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Sven Nykvist

Highest Rated: 100% Lumiere and Company (1995)

Lowest Rated: 13% Mixed Nuts (1994)

Birthday: Dec 3, 1922

Birthplace: Moheda, Sweden

A master of natural lighting, Swedish cameraman Sven Nykvist found his artistic soul mate in Ingmar Bergman, collaborating with the great writer-director on more than 20 projects. Nykvist's parents, Lutheran missionaries in the Congo, had left him and his siblings to be raised by relatives in Stockholm, and the sense of detachment created by their long absences helped prepare him for his long association with Bergman and the themes of alienation and isolation that captivated them both. Deciding early on a career as a cinematographer, Nykvist attended a photography school (there were no Swedish film schools then) and began working at Sandrews studios as a camera assistant in 1941, hoping to emulate the great Swedish cameramen Julius Jaenzon, Goran Strindberg and Gunnar Fischer. He graduated to director of photography on "13 Chairs" (1945), helmed the documentary "Reverence for Life" (1952, about Albert Schweitzer) and even co-directed and co-scripted "Under the Southern Cross" (also 1952), based on an experience his parents had with a witch doctor, before teaming with Bergman (himself the son of a Lutheran minister) for the first time.

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Highest rated movies

100% 77% Lumiere and Company
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100% 94% One Day in the Life of Andrei Arsenevich
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100% 94% Fanny and Alexander
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100% 92% Through a Glass Darkly
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100% 84% The Passion of Anna
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92% 86% Hour of the Wolf
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92% 91% Crimes and Misdemeanors
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92% 81% After the Rehearsal
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91% 90% Cries and Whispers
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91% 84% Sawdust and Tinsel
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Filmography

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100% 94% One Day in the Life of Andrei Arsenevich Self - 2000
No Score Yet No Score Yet Curtain Call Cinematographer - 1998
42% 42% Celebrity Cinematographer $5.0M 1998
82% 83% Private Confessions Cinematographer - 1996
33% 52% Something to Talk About Cinematographer $49.7M 1995
100% 77% Lumiere and Company Unknown (Character) - 1995
No Score Yet 48% Kristin Lavransdatter Cinematographer - 1995
54% 68% Only You Cinematographer $20.0M 1994
19% 74% With Honors Cinematographer $18.0M 1994
13% 47% Mixed Nuts Cinematographer $6.6M 1994
90% 89% What's Eating Gilbert Grape Cinematographer $7.8M 1993
75% 75% Sleepless in Seattle Cinematographer $125.6M 1993
61% 81% Chaplin Cinematographer $8.3M 1992
No Score Yet 75% The Ox Director - 1991
92% 91% Crimes and Misdemeanors Cinematographer $17.6M 1989
76% 56% New York Stories Cinematographer $10.6M 1989
87% 84% The Unbearable Lightness of Being Cinematographer $9.3M 1988
59% 75% Another Woman Cinematographer $499.5K 1988
No Score Yet No Score Yet Katinka Cinematographer - 1988
89% 90% The Sacrifice Cinematographer $44.0K 1986
No Score Yet 38% Nobody's Child Cinematographer - 1986
44% 59% Agnes of God Cinematographer $25.6M 1985
92% 81% After the Rehearsal Cinematographer - 1984
56% 54% Swann in Love Cinematographer - 1984
81% 70% Star 80 Cinematographer - 1983
100% 94% Fanny and Alexander Cinematographer - 1982
79% 58% The Postman Always Rings Twice Cinematographer - 1981
64% 77% From the Life of the Marionettes Cinematographer - 1980
No Score Yet 33% Willie and Phil Cinematographer - 1980
71% 58% Pretty Baby Cinematographer - 1978
85% 92% Autumn Sonata Cinematographer - 1978
63% 62% King of the Gypsies Cinematographer - 1978
No Score Yet No Score Yet The dance of the damned women Cinematographer - 1976
80% 83% Face to Face Cinematographer - 1975
40% 54% Black Moon Photographer - 1975
50% 17% The Terrorists Cinematographer - 1974
88% 95% Scenes From a Marriage Cinematographer - 1973
91% 90% Cries and Whispers Cinematographer - 1972
60% 58% Siddhartha Cinematographer - 1972
17% 92% One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Cinematographer - 1971
No Score Yet 67% First Love Cinematographer - 1970
No Score Yet No Score Yet One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Cinematographer - 1970
No Score Yet No Score Yet Faro Document Cinematographer - 1970
75% 71% The Rite Cinematographer - 1969
100% 84% The Passion of Anna Cinematographer - 1969
65% 88% Shame Cinematographer - 1968
92% 86% Hour of the Wolf Cinematographer - 1968
91% 93% Persona Cinematographer - 1966
27% 44% All These Women Cinematographer - 1964
No Score Yet 80% Loving Couples Cinematographer - 1964
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Dress Cinematographer - 1964
85% 88% The Silence Cinematographer - 1963
No Score Yet No Score Yet Ingmar Bergman Makes a Movie Self - 1963
77% 91% Winter Light Cinematographer - 1962
100% 92% Through a Glass Darkly Cinematographer - 1961
No Score Yet No Score Yet A Matter of Morals Cinematographer - 1961
88% 92% The Virgin Spring Cinematographer - 1959
No Score Yet No Score Yet A Girl of Solbakken Cinematographer - 1957
No Score Yet No Score Yet Gorilla Director,
Cinematographer
- 1956
91% 84% Sawdust and Tinsel Cinematographer - 1953
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Road to Klockrike Cinematographer - 1953
No Score Yet No Score Yet Barabbas Cinematographer - 1953