# Giles Nuttgens

Giles Nuttgens (born 1960) is a British cinematographer, perhaps best known for the 2016 film Hell or High Water, for which he received a 2017 BAFTA nomination, and the 2020 film Enola Holmes. Fans of independent art house fare may also be familiar with his work on Deepa Mehta's "Elements trilogy", consisting of the films Fire (1996), Earth (1998) and Water (2005), as well as Mehta's adaptation of Salman Rushdie's epic novel Midnight's Children (2012). He received critical acclaim and the 2006 Genie Award for Best Achievement in Cinematography (Canadian Academy Award) for his work on Water.
He has also collaborated on more than one occasion with Scott McGehee and David Siegel on The Deep End and Bee Season, and David Mackenzie on Young Adam, Asylum, Hallam Foe and most recently, Hell or High Water. He won the 2001 Sundance Film Festival's Cinematography Award for The Deep End.

## Career

Nuttgens began his career with the BBC TV for the Natural History documentary unit in 1984, and rose up through the camera assistant ranks, and by the age of 25 he was one of the youngest film cameramen ever in the BBC. After many years living in Paris, he relocated to Barcelona in late 2003. He is fluent in English, French and Spanish.
Although best known for independent films, he also has worked on major commercial productions such as Enola Holmes, Hell or High Water, the Star Wars prequels, Battlefield Earth and Swimfan.

## Filmography
### Film

| Year | Title | Director |
| 1992 | Electric Moon | Pradip Krishen |
| 1996 | Fire | Deepa Mehta |
| 1997 | Keep the Aspidistra Flying | Robert Bierman |
| 1998 | Earth | Deepa Mehta |
| 2000 | Battlefield Earth | Roger Christian |
| 2001 | The Deep End | Scott McGehee Davis Siegel |
| 2002 | Swimfan | John Polson |
| 2003 | Young Adam | David Mackenzie |
| 2004 | If Only | Gil Junger |
| 2005 | Asylum | David Mackenzie |
| 2005 | Bee Season | Scott McGehee David Siegel |
| 2005 | Water | Deepa Mehta |
| 2007 | The Good Night | Jake Paltrow |
| 2007 | Hallam Foe | David Mackenzie |
| 2008 | Heaven on Earth | Deepa Mehta |
| 2009 | The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond | Jodie Markell |
| 2010 | Saint John of Las Vegas | Hue Rhodes |
| 2011 | Perfect Sense | David Mackenzie |
| 2011 | You Instead | David Mackenzie |
| 2012 | Midnight's Children | Deepa Mehta |
| 2012 | What Maisie Knew | Scott McGehee David Siegel |
| 2013 | Dom Hemingway | Richard Shepard |
| 2014 | God Help the Girl | Stuart Murdoch |
| 2014 | Young Ones | Jake Paltrow |
| 2015 | The D Train | Jarrad Paul Andrew Mogel |
| 2016 | The Fundamentals of Caring | Rob Burnett |
| 2016 | Hell or High Water | David Mackenzie |
| 2017 | Grain | Semih Kaplanoğlu |
| 2018 | The Wedding Guest | Michael Winterbottom |
| 2018 | Colette | Wash Westmoreland |
| 2019 | Greed | Michael Winterbottom |
| 2020 | Think Like a Dog | Gil Junger |
| 2020 | Enola Holmes | Harry Bradbeer |
| 2021 | Montana Story | Scott McGehee David Siegel |
| 2022 | Enola Holmes 2 | Harry Bradbeer |
| 2023 | Shoshana | Michael Winterbottom |
| 2024 | The Friend | Scott McGehee David Siegel |
| TBA | Fuze | David Mackenzie |
Short film
| Year | Title | Director |
| 1993 | Begin, and Cease | Peter M. Kershaw |
| 2017 | Tokyo Project | Richard Shepard |

### Television

| Year | Title | Director | Notes |
| 1993 | The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles | Deepa Mehta | Episode: "Benares, January 1910" |
| 1994 | Anna Lee | Peter Barber-Fleming | Episodes: "Stalker" and "Requiem" |
| 1995 | Claudia Schiffer - Close Up | Michael Schultz | |
| 1996 | Bodyguards | Robert Bierman Christopher King | 3 episodes |
| 1997 | Born to Run | Jean Stewart | |
| 2017 | Damnation | Adam Kane | Episode: "Sam Riley's Body" |
TV movies
| Year | Title | Director | Notes |
| 1995 | Attack of the Hawkmen | Ben Burtt | Part of The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles |
| 1996 | Travels with Father | Deepa Mehta Michael Schultz | Part of The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles |
| 1999 | Alice in Wonderland | Nick Willing | |
| 2016 | A Lot | Richard Shepard | |

## Awards and nominations

| Year | Award | Category | Title | Result |
| 2001 | Sundance Film Festival | Best Cinematography | The Deep End | Won |
| 2005 | Genie Awards | Best Cinematography | Water | Won |
| 2016 | BAFTA Awards | Best Cinematography | Hell or High Water | Nominated |