Mitchell Amundsen

Mitchell Amundsen grew up in Larkspur, California outside San Francisco in Marin County. During his high school years, he became interested in still photography and studied film at Montana State University in Bozeman. There, he took classes on motion pictures, which sparked his interest in cinematography.

In 1980, Amundsen left the university to work for $100 a week on the production of Francis Ford Coppola's One From the Heart and his subsequent features, Rumble Fish and The Outsiders, working as a production assistant. He worked his way up as a camera assistant and debuted as a cinematographer in the comedy The Country Bears.

Amundsen has continued to amass credits as a cinematographer, working on movies such as Transformers, Wanted and Now You See Me. In 2008, he was named one of Variety's 10  Cinematographers to Watch.

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