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Simon Duggan

Highest Rated: 100% The Interview (1998)

Lowest Rated: 13% The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008)

Birthday: May 13, 1959

Birthplace: Wellington, New Zealand

One of the many contributions to Hollywood of New Zealand's film culture, Simon Duggan was the man behind the cameras for some of the biggest films of the 1990s and beyond. He got his start in the largest country in his neighborhood, Australia, handling the cinematography for the 1998 psychological crime thriller "The Interview," starring Hugo Weaving (later Agent Smith in the " Matrix" franchise). After the turn of the millennium, Duggan performed the same job for up-and-coming Aussie director Alex Proyas on his rock-&-roll slice of life, "Garage Days" (2002). America beckoned for the director, and the cinematographer was close behind. The first Hollywood collaboration for the two men was a big-budget adaptation of the Isaac Asimov robot yarn "I, Robot" (2004), starring Will Smith. From those successful films, the only way was up, and Duggan led the lensing on several movie blockbusters such as 2007's "Live Free or Die Hard," the fourth in the durable action series anchored by, naturally, Bruce Willis. The cinematographer was also behind the cameras in a later installment of another series, "The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor" (2008). Later in that decade, Duggan reunited with Proyas for the spooky premonition science-fiction film "Knowing," with Nicolas Cage (2009).

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Highest rated movies

100% 81% The Interview
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90% 89% Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga Watchlist 84% 91% Hacksaw Ridge Watchlist
82% 86% Live Free or Die Hard
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70% 51% Isn't It Romantic Watchlist 57% 70% I, Robot Watchlist
48% 67% The Great Gatsby
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45% 61% Garage Days
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45% 51% 300: Rise of an Empire Watchlist 38% 50% Disenchanted Watchlist

Filmography

Movies

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90% 89% Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga Cinematographer $67.4M 2024
38% 50% Disenchanted Cinematographer - 2022
70% 51% Isn't It Romantic Cinematographer $48.8M 2019
84% 91% Hacksaw Ridge Cinematographer $67.0M 2016
29% 76% Warcraft Cinematographer $47.2M 2016
45% 51% 300: Rise of an Empire Cinematographer $106.6M 2014
48% 67% The Great Gatsby Cinematographer $144.8M 2013
27% 42% Killer Elite Cinematographer $25.1M 2011
35% 42% Knowing Cinematographer $79.9M 2009
13% 30% The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor Cinematographer $102.2M 2008
82% 86% Live Free or Die Hard Cinematographer $134.5M 2007
17% 72% Underworld: Evolution Cinematographer $62.3M 2006
57% 70% I, Robot Cinematographer $144.8M 2004
45% 61% Garage Days Cinematographer $20.6K 2002
100% 81% The Interview Cinematographer - 1998

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86% 52% Territory Cinematographer 2024