JOHN DE BORMAN BSC

Born: 1954, Paris, France.

Education: Chelsea School of Art [now: College of Art and Design] [Sculpture].

Career: Ph commercials dir by Rankin, Simon Cole, Graham Lineham, Colin Gregg, a.o. Ph music videos with a: Madonna ['Like a Virgin', 1984], Prince ['Sign 'o' the Times', 1987], Little Richard, Billy Idol, Bon Jovi, Cindy Lauper, a.o.

Directed music videos with a: Rod Stewart [1986], Roger Taylor, a.o.

Member and president [2010] of the BSC.

Appeared in the doc 'The Commitment' [2002; dir/ph: Dean Arnett; 30m] on the making of 'The Engagement'.

Awards: As doph: Evening Standard British Film Award [1999] for 'Hideous Kinky'; Independent Spirit Award nom [2001] for 'Hamlet'; BAFTA TV Award 'Photography & Lighting' nom [2006] for 'Tsunami: The Aftermath'; Sundance FF 'Cinematography Award' [2009] for 'An Education'.

As dir: New York FF 'Gold Award Best Short' [198?] for 'Outing'.

Website: John de Borman

FILMS

1980	Eddy Grant Live at the Notting Hill Carnival [Joe Massot] c; mus doc/?m; cph: David Reed
1987	Think [Tom Huish] ?; training film/4m; for Ministry of Defence
1988	Unmasked Part 25/Hand of Death, Part 25: Jackson's Back/Friday the 14th [Anders Palm] c
1988	Medium Rare [Paul Madden] c; addph: Stephen Ashley Blake
1989	Murder on Line One/Helpline/Deadline [Anders Palm] c; + co-exec prod
1990	Murder Blues/Dead Certain [Anders Palm] c; 2uc: Barry Stone
1993	Death Machine [Stephen Norrington] c; 2uc: Roger Bonnici
1994	The Passion of Darkly Noon/Darkly Noon [Philip Ridley] s35/c
1995	Small Faces [Gillies MacKinnon] c; 2uc: Kriv Stenders; originally made as a tvm
1995	Trojan Eddie [Gillies MacKinnon] c
1996	The Full Monty [Peter Cattaneo] c; 2uc: Peter Sinclair
1996	Photographing Fairies/Apparition [Nick Willing] c
1997	The Mighty [Peter Chelsom] c; addph: David M. Dunlap; aph & 2uc: Michael Kelem; title ph: Thane Berti
1997	Hideous Kinky/Marrakech express [Gillies MacKinnon] s35/c
1998	Gregory's Two Girls [Bill Forsyth] c
1998	Hamlet [Michael Almereyda] v+s16-35bu/b&w-c; addph: Jim Denault & John Herron; 2u City/Sky shots: Jem Cohen
1999	New Year's Day [Suri Krishnamma] scope/c
1999	Saving Grace [Nigel Cole] s35/c; 2uc: Sue Gibson
1999	There's Only One Jimmy Grimble [John Hay] c; addph: Peter Sinclair
2000	Serendipity [Peter Chelsom] c; time-lapse ph: Wayne Goldwyn & Ken Stone
2001	The Guru [Daisy von Scherler Mayer] c
2001	The Glow [Marcus Dillistone] c; cph: Thierry Arbogast & Tony Pierce-Roberts; demo film for Fuji Reala 500D film stock
2001	The Engagement [John Duigan] DigiBeta/c; released in 2011
2002	Pure [Gillies MacKinnon] s16-35bu (2.35:1)/c
2002	Ella Enchanted [Tommy O'Haver] c; 2uc: Sean Corcoran; model unit ph: Nigel Stone
2003	Shall We Dance [Peter Chelsom (replaced Jon Turteltaub)] c
2003	Summer of '76 [Philip Ridley] project looking for finance; status unknown
2004	A Lot Like Love [Nigel Cole] c
2004	Tara Road [Gillies MacKinnon] c
2005	Fade to Black [Oliver Parker] s35/c
2007	Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day [Bharat Nalluri] s35/c
2007	7 Lives [Paul Wilkins] 16mm/c; 7 chapters; chapter #1 was filmed in August (10 days) and was used to raise money to complete the film; in April 2010 they were close to finalizing completion funding

[Right] with actor Dustin Hoffman

"Last Chance Harvey"

2007	Last Chance Harvey [Joel Hopkins] s35/c; addph: Rodrigo Gutierrez
2008	An Education [Lone Scherfig] s35/c
2009	Made in Dagenham/We Want Sex [Nigel Cole] scope/c
2011	Quartet [Dustin Hoffman] pre-production

TELEVISION

1983	The Comic Strip Presents... [ep #13 (30m) 'Slags' dir by Sandy Johnson] 35-part series, 1982-93 (+ specials/features); 2nd season, 1983-84; co-2uc; ph: Oliver Stapleton
1986	Outing [John de Borman] tvm/5m; + scrpl; ep Channel 4 series 'Four Minutes'
1989	Beyond the Groove [Roger Pomphrey] 6-part music series, 1990; for Channel 4
1990	Red Hot + Blue: A Tribute to Cole Porter [seg 'I Love Paris' dir by Roger Pomphrey] mus special/88m; other ph: Adam Kimmel, Jacek Laskus, Robby Müller, Newton Thomas Sigel, a.o.; for ABC-tv; also released on DVD (AIDS Benefit collection of 18 music videos)
1994	Crazy for a Kiss [Chris Bould] tvm; ep BBC-tv series 'Screen Two' (1995)

[Hat] with dir Bharat Nalluri [left] - "Tsunami: The Aftermath"

2006	Tsunami: The Aftermath [Bharat Nalluri] tvm
2008	Cupid [pilot dir by Bharat Nalluri] 7-part series, 2009; other ph (+ cph pilot): Dejan Georgevich

MISCELLANEOUS

1979	Radio On [Christopher Petit] co-c.asst; ph: Martin Schäfer
1980	The Mouse and the Woman [Karl Francis] c.asst; ph: Nick Gifford
1982	Helping People Now [Christian Marnham; comm doc] c.asst; ph: Nick Gifford
1982	Hero [Barney Platts-Mills] co-c.asst; ph: Adam Barker-Mill
1985	What Is Brazil? [Rob Hedden; doc] co-c.asst; ph: Luke Cardiff, Pascoe MacFarlaine, a.o.
1987	Sign 'o' the Times [Albert Magnoli (replaced Prince); concert film] ?; ph: Peter Sinclair
1989	The Jeff Healey Band: See the Light - Live from London [Crescenzo Notarile & Alan Resnick; mus perf] co-c.op; ph: Danny Nowak
1996	AC/DC: No Bull [David Mallet; mus doc] co-c.op; ph: Peter Sinclair