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Explore the 11 best movies shot by acclaimed cinematographer Robert Elswit, where shadow and light converge in perfect harmony, creating visually stunning...
Robert Christopher Elswit, ASC (born April 22, 1950) is an American cinematographer. He has collaborated with Paul Thomas Anderson on six of his films and won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography for There Will Be Blood. [2]
Robert Elswit is an American cinematographer. He is best known for Boogie Nights (1997), Magnolia (1999), Good Night, and Good Luck (2005), There Will Be Blood (2007), Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (2011), Inherent Vice (2014), and Nightcrawler (2014).
- January 1, 1
- Robert Elswit
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Nov 5, 2015 · He won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography for his striking work on the 2007 epic There Will Be Blood, and is a consistent contender for the Oscar every single year. Here’s a list of his 10 best efforts to date. 10. Inherent Vice (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2014)
- Boogie Nights
- Inherent Vice
- There Will Be Blood
- Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation
- Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol
- Hard Eight
- Michael Clayton
- Punch-Drunk Love
- Nightcrawler
- Magnolia
Boogie Nights turned out to be the breakthrough film of Paul Thomas Anderson’s as well as Mark Wahlberg. Wahlberg’s turn as a Golden Age porn star self-named Dirk Diggler continues to be one of the best of his career, if not the very best. Elswit offers a stylish, colorful and faithful recreation of Los Angeles in the 1970s. With a star-studded cas...
Anderson’s Inherent Vice has been appropriately described by some as “stoner noir.” The film is based on Thomas Pynchon’s famous novel of the same name with Joaquin Phoenix as the drug-addled investigator at the center of the story, Doc Sportello. His search for his ex-girlfriend (Katherine Waterston) who has mysteriously disappeared is constantly ...
Daniel Day-Lewis has had many transformative roles throughout his career including Abraham Lincoln and Bill the Butcher — but his turn as Daniel Plainview is likely his most memorable. Based off of a turn-of-the-20th-century novel by Upton Sinclair, Anderson and Elswit offer a visually incredible film portrayal of Lewis’ Plainview, a ruthless, soci...
Christopher McQuarrie’s first entry to the Mission: Impossible franchise was not only received as one of the best to date, but it is also one of the most gorgeous. McQuarrie and Elswit together create a visually elegant world around Tom Cruise’s Impossible Mission Force Agent Ethan Hunt and his cohorts. It is exciting, building steadily to a satisf...
Prior to McQuarrie’s first film of the series, Brad Bird took the reins to the Mission: Impossible franchise. His entry is wildly entertaining, offering far and away the best set piece — Tom Cruise’s Ethan Hunt climbing the Burj Khalifa — since Brian De Palma’s film in 1996. It is one of many exciting, nail-biting sequences made by Bird and Elswit ...
Paul Thomas Anderson’s debut feature film Hard Eight didn’t receive a lot of attention outside of film circles — but within them it was well-received. Philip Baker Hall plays an aging gambler named Sydney who helps teach a young man named John (John C. Reilly) to support himself at the card table. With supporting performances from Gwyneth Paltrow, ...
Tony Gilroy’s underrated paranoia thriller Michael Clayton includes a career-high dramatic performance from George Clooney as the titular attorney. Clayton faces a moral dilemma when he is brought in to help protect a corrupt chemical corporation from facing charges for their wrongdoing. Elswit once again offers characteristically sturdy work in th...
Punch-Drunk Love, another Paul Thomas Anderson hit, may indeed feature some of Elswit’s best work to date. The film — in which Adam Sandler plays an emotionally stunted man trying to foster a relationship with a woman played by Emily Watson — is colorful, with a lot of bright blues and reds. Philip Seymour Hoffman fills a key role once again—provin...
Jake Gyllenhaal went all-out haunting for his turn as Louis Bloom. Bloom survives in Los Angeles by going to increasingly desperate (and morally questionable) measures to arrive on the scenes of violent crimes before anyone else in the media does. It is an unsettling performance in an unsettling film — but it is gorgeously colored by Elswit and dir...
Magnolia continues to be Paul Thomas Anderson’s most sprawling film to date. With his familiar ensemble cast including Julianne Moore, Tom Cruise, Philip Baker Hall, Philip Seymour Hoffman, William H. Macy, and Alfred Molina, Anderson tells the interwoven stories of a variety of people. Most notably, the stories therein include that of Cruise’s pic...
Robert Christopher Elswit, ASC (born April 22, 1950) is an American cinematographer. He has had multiple Oscar, BAFTA and Independent Spirit nominations for several films, including winning for There Will Be Blood (2007).
10 titles. Sort by List order. 1. There Will Be Blood. 2007 2h 38m R. 8.2 (642K) Rate. 93 Metascore. A story of family, religion, hatred, oil and madness, focusing on a turn-of-the-century prospector in the early days of the business. Director Paul Thomas Anderson Stars Daniel Day-Lewis Paul Dano Ciarán Hinds. 2. Boogie Nights. 1997 2h 35m R.
