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Robert Richardson

Highest Rated: 95% City of Hope (1991)

Lowest Rated: 35% Live by Night (2016)

Birthday: Aug 27, 1955

Birthplace: Hyannis, Massachusetts, USA

Prior to becoming a regular collaborator with such prominent directors as Oliver Stone and Quentin Tarantino, cinematographer Robert Richardson served his apprenticeship shooting second unit on "Repo Man" (1984) while filming television documentaries for PBS and the BBC. His television work led Stone to hire him to shoot "Salvador" (1986) and "Platoon" (1986), both of which required a cinéma vérité style that only a documentary cinematographer could offer. From there, he worked almost exclusively for Stone, filming "Wall Street" (1987), "Born on the Fourth of July" (1989) and "The Doors" (1991), while occasionally branching out to shoot films like John Sayles' "Eight Men Out" (1988) and "City of Hope" (1991). But it was his stunning work using a multitude of stock and cameras to create a documentary feel for "JFK" (1991), which earned the cinematographer his first Academy Award. While he sharpened the hyperkinetic style of "JFK" in "Natural Born Killers" (1994), "Nixon" (1995) and "U-Turn" (1997), Richardson was in-demand by other top Hollywood directors like Tarantino and Martin Scorsese, both of whom tapped the director of photography for films like "Bringing Out the Dead" (1999), "Kill Bill, Vol. 1" (2003) and "Kill Bill, Vol. 2" (2004). Richardson earned Oscars two and three for his work with Scorsese on "The Aviator" (2004) and "Hugo" (2011). As he continued to earn acclaim for projects like Tarantino's "Django Unchained" (2012) and "Once Upon a Time In Hollywood" (2019), there was no doubt that Richardson was one of the finest cinematographers working in Hollywood.

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Highest-Rated Movies

95% 83% City of Hope
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93% 78% Hugo Watchlist 93% 97% Air Watchlist
91% 84% Fast, Cheap & Out of Control
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90% 85% Salvador
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89% 93% Platoon
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89% 88% Inglourious Basterds Watchlist 87% 63% A Private War Watchlist
87% 79% Eight Men Out
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87% 93% George Harrison: Living in the Material World
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Filmography

Movies TV Shows
Air 93% 97% 2023 Cinematographer Emancipation 45% 58% 2022 Cinematographer JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass 64% 77% 2021 Cinematographer Venom: Let There Be Carnage 58% 83% 2021 Cinematographer Once Upon a Time... In Hollywood 86% 70% 2019 Cinematographer A Private War 87% 63% 2018 Cinematographer Adrift 69% 66% 2018 Cinematographer Breathe 67% 73% 2017 Cinematographer Live by Night 35% 42% 2016 Cinematographer The Hateful Eight 74% 77% 2015 Cinematographer Django Unchained 87% 92% 2012 Cinematographer George Harrison: Living in the Material World 87% 93% 2011 Cinematographer Hugo 93% 78% 2011 Cinematographer Eat Pray Love 35% 42% 2010 Cinematographer Shutter Island 69% 77% 2010 Cinematographer Inglourious Basterds 89% 88% 2009 Cinematographer Standard Operating Procedure 79% 79% 2008 Cinematographer Shine a Light 85% 74% 2008 Cinematographer The Good Shepherd 56% 51% 2006 Cinematographer The Aviator 86% 79% 2004 Cinematographer Kill Bill: Vol. 2 84% 89% 2004 Cinematographer Kill Bill: Vol. 1 85% 81% 2003 Cinematographer The Four Feathers 42% 65% 2002 Cinematographer Snow Falling on Cedars 39% 67% 1999 Cinematographer Bringing Out the Dead 74% 70% 1999 Cinematographer
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