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Robert Richardson

Born August 27, 1955 · Hyannis, Massachusetts, USA (age 71)

Robert Bridge Richardson, ASC (born August 27, 1955) is an American cinematographer. Having collaborated with prestigious filmmakers like Oliver Stone, Martin Scorsese, and Quentin Tarantino, he's known for his trademark aggressively bright highlights and for exploring a variety of visual styles, both with film and digital cameras. He is one of three people living here who have won the Academy A…

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Django Unchained

Django Unchained · 2012

Django Unchained

MovieDramaWestern

With the help of a German bounty hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner.

Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood

Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood · 2019

Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood

MovieComedyDrama

Los Angeles, 1969. TV star Rick Dalton, a struggling actor specializing in westerns, and stuntman Cliff Booth, his best friend, try to survive in a constantly changing movie industry. Dalton is the neighbor of the young and promising actress and model Sharon Tate, who has just married the prestigious Polish director Roman Polanski…

Inglourious Basterds

Inglourious Basterds · 2009

Inglourious Basterds

MovieDramaThriller

In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The Basterds" are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The Basterds, lead by Lt. Aldo Raine soon cross paths with a French-Jewish teenage girl who runs a movie theater in Paris which is targeted by the soldiers.

Venom: Let There Be Carnage

Venom: Let There Be Carnage · 2021

Venom: Let There Be Carnage

MovieScience FictionAction

After finding a host body in investigative reporter Eddie Brock, the alien symbiote must face a new enemy, Carnage, the alter ego of serial killer Cletus Kasady.

Shutter Island

Shutter Island · 2010

MovieDramaThriller

World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by troubling visions and a mysterious doctor.

The Hateful Eight

The Hateful Eight · 2015

The Hateful Eight

MovieDramaMystery

Bounty hunters seek shelter from a raging blizzard and get caught up in a plot of betrayal and deception.

The Equalizer 3

The Equalizer 3 · 2023

The Equalizer 3

MovieActionThriller

Robert McCall finds himself at home in Southern Italy but he discovers his friends are under the control of local crime bosses. As events turn deadly, McCall knows what he has to do: become his friends' protector by taking on the mafia.

Kill Bill: Vol. 1

Kill Bill: Vol. 1 · 2003

Kill Bill: Vol. 1

MovieActionCrime

An assassin is shot by her ruthless employer, Bill, and other members of their assassination circle – but she lives to plot her vengeance.

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Django Unchained

Django Unchained · 2012

Django Unchained

MovieDramaWestern

With the help of a German bounty hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner.

Director of Photography

Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood

Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood · 2019

Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood

MovieComedyDrama

Los Angeles, 1969. TV star Rick Dalton, a struggling actor specializing in westerns, and stuntman Cliff Booth, his best friend, try to survive in a constantly changing movie industry. Dalton is the neighbor of the young and promising actress and model Sharon Tate, who has just married the prestigious Polish director Roman Polanski…

Director of Photography

Inglourious Basterds

Inglourious Basterds · 2009

Inglourious Basterds

MovieDramaThriller

In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The Basterds" are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The Basterds, lead by Lt. Aldo Raine soon cross paths with a French-Jewish teenage girl who runs a movie theater in Paris which is targeted by the soldiers.

Director of Photography

Venom: Let There Be Carnage

Venom: Let There Be Carnage · 2021

Venom: Let There Be Carnage

MovieScience FictionAction

After finding a host body in investigative reporter Eddie Brock, the alien symbiote must face a new enemy, Carnage, the alter ego of serial killer Cletus Kasady.

Director of Photography

Shutter Island

Shutter Island · 2010

MovieDramaThriller

World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by troubling visions and a mysterious doctor.

Director of Photography

The Hateful Eight

The Hateful Eight · 2015

The Hateful Eight

MovieDramaMystery

Bounty hunters seek shelter from a raging blizzard and get caught up in a plot of betrayal and deception.

Director of Photography

The Equalizer 3

The Equalizer 3 · 2023

The Equalizer 3

MovieActionThriller

Robert McCall finds himself at home in Southern Italy but he discovers his friends are under the control of local crime bosses. As events turn deadly, McCall knows what he has to do: become his friends' protector by taking on the mafia.

Director of Photography

Kill Bill: Vol. 1

Kill Bill: Vol. 1 · 2003

Kill Bill: Vol. 1

MovieActionCrime

An assassin is shot by her ruthless employer, Bill, and other members of their assassination circle – but she lives to plot her vengeance.

Director of Photography

Kill Bill: Vol. 2

Kill Bill: Vol. 2 · 2004

Kill Bill: Vol. 2

MovieActionCrime

The Bride unwaveringly continues on her roaring rampage of revenge against the band of assassins who had tried to kill her and her unborn child. She visits each of her former associates one-by-one, checking off the victims on her Death List Five until there's nothing left to do … but kill Bill.

Director of Photography

Gravity

Gravity · 2013

MovieScience FictionThriller

Dr Ryan Stone, an engineer on her first space mission, and Matt Kowalski, an astronaut on his final expedition, have to survive in space after they are hit by debris while spacewalking.

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Natural Born Killers

Natural Born Killers · 1994

Natural Born Killers

MovieCrimeThriller

Two victims of traumatized childhoods become lovers and serial murderers irresponsibly glorified by the mass media.

Director of Photography

The Aviator

The Aviator · 2004

A biopic depicting the life of filmmaker and aviation pioneer Howard Hughes from 1927 to 1947, during which time he became a successful film producer and an aviation magnate, while simultaneously growing more unstable due to severe obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Director of Photography

Platoon

Platoon · 1986

As a young and naive recruit in Vietnam, Chris Taylor faces a moral crisis when confronted with the horrors of war and the duality of man.

Director of Photography

A Few Good Men

A Few Good Men · 1992

When cocky military lawyer Lt. Daniel Kaffee and his co-counsel, Lt. Cmdr. JoAnne Galloway, are assigned to a murder case, they uncover a hazing ritual that could implicate high-ranking officials such as shady Col. Nathan Jessep.

Director of Photography

Eat Pray Love

Eat Pray Love · 2010

MovieDramaRomance

A married woman realizes how unhappy her marriage really is, and that her life needs to go in a different direction. After a painful divorce, she takes off on a round-the-world journey to "find herself".

Director of Photography

Air

MovieDramaHistory

Discover the game-changing partnership between a then undiscovered Michael Jordan and Nike's fledgling basketball division which revolutionized the world of sports and culture with the Air Jordan brand.

Director of Photography

Live by Night

Live by Night · 2016

MovieCrimeDrama

A group of Boston-bred gangsters set up shop in balmy Florida during the Prohibition era, facing off against the competition and the Ku Klux Klan.

Director of Photography

Born on the Fourth of July

Born on the Fourth of July · 1989

Born on the Fourth of July

Paralyzed in the Vietnam war, Ron Kovic becomes an anti-war and pro-human rights political activist after feeling betrayed by the country he fought for.

Director of Photography

Casino

MovieCrimeDrama

In Las Vegas, two best friends-a casino executive and a Mafia enforcer--compete for a gambling empire and a fast-living, fast-loving socialite.

Director of Photography

Wall Street

Wall Street · 1987

MovieCrimeDrama

A young and impatient stockbroker is willing to do anything to get to the top, including trading on illegal inside information taken through a ruthless and greedy corporate raider, who takes the youth under his wing.

Director of Photography

Adrift

MovieThrillerRomance

Tami Oldham and Richard Sharp couldn't anticipate that they would be sailing directly into one of the most catastrophic hurricanes in recorded history. In the aftermath of the storm, Tami awakens to find Richard badly injured and their boat in ruins. With no hope of rescue, Tami must now find the strength and determination to save herself and the only man she has ever loved.

Director of Photography

The Good Shepherd

The Good Shepherd · 2006

The Good Shepherd

MovieDramaThriller

Edward Wilson, the only witness to his father's suicide and member of the Skull and Bones Society while a student at Yale, is a morally upright young man who values honor and discretion, qualities that help him to be recruited for a career in the newly founded OSS. His dedication to his work does not come without a price though, leading him to sacrifice his ideals and eventually his family.

Director of Photography

Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair

Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair · 2011

Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair

MovieActionCrime

A former assassin, known simply as The Bride, wakes from a coma four years after her jealous ex-lover Bill attempts to murder her on her wedding day. Fueled by an insatiable desire for revenge, she vows to get even with every person who contributed to the loss of her unborn child, her entire wedding party, and four years of her life. After devising a hit list, The Bride sets off on her quest, enduring unspeakable injury and unscrupulous enemies.

Director of Photography

Emancipation

Emancipation · 2022

Inspired by the gripping true story of a man who would do anything for his family—and for freedom. When Peter, an enslaved man, risks his life to escape and return to his family, he embarks on a perilous journey of love and endurance.

Director of Photography

George Harrison: Living in the Material World

George Harrison: Living in the Material World · 2011

George Harrison: Living in the Material World

SeriesDocumentary

He was part of the most famous rock-'n'-roll quartet in history. But George Harrison was much more than just a member of The Beatles.

Director of Photography

The Hateful Eight

The Hateful Eight · 2019

The Hateful Eight

The re-edited, extended, serialized cut of Quentin Tarantino's 2015 Western. Some years after the Civil War, bounty hunter John Ruth (Kurt Russell) escorts fugitive Daisy Domergue (Jennifer Jason Leigh) to face justice in the town of Red Rock. As a blizzard closes in, they seek refuge at Minnie's Haberdashery, a stagecoach stopover on a mountain pass, but on arrival they are greeted not by the proprietor but by unfamiliar faces. And as the storm overtakes the mountainside stopover, the travelers realize they may not make it to Red Rock after all…

Director of Photography

JFK: Destiny Betrayed

JFK: Destiny Betrayed · 2021

JFK: Destiny Betrayed

SeriesDocumentaryWar & Politics

Thirty years after the release of his film JFK (1991), filmmaker Oliver Stone reviews recently declassified evidence related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, which took place in Dallas on November 22, 1963.

Director of Photography