaking of a single twig as the cars rumbled by, and in tracking cars speeding behind the race.
    — Jada Yuan, Washington Post, 29 Dec. 2023
  • My agent pointed out that Chris Rock doesn’t know about that either and just gets a good cinematographer and then worries about the story and the performances.
    — Stuart Miller, Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Friends and students held three memorials for the cinematographer, whose death was a stark reminder of the dangers of the film industry.
    — Jay L. Clendenin, Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2022
  • Baldwin has denied pulling the trigger of the gun that went off on set, killing cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.
    — Brendan Morrow, The Week, 16 Aug. 2023
  • My dream was to be an art director or a cinematographer.
    — Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 1 Dec. 2023
  • The cinematographer’s family in the Ukraine and some members of the Rust crew have also sued Baldwin and the other Rust producers.
    — Rebecca Keegan, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 July 2024
  • The production will return with a mix of new and old crew, with Bianca Cline joining as cinematographer.
    — Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Feb. 2023
  • To achieve this, Glazer shot on 10 cameras at once, which Polish cinematographer Lukasz Zal planted all around the house and garden.
    — Jada Yuan, Washington Post, 18 Sep. 2023
  • Alec Baldwin shown rehearsing a scene for the movie 'Rust' on the day of the fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.
    — Emlyn Travis, EW.com, 5 Oct. 2022
  • Hutchins, the cinematographer, was standing two to three feet away when Baldwin’s gun discharged, firing the lead bullet that fatally struck her in the chest.
    — Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2024
  • That opening segment was the work of the late cinematographer and newsreel cameraman Bill Birch.
    — Rick Kogan, Chicago Tribune, 31 Aug. 2022
  • Shot by László Kovács, it was released the same year as another film shot by the cinematographer, Easy Rider.
    — Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Jan. 2023
  • The actor had been charged in connection with the fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the film's set in 2021.
    — Brendan Morrow, USA TODAY, 21 Oct. 2024
  • In order to translate this freedom, the crew had to be kept small—the director, with or without a cinematographer—staying for only two or three days at a time.
    — Savina Petkova, Variety, 11 Mar. 2024
  • The case revolves around the 2021 fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins while filming the movie Rust.
    — Vulture, 17 Oct. 2023
  • Baldwin was pointing a gun at cinematographer Hutchins when the revolver went off, killing her and injuring Souza.
    — CBS News, 14 Mar. 2024
  • The first camera assistant is the local’s first Black president and only the third who is not a cinematographer.
    — Anousha Sakouistaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 18 May 2022
  • Once again, it will be shot by the auteur’s trusted cinematographer, Timo Salminen.
    — Marta Balaga, Variety, 10 June 2022
  • The movie will be screened in tribute to Halyna Hutchins, the cinematographer who died on set after being shot during filming.
    — Max Goldbart, Deadline, 11 Oct. 2024
  • The actor had been charged in connection with the fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, who died on the film's set in 2021 when a prop gun Baldwin was holding discharged a live round.
    — Shania Russell, EW.com, 20 Oct. 2024

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