Benoît Debie (born 1968) is a Belgian

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. He is best known for his work on his frequent collaboration with

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, started in ''

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'' (2002). He also works on feature including ''

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'' (2010) and '' Spring Breakers'' (2012).

Career

Debie attended the Institut des Arts de Diffusion (IAD), a Belgian film school. After graduating, he worked as a camera assistant before taking up cinematography jobs on various television series. He worked in television for ten years while also shooting

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and advertisements. The first

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he was involved with as a director of photography was ''

'', a controversial 2002 film directed by Gaspar Noé. Noé contacted him to shoot the film after seeing Debie's previous work, specifically a short film titled ''A Wonderful Love'' (1999) directed by

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. Debie's next project was

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's ''

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'' (2004), followed by ''

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'' (2004), an Italian film directed by

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, and '' The Ordeal'', another collaboration with Fabrice du Welz. In 2006 he photographed the French feature ''

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''. Debie went on to film ''

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'',

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's first film, released in 2006, before returning to work with his previous collaborators: ''

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'' (2008) with Fabrice du Welz and '' Enter the Void'' (2009) with Gaspar Noé. In 2010 he was cinematographer on ''

'', a

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about Joan Jett's first band, and by 2011 he had finished shooting

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's action film ''

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''. The same year, he was named one of '' Variety'' magazine's "10 Cinematographers to Watch". He photographed

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's '' Spring Breakers'' in 2012—which was nominated for an

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—and

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' ''

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'' the following year. In 2013 he was hired by American actor

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(whom Debie had first met in 1998) to shoot Gosling's first film, '' Lost River'', which was filmed in 2013 and premiered at the

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. Debie is a member of the Belgian Society of Cinematographers (SBC).

Filmography

Videography

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", John Legend (2013) *"

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(2015) *"

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(2018)

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