Curtis, Oliver

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Curtis, Oliver

PERSONAL

Son of Lion and Brenda Curtis; married Andi Marie d'Sa, February 15, 2002. Education: London College of Printing, B.A. Avocational Interests: Tennis, squash.

Addresses:

Agent—International Creative Management, 76 Oxford St., London W1D 1BS United Kingdom.

Career:

Cinematographer.

Member:

British Society of Cinematographers.

Awards, Honors:

Television Award nomination, best photography and lighting—fiction/entertainment, British Academy of Film and Television Arts, 1999, for Vanity Fair.

CREDITS

Film Cinematographer:

Ballad of Reading Gaol, Frameline Productions, 1988.

Flames of Passion, Frameline Productions, 1989.

Invisible City, 1991.

Madagascar Skin, International Film Circuit, 1995.

Red (short), British Film Institute, 1996.

Love and Death on Long Island (also known as Amour et mort a Long Island), Lions Gate Films, 1997.

(Second unit) The Governess, Sony Pictures Classics, 1998.

The Wisdom of Crocodiles (also known as Immortality), Miramax, 1998.

Saltwater, Artificial Eye, 2000.

The Final Curtain, Universal Focus, 2002.

Esther's Pool (short), 2002.

(Additional photography) Calendar Girls, Buena Vista, 2003.

Owning Mahowny (also known as La double vie de Mahowny), Sony Pictures Classics, 2003.

The Predator, 2004.

The Wedding Date, Universal, 2005.

Death at a Funeral (also known as Sterben fur anfanger), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 2007.

Film Director:

Trotsky's Home Movies (documentary), 1990.

Affairs of the Heart (documentary), 1992.

Film Appearances:

Cinematographer Style, 2006.

Television Cinematographer; Miniseries:

Vanity Fair, BBC and Arts and Entertainment, 1998.

Television Cinematographer; Movies:

Our Boy, BBC, 1997.

Bait, ITV, 2002.

Uncle Adolph, 2005.

Television Director; Specials:

Pontecorvo: The Dictatorship of Truth (documentary), 1992.

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