How to Use cinematographer in a Sentence

cinematographer

noun
  • Lukasz Zal, his cinematographer, arrived early to the shoot and made some initial studies of the house.
    Giles Harvey, New York Times, 19 Dec. 2023
  • The cinematographer, Erik Messerschmidt, likes to mount a camera down low, next to the left wheel arch of a race car, or else behind the cockpit, staring ahead.
    Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2023
  • Hell or High Water cinematographer Giles Nuttgens will lens the movie.
    Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Feb. 2024
  • The actor was practicing a cross-draw when the gun fired, striking the cinematographer.
    Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 21 Apr. 2023
  • Decades ago, a cinematographer advised me to pay as much attention to actors’ hands as to their faces.
    Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 15 Feb. 2024
  • For other shots, the cinematographer placed cameras on the roads to capture the shaking of a single twig as the cars rumbled by, and in tracking cars speeding behind the race.
    Jada Yuan, Washington Post, 29 Dec. 2023
  • My agent pointed out that Chris Rock doesn’t know about that either and just gets a good cinematographer and then worries about the story and the performances.
    Stuart Miller, Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Baldwin has denied pulling the trigger of the gun that went off on set, killing cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.
    Brendan Morrow, The Week, 16 Aug. 2023
  • My dream was to be an art director or a cinematographer.
    Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 1 Dec. 2023
  • The production will return with a mix of new and old crew, with Bianca Cline joining as cinematographer.
    Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Feb. 2023
  • To achieve this, Glazer shot on 10 cameras at once, which Polish cinematographer Lukasz Zal planted all around the house and garden.
    Jada Yuan, Washington Post, 18 Sep. 2023
  • Hutchins, the cinematographer, was standing two to three feet away when Baldwin’s gun discharged, firing the lead bullet that fatally struck her in the chest.
    Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2024
  • In order to translate this freedom, the crew had to be kept small—the director, with or without a cinematographer—staying for only two or three days at a time.
    Savina Petkova, Variety, 11 Mar. 2024
  • The case revolves around the 2021 fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins while filming the movie Rust.
    Vulture, 17 Oct. 2023
  • Baldwin was pointing a gun at cinematographer Hutchins when the revolver went off, killing her and injuring Souza.
    CBS News, 14 Mar. 2024
  • And the cinematographers, the directors came back based on the first episode a little bit thrown, because anything with AI surveillance had to be negative, had to be dark.
    John Hopewell, Variety, 16 Oct. 2023
  • But Roemer, working with the cinematographer Robert Young, films these events with keen-eyed and sharp-minded precision.
    Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 23 Aug. 2023
  • Flux is a two camera setup that straddles the main camera and is shot in infrared (IR), which allows cinematographers to film light that is not visible to the naked eye.
    Kirbie Johnson, Allure, 21 July 2023
  • Hania and her cinematographer Farouk Laâridh narrow the color palette to black, white, blue and red to put our focus on the family’s messy emotions.
    Amy Nicholson, Washington Post, 14 Mar. 2024
  • Baldwin was initially charged as well for negligently firing the weapon and killing the cinematographer, but those charges were dropped.
    Variety, NBC News, 30 June 2023
  • This is the case both as a director and cinematographer as well as with his camera operator jobs during our live shows.
    Heide Janssen, Orange County Register, 17 Mar. 2024
  • The cinematographer often cuts to close-ups of body parts like a hand, elbow or face in the middle of a conversation and sits there for a seemingly uncomfortable amount of time.
    Steven Vargas, Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2023
  • To date, reports suggest only one of those suits has been settled: the one brought by Matthew Hutchins, the cinematographer's widower, on behalf of himself and the couple's young son, Andros.
    Marco Della Cava, USA TODAY, 1 Mar. 2023
  • The movie's cinematographer Halyna Hutchins died on set after Baldwin fired a prop gun in her direction while filming the Western in 2021.
    Elise Brisco, USA TODAY, 31 May 2023
  • As he was being led away, a protester mentioned his accidental shooting of a cinematographer on the set of Rust.
    Brady Knox, Washington Examiner, 18 Dec. 2023
  • With Christopher Blauvelt, her cinematographer, Reichardt bears witness to the frontier, as region and as myth.
    Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 22 June 2023
  • With the firearm enhancement, Baldwin could have faced a mandatory five-year sentence if he was convicted in the death of the film's cinematographer, Halyna Hutchins.
    Alex Sundby, CBS News, 20 Feb. 2023
  • The film is gorgeously shot by Dune cinematographer Greig Fraser.
    James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 May 2023
  • Demme and cinematographer Jordan Cronenweth capture it all: the playful interactions, the lamp dance, the big suit.
    August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2023
  • Earlier this year, it was announced that Bianca Cline will take over as cinematographer.
    Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 20 Apr. 2023

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