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Wally Pfister
Born
Walter C. Pfister
(1961-07-08) July 8, 1961 (age 62)
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Education
AFI Conservatory
Occupation(s)
Cinematographer, director
Years active
1988–present
Organization(s)
American Society of Cinematographers British Society of Cinematographers
Spouses
Anna Julien
(m. 1992; div. 2015)
Loan Chabanol
(m. 2018)
Children
3, including Claire Julien
Walter C. Pfister (born July 8, 1961) is an American director and former cinematographer, who is best known for his work with filmmaker Christopher Nolan. Some of his collaborations with Nolan include Memento (2000), The Dark Knight Trilogy (2005–2012), and Inception (2010). For his work on Inception, Pfister won an Academy Award for Best Cinematography and received a BAFTA Award nomination.
Pfister is also known for his work on director F. Gary Gray's The Italian Job and Bennett Miller's Moneyball. In 2014, Pfister made his directorial debut with Transcendence (2014), through Alcon Entertainment. In addition to feature films, he has also directed commercials and television, including episodes of Flaked and The Tick.
Conway) and Walter J. Pfister, Jr. His grandfather was the city editor of a newspaper in Wisconsin. His father, also known as Wally, was a TV news producer...
production designer, Chris Corbould, the special effects supervisor, and WallyPfister, the director of photography; it rotated a full 360 degrees to create...
Other frequent collaborators include editor Lee Smith, cinematographers WallyPfister and Hoyte van Hoytema, composer Hans Zimmer, sound designer Richard...
(120 km/h) winds, rain, and a lack of snow. A shot that cinematographer WallyPfister had planned to take using a crane had to be completed with a handheld...
Transcendence, the directorial debut of his longtime cinematographer WallyPfister. In the mid-2010s, Nolan took part in several ventures for film preservation...
Decoration: Larry Dias and Doug Mowat Nominated Best Cinematography WallyPfister Won Best Original Score Hans Zimmer Nominated Best Sound Editing Richard...
Nolan with many of his past collaborators, including cinematographer WallyPfister, production designer Nathan Crowley, editor Lee Smith, costume designer...
Direction Nathan Crowley and Peter Lando Nominated Best Cinematography WallyPfister Nominated Best Film Editing Lee Smith Nominated Best Makeup John Caglione...
(naturalist) Phil Pfister, strongman WallyPfister, Academy Award winning cinematographer and director The "Feaster" surname was adopted by some Pfisters that immigrated...
release date 1 1 "Westminster" WallyPfister Will Arnett & Mark Chappell March 11, 2016 (2016-03-11) 2 2 "Horizon" WallyPfister Will Arnett & Mark Chappell...
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Carolyn (24 June 2012). "LAFF 2012: 'Dark Knight Rises' Cinematographer WallyPfister Discusses His Directorial Debut". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from...
alongside Peter Serafinowicz in the titular role. The pilot, directed by WallyPfister, was released on August 18, 2016. The show was picked up for a first...
1, 2022. Finke, Nikki (February 13, 2011). "Cinematographers Award WallyPfister for 'Inception', Jonathan Freeman-'Boardwalk Empire', Stephen Windon-'The...
featured more scenes shot in IMAX than The Dark Knight. Cinematographer WallyPfister expressed interest in shooting the film entirely in IMAX. During the...
appeared in Transcendence (2014), starring Johnny Depp and directed by WallyPfister. In 2015, she played Sue Storm, the Invisible Woman, in the Fantastic...
He Got Game before directing episodes of Legion and Ozark. In 2014, WallyPfister, cinematographer on Christopher Nolan's three Batman films, made his...
He starred in Transcendence, a science fiction thriller directed by WallyPfister in his directorial debut, in which Freeman plays scientist Joseph Tagger...
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