Matthew F. Leonetti

Matthew "Matt" Frank Leonetti, Sr., is an American cinematographer who was Director of Photography on and for director Jonathan Frakes. 
Leonetti was unfamiliar with Star Trek before he was hired for First Contact, so watched and the other films after. (American Cinematographer, Volume 77, Issues 7-12)
His father, Frank Leonetti, worked as a lighting technician at MGM Studios. His brother, John Robert Leonetti, is a director and cinematographer. Educated at in Chicago, Illinois and having served in the US Army, Matthew Leonetti has been working in the film industry for nearly four decades. He started out as a camera assistant on the Robert Scheerer-directed drama Adam at Six A.M. (featuring Richard Derr) and as a photographer on TV commercials.
Leonetti's first work as a cinematographer was the 1974 horror film, The Bat People (starring Stewart Moss, Michael Pataki, and Paul Carr), for which Leonetti also served as executive producer. Throughout the remainder of the 1970s, he worked as a cinematographer on a large number of made-for-TV movies and a few feature films, including (1979, starred Dennis Christopher and Paul Dooley).
In 1981, Leonetti directed photography on and , both of which became box office hits during their release the following year. The first film featured stuntman Allan Graf and music by Jerry Goldsmith, the latter featured four alumni in the cast: Ray Walston, Vincent Schiavelli, Scott Thomson and Hallie Todd. Leonetti's subsequent film credits in the 1980s included (1985, starring Wil Wheaton), (1985, featuring Michael Berryman), (1985, featuring Michael Dorn and Biff Yeager), (1985, featuring Branscombe Richmond and music by James Horner), (1986, starring Whoopi Goldberg and Stephen Collins, featuring Carol Kane and Michael McKean), and (1987, featuring Christopher Plummer, Bruce Gray and Meg Wyllie).
Leonetti was Director of Photography on four films for director : (1987, which featured Clancy Brown and Tommy "Tiny" Lister, Jr. and music by Jerry Goldsmith), (1988, featuring Ed O'Ross, Allan Graf, Michael G. Hagerty, and Joel Kramer, and music by James Horner), (1989, with Allan Graf), and Paramount Pictures' (1990, starring Eddie Murphy and featuring Bernie Casey, David Anthony Marshall, Ed O'Ross, Page Leong, Rex Pierson, Victor Brandt, Allan Graf, Biff Yeager, Benjamin W.S. Lum, Shauna O'Brien and Kevin Tighe in supporting roles, stunts by Patricia Tallman and a musical score by James Horner). 
Leonetti was also cinematographer on (1990, starring William Sadler and Branscombe Richmond. Throughout the rest of the 1990s, Leonetti was the cinematographer on (1994, featuring Christopher Lloyd and Neal McDonough), (1994, featuring Salli Elise Richardson, Michael Bofshever and Gregory Sierra), (1995, produced by Steven-Charles Jaffe, (1996, featuring Robert Hooks and Ken Jenkins), (1997, starring Brian Thompson and Musetta Vander), which was directed by his brother, and (1998, featuring James Cromwell). 
More recently, Leonetti's films have included Paramount's (2001, featuring Anton Yelchin and music by Jerry Goldsmith), (2001, featuring Harris Yulin and Saul Rubinek), (2003, co-edited by Dallas Puett), (2004, edited by Peter Amundson), and (2004, featuring Matt Frewer and Lindy Booth). He later directed photography on (2005, featuring Willie Garson, Jack Kehler, and James B. Sikking) and (2007). 
Leonetti has since worked on (2008, with Michelle Krusiec), (2008), (2011), (2012) and (2013). 
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