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Sean Francis Bobbitt, B.S.C. (born 29 November 1958) is a British cinematographer, known for his collaborations with directors Steve McQueen and Nia DaCosta. His accolades include nominations for an Academy Award, four British Academy Film Awards and an Emmy Award. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Cinematography for his work on Judas and the Black Messiah (2021), which also earned him a BAFTA nomination. For Sense & Sensibility (2008), he was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Cinematography. Description above from the Wikipedia article Sean Bobbitt, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Born
November 29, 1958 (age 67)
Birthplace
Corpus Christi, Texas, USA
Filmography
43 films, 10 shows


28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
2026 · 1h 49m
country: United Kingdom
Dr. Kelson finds himself in a shocking new relationship - with consequences that could change the world as they know it - and Spike's encounter with Jimmy Crystal becomes a nightmare he can't escape.


Hedda
2025 · 1h 47m
country: United States
Hedda Gabler finds herself torn between the lingering ache of a past love and the quiet suffocation of her present life. Over the course of one charged night, long-repressed desires and hidden tensions erupt—pulling her and everyone around her into a spiral of manipulation, passion, and betrayal.


The Marvels
2023 · 1h 45m
country: United States
When her duties send her to an anomalous wormhole linked to a Kree revolutionary, Carol's powers become entangled with that of Jersey City super-fan Kamala Khan, aka Ms. Marvel, and Carol's estranged niece, now S.A.B.E.R. astronaut Captain Monica Rambeau. Together, this unlikely trio must team up and learn to work in concert to save the universe.


Judas and the Black Messiah
2021 · 2h 5m
country: Canada
Bill O'Neal infiltrates the Black Panthers on the orders of FBI Agent Mitchell and J. Edgar Hoover. As Black Panther Chairman Fred Hampton ascends—falling for a fellow revolutionary en route—a battle wages for O’Neal’s soul.


The Rhythm Section
2020 · 1h 49m
country: Spain
When she discovers the plane crash that claimed the lives of her family was no accident, Stephanie Patrick enters the dark, complex world of international espionage seeking vengeance. With nothing left to lose, Stephanie transforms from victim to assassin and discovers that neither revenge nor the truth are what they appear.


The Courier
2020 · 1h 52m
country: United Kingdom
Cold War spy Greville Wynne and his Russian source try to put an end to the Cuban Missile Crisis.


Widows
2018 · 2h 9m
country: United Kingdom
A police shootout leaves four thieves dead during an explosive armed robbery attempt in Chicago. Their widows have nothing in common except a debt left behind by their spouses' criminal activities. Hoping to forge a future on their own terms, they join forces to pull off a heist.


On Chesil Beach
2018 · 1h 50m
country: United Kingdom
In 1962 England, a young couple finds their idyllic romance colliding with issues of sexual freedom and societal pressure, leading to an awkward and fateful wedding night.


Stronger
2017 · 1h 59m
country: Hong Kong
A victim of the Boston Marathon bombing in 2013 helps the police track down the killers while struggling to recover from devastating trauma.


Queen of Katwe
2016 · 2h 4m
country: United States
A young girl overcomes her disadvantaged upbringing in the slums of Uganda to become a Chess master.


Rock the Kasbah
2015 · 1h 40m
country: Morocco
A washed-up music producer finds one last shot at redemption with a golden-voiced young girl in Afghanistan. However, when jealousy gets the better of a disgruntled ex-boyfriend, he decides to oppose the young star with talent of his own.


Kill the Messenger
2014 · 1h 52m
country: United States
A reporter becomes the target of a vicious smear campaign that drives him to the point of suicide after he exposes the CIA's role in arming Contra rebels in Nicaragua and importing cocaine into California. Based on the true story of journalist Gary Webb.


Oldboy
2013 · 1h 44m
country: United States
A man has only three and a half days and limited resources to discover why he was imprisoned in a nondescript room for 20 years without any explanation.


12 Years a Slave
2013 · 2h 14m
country: United Kingdom
In the pre-Civil War United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery. Facing cruelty as well as unexpected kindnesses Solomon struggles not only to stay alive, but to retain his dignity. In the twelfth year of his unforgettable odyssey, Solomon’s chance meeting with a Canadian abolitionist will forever alter his life.


Byzantium
2013 · 1h 58m
country: Ireland
Residents of a coastal town learn, with deadly consequences, the secret shared by the two mysterious women who have sought refuge at a local boarding house, the Byzantium.


The Place Beyond the Pines
2013 · 2h 20m
country: United States
A motorcycle stunt rider considers committing a crime in order to provide for his wife and child, an act that puts him on a collision course with a cop-turned-politician.


Everyday
2012 · 1h 46m
country: United Kingdom
This film charts the relationship between a man imprisoned for drug smuggling and his wife and is being shot over the course of five years, a few weeks at a time.


Shame
2011 · 1h 42m
country: Canada
Brandon, a thirty-something man living in New York, eludes intimacy with women but feeds his deepest desires with a compulsive addiction to sex. When his younger sister temporarily moves into his apartment, stirring up bitter memories of their shared painful past, Brandon's life, like his fragile mind, gets out of control.


Hysteria
2011 · 1h 40m
country: United Kingdom
Two doctors in Victorian England use manual stimulation of female genitalia to cure their patients' ills, leading to the invention of the vibrator.


Africa United
2010 · 1h 28m
country: United Kingdom
The extraordinary story of three Rwandan children who attempt to realize the dream of their life: to attend the opening ceremony of the FIFA World Cup 2010 at Johannesburg.


Static
2009 · 7m
country: United States
Static was filmed from a helicopter circling around the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbour. It was shot shortly after the monument was fully re-opened following the September 11th attacks. Flying alongside the statue, the camera presents us with startling close-up views of its oxidised copper surface. The continual sense of movement is disorienting, undermining its sense of permanence and stability.


Hunger
2008 · 1h 36m
country: Ireland
The story of Bobby Sands, the IRA member who led the 1981 hunger strike during The Troubles in which Irish Republican prisoners tried to win political status.


The Things I Haven't Told You
2008 · 53m
country: United Kingdom
Drama which follows a group of teenagers whose already difficult years of adolescence get massively complicated when one of them is involved in a mysterious car crash.


Mrs. Ratcliffe's Revolution
2007 · 1h 42m
country: United Kingdom
Based on a true story, Mrs. Ratcliffe's Revolution is the tale of a family from Bingley in Yorkshire, who defect to East Germany. Here they find a nightmare of rationing, censorship and the most spied upon people in history rather than the Marxist utopia they were expecting. But if they thought getting in was difficult wait until they try to get out.


The Baker
2007 · 1h 26m
country: United Kingdom
Milo is a professional hit man living on the edge. When failing to fulfill a contract for the first time, he escapes the city to avoid the wrath of his employers. Hiding out in a remote rural village, the locals mistake him for the new baker.


The Situation
2007 · 1h 51m
country: United States
The first U.S.-made film drama set during the Iraq war, THE SITUATION chronicles the tragic death of an Iraqi teenager at the hands of U.S. soldiers. The incident sets off an "investigation," a cover-up, and complications involving Iraqi mayor Sheikh Tahsin (Saïd Amadis), who has a complex relationship with the Americans.
Weddings and Beheadings
Weddings and Beheadings
2007 · 15m
country: United Kingdom
Describes the work of a cameraman who has been forced to take on work filming executions of kidnapped Westeners in the Middle East.


Cargo
2006 · 1h 30m
country: Spain
A young backpacker gets into some trouble in Africa and stows away on a cargo ship heading to Europe.


Charlotte
2004 · 6m
country: United Kingdom
A close-up fixes on the eye of British actor Charlotte Rampling. McQueen's finger moves around her eye, pulling the skin and momentarily touching her eyeball. Rampling's eye continually adjusts to the movement of the finger, just as the camera lens goes in and out of focus. Suffused in red, Charlotte is a reflection on the act of looking.


Chunky Monkey
2003 · 1h 27m
country: Unknown
Fitness fanatic, Donald Leek, indulges in a monthly Chunky Monkey experience with, someone vaguely resembling movie-songstress, Julie Andrews, who he's expecting at 7:30pm. His obsession with Ms. Andrews (and her posterior) is somewhat disturbing to say the least. Before she arrives however, he has to dispose of the body parts of Mr Azam, manager of his favourite Indian restaurant, who has neglected to send him a Christmas card. He is interrupted by a peculiar assortment of unwelcome visitors, amongst them, Jesus Christ and a one-testicled self-made millionaire. Each one is as unhinged as their host, who retaliates to the intrusion in extreme fashion


Western Deep
2002 · 24m
country: United Kingdom
An exploration of the sensory experience of the TauTona gold mine in South Africa, showing migrant labourers working in dark, claustrophobic environments and the ear-splitting noise of drilling. The TauTona mine in South Africa, known as 'Western Deep' is the world's deepest gold mine. Employing more than 5,000 people, it operates twenty-four hours day. The film begins in complete darkness as the miners descend three-and-a-half kilometres underground. McQueen documents an intense work regime where the temperature can reach over ninety degrees celsius. Accompanied by jarring sounds created by the mechanical equipment, Western Deep is a hellish representation of labour that makes the silent resolve of the miners all the more powerful.


Lawless Heart
2002 · 1h 40m
country: France
In a British seaside resort, several lives intertwine following the funeral of a gay restaurant owner.


Summer Things
2002 · 1h 43m
country: France
Two couple of friends, one very rich, the other almost homeless, decide to go on Holiday. Julie, a single mother, joins them too. Once at seaside, it starts a complicate love cross among them that will involve also a transsexual, a jealous brother, a Latin Lover and another nervous stressed couple. Not to mention about the daughter of one of them that is secretly in Chicago with one of her father's employees... At the end of the summer, all of them will join the same party...


Dog
2001 · 11m
country: United Kingdom
A teenage girl gets ready to go out to meet her boyfriend, despite her mother's loud verbal disapproval of her clothes. She goes out to a deserted area with him and he begins to touch her up and have sex with her, however a dog reveals the true nature of her boyfriend.


Wonderland
1999 · 1h 48m
country: United Kingdom
Living in working-class London, Bill, Eileen, and their three grown daughters navigate quiet lives of loneliness: cafe waitress Nadia searches for love through personal ads, hairdresser and single mother Debbie balances casual romance with co-parenting alongside her volatile ex, and expectant mother Molly copes with a partner overwhelmed by impending fatherhood.