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Emmanuel Lubezki

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  • Director
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Emmanuel Lubezki
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Lubezki began his career in Mexican film and television productions in the late 1980s. His first international production was the 1993 independent film Twenty Bucks (1993), which followed the journey of a single twenty-dollar bill.

Lubezki is a frequent collaborator with fellow Mexican filmmaker Alfonso Cuarón. The two have been friends since they were teenagers and attended the same film school at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. Together they have worked on six motion pictures: Sólo con tu pareja (1991), A Little Princess (1995), Great Expectations (1998), And Your Mother Too (2001), Children of Men (2006), and Gravity (2013). His work with Cuarón on Children of Men (2006), has received universal acclaim. The film utilized a number of new technologies and distinctive techniques. The "roadside ambush" scene was shot in one extended take utilizing a special camera rig invented by Doggicam systems, developed from the company's Power Slide system. For the scene, a vehicle was modified to enable seats to tilt and lower actors out of the way of the camera. The windshield of the car was designed to tilt out of the way to allow camera movement in and out through the front windscreen. A crew of four, including Lubezki, rode on the roof. Children of Men (2006) also features a seven-and-a-half-minute battle sequence composed of roughly five seamless edits.

Lubezki has been nominated for eight Academy Awards for Best Cinematography, winning three, for Gravity (2013), Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014), and The Revenant (2015). He is the first cinematographer in history to win three consecutive Academy Awards.
BornNovember 30, 1964
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Christian Bale, Emmanuel Lubezki, and Isabel Lucas in Knight of Cups (2015)
Christian Bale and Emmanuel Lubezki in Knight of Cups (2015)
Jack Fisk, Emmanuel Lubezki, and Jacqueline West in Knight of Cups (2015)
Christian Bale, Kevin Corrigan, Emmanuel Lubezki, and Teresa Palmer in Knight of Cups (2015)
Brad Pitt, Jörg Widmer, Emmanuel Lubezki, and Jessica Chastain in The Tree of Life (2011)
Alejandro G. Iñárritu and Emmanuel Lubezki in Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014)
Emmanuel Lubezki in The Revenant (2015)
Leonardo DiCaprio and Emmanuel Lubezki in The Revenant (2015)
Tom Hardy and Emmanuel Lubezki in The Revenant (2015)
Leonardo DiCaprio, Alejandro G. Iñárritu, and Emmanuel Lubezki in The Revenant (2015)
Leonardo DiCaprio, Alejandro G. Iñárritu, and Emmanuel Lubezki in The Revenant (2015)
Leonardo DiCaprio, Alejandro G. Iñárritu, and Emmanuel Lubezki in The Revenant (2015)

Known for

Children of Men (2006)
Children of Men
7.9
  • Cinematographer
  • 2006
Gravity (2013)
Gravity
7.7
  • Cinematographer
  • 2013
Leonardo DiCaprio in The Revenant (2015)
The Revenant
8.0
  • Cinematographer
  • 2015
Edward Norton, Zach Galifianakis, Amy Ryan, Naomi Watts, Emma Stone, and Andrea Riseborough in Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014)
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
7.7
  • Cinematographer
  • 2014

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Cinematographer

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    • Post-production
  • The Devil's Teeth
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  • Christian Bale, John David Washington, and Margot Robbie in Amsterdam (2022)
    Amsterdam
  • Dior: Joy (2018)
    Dior: Joy
  • Carne y arena (2017)
    Carne y arena
  • Natalie Portman, Ryan Gosling, Michael Fassbender, and Rooney Mara in Song to Song (2017)
    Song to Song
  • Leonardo DiCaprio in The Revenant (2015)
    The Revenant
  • Christian Bale in Knight of Cups (2015)
    Knight of Cups
  • Last Days in the Desert (2015)
    Last Days in the Desert
  • Edward Norton, Zach Galifianakis, Amy Ryan, Naomi Watts, Emma Stone, and Andrea Riseborough in Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014)
    Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
  • Gravity (2013)
    Gravity
  • Ben Affleck and Olga Kurylenko in To the Wonder (2012)
    To the Wonder
  • The Tree of Life (2011)
    The Tree of Life
  • Cristiano Ronaldo in Write the Future (2010)
    Write the Future
  • Dick Tracy Special (2010)
    Dick Tracy Special
  • Burn After Reading (2008)
    Burn After Reading
  • To Each His Own Cinema (2007)
    To Each His Own Cinema
    • (segment Anna)

Producer

  • Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas Solórzano in El ingeniero (2012)
    El ingeniero
  • Lección relámpago
  • The Assassination of Richard Nixon (2004)
    The Assassination of Richard Nixon
  • Caifanes
  • Camino largo a Tijuana (1988)
    Camino largo a Tijuana
  • Margot Buzali in Hora marcada (1988)
    Hora marcada

Director

  • Nike: Dream Crazy
  • Kind: More Than Nice (2018)
    Kind: More Than Nice
  • Caifanes
  • Marlena en la pared
  • Ejercicio de 20 año

Videos8

Last Days in the Desert
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Last Days in the Desert
Last Days in the Desert
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Last Days in the Desert
Gravity
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Gravity
Gravity
Clip 1:48
Gravity
Gravity
Clip 1:38
Gravity
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
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Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
Official US Trailer
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Official US Trailer
Last Days in the Desert
Featurette 2:54
Last Days in the Desert

Personal details

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    • November 30, 1964
    • Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
    • Lauren Beth Strogoff? - present (2 children)
    • Muni Lubezki
  • Other works
    Director of photography for American Express TV commercial "One Hour Photo" (2003).
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    • 2 Articles
    • 1 Magazine Cover Photo

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  • Trivia
    2007 - Ranked #24 on EW's The 50 Smartest People in Hollywood.
  • Quotes
    [on The Tree of Life (2011)] The language of film is further and further away from the language of theater and is closer to music. It's abstract but still narrative. Everything feels less rehearsed. It's more experimental than classical.[2012]
    • Frequently collaborates with Alfonso Cuaron, Alejandro Inarritu and Terrence Malick

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