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Chris Menges BSC, ASC (born 15 September 1940) is a British cinematographer and film director. He is a member of both the American and British Societies of Cinematographers.

Chris Menges
Born	(1940-09-15) 15 September 1940 (age 82) Kington, Herefordshire, England

Life and career

Menges was born in Kington, Herefordshire, the son of the composer and conductor Herbert Menges.[1] He began his career in the 1960s as camera operator for documentaries by Adrian Cowell and for films like Poor Cow by Ken Loach and If.... by Lindsay Anderson. Kes, directed by Ken Loach, was his first film as cinematographer. He was also behind the camera on Stephen Frears' first feature film Gumshoe in 1971.

After several documentaries and feature films like Black Beauty (1971), Bloody Kids (1978), The Game Keeper (1980), Babylon (1980) and Angel (1982) he became notable for more ambitious works for which he was critically acclaimed.

In 1983 he received his first BAFTA nomination for the Bill Forsyth film Local Hero and only a year later won his first Academy Award for the film The Killing Fields about the genocide in Cambodia. He continued his work with helmer Roland Joffe and he won his second Oscar in 1986 with the historical drama The Mission. He also shot a television play titled "Made in Britain", starring Tim Roth in 1983.

In 1988 he made his directorial debut with A World Apart. This film was celebrated at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival and won three major awards.[2]

His second film as director CrissCross with Goldie Hawn received critical acclaim but was a box-office flop. In 1996 he moved back behind the camera to shoot the award winning films The Boxer (directed by Jim Sheridan) and Michael Collins. For the latter he received his third Academy Award nomination in 1997.

Menges also made documentaries. In the early 1970s, he went to Burma with British film maker Adrian Cowell to shoot The Opium Warlords, a film about the drug trade. After the release of the documentary in 1974 the Burmese government was said to have put a price on their heads. He is mentioned in the book Conversations with Cinematographers by David A. Ellis, published by Scarecrow Press.

Filmography

Film (as cinematographer)

Key

Denotes films that have not yet been released

Year	Title	Director	Notes
1969	Kes	Ken Loach
1971	Black Beauty	James Hill
1971	Gumshoe	Stephen Frears
1979	Black Jack	Ken Loach
1980	The Gamekeeper
1980	Babylon	Franco Rosso
1981	Looks and Smiles	Ken Loach
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 – ASC Award for Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography 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 – ASC Award for Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography 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 – ASC Award for Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography
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 Country	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 – ASC Award for Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography
	Stop-Loss	Kimberly Peirce
	The Yellow Handkerchief	Udayan Prasad
2010	Route Irish	Ken Loach
	London Boulevard	William Monahan
2011	Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close	Stephen Daldry
2019	Waiting for the Barbarians	Ciro Guerra

As director

• 1988: A World Apart
• 1992: CrissCross
• 1994: Second Best
• 1999: The Lost Son

References

External links

• Chris Menges at Screenonline
• Biography
• Chris Menges at IMDb

На других языках

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[de] Chris Menges

Chris Menges (* 15. September 1940 in Kington, Herefordshire, England) ist ein britischer Kameramann und Filmregisseur und Mitglied der British Society of Cinematographers.

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- [en] Chris Menges

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[ru] Менгес, Крис

Крис Менгес (англ. Chris Menges, род. 15 сентября 1940, Кингтон, Херефордшир, Англия) — британский кинооператор и режиссёр. Двукратный лауреат премии Оскар и премии BAFTA за операторскую работу.

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