Robert Elswit

Personal Info

Know For

Camera

Gender

Male

Birthday

1950-04-22 (75 years old)

Place of Birth

California, USA

Robert Elswit

Biography

Robert Christopher Elswit, ASC (born April 22, 1950) is an American cinematographer. He has collaborated with Paul Thomas Anderson on six of his films and won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography for There Will Be Blood. Elswit has also collaborated with directors and screenwriters Tony and Dan Gilroy on the six films that either brother directed. Elswit was born in Los Angeles. An early short film he worked on was the 1982 television adaptation of Ray Bradbury's short story All Summer in a Day. Elswit worked as a visual effects camera operator at John Dykstra's Apogee Productions Inc. on each film, including Star Trek: The Motion Pictu...

Production

2005

Syriana

as Director of Photography

1999

Magnolia

as Director of Photography

1997

Tomorrow Never Dies

as Director of Photography

2000

Bounce

as Director of Photography

2007

Michael Clayton

as Director of Photography

2005

Good Night, and Good Luck.

as Director of Photography

1991

Paris Trout

as Director of Photography

1981

The End of August

as Director of Photography

1988

Return of the Living Dead Part II

as Director of Photography

1987

Amazing Grace and Chuck

as Director of Photography

2003

Behind the Red Door

as Director of Photography

1977

Fraternity Row

as Camera Operator

1988

Cadillac Dreams

as Director of Photography

1987

Into the Homeland

as Director of Photography

1992

2008

Shine a Light

as Camera Operator

1982

All Summer in a Day

as Director of Photography

1991

The Summer My Father Grew Up

as Director of Photography

1987

Long Gone

as Director of Photography

1990

Opposites Attract

as Director of Photography

1982

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

as Visual Effects Camera

1983

Return of the Jedi

as Visual Effects Camera

1979

Star Trek: The Motion Picture

as Visual Effects Camera

1980

The Empire Strikes Back

as Visual Effects Lineup

2001

Impostor

as Director of Photography

1997

Boogie Nights

as Director of Photography

2003

Runaway Jury

as Director of Photography

1992

The Hand That Rocks the Cradle

as Director of Photography

2001

Heist

as Director of Photography

2010

The Town

as Director of Photography

2003

Gigli

as Director of Photography

2002

Punch-Drunk Love

as Director of Photography

1996

Hard Eight

as Director of Photography

1999

8MM

as Director of Photography

2007

There Will Be Blood

as Director of Photography

2008

Shine a Light

as Director of Photography

2006

American Dreamz

as Director of Photography

1994

The River Wild

as Director of Photography

1985

The Sure Thing

as Director of Photography

2011

Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol

as Director of Photography

1982

Waltz Across Texas

as Director of Photography

2012

The Bourne Legacy

as Director of Photography

2014

Inherent Vice

as Director of Photography

1986

The Children of Times Square

as Director of Photography

1980

1986

Trick or Treat

as Director of Photography

2014

Nightcrawler

as Director of Photography

1990

A Killing in a Small Town

as Director of Photography

2015

Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation

as Director of Photography

1987

A Different Affair

as Director of Photography

1990

Bad Influence

as Director of Photography

1991

Prison Stories: Women on the Inside

as Director of Photography

2016

Gold

as Director of Photography

1998

Richard Lester!

as Director of Photography

2008

The Burning Plain

as Director of Photography

2025

Ella McCay

as Director of Photography

2009

Duplicity

as Director of Photography

2010

Salt

as Director of Photography

1996

The Pallbearer

as Director of Photography

1985

Desert Hearts

as Director of Photography

2024

Bob Marley: One Love

as Director of Photography

1984

Tiger Town

as Director of Photography

2017

Suburbicon

as Director of Photography

2009

The Men Who Stare at Goats

as Director of Photography

1989

Margaret Bourke-White

as Director of Photography

2017

Roman J. Israel, Esq.

as Director of Photography

2018

Write When You Get Work

as Director of Photography

1989

How I Got Into College

as Director of Photography

2018

Skyscraper

as Director of Photography

2019

Velvet Buzzsaw

as Director of Photography

2020

The King of Staten Island

as Director of Photography

1993

A Dangerous Woman

as Director of Photography

1985

Moving Violations

as Director of Photography

1989

Heart of Dixie

as Director of Photography

-

Faster, Cheaper, Better

as Director of Photography

1996

Boys

as Director of Photography

2008

Redbelt

as Director of Photography

1983

Summerspell

as Director of Photography

1992

Waterland

as Director of Photography

2021

King Richard

as Director of Photography

-

Animals

as Director of Photography

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