John Seale

John Clement Seale AM ACS ASC born 5 October 1942 is an Australian cinematographer He has received numerous accolades including an Academy Award a BAFTA Award and an American Society of Cinematographers Award Seale started his career collaborating with director Peter Weir as both a camera operator and director of photography gaining a reputation as one of Australias leading cinematographers He then earned international prominence working with directors such as Anthony Minghella Wolfgang Petersen Ron Howard Sydney Pollack and George Miller Seale received the Academy Award for Best Cinematography for The English Patient 1996 He was also Oscarnominated for Witness 1985 Rain Man 1988 Cold Mountain 2003 and Mad Max Fury Road 2015 Seales other work includes the films Children of a Lesser God 1986 Dead Poets Society 1989 The Firm 1993 The Talented Mr Ripley 1999 and Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone 2001 Seale was born in Warwick Queensland Australia to Marjorie Lyndon née Pool and Eric Clement Seale He received Oscar nominations for his work on Witness Rain Man and Cold Mountain and won for The English Patient Seale directed one film Till There Was You in 1990 He is a fourtime Oscar nominee fivetime BAFTA nominee and fourtime ASC Award nominee His greatest commercial successes have been Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone which grossed US974 million Rain Man which grossed US354 million Prince of Persia The Sands of Time which grossed US335 million The Perfect Storm which grossed US328 million and The Tourist which grossed US278 million He came out of retirement in 2012 to shoot Mad Max Fury Road for which he received another Academy Award nomination Seale was appointed a member of the Order of Australia in the 2002 Australia Day Honours in recognition of his service to the arts as an Australian and internationally acclaimed cinematographer Description above from the Wikipedia article John Seale licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia