Andrzej Sekuła (born 19 December 1954) is a Polish

cinematographer The cinematographer or director of photography (sometimes shortened to DP or DOP) is the person responsible for the recording of a film, television production, music video or other live-action piece. The cinematographer is the chief of the camera ...

and film director. He was cinematographer on Quentin Tarantino's films '' Reservoir Dogs'' and '' Pulp Fiction''.

Career

Sekuła was born in

Wrocław Wrocław is a city in southwestern Poland, and the capital of the Lower Silesian Voivodeship. It is the largest city and historical capital of the region of Silesia. It lies on the banks of the Oder River in the Silesian Lowlands of Central Eu ...

, Poland in 1954. He began as a still photographer for a Polish film studio, and served his compulsory conscription in the Polish army as a film cameraman, shooting army exercises that were organized for people like Soviet president

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and Romanian president Nicolae Ceausescu. He described the shots as good training and like that out of '' Apocalypse Now''. He worked for a while as a television documentary cameraman. He became interested in cinematography after seeing the work of Oswald Morris in ''Moulin Rouge'' and ''Fiddler on the Roof''. He decided to move to

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to study at the National Film School under the tutelage of Morris from 1985 to 1988. After that he shot commercials around Europe. Yearning for Hollywood, he emigrated to

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in the late 1980s. After working on several short films, he shot his first feature-length theatrical film in the form of Quentin Tarantino's directorial debut '' Reservoir Dogs''. He would go on to shoot Tarantino's 1994 Best Picture-nominated '' Pulp Fiction''. He made his directorial debut with the 1998 thriller ''Fait Accompli''. Other films shot by him include ''American Psycho'', ''Hackers'''', Vacancy'', and ''Armored''.

Filmography

Feature film

Awards and nominations

References

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* 1954 births Living people Film people from Wrocław Polish emigrants to the United States Polish cinematographers Polish film directors {{cinematographer-stub