Gautier began working in the international film in the early 2000s, beginning with "The Motorcycle Diaries", for which he won the Independent Spirit Award for Best Cinematography and the 2004 Cannes Film Festival Technical Grand Prize, and was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Cinematography. After seeing "The Motorcycle Diaries", American actor/filmmaker Sean Penn approached Gautier to shoot the 2007 film "Into the Wild", for which he won a Lumière Award. He subsequently served as director of photography on the American films "Taking Woodstock" (2009) and "Grace of Monaco" (2014).