Sean Bobbitt

Sean Bobbitt is a renowned British Cinematographer born in Corpus Christi, Texas, USA, on 29th November 1958. Sean is best known for his work in “12 Years a Slave”, for which he won multiple awards and got the Best Picture award at the 2014 Oscars. He has completed his education at St. George’s College, Weybridge. He always wanted to be in film, so he started his work as a news and documentary cameraman in the early eighties. He covered a lot of events from the Lebanon War to The Troubles. In the mid-nineties, he left the tv and started working on Tv documentaries till 1999. For his uniqueness and aesthetic work in the year 1999, he got a chance to work with Director Michael Winterbottom in the movie Wonderland which gave him great recognition.

With time his work started catching the eyes of many famous directors like Dreck Cianfrance, Neil Jordan, Spike Lee Spike Lee also known as Shelton Jackson is an Amer >> Read More... , Berry Levinson, and Steve McQueen Terence Steven McQueen was born in Indiana and had >> Read More... . With Mr. McQueen, he worked on various projects like Charlotte (2004), Gravesend (2007), Static and Giardini (2009). Mr. Bobbitt worked on the British movie Hunger with Director Steve McQueen, this movie is based on a Northern Irish hunger strike. For Hunger, He won BIFA in 2008. He also won the Carlo Di Palma European Cinematographer of the Year award for Shame in 2012. His work is also seen in Game of Thrones. Apart from this, he got many more awards he got for his talent and hard work, including an Emmy nomination for his work on the miniseries Sense and Sensibility (2008), and three nominations from BAFTA for 12 Years a Slave. Sean has been getting recognition for his work since the start of his career.