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Frederick Elmes

Highest Rated: 96% Paterson (2016)

Lowest Rated: 10% Bride Wars (2009)

Birthday: Nov 4, 1946

Birthplace: Mountain Lakes, New Jersey, USA

A frequent collaborator with former AFI co-student David Lynch, Frederick Elmes has supplied a dreamy, super-realistic visual style to four of Lynch's features, including "Eraserhead" (1977, which began as a student film) and more recently, "Wild at Heart" (1990). Raised in New Jersey, he became interested in photography when he was lent a Leica camera by his father. After studies at Rochester Institute of Technology and NYU, Elmes won a fellowship to the American Film Institute, where he encountered two directors with whom he would later collaborate: John Cassavetes and Lynch.

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Highest rated movies

96% 72% Paterson Watchlist
95% 88% Blue Velvet
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90% 75% Kinsey
Watchlist 89% 82% Eraserhead Watchlist
88% 75% River's Edge
Watchlist 86% 82% The Ice Storm Watchlist
85% 79% The Namesake
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83% 71% Valley Girl
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80% 87% The Saint of Fort Washington
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77% 71% A Late Quartet
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Frederick Elmes

Frederick Elmes WILSON, L-R: DIRECTOR CRAIG JOHNSON, DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY FREDERICK ELMES, 2017. PH: WILSON WEBB/TM & COPYRIGHT ©FOX SEARCHLIGHT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. View more photos

Filmography

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54% 38% The Dead Don't Die Cinematographer $6.5M 2019
47% 30% Wilson Cinematographer $653.0K 2017
96% 72% Paterson Cinematographer $2.1M 2016
41% 49% Horns Cinematographer $164.5K 2013
77% 71% A Late Quartet Cinematographer $1.6M 2012
63% 62% Brothers Cinematographer $28.5M 2009
10% 51% Bride Wars Cinematographer $58.7M 2009
69% 71% Synecdoche, New York Cinematographer $3.1M 2008
85% 79% The Namesake Cinematographer $13.6M 2006
90% 75% Kinsey Cinematographer $10.2M 2004
63% 29% Hulk Cinematographer $132.1M 2003
17% 48% Trapped Cinematographer $6.9M 2002
54% 67% Storytelling Cinematographer $912.4K 2001
No Score Yet 44% Chain of Fools Cinematographer - 2001
No Score Yet 74% In the Gloaming Cinematographer - 1997
71% 80% The Empty Mirror Cinematographer $10.8K 1997
86% 82% The Ice Storm Cinematographer $7.9M 1997
80% 87% The Saint of Fort Washington Cinematographer $100.9K 1993
77% 91% Night on Earth Cinematographer $2.0M 1992
65% 81% Wild at Heart Cinematographer $14.5M 1990
No Score Yet 50% Hollywood Mavericks Cinematographer - 1990
No Score Yet No Score Yet Conspiracy: The Trial of the Chicago 8 Cinematographer - 1987
57% 47% Aria Cinematographer - 1987
No Score Yet 22% Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold Cinematographer $2.0M 1987
88% 75% River's Edge Cinematographer $1.2M 1987
63% 67% Heaven Cinematographer - 1987
95% 88% Blue Velvet Cinematographer $8.6M 1986
83% 71% Valley Girl Cinematographer - 1983
89% 82% Eraserhead Cinematographer - 1977