Roberto Schaefer

Roberto Schaefer
Roberto Schaefer
Born	White Plains, New York, U.S.
Years active	1983–present

Roberto Schaefer, ASC, AIC (born in White Plains, New York) is an American cinematographer, known for his collaborations with director Marc Forster.

Career

Schaefer served as cinematographer for eight of director Marc Forster's feature films.^[1] He was nominated for a BAFTA Film Award for his cinematography in Finding Neverland (2004).^[2] At the 2013 Camerimage, Schaefer and Forster won the Cinematographer/Director Duo Award.^[3]^[4]

Filmography

Short film

Year	Title	Director	Notes
1983	Paul Bowles Across the Strait	Eve Silvester	Documentary short
1987	Non date da mangiare agli animali	Davide Ferrario	Also camera operator (Uncredited)

Feature film

Year	Title	Director	Notes
1989	The End of the Night	Davide Ferrario
1991	Le mosche in Testa	Maria Daria Menozzi Gabriella Morandi
1995	Loungers	Marc Forster Sebastian Roché
1996	Waiting for Guffman	Christopher Guest
2000	Everything Put Together	Marc Forster
2000	Best in Show	Christopher Guest
2001	Monster's Ball	Marc Forster
2004	Finding Neverland		Nominated – BAFTA Award for Best Cinematography
2005	Stay
2005	At Last	Tom Anton
2006	For Your Consideration	Christopher Guest
2006	Stranger than Fiction	Marc Forster
2007	The Kite Runner		Nominated – St. Louis Film Critics Association Award for Best Cinematography
2008	Quantum of Solace
2009	Leaves of Grass	Tim Blake Nelson
2011	Machine Gun Preacher	Marc Forster
2012	The Paperboy	Lee Daniels
2013	The Host	Andrew Niccol
2015	Miles Ahead	Don Cheadle	Also credited as producer
2016	Term Life	Peter Billingsley
2017	Geostorm	Dean Devlin
2018	What They Had	Elizabeth Chomko
2019	The Red Sea Diving Resort	Gideon Raff
2019	Rattlesnake	Zak Hilditch
2021	Creation Stories	Nick Moran
2024	The Fabulous Four	Jocelyn Moorhouse
TBA	Forelock	Caleb Alexander Smith

Television

Year	Title	Director	Notes
1992	Red Shoe Diaries	Peter Care Ted Kotcheff	Episodes "Bounty Hunter" and "Weekend Pass"
2002	Robbery Homicide Division	Stephen Gyllenhaal	Episode "A Life of Its Own"
2013	Family Tree	Christopher Guest	8 episodes
2022	The Peripheral	Alrick Riley	4 episodes

TV movies

Year	Title	Director	Notes
1984	Finalmente Morta	Elisabetta Valgiusti
1994	Roadracers	Robert Rodriguez	Part of the Rebel Highway series
1994	Cool and the Crazy	Ralph Bakshi	Part of the Rebel Highway series
1999	D.O.A.	Christopher Guest
2007	The Thick of It	Christopher Guest
2011	Hallelujah	Michael Apted
2019	Less Than Zero	Craig Wright

References

^ Thomson, Patricia (November 2007). "Honoring a Lost Friend". American Cinematographer. 88 (11): 52–58, 60–61.
^ "BAFTA 2005 shortlist". britfilms.com. British Academy of Film and Television Arts. Archived from the original on July 23, 2008. Retrieved November 14, 2008.
^ "Camerimage 2013". Camerimage. Retrieved August 16, 2017.
^ Lesnick, Silas (November 29, 2013). "Camerimage Interview: Cinematographer Roberto Schaefer". ComingSoon.net. Retrieved August 16, 2017.

External links

Official website
Roberto Schaefer at IMDb
Profile at Cinematographers.nl

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[honoring-1] Thomson, Patricia (November 2007). "Honoring a Lost Friend". American Cinematographer. 88 (11): 52–58, 60–61.

[2] "BAFTA 2005 shortlist". britfilms.com. British Academy of Film and Television Arts. Archived from the original on July 23, 2008. Retrieved November 14, 2008.

[3] "Camerimage 2013". Camerimage. Retrieved August 16, 2017.

[4] Lesnick, Silas (November 29, 2013). "Camerimage Interview: Cinematographer Roberto Schaefer". ComingSoon.net. Retrieved August 16, 2017.

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