Known For
Camera
Born
Oct 05, 1942
Place of Birth
Warwick, Queensland, Australia
Credits
57 titles
John Seale
Biography
John Clement Seale AM ACS ASC (born 5 October 1942) is an Australian cinematographer. He has received numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, and an American Society of Cinematographers Award. Seale started his career collaborating with director Peter Weir as both a camera operator and director of photography, gaining a reputation as one of Australia's leading cinematographers. He then earned international prominence working with directors such as Anthony Minghella, Wolfgang Petersen, Ron Howard, Sydney Pollack, and George Miller. Seale received the Academy Award for Best Cinematography for The English Patient (1996). He was also Oscar-nominated for Witness (1985), Rain Man (1988), Cold Mountain (2003), and Mad Max: Fury Road (2015). Seale's other work includes the films Children of a Lesser God (1986), Dead Poets Society (1989), The Firm (1993), The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999), and Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001). Seale was born in Warwick, Queensland, Australia, to Marjorie Lyndon (née Pool) and Eric Clement Seale. He received Oscar nominations for his work on Witness, Rain Man, and Cold Mountain and won for The English Patient. Seale directed one film, Till There Was You, in 1990. He is a four-time Oscar nominee, five-time BAFTA nominee, and four-time ASC Award nominee. His greatest commercial successes have been Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, which grossed US$974 million; Rain Man, which grossed US$354 million; Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, which grossed US$335 million; The Perfect Storm, which grossed US$328 million; and The Tourist, which grossed US$278 million. He came out of retirement in 2012 to shoot Mad Max: Fury Road, for which he received another Academy Award nomination. Seale was appointed a member of the Order of Australia in the 2002 Australia Day Honours in recognition of his "service to the arts as an Australian and internationally acclaimed cinematographer." Description above from the Wikipedia article John Seale, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Filmography
It’s a Mad Max World
Self
Three Thousand Years of Longing
Director of Photography
Mad Max: Fury Road
Director of Photography
The Tourist
Director of Photography
The Boy Who Cried Werewolf
First Assistant "B" Camera
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
Director of Photography
Betwixt
First Assistant Camera
Smokin' Aces 2: Assassins' Ball
First Assistant "B" Camera
Not Quite Hollywood
Self
Poseidon
Director of Photography
Spanglish
Director of Photography
Cold Mountain
Director of Photography
Dreamcatcher
Director of Photography
The Hitcher: How Do These Movies Get Made?
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Director of Photography
Replicant
First Assistant Camera
The Perfect Storm
Director of Photography
Final Destination
First Assistant Camera
The Talented Mr. Ripley
Director of Photography
At First Sight
Director of Photography
City of Angels
Director of Photography
Ghosts of Mississippi
Director of Photography
The English Patient
Director of Photography
The American President
Director of Photography
Beyond Rangoon
Director of Photography
The Paper
Director of Photography
The Firm
Director of Photography
Lorenzo's Oil
Director of Photography
The Doctor
Director of Photography
Till There Was You
Director
Dead Poets Society
Director of Photography
Rain Man
Director of Photography
Gorillas in the Mist
Director of Photography
Stakeout
Director of Photography
The Mosquito Coast
Director of Photography
Children of a Lesser God
Director of Photography
The Hitcher
Director of Photography
The Empty Beach
Director of Photography
Witness
Director of Photography
Silver City
Cinematography
BMX Bandits
Director of Photography
Careful, He Might Hear You
Cinematography
Goodbye Paradise
Director of Photography
The Year of Living Dangerously
Second Unit Director of Photography
Ginger Meggs
Director of Photography
Doctors & Nurses
Cinematography
The Survivor
Director of Photography
Fatty Finn
Director of Photography
That Dangerous Summer
Director of Photography
Dawn!
Camera Operator