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TAK FUJIMOTO ASC |
Born: 12 July 1939, San Diego, Calif., USA, as Takashi Fujimoto.
Education: University of California, Berkeley; London School of Film Technique [LSFT] [later London International Film School; now The London Film School], London, UK.
Career: Became Haskell Wexler's general asst at Dove Films [1969].
Member of the ASC since 1997.
Awards: BSFC Award [1991] & BAFTA Film Award nom [1992] for 'The Silence of the Lambs'; NSFC Award [1996] for 'Devil in a Blue Dress'; CFCA Award nom [1999] & Golden Satellite Award nom [1999] for 'Beloved'; ASC Award nom [2000] for 'The Sixth Sense'; 'Emmy' Award [2008] for 'John Adams' [ep #2 'Independence']; 'Emmy' Award nom [2008; shared] for 'John Adams' [ep #3 'Don't Tread on Me'].
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1967 |
Child in a Glass Ball [P. Bradbury] 16mm/b&w; doc/13m; lighting; c.op: A. Orr & J. Nemeth; prod LSFT |
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1972 |
Chicago Blues [Harley Cokliss] ?; mus doc/48m; cph: Terry Bedford |
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1973 |
Badlands [Terrence Malick] c; cph: Brian Probyn & Stevan Larner |
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1973 |
Bootleggers/Bootleggers' Angel [Charles B. Pierce] tao35/c; addph: Gordon Eastman & C.B. Pierce |
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1974 |
Caged Heat/Renegade Girls [Jonathan Demme] c |
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1974 |
Switchblade Sisters/The Jezebels/Playgirl Gang [Jack Hill] c; 2uc (+ c.op); ph: Stephen M. Katz |
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1975 |
The Watts Monster/Dr. Black and Mr. White/Dr. Black, Mr. Hyde [William Crain] c |
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1975 |
Crazy Mama [Jonathan Demme] c; 2uc; ph: Bruce Logan |
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1975 |
Death Race 2000/T.P. Sloan [Paul Bartel] c; 2uc: Eric Saarinen & Henning Schellerup |
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1976 |
Star Wars [: Episode IV: A New Hope] [George Lucas] p/c; co-2uc; ph: Gilbert Taylor |
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1976 |
Cannonball!/Carquake [Paul Bartel] c; 2uc: Bob Collins; action ph: Henning Schellerup |
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1976 |
Almos' a Man [Stan Lathan] c; short/39m |
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1976 |
Chatterbox [Tom DeSimone] c |
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1977 |
Bad Georgia Road [John Broderick] c |
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1977 |
Remember My Name [Alan Rudolph] c |
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1977 |
Stony Island/My Main Man from Stony Island [Andrew Davis] c |
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1978 |
Last Embrace [Jonathan Demme] c; addph: Dick Kratina & Ed Lachman |
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1979 |
Melvin and Howard [Jonathan Demme] c |
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1979 |
Where the Buffalo Roam [Art Linson] c; 2uc: Roger Shearman |
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1979 |
Borderline [Jerrold Freedman] c |
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1981 |
National Lampoon Goes to the Movies/National Lampoon's Movie Madness [seg 'Success Wanters' & 'Growing Yourself' dir by Bob Giraldi] p/c; seg 'Municipalians' dir by Henry Jaglom and ph by Charles Correll |
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1982 |
Heart Like a Wheel [Jonathan Kaplan] c; 2uc: John Stephens & (Washington) László Pal |
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1983 |
Swing Shift [Jonathan Demme] c |
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1985 |
Pretty in Pink [Howard Deutch] c |
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1985 |
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off/A Day on the Town/Daytrippers [John Hughes] c; 2uc: George Kohut |
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1986 |
Something Wild [Jonathan Demme] c; creative cons: Jacek Laskus |
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1986 |
Backfire [Gilbert Cates] c |
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1987 |
Sweet Hearts Dance [Robert Greenwald] c; 2uc: Dyanna Taylor |
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1987 |
Married to the Mob [Jonathan Demme] c; 2uc: Dyanna Taylor |
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1988 |
Cocoon: The Return [Daniel Petrie] c; vfx ph: Patrick Turner; uwph: Jordan Klein |
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1988 |
Miami Blues [George Armitage] c |
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1989 |
The Silence of the Lambs [Jonathan Demme] c |
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1990 |
Crooked Hearts [Michael Bortman] c |
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1991 |
Gladiator [Rowdy Herrington] c; + small part |
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1991 |
Singles [Cameron Crowe] c; cph: Ueli Steiger; 2uc: Bill O'Drobinak; aph: Frank Holgate |
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1991 |
Night and the City [Irwin Winkler] c |
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1992 |
Philadelphia [Jonathan Demme] c; + small part |
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1994 |
Devil In a Blue Dress [Carl Franklin] c |
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1994 |
The Complex Sessions [Jonathan Demme] c; mus doc/30m |
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1995 |
Grumpier Old Men/Grumpy Old Men 2 [Howard Deutch] c |
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1995 |
That Thing You Do! [Tom Hanks] c |
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1996 |
A Thousand Acres [Jocelyn Moorhouse] c |
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1997 |
Beloved [Jonathan Demme] c; 2uc: Kyle Rudolph |
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[Right] with dir M. Night Shyamalan "The Sixth Sense" |
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1998 |
The Sixth Sense [M. Night Shyamalan] c; addph: David Golia |
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1999 |
The Replacements [Howard Deutch] c; addph: David Golia; uwph: Mike Thomas |
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2001 |
The Truth About Charlie [Jonathan Demme] p/c; 2uc France: Manuel Teran |
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2001 |
Signs [M. Night Shyamalan] c; 2uc: Patrick Capone; aph: David B. Nowell |
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2003 |
The Final Cut [Omar Naïm] s35/b&w-c; 2uc + Zoe unit ph: Peter Wunstorf |
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2003 |
The Manchurian Candidate [Jonathan Demme] c; 2uc New York/Washington D.C.: Tony Jannelli; uwph: Pete Romano; remake of film (1962) |
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2005 |
Breach [Billy Ray] c; uncred re-shoots ph: Oliver Wood; 2uc Washington D.C.: David Insley & J.P. Locherer (+ 2u c.op); aph: David Norris |
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2006 |
The Great Buck Howard [Sean McGinly] c; add unit ph: Robbie Greenberg |
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2007 |
The Happening [M. Night Shyamalan] c; aph: Phil Pastuhov |
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2009 |
Devil [Drew & John Erick Dowdle] s35/c |
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2011 |
Gods Behaving Badly [Marc Turtletaub] HD (ARRI ALEXA)/c; replaced ph Tom Richmond |
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TELEVISION |
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1977 |
This Man Stands Alone/Lawman Without a Gun/He Who Walks Alone [Jerrold Freedman] tvm |
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1978 |
At Home with Shields and Yarnell [Andrew Davis] tvm/5m |
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1978 |
Some Kind of Miracle [Jerrold Freedman] tvm |
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1981 |
Divorce Wars [: A Love Story] [Donald Wrye] tvm |
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1983 |
The Seduction of Gina/Another High Roller [Jerrold Freedman] tvm |
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1984 |
Seduced [Jerrold Freedman] tvm |
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1984 |
Blackout [Douglas Hickox] tvm |
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1985 |
MacGyver [pilot dir by Alan Smithee (= ?)] 139-part series, 1985-92; 1st season, 1985-86; 2uc (pilot): A.J. Vesak |
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1989 |
Cast the First Stone [: The Diane Martin Story] [John Korty] tvm |
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2007 |
John Adams [ep #1 'Join or Die', #2 'Independence', #3 'Don't Tread on Me', #4 'Reunion', #5 'Unite or Die' & #6 'Unnecessary War' dir by Tom Hooper] 7-part miniseries/35mm-to-HD, 2008; cph (ep #3-6) & ph (ep #7 'Peacefield'): Danny Cohen; 2uc: Kyle Rudolph; snow unit ph: Stephen Lyons |
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2011 |
A Gifted Man [Jonathan Demme] pilot |
MISCELLANEOUS |
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1974 |
Switchblade Sisters/The Jezebels/Playgirl Gang [Jack Hill] c.op (+ 2uc); ph: Stephen M. Katz |
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1988 |
84C MoPic/84 Charlie Mopic [Patrick Sheane Duncan] thanks; ph: Alan Caso |