James Laxton

Personal Info

Know For

Camera

Gender

Male

Birthday

1981-02-03 (45 years old)

Place of Birth

San Francisco, California, USA

James Laxton

Biography

James Laxton is an American cinematographer best known for his collaborations with filmmaker Barry Jenkins, including  Moonlight, for which he earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Cinematography. Description above from the Wikipedia article James Laxton, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Production

2014

Adult World

as Director of Photography

2021

The Gaze

as Director of Photography

2012

Leave Me Like You Found Me

as Director of Photography

2013

The Moment

as Director of Photography

2013

Bad Milo!

as Director of Photography

2014

Camp X-Ray

as Director of Photography

2011

The Myth of the American Sleepover

as Director of Photography

2012

The Murder of Hi Good

as Director of Photography

2012

For a Good Time, Call...

as Director of Photography

2014

Tusk

as Director of Photography

2012

California Solo

as Director of Photography

2016

Holidays

as Director of Photography

2021

Reconnect

as Cinematography

2010

Karma

as Director of Photography

2016

Moonlight

as Director of Photography

2016

Yoga Hosers

as Director of Photography

2003

My Josephine

as Director of Photography

2023

Another Young Couple

as Director of Photography

2018

Anything

as Director of Photography

2009

A Young Couple

as Director of Photography

2010

The Violent Kind

as Director of Photography

2009

Medicine for Melancholy

as Director of Photography

2014

Lemonade War

as Director of Photography

2021

Los Valientes

as Director of Photography

2018

If Beale Street Could Talk

as Director of Photography

2011

Remigration

as Cinematography

2003

Little Brown Boy

as Cinematography

2008

Pig Hunt

as Camera Loader

2014

Rubberhead

as Cinematography

2024

Mufasa: The Lion King

as Director of Photography

2013

Dealin' with Idiots

as Director of Photography

2016

Youth

as Director of Photography

2016

The Black Jacket

as Director of Photography

2015

Welcome to the Last Bookstore

as Director of Photography

2014

Nightcrawler

as Additional Director of Photography

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