Giles Nuttgens

Giles Nuttgens

Director

UK
July 12, 1961

Biography

Giles Nuttgens (born 1960), BSC is a British cinematographer, perhaps best known for the 2016 film Hell or High Water, for which he received a 2017 BAFTA nomination and 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Giles Nuttgens, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Representative Works

Just Play Dead
Just Play Dead
6.0
/ English
Fuze
Fuze
7.1
/ English
Hell or High Water
Hell or High Water
7.3
/ English
Enola Holmes
Enola Holmes
7.2
/ English
Enola Holmes 2
Enola Holmes 2
7.4
/ English
Relay
Relay
7.0
/ English
Battlefield Earth
Battlefield Earth
3.3
/ English
The Friend
The Friend
6.7
/ English
Perfect Sense
Perfect Sense
6.9
/ English
Young Adam
Young Adam
5.9
/ English

Awards and Honors

Critical Favorites

Just Play Dead
2026Nominee

Best Director

Just Play Dead

Fuze
2026Nominee

Best Director

Fuze

Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
1999Nominee

Best Director

Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace

Career Highlights

Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
2005Highlight

Career Highlight

Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith

Hell or High Water
2016Highlight

Best Director

Hell or High Water

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