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Darius Khondji

Highest Rated: 100% ANIMA (2019)

Lowest Rated: 21% The Beach (2000)

Birthday: Oct 21, 1955

Birthplace: Tehran, Iran

Darius Khondji found his name on the lists of top cinematographers in the world after his startling work on David Fincher's "Seven" (1995), in which the light almost became more frightening than the dark and contrasts were oblique. His range was well-established with "Stealing Beauty" (1996), for director Bernardo Bertolucci, in which the colors had great passion, yet the photography never subsumed the story of a young woman (Liv Tyler) finding romance. Khondji is becoming a director's favorite because he does not allow the visuals to overwhelm the story, rather they get under the skin and into the hearts and minds of the audience to enhance and trigger the emotions. If cinematography can marry story archetypes, Khondji has found a way. His inky shadows touch on emotions, but don't submerge into an atmospheric bog. This was particularly true on "Evita" (1996), in which the lighting was a baroque opera in and of itself, setting Eva Peron as goddess in one sequence, exposing the darkness of her life in another. Rarely had there been such a varied palette within one movie and Khondji's efforts were rewarded with an Oscar nomination.

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Highest rated movies

100% 85% ANIMA
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93% 82% Amour
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93% 83% Midnight in Paris
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91% 52% Uncut Gems Watchlist
90% 91% Delicatessen
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87% 81% Okja Watchlist 86% 58% The Lost City of Z Watchlist
85% 60% The Immigrant
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83% 95% Seven Watchlist
80% 90% The City of Lost Children
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Filmography

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No Score Yet No Score Yet Mickey 17 Cinematographer - 2025
60% 68% Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths Cinematographer - 2022
76% 48% Armageddon Time Cinematographer $1.8M 2022
91% 52% Uncut Gems Cinematographer $50.0M 2019
100% 85% ANIMA Cinematographer - 2019
87% 81% Okja Cinematographer - 2017
86% 58% The Lost City of Z Cinematographer $8.6M 2016
47% 46% Irrational Man Cinematographer $4.0M 2015
52% 45% Magic in the Moonlight Cinematographer $10.5M 2014
85% 60% The Immigrant Cinematographer $2.0M 2013
93% 82% Amour Cinematographer $3.7M 2012
47% 40% To Rome With Love Cinematographer $16.7M 2012
93% 83% Midnight in Paris Cinematographer $56.8M 2011
51% 40% Chéri Cinematographer $2.7M 2009
51% 30% The Ruins Cinematographer $17.4M 2008
45% 61% My Blueberry Nights Cinematographer $866.8K 2007
53% 54% Funny Games Cinematographer $1.3M 2007
67% 62% Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait Cinematographer - 2006
57% 54% The Interpreter Cinematographer $72.5M 2005
60% 57% Wimbledon Cinematographer $16.8M 2004
40% 45% Anything Else Cinematographer $3.2M 2003
No Score Yet No Score Yet Poem: I Set My Foot Upon the Air and It Carried Me Cinematographer - 2003
76% 64% Panic Room Cinematographer $95.3M 2002
21% 57% The Beach Cinematographer $39.8M 2000
43% 58% The Ninth Gate Cinematographer $18.7M 1999
25% 40% In Dreams Cinematographer $11.9M 1999
55% 39% Alien Resurrection Cinematographer $47.7M 1997
50% 75% Stealing Beauty Cinematographer $4.6M 1996
64% 68% Evita Cinematographer $50.0M 1996
80% 90% The City of Lost Children Cinematographer $1.9M 1995
83% 95% Seven Cinematographer $100.1M 1995
90% 91% Delicatessen Photographer $9.1K 1991
No Score Yet No Score Yet Treasure of the Bitch Islands Cinematographer - 1990