About
Seamus McGarvey
Overview
Seamus McGarvey, ASC, BSC (born 29 June 1967) is a cinematographer from Armagh, Northern Ireland. He lives in Tuscany, Italy.
He has received two Academy Award nominations for his cinematography, on Joe Wright's 2007 drama Atonement and his 2012 adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's novel Anna Karenina.
In addition to the Oscar nominations, McGarvey won the British Society of Cinematographers (B.S.C.) award for Anna Karenina and for Nocturnal Animals, as well as a nomination for Atonement, and earned BAFTA nominations for Atonement, Anna Karenina, and Nocturnal Animals. He received A.S.C. nods for Atonement and Anna Karenina. Atonement earned him nominations for the British Independent Film Award, the Chicago Film Critics Association, and the Online Film Critics Society, and he received the top honour from the Phoenix Film Critics Society.
McGarvey has won three Evening Standard British Film Awards for Atonement, Anna Karenina, and Stephen Daldry's The Hours, and six Irish Film & Television Awards for Atonement, Anna Karenina, Sahara, We Need to Talk About Kevin, Nocturnal Animals, and The Greatest Showman. In 2004, he was awarded the Royal Photographic Society's prestigious Lumiere Medal, along with Jack Cardiff, Freddie Francis, Roger Deakins, and Ridley Scott, for contributions to the art of cinematography.
Known for
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| 2025 | The Accountant 2 | Camera | Director of Photography | N/A N/A |
| 2024 | Without Blood | Camera | Director of Photography | N/A N/A |
| 2024 | M. Il Figlio del Secolo | Camera | Director of Photography | N/A N/A |
| 2021 | Cyrano | Camera | Director of Photography | 60 Fair |
| 2019 | Greta | Camera | Director of Photography | 64 Fair |
| 2018 | Bad Times at the El Royale | Camera | Director of Photography | 67 Fair |
| 2018 | The Human Voice | Camera | Director of Photography | 58 Average |
| 2017 | The Greatest Showman | Camera | Director of Photography | 77 Good |
| 2017 | Life | Camera | Director of Photography | 63 Fair |
| 2016 | Nocturnal Animals | Camera | Director of Photography | 73 Good |
| 2016 | The Accountant | Camera | Director of Photography | 70 Good |
| 2016 | Kitty | Camera | Director of Photography | 59 Average |
| 2015 | Pan | Camera | Director of Photography | 59 Average |
| 2015 | Fifty Shades of Grey | Camera | Director of Photography | 58 Average |
| 2014 | Godzilla | Camera | Director of Photography | 63 Fair |
| 2013 | Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction | Camera | Director of Photography | 59 Average |
| 2012 | Lost Angels: Skid Row Is My Home | Camera | Director of Photography | 59 Average |
| 2012 | Anna Karenina | Camera | Director of Photography | 65 Fair |
| 2012 | The Avengers | Camera | Director of Photography | 76 Good |
| 2011 | We Need to Talk About Kevin | Camera | Director of Photography | 72 Good |
| 2009 | Nowhere Boy | Camera | Director of Photography | 66 Fair |
| 2009 | The Soloist | Camera | Director of Photography | 63 Fair |
| 2008 | Love You More | Camera | Director of Photography | 58 Average |
| 2007 | Atonement | Camera | Director of Photography | 74 Good |
| 2006 | Charlotte's Web | Camera | Director of Photography | 61 Fair |
| 2006 | Destricted | Camera | Director of Photography | 57 Average |
| 2006 | World Trade Center | Camera | Director of Photography | 60 Fair |
| 2005 | Sahara | Camera | Director of Photography | 58 Average |
| 2004 | Along Came Polly | Camera | Director of Photography | 59 Average |
| 2003 | The Actors | Camera | Director of Photography | 58 Average |
| 2002 | The Hours | Camera | Director of Photography | 69 Fair |
| 2001 | Wit | Camera | Director of Photography | 61 Fair |
| 2001 | Enigma | Camera | Director of Photography | 60 Fair |
| 2000 | The Name of This Film Is Dogme95 | Camera | Director of Photography | 59 Average |
| 2000 | High Fidelity | Camera | Director of Photography | 68 Fair |
| 1999 | The Big Tease | Camera | Director of Photography | 58 Average |
| 1999 | A Map of the World | Camera | Director of Photography | 59 Average |
| 1999 | I Could Read the Sky | Camera | Director of Photography | 58 Average |
| 1999 | The War Zone | Camera | Director of Photography | 61 Fair |
| 1998 | Stand and Deliver | Camera | Director of Photography | N/A N/A |
| 1997 | The Winter Guest | Camera | Director of Photography | 59 Average |
| 1997 | The Slab Boys | Camera | Director of Photography | 59 Average |
| 1997 | Jump the Gun | Camera | Director of Photography | 59 Average |
| 1997 | Harald | Camera | Director of Photography | 59 Average |
| 1995 | Skin | Camera | Director of Photography | 58 Average |
| 1995 | Butterfly Kiss | Camera | Director of Photography | 59 Average |
| 1995 | Hello, Hello, Hello | Camera | Director of Photography | 58 Average |
| 1992 | Floating | Camera | Camera Technician | N/A N/A |
| 1990 | The Garden | Camera | Assistant Camera | 58 Average |
| Die, My Love | Camera | Director of Photography | N/A N/A |
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Crew |
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| 2021 | Oaxacalifornia: The Return | Crew | Cinematography | N/A N/A |
| 2013 | A Fuller Life | Crew | Cinematography | 59 Average |
| 1998 | The End | Crew | Cinematography | N/A N/A |
| 1997 | Flying Saucer Rock 'n' Roll | Crew | Cinematography | 58 Average |
| Gerry Adams: A Ballymurphy Man | Crew | Cinematography | N/A N/A |
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