© William Kallay
[Right] - "I Am Legend" [2006]
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© William Kallay |
[Right] - "I Am Legend" [2006] |
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Born: 1956, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
Education: Australian Film and Television School [AFTS; now AFTRS] [graduated in 1979].
Career: Ph news, current affairs, commercials [dir by Paul Middleditch, a.o.] and documentaries. Ph music videos, e.g. 'Cut Your Roses Down' [1993; a: INXS; d: Lynn-Maree Milburn & Richard Lowenstein]. Appeared in the doc 'A Passage to Middle-earth: Making of 'Lord of the Rings'' [2001]. Member of the ACS since 1989.
Awards: ACS 'Milli' Award 'Australian Cinematographer of the Year' [1995] for 'You Seng'; ACS 'Milli' Award 'Australian Cinematographer of the Year' [1996] for 'Babe'; AFI [Aus] Award [1997], ACS 'Award of Distinction' [1998] & Film Critics Circle of Australia Award [1998] for 'Doing Time for Patsy Cline'; ACS 'Hall of Fame' [2002]; 'Oscar' AA [2002], ASC Film Award nom [2002], BAFTA Film Award nom [2002] & CFCA Award [2002] for 'The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring'; BAFTA Film Award nom [2003] & CFCA Award nom [2003] for 'The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers'; ASC Film Award nom [2003] & BAFTA Film Award [2004] for 'The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King'; AFI [Aus] Award nom [2004], Film Critics Circle of Australia Award nom [2004] & WorldFest Houston 'Gold Award' [2004] for 'Love's Brother'; ASC Award nom [2006] for 'King Kong'.
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FILMS AT THE AFTS |
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1976 |
In Search of Ben Hall's Boot [Andrew Lesnie] c; doc/16m; ph: Andrew Jackomos, Peter Duller, Mario Andreacchio & Denny Lawrence |
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1977 |
Chakola - a cinematography workshop exercise/Chakola 1 [John Tweg] 16mm/c; doc/18m; cph: Steve Arnold, Kim Batterham, a.o. |
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1977 |
Chakola - a cinematography workshop exercise/Chakola 2 [John Tweg] 16mm/c; doc/14m; cph: Steve Arnold, Kim Batterham, a.o. |
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1977 |
Excerpts [Andrew Lesnie] 16mm/b&w; ?/11m; ph: ? |
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FILMS |
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1980 |
The Comeback/Total Rebuild/Pump Action [Kit Laughlin] 16mm/c; doc/44m |
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1981 |
Before the Flood/The Same Stream [James Bradley] 16mm/c; short/26m |
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198? |
The Outing [?] ?; short/?m |
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1981 |
Mad Max 2 [: The Road Warrior] [George Miller] p/b&w-c; doc ph; ph: Dean Semler |
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1981 |
The Making of 'The Road Warrior' [?] ?; doc/?m |
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1981 |
Stations [Jacki McKimmie] c; short/23m |
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1982 |
Artreach [Genni & Kim Batterham] 16mm/c; doc/20m; cph: K. Batterham |
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1982 |
Early Frost/Something Wicked [Brian McDuffie] c; co-addph; ph: David Eggby |
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1983 |
Night and Day: The Festival of Sydney [Terence McMahon] 16mm/c; doc/26m; cph: Tony Wilson |
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1984 |
The Man You Know [Steve Jacobs] 16mm/c; short/36m |
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1984 |
Fantasy Man [John Meagher] c |
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1985 |
Unfinished Business [Bob Ellis] 16mm/c; + small part |
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1985 |
Starship/Lorca and the Outlaws [Roger Christian] p/c; 2uc Australia; ph: John Metcalfe |
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1985 |
Fair Game [Mario Andreacchio] c |
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1985 |
Emoh Ruo [Denny Lawrence] c |
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1986 |
Dead-End Drive In/Dead End [Brian Trenchard-Smith] scope/c; addph; ph: Paul Murphy |
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1986 |
Australian Dream/Outrageous Party [Jacki McKimmie] c |
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1987 |
Inside Pine Gap: Top Secret (Place Without a Postcard)/Journey to an American Spy Base [Robert Plasto-Lehner] c; doc/50m; 'Journey to an American Spy Base' is the international version |
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1987 |
Dark Age [Arch Nicholson] c |
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1987 |
Around the World in Eighty Ways [Stephen MacLean] c; 2uc; ph: Louis Irving |
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1987 |
Farewell to the King [John Milius] c; 2uc; ph: Dean Semler |
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1988 |
The 13th Floor [Chris Roache; (add scenes) Adrian Carr] c; ph add scenes; ph: Stephen Prime |
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1988 |
Boys in the Island [Geoff Bennett] c |
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1988 |
Encounter at Raven's Gate/Incident at Raven's Gate [Rolf de Heer] c; 2uc; ph: Richard Michalak |
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1989 |
Tripe [Greg Woodland] b&w; short/22m; prod AFTRS |
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1989 |
The Delinquents [Chris Thomson] c; add camera crew: Richard Merryman, Steve Arnold, Ivan Johnston, Anna Howard & Ben Nott |
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1989 |
The Shrimp on the Barbie/The Boyfriend from Hell [Alan Smithee = Michael Gottlieb] c; ph Australia; ph New Zealand: James Bartle |
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1990 |
It's Not Easy [Judy Rymer] c; doc/21m |
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1990 |
The Girl Who Came Late/Daydream Believer [Kathy Mueller] c; 2uc: Ian Jones; addph: Roger Lanser |
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1992 |
The Kangaroo Kid [Dean Semler] unfinished |
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1993 |
You Seng/Temptation of a Monk [Clara Law] c |
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1993 |
Fatal Past [Clive Fleury] c |
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1994 |
Spider & Rose [Bill Bennett] c |
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1994 |
Babe/Babe, the Gallant Pig [Chris Noonan] c; addph: Ken Arlidge |
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1995 |
Two If by Sea/Stolen Hearts [Bill Bennett] c |
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1996 |
Dark City [Alex Proyas] s35/c; co-addph; ph: Dariusz Wolski |
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1996 |
Doing Time for Patsy Cline [Chris Kennedy] c |
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1997 |
The Sugar Factory [Robert Carter] c |
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1997 |
Babe: Pig in the City [George Miller] c; addph: Ian Jones |
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1999 |
Mission: Impossible II/M:I-2 [John Woo] left prod less than a month into filming; replaced by doph Jeffrey Kimball |
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1999 |
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring [: The Motion Picture] [Peter Jackson] s35/c; 2uc: Alun Bollinger, Simon Raby, John Cavill, Allen Guilford, Nigel Bluck & Richard Bluck; vfx ph: Tony Anderson & Brian Van't Hul; vfx miniature unit ph: Alex Funke; aph: Phil Pastuhov; uwph: Murray Milne |
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2000 |
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers [Peter Jackson] s35/c |
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2000 |
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King [Peter Jackson] s35/c; all 3 'The Lord of the Rings' films were filmed back-to-back during 1999 and 2000 |
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2002 |
Love's Brother [Jan Sardi] c; addph: Russell Bacon |
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2003 |
Happy Feet [George Miller, Warren Coleman & Judy Morris] dv-to-35mm scope & 70mm/c; anim + live action; live action unit ph |
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2004 |
King Kong [Peter Jackson] s35/c; 2uc: Richard Bluck; aph: David B. Nowell; vfx ph: Alex Funke |
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"I Am Legend" |
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2006 |
I Am Legend [Francis Lawrence] p+s35/c; action unit ph: Brian Pearson; aph: Hans Bjerno & (uncred) David B. Nowell; vfx ph: Mark H. Weingartner |
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2006 |
Shine a Light [Martin Scorsese] HD+s8+s35-to-35mm & 70bu/b&w-c; mus doc/122m; co-c.op; ph: Robert Richardson |
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2007 |
The Lovely Bones [Peter Jackson] s35/c; aph: David B. Nowell |
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2009 |
The Last Airbender/The Legend of Aang [M. Night Shyamalan] s35/c; 2uc: Patrick Capone |
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2010 |
Rise of the Apes [Rupert Wyatt] pre-production |
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TELEVISION |
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1979 |
Simon Townsend's Wonder World/WonderWorld: The Original Series [ep #1 dir by Howard Scrivener] series, 1979-86 |
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1980 |
Stages [: Peter Brook and the C.I.C.T. in Australia] [exec prod: Brian Adams] doc/53m/16mm |
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1984 |
Bodyline [: It's Not Just Cricket] [various] 5-part miniseries; other ph: Dean Semler |
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1984 |
Winners [ep (48m) 'On Loan' dir by Geoff Bennett] 8-part series, 1986/16mm |
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1986 |
Cyclone Tracy [Donald Crombie & Kathy Mueller] 3-part miniseries |
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1986 |
Melba [Rodney Fisher] 4-part miniseries; other ph: Dean Semler |
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1988 |
The Rainbow Warrior Conspiracy [Chris Thomson] 2-part tvm |
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1989 |
How Wonderful! [Lynn Hegarty] tvm/55m |
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1989 |
More Winners [ep (48m) 'Mr Edmund' dir by George Whaley] 6-part series |
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1990 |
The Saint in Australia/The Saint: Fear in Fun Park [Donald Crombie] tvm |
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MISCELLANEOUS |
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1977 |
[The] Getting of Wisdom [Bruce Beresford] unit runner; ph: Don McAlpine |
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1978 |
Patrick Richard Franklin] c.asst; ph: Don McAlpine |
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1981 |
The Killing of Angel Street [Donald Crombie] clapper/loader; ph: Peter James |
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1982 |
Dead Easy [Bert Deling] c.asst; ph: Tom Cowan & Mike Molloy |
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1982 |
Now and Forever [Adrian Carr] focus puller; ph: Don McAlpine |
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1993 |
Shotgun Wedding [Paul Harmon] 'thanks to'; ph: Kim Batterham |
