Andrzej Sekuła
Andrzej Sekuła | |
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| Born | 19 December 1954 |
| Occupation(s) | Cinematographer, director |
Andrzej Sekuła (born 19 December 1954) is a Polish cinematographer and film director. He was cinematographer on Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary's films Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction.[1]
Career
[edit]Sekuła was born in Wrocław, Poland in 1954.
He began as a still photographer for a Polish film studio, and served his compulsory conscription in the Polish army as a film cameraman, shooting army exercises that were organized for people like Soviet president Leonid Brezhnev and Romanian president Nicolae Ceausescu. He described the shots as good training and like that out of Apocalypse Now.[2] He worked for a while as a television documentary cameraman.
He became interested in cinematography after seeing the work of Oswald Morris in Moulin Rouge and Fiddler on the Roof. He decided to move to England to study at the National Film School under the tutelage of Morris from 1985 to 1988. After that he shot commercials around Europe.
Yearning for Hollywood, he emigrated to Los Angeles in the late 1980s.[2] After working on several short films, he shot his first feature-length theatrical film in the form of Quentin Tarantino's directorial debut Reservoir Dogs.[2] He would go on to shoot Tarantino's 1994 Best Picture-nominated Pulp Fiction.[3] He made his directorial debut with the 1998 thriller Fait Accompli. Other films shot by him include American Psycho, Hackers, Vacancy, and Armored.
Filmography
[edit]Short film
| Year | Title | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | Catch | Hossein Amini | |
| 1991 | The Brooch Pin and the Sinful Clasp | Joanna Woodward | With Cathy Greenhalgh |
| Revolver | Chester Dent | ||
| 1995 | The Man from Hollywood | Quentin Tarantino | Segment of Four Rooms |
| 2002 | Falling in Love in Pongo Ponga | James Woods | |
| 2015 | Ms. Long Legs | Milo Addica | |
| 2023 | Purring Metal | Hugo Comte |
Feature film
| Year | Title | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | Reservoir Dogs | Quentin Tarantino | |
| 1993 | Three of Hearts | Yurek Bogayevicz | |
| Bank Robber | Nick Mead | ||
| Damascus | Becky Johnston | ||
| 1994 | Sleep with Me | Rory Kelly | |
| Across the Moon | Lisa Gottlieb | ||
| Pulp Fiction | Quentin Tarantino | ||
| Oleanna | David Mamet | ||
| 1995 | Hackers | Iain Softley | |
| 1997 | A Further Gesture | Robert Dornhelm | With Zoran Djordjevic |
| Stand-ins | Harvey Keith | ||
| 1998 | Cousin Bette | Des McAnuff | |
| Fait Accompli | Himself | ||
| 2000 | American Psycho | Mary Harron | |
| 2002 | Cube 2: Hypercube | Himself | |
| 2006 | The Pleasure Drivers | With Zoran Djordjevic | |
| 2007 | Vacancy | Nimród Antal | |
| 2008 | Vice | Raul Inglis | |
| 2009 | Armored | Nimród Antal | |
| 2010 | Trust | David Schwimmer | |
| 2012 | For the Love of Money | Ellie Kanner | |
| 2014 | Rage | Paco Cabezas | |
| 2016 | I Am Wrath | Chuck Russell | |
| 2016 | Shanghai Wang | Sherwood Hu | |
| USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage | Mario Van Peebles | ||
| 2018 | Speed Kills | Jodi Scurfield | |
| 2020 | Shanghai Wang: Luan Shi Jia Ren | Sherwood Hu | |
| 2022 | What the Fish! | Alyse McCamish | |
| 2023 | The Ritual Killer | George Gallo | |
| Place of Bones | Audrey Cummings |
TV movies
| Year | Title | Director |
|---|---|---|
| 1995 | Original Sins | Jan Egleson |
| Body Language | George Case |
Awards and nominations
[edit]| Year | Award | Category | Title | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | BAFTA Awards | Best Cinematography | Pulp Fiction | Nominated |
| 2000 | Camerimage | Golden Frog | American Psycho | Nominated |
| 2003 | Fantasporto | Critic's Award | Cube 2: Hypercube | Won |
| Best Film Award | Nominated |
References
[edit]- ^ "Andrzej Sekula | Cinematographer, Director, Camera and Electrical Department". IMDb. Retrieved 2024-06-27.
- ^ a b c Pizzello, Stephen (6 April 2018). "From Rags to Reservoir Dogs". American Cinematographer. Retrieved 1 May 2023.
- ^ "World-famous cinematographer in Turkey to shoot film for TRT". Daily Sabah. 1 September 2015. Retrieved 1 May 2023.
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