Chris Menges
Film (as cinematographer)

Chris Menges

Section Title: Film (as cinematographer)
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Year	Title	Director	Notes

1969	Kes	Ken Loach

1971	Gumshoe	Stephen Frears

1980	The Gamekeeper	Ken Loach

1981	Looks and Smiles

1982	Battletruck	Harley Cokeliss

1983	Local Hero	Bill Forsyth	Nominated – BAFTA Award for Best Cinematography

1984	Comfort and Joy	National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Cinematography

The Killing Fields	Roland Joffé	Academy Award for Best Cinematography BAFTA Award for Best Cinematography Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Cinematography Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Cinematography National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Cinematography New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Cinematography

1986	The Mission	Academy Award for Best Cinematography Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Cinematography Nominated – BAFTA Award for Best Cinematography Nominated – American Society of Cinematographers Award for Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography in Theatrical Releases Nominated – New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Cinematography

1987	Shy People	Andrei Konchalovsky

1996	Michael Collins	Neil Jordan	Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Cinematography Nominated – Academy Award for Best Cinematography Nominated – BAFTA Award for Best Cinematography Nominated – American Society of Cinematographers Award for Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography in Theatrical Releases Nominated – Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Cinematography Nominated – National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Cinematography

1997	The Boxer	Jim Sheridan	Nominated – American Society of Cinematographers Award for Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography in Theatrical Releases

2001	The Pledge	Sean Penn

2002	Dirty Pretty Things	Stephen Frears

The Good Thief	Neil Jordan

2005	The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada	Tommy Lee Jones

North Countey	Niki Caro

2006	Notes on a Scandal	Richard Eyre

2008	The Reader	Stephen Daldry	Co-cinematographer with Roger Deakins Nominated – Academy Award for Best Cinematography Nominated – BAFTA Award for Best Cinematography Nominated – American Society of Cinematographers Award for Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography in Theatrical Releases

Stop-Loss	Kimberly Peirce

The Yellow Handkerchief	Udayan Prasad

2010	Route Irish	Ken Loach

2011	Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close	Stephen Daldry

TBA	Waiting for the Barbarians	Ciro Guerra	Filming

Sentence(s)

In 1983, Chris Menges received his first BAFTA nomination for the Bill Forsyth film Local Hero and a year later won his first Academy Award for the film The Killing Fields.

final_sentence: In 1983, Chris Menges received his first BAFTA nomination for the Bill Forsyth film Local Hero and a year later won his first Academy Award for the film The Killing Fields.