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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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| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 55% | 38% | The Dead Don't Die | Cinematographer | $6.5M | 2019 |
| 47% | 30% | Wilson | Cinematographer | $653.0K | 2017 |
| 96% | 72% | Paterson | Cinematographer | $2.1M | 2016 |
| 42% | 49% | Horns | Cinematographer | $164.5K | 2013 |
| 77% | 71% | A Late Quartet | Cinematographer | $1.6M | 2012 |
| 64% | 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 |
| 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 |
| 76% | 91% | Night on Earth | Cinematographer | $2.0M | 1992 |
| 65% | 81% | Wild at Heart | Cinematographer | $14.5M | 1990 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Conspiracy: The Trial of the Chicago 8 | Cinematographer | - | 1987 |
| 57% | 47% | Aria | Cinematographer | - | 1987 |
| 40% | 21% | Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold | Cinematographer | $2.0M | 1987 |
| 88% | 75% | River's Edge | Cinematographer | $1.2M | 1987 |
| 95% | 88% | Blue Velvet | Cinematographer | $8.6M | 1986 |
| 84% | 72% | Valley Girl | Cinematographer | - | 1983 |
| 89% | 82% | Eraserhead | Cinematographer | - | 1977 |