Cinematographer - chapter 1

Tony Pierce-Roberts is the Cinematographer for Underworld. He was born in 1944 in Birkenhead, England. He emigrated to Africa when he was 11 and worked for the Central African Film Unit on wildlife documentaries and assisted BBC crews. He returned to England in 1966 and became a freelancer. He was then fired by the BBC in 1967 where he worked for 4 years as co-assistant working with Brian Tufano. He left the BBC in 1980.

Pierce-Roberts is perhaps best known for his work on the films of Merchant-Ivory. He won his first Oscar nomination for the sumptuous compositions and Venetian locations of "A Room with a View" (1986) and earned a second nomination for "Howards End" (1992), which effectively blended lush pastoral landscapes with scenes of dingy urban confinement. He also photographed Ivory's trendy urban comedy "Slaves of New York" (1989) and the well-received "Mr. and Mrs. Bridge" (1990), "The Remains of the Day" (1993) and "Surviving Picasso" (1996).

His work has also ventured from the delicacy of Merchant-Ivory, however. George Romero's "The Dark Half" (1993), shot in Pittsburgh, was a moderately-budgeted thriller, while Joel Schumacher's "The Client" (1994) was shot in the South and Barry Levinson's "Disclosure" (both 1994) took audiences into corporate boardrooms. Among Pierce-Roberts other credits are the hair-raising thrillers "Copycat" and "Haunted" (both 1995), the comedy "Jungle2Jungle" (1997) and the Italian romance "Something to Believe In" (lensed 1996).

He has been nominated for oscars, ASC awards, and many other British awards. He has also won best cinematographer from the British Society, Evening Standard British Film Award, and New York Film Critics Circle Award. He has also worked on films such as Made of Honor, Doom, Home of the Brave, Separate Lies, and The Importance of Being Earnest. He is now working on Sweetwater and Vivaldi, which are due to come out sometime in 2009. He has worked on The Bone Collector doing camera and electrical.



Simon Duggan is the Cinematographer of Underworld: Evolution. He was born in 1959 in Wellinton, New Zealand. He was nominated for Best Achievement in Cinematography for the Australian Film Institute and won the Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards for Best Cinematography; both for "The Interview"(1998). He worked on "Risk"(2000), "Garage Days"(2002), "I, Robot"(2004), "Live Free, Die Hard"(2007), "Restraint"(2008), and "The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor"(2008). He is now working on "Knowing" coming out in 2009.