Emmanuel Lubezki

Emmanuel Lubezki
Emmanuel Lubezki
Born	Emmanuel Lubezki Morgenstern; November 30, 1964 (age 59); Mexico City, Mexico
Other names	Chivo
Alma mater	National Autonomous University of Mexico
Occupation	Cinematographer
Years active	1983–present
Organization(s)	Mexican Society of Cinematographers; American Society of Cinematographers
Awards	Full list

Emmanuel Lubezki Morgenstern (Spanish pronunciation: [emaˈnwel luˈβeski]; born November 30, 1964) is a Mexican cinematographer. He has worked with many acclaimed directors, including Mike Nichols, Tim Burton, Michael Mann, Joel and Ethan Coen, David O. Russell, and frequent collaborators Terrence Malick, Alfonso Cuarón, and Alejandro González Iñárritu.^[2]

Lubezki is known for groundbreaking uses of natural lighting and continuous uninterrupted shots in cinematography, often utilizing a Steadicam, a 3-axis gimbal, or hand-held camera to orchestrate fluid, uninterrupted camera movements during particularly significant scenes. Lubezki is a member of both the Mexican Society of Cinematographers and the American Society of Cinematographers. His work has been praised by audiences and critics alike, which earned him multiple awards, including eight Academy Award nominations for Best Cinematography. He won in this category three times, becoming the first person to do so in three consecutive years, for Gravity (2013), Birdman (2014), and The Revenant (2015).

Early life

Lubezki was born to a Jewish family in Mexico City, Mexico.^[2]^[3]^[4] His father was actor and producer Muni Lubezki.^[5] His paternal grandfather is Lithuanian Jewish while his grandmother is also Jewish, from Russia.^[6] Lubezki studied film at Mexico's Centro Universitario de Estudios Cinematográficos (CUEC), where he met Alfonso Cuarón.^[2]

Career

Lubezki began his career in Mexican film and television productions in the late 1980s. His first international production was the 1993 independent film Twenty Bucks, which followed the journey of a single twenty-dollar bill.

Lubezki is a frequent collaborator with fellow Mexican filmmaker Alfonso Cuarón. The two have been friends since they were teenagers and attended the same film school^[7] at the National Autonomous University of Mexico.^[1] Together they have worked on six motion pictures: Sólo Con Tu Pareja, A Little Princess, Great Expectations, Y Tu Mamá También, Children of Men, and Gravity. His work with Cuarón on Children of Men (2006) has received universal acclaim.^[8] The film utilized a number of new technologies and distinctive techniques. The "roadside ambush" scene was shot in one extended take utilizing a special camera rig invented by Doggicam systems, developed from the company's Power Slide system.^[9] For the scene, a vehicle was modified to enable seats to tilt and lower actors out of the way of the camera. The windshield of the car was designed to tilt out of the way to allow camera movement in and out through the front windscreen. A crew of four, including Lubezki, rode on the roof. Children of Men also features a seven-and-a-half-minute battle sequence composed of roughly five seamless edits.

Lubezki won his first Academy Award for Best Cinematography for his work on Cuarón's Gravity, a thriller set in outer space.^[10]^[11] The film was praised for the way it combined two shots through digital backgrounds of space to create the illusion of scenes done in a single shot.^[12] Lubezki won his second Academy Award for Best Cinematography in the following year for his work on Alejandro González Iñárritu's Birdman. The film used a similar technique from Gravity, being very unusual in the way the entire movie was shot so as to appear to be photographed in one continuous take.^[13] Lubezki won the award again in 2015 for Iñárritu's The Revenant, becoming a milestone for his third consecutive win and for being the first cinematographer to do so.^[14] The film was shot entirely in the wilderness during a cold season, minimizing the amount of CGI and using only natural lighting. It was an extremely difficult process that required a limited amount of time to shoot each scene, which delayed the production, causing budget overruns and changes of locations for proper settings. However, The Revenant earned over $500 million at the box office and received critical acclaim, with much praise for the film's atmospheric tone and realism.

Lubezki won the Royal Photographic Society Lumière Award for major achievement in cinematography, video or animation in 2016.

Filmography

Short film

Year	Title	Director	Notes
1983	Vengeance Is Mine	Alfonso Cuarón Carlos Marcovich Luis Estrada	Co-cinematographer with Cuaron
1985	Sera por eso que la quiero tanto	Carlos Marcovich
1988	Los buzos diamantistas	Marcela Couturier
1990	La muchacha	Dorotea Guerra
2002	From Mesmer, with Love or Tea for Two	Alejandro Lubezki Salvador Aguirre
2007	Anna	Alejandro González Iñárritu	Segment of To Each His Own Cinema
2017	Flesh and Sand	Alejandro González Iñárritu
2023	The Knowing Southern Right Whales	Himself	Documentary short

Feature film

Year	Title	Director	Notes
1990	Bandidos	Luis Estrada
1991	Sólo con tu pareja	Alfonso Cuarón
1992	Like Water for Chocolate	Alfonso Arau	With Steven Bernstein
1993	Twenty Bucks	Keva Rosenfeld
	Miroslava	Alejandro Pelayo
	The Harvest	David Marconi
1994	Reality Bites	Ben Stiller
1994	Ámbar	Luis Estrada
1995	A Little Princess	Alfonso Cuarón
1995	A Walk in the Clouds	Alfonso Arau
1996	The Birdcage	Mike Nichols
1998	Great Expectations	Alfonso Cuarón
1998	Meet Joe Black	Martin Brest
1999	Sleepy Hollow	Tim Burton
2000	Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her	Rodrigo García
2001	Ali	Michael Mann
2001	Y Tu Mamá También	Alfonso Cuarón
2003	The Cat in the Hat	Bo Welch
2004	The Assassination of Richard Nixon	Niels Mueller	Also credited as associate producer
2004	Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events	Brad Silberling
2005	The New World	Terrence Malick
2006	Children of Men	Alfonso Cuarón
2008	Burn After Reading	Coen brothers
2011	The Tree of Life	Terrence Malick
2012	To the Wonder	Terrence Malick
2013	Gravity	Alfonso Cuarón
2014	Birdman	Alejandro González Iñárritu
2015	Last Days in the Desert	Rodrigo García
	Knight of Cups	Terrence Malick
	The Revenant	Alejandro González Iñárritu
2017	Song to Song	Terrence Malick
2022	Amsterdam	David O. Russell

Television

Year	Title	Director	Notes
1989–90	La hora marcada	Alfonso Cuarón Luis Estrada Juan Mora Catlett	8 episodes; Also credited as producer
1990	El motel de la muerte	Luis Estrada Jorge Prior	TV movie; With Alfonso Cuarón, Guillermo Granillo and Antonio Ruiz
1993	Fallen Angels	Steven Soderbergh Alfonso Cuarón	Episodes "The Quiet Room" and "Murder Obliquely"
2024	Disclaimer	Alfonso Cuarón	Miniseries; With Bruno Delbonnel, also credited as executive producer

TV shorts

Year	Title	Director	Notes
2010	Write the Future	Alejandro González Iñárritu
2010	Dick Tracy Special	Warren Beatty Chris Merrill	With Stephanie Martin

Other credits

Short film

Year	Title	Director	Producer	Writer	Editor
1985	Ejercicio de 20 año	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
1986	Marlena en la pared	Yes	No	No	No
2007	Lección relámpago	No	Co-producer	No	No

Documentary short

Year	Title	Director	Producer	Editor
1990	Caifanes	Yes	Yes	Yes
2023	The Knowing Southern Right Whales	Yes	No	No

Film producer

Camino largo a Tijuana (1988)
El ingeniero (2012) (Documentary film)

Awards and nominations

References

^ ^a ^b "Emmanuel Lubezki". Internet Encyclopedia of Cinematographers. Archived from the original on June 10, 2011. Retrieved 2019-11-10.
^ ^a ^b ^c Grabinsky, Alan (February 24, 2016). "Mexican Cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki Hits His Stride". Tablet. Retrieved March 4, 2016.
^ Rogers, Pauline B. (2015). Contemporary Cinematographers on Their Art. CRC Press. ISBN 978-1136045783.
^ Bloom, Nate (February 25, 2016). "The tribe at the Oscars, 2016". Jewish Standard.
^ Erazo, Vanessa (25 February 2014). "6 Things You Probably Didn't Know About Mexican Oscar Nominee Emmanuel Lubezki". Remezcla. Retrieved March 4, 2016.
^ "6 Things You Probably Didn't Know About Mexican Oscar Nominee Emmanuel Lubezki". Remezcla. 25 February 2014.
^ "Cuaron, Lubezki Talk Mistakes, Long Takes and How Peter Gabriel Made 'Gravity' Possible". Variety. February 13, 2014. Retrieved April 25, 2014.
^ "Children of Men". Metacritic. Retrieved 2009-08-05.
^ "Two Axis Dolly". Doggicam Systems. Archived from the original on 2007-09-27. Retrieved 2007-01-24.
^ Corliss, Richard (2013-08-28). "Gravity at the Venice Film Festival: Dread and Awe in Space". Time. Retrieved 20 November 2013.
^ Scott, A.O. (2013-10-03). "Between Earth and Heaven". The New York Times. Retrieved 20 November 2013.
^ "Emmanuel Lubezki, DP of 'Gravity', Expounds on Cinematography in the Virtual Age". nofilmschool.com. October 8, 2013. Retrieved November 22, 2015.
^ Giardina, Carolyn (December 30, 2014). "Oscars: 'Birdman' Cinematographer Reveals Secrets Behind Movie's Ingenious "Single Shot" Look". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved November 22, 2015.
^ "Alejandro Innaritu Wins Best Director Oscar For The Revenant". Deadline. February 28, 2016. Retrieved March 4, 2016.

External links

[Emmanuel_Lubezki-1] "Emmanuel Lubezki". Internet Encyclopedia of Cinematographers. Archived from the original on June 10, 2011. Retrieved 2019-11-10.

[Grabinsky-2] Grabinsky, Alan (February 24, 2016). "Mexican Cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki Hits His Stride". Tablet. Retrieved March 4, 2016.

[3] Rogers, Pauline B. (2015). Contemporary Cinematographers on Their Art. CRC Press. ISBN 978-1136045783.

[TimesTribe-4] Bloom, Nate (February 25, 2016). "The tribe at the Oscars, 2016". Jewish Standard.

[5] Erazo, Vanessa (25 February 2014). "6 Things You Probably Didn't Know About Mexican Oscar Nominee Emmanuel Lubezki". Remezcla. Retrieved March 4, 2016.

[6] "6 Things You Probably Didn't Know About Mexican Oscar Nominee Emmanuel Lubezki". Remezcla. 25 February 2014.

[7] "Cuaron, Lubezki Talk Mistakes, Long Takes and How Peter Gabriel Made 'Gravity' Possible". Variety. February 13, 2014. Retrieved April 25, 2014.

[8] "Children of Men". Metacritic. Retrieved 2009-08-05.

[DoggicamSystems-9] "Two Axis Dolly". Doggicam Systems. Archived from the original on 2007-09-27. Retrieved 2007-01-24.

[gravity_time-10] Corliss, Richard (2013-08-28). "Gravity at the Venice Film Festival: Dread and Awe in Space". Time. Retrieved 20 November 2013.

[gravity_nytimes-11] Scott, A.O. (2013-10-03). "Between Earth and Heaven". The New York Times. Retrieved 20 November 2013.

[12] "Emmanuel Lubezki, DP of 'Gravity', Expounds on Cinematography in the Virtual Age". nofilmschool.com. October 8, 2013. Retrieved November 22, 2015.

[13] Giardina, Carolyn (December 30, 2014). "Oscars: 'Birdman' Cinematographer Reveals Secrets Behind Movie's Ingenious "Single Shot" Look". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved November 22, 2015.

[14] "Alejandro Innaritu Wins Best Director Oscar For The Revenant". Deadline. February 28, 2016. Retrieved March 4, 2016.

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Emmanuel Lubezki

Early life

Career

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Short film

Feature film

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Other credits

Awards and nominations

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