Sean Bobbitt

Born in Texas, Sean Bobbitt began his career as a news cameraman in the early 1980s working with the major networks and covering the major hot spots of the world. He went on to shoot documentaries, working with suchdirectors as Angus McQueen, Nick Read, and Jonathan Miller; and with companies such as Brook Lapping.

In the late 1990s, he began working as a cinematographer on narrative features for film and television. Among his first credits was Wonderland, directed by Michael Winterbottom and written by Laurence Coriat, which won the British Independent Film Award (BIFA) for Best British Film. Mr. Bobbitt has worked with the director several times since, including on the recent feature Everyday, the latter also with Ms. Coriat.

Among his other feature credits as cinematographer have been Derek Cianfrance's The Place Beyond The Pines, starring Ryan Gosling, Bradley Cooper and Eva Mendes; Neil Jordan's Byzantium, starring Saoirse Ronan and Gemma Arterton; Tanya Wexler's Hysteria, starring Hugh Dancy and Maggie Gyllenhaal; The Situation, directed by Philip Haas and starring Damian Lewis and Connie Nielsen; The Baker, directed by Gareth Lewis and starring Damian Lewis; and Mrs. Ratcliffe's Revolution, directed by Bille Eltringham and starring Catherine Tate. He also shot, for the latter director, the miniseries The Long Firm, starring Mark Strong, for which Mr. Bobbitt received a BAFTA Award nomination.

He was the cinematographer on director Steve McQueen's debut feature Hunger, starring Michael Fassbender, which earned worldwide acclaim and won, among other honors, the Camera d'Or at the Cannes International Film Festival as well as a BIFA for Best Technical Achievement, awarded to Mr. Bobbitt. He has since reteamed with the actor and the director on the films Shame, for which he won a European Film Award and received an Evening Standard British Film Award nomination, and Twelve Years a Slave; the latter, starring Chiwetel Ejiofor,. He has also collaborated with McQueen on several of the latter's art installations, including the 2009 Venice Biennale piece Giardini.

Bobbitt was an Emmy Award nominee for shooting the miniseries Sense & Sensibility, directed by John Alexander and starring Hattie Morahan and Charity Wakefield.

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