Andrew Lesnie

Personal Info

Know For

Camera

Gender

Male

Birthday

1956-01-01 (59 years old)

Deathday

2015-04-27

Place of Birth

Sydney, Australia

Andrew Lesnie

Biography

Andrew Lesnie ACS ASC (1 January 1956 – 27 April 2015) was an Australian cinematographer. He was best known for his collaboration with director Peter Jackson on The Hobbit trilogy (2012–2014) and The Lord of the Rings trilogy (2001–2003), for which the letter earned him the Academy Award for Best Cinematography in 2002 for his work on The Fellowship of the Ring. Description above from the Wikipedia article Andrew Lesnie, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Production

2002

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

as Director of Photography

2003

2005

King Kong

as Director of Photography

2007

I Am Legend

as Director of Photography

2008

Shine a Light

as Director of Photography

2009

The Lovely Bones

as Director of Photography

1998

Babe: Pig in the City

as Director of Photography

1995

Babe

as Director of Photography

2012

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

as Director of Photography

1986

Fair Game

as Director of Photography

2004

Love's Brother

as Director of Photography

1982

Early Frost

as Additional Photography

1988

Around the World in Eighty Ways

as Second Unit Director of Photography

2013

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

as Director of Photography

1994

Spider and Rose

as Camera Operator

1999

The Sugar Factory

as Director of Photography

1982

Dead Easy

as Focus Puller

1992

Daydream Believer

as Director of Photography

1989

Incident at Raven's Gate

as Camera Operator

1990

The Shrimp on the Barbie

as Director of Photography

1980

The Comeback

as Director of Photography

2014

1993

Temptation of a Monk

as Director of Photography

1987

Australian Dream

as Director of Photography

2014

The Water Diviner

as Director of Photography

2011

Rise of the Planet of the Apes

as Director of Photography

1989

Boys in the Island

as Director of Photography

2014

Healing

as Director of Photography

1987

Dark Age

as Director of Photography

1994

Fatal Past

as Director of Photography

1994

Spider and Rose

as Director of Photography

2013

The Turning

as Director of Photography

2006

Happy Feet

as Director of Photography

1988

Schwarzenegger: Total Rebuild

as Director of Photography

1985

Fantasy Man

as Director of Photography

2010

The Last Airbender

as Director of Photography

1996

Two If by Sea

as Director of Photography

2009

Bran Nue Dae

as Director of Photography

1981

1997

Doing Time for Patsy Cline

as Director of Photography

1989

The Delinquents

as Director of Photography

1989

The Delinquents

as Camera Operator

1988

The Rainbow Warrior Conspiracy

as Director of Photography

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