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Ellen Kuras

Highest Rated: 100% A Huey P. Newton Story (2001)

Lowest Rated: 3% The Mod Squad (1999)

Birthday: Jul 10, 1959

Birthplace: New Jersey, USA

A director of photography whose stylized work has become the standard for documentaries of late and who has demonstrated a keen lyric and oft impressionistic feel, Ellen Kuras has been a working cinematographer since 1987, dividing her time between documentaries and features, most of the latter independents. She is known for her intense work style, her insistence on interpreting the event in each scene through her camera and her use of grainy film stocks.

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Highest rated movies

100% 61% Taylor Mac's 24-Decade History of Popular Music Watchlist
100% 85% A Huey P. Newton Story
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100% 89% 4 Little Girls
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100% 62% Personality Crisis: One Night Only
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98% 86% Jane Watchlist 97% 85% David Byrne's American Utopia Watchlist
94% 72% The Betrayal
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93% 74% Dave Chappelle's Block Party
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92% 84% Public Speaking
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92% 81% Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
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Filmography

Movies

Credit
67% 94% Lee Director $2.0M 2023
100% 61% Taylor Mac's 24-Decade History of Popular Music Cinematographer - 2023
100% 62% Personality Crisis: One Night Only Cinematographer - 2022
97% 85% David Byrne's American Utopia Cinematographer - 2020
92% 81% Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese Cinematographer - 2019
No Score Yet No Score Yet Trouble No More Cinematographer - 2017
98% 86% Jane Cinematographer $1.9M 2017
No Score Yet No Score Yet Monster in the Mind Cinematographer - 2015
49% 50% A Little Chaos Cinematographer $551.6K 2014
92% 84% Public Speaking Cinematographer $23.5K 2010
67% 74% Away We Go Cinematographer $9.4M 2009
94% 72% The Betrayal Director,
Screenwriter,
Producer
- 2008
64% 56% Be Kind Rewind Cinematographer $11.2M 2008
78% 86% Berlin Cinematographer $29.7K 2007
93% 74% Dave Chappelle's Block Party Cinematographer $11.7M 2005
47% 61% The Ballad of Jack and Rose Cinematographer $712.3K 2005
92% 94% Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Cinematographer $34.1M 2004
26% 39% Analyze That Cinematographer $32.1M 2002
69% 61% Personal Velocity: Three Portraits Cinematographer $763.2K 2002
57% 82% Jim Brown: All-American Cinematographer - 2002
100% 85% A Huey P. Newton Story Cinematographer - 2001
56% 87% Blow Cinematographer $53.1M 2001
53% 74% Bamboozled Cinematographer $2.2M 2000
50% 60% Summer of Sam Cinematographer $19.3M 1999
3% 17% The Mod Squad Cinematographer $13.3M 1999
23% 38% Just the Ticket Cinematographer $427.9K 1999
No Score Yet No Score Yet Scratch the Surface Cinematographer - 1997
100% 89% 4 Little Girls Cinematographer $130.1K 1997
77% 70% I Shot Andy Warhol Cinematographer $1.8M 1996
78% 78% Unzipped Cinematographer $1.7M 1995
60% 73% Angela Cinematographer - 1995
No Score Yet No Score Yet Postcards From America Cinematographer $18.0K 1994
No Score Yet No Score Yet Geoffrey Beene 30 Cinematographer - 1993

TV

Credit
44% 59% Extrapolations Director 2023
52% 87% The Son Director 2019
84% 82% Catch-22 Director 2019
91% 86% Legion Director 2018