Nina Kellgren (born 26 August 1948) is a British cinematographer. Her work on '' Solomon & Gaenor'' (1999) made her the first British woman cinematographer to shoot an Academy Award-nominated film and the second woman in the International Feature Film category. The second woman to join the British Society of Cinematographers, Kellgren was honoured with the John Alcott Memorial Award at the 2021 BSC Awards.

Early life

Kellgren was born in Manchester to

Jonas Kellgren Jonas Henrik Kellgren (11 September 1911 – 22 February 2002) was a British physician and the first professor of rheumatology in the United Kingdom at the University of Manchester. He became Vice-Chancellor of the university and dean of the ins ...

, a British physician of Swedish and Russian descent, and Thelma Reynolds, an American nurse of English descent from Amesbury, Massachusetts. She has three sisters as well as a half-sister from her father's previous marriage. Kellgren holds a Bachelor and a Master of Fine Arts from University College London's Slade School of Fine Art, having completed her studies in 1972. She got her first job as a camera assistant to

Diane Tammes Diane Tammes (10 April 1942 in Welshpool – 30 May 2020) was a British filmmaker. In 1992, she won a Bafta award for Television Craft. She graduated from National Film and Television School The National Film and Television School (NFTS) ...

Filmography

Awards and nominations

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Kellgren, Nina Living people 1948 births Alumni of the Slade School of Fine Art English people of Russian descent English people of Swedish descent English women cinematographers Mass media people from Manchester

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