Frederick Elmes
Camera
Born 1946-11-04
Mountain Lakes, New Jersey, USA
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Frederick Elmes, ASC (born November 4, 1946) is an American cinematographer, known for his association with the independent film movement. He is a long-time collaborator of directors David Lynch, Ang Lee, Charlie Kaufman, Jim Jarmusch, and Todd Solondz. He has won the Independent Spirit Award for Best Cinematography twice, for Wild at Heart (1990) and Night on Earth (1991), and a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Cinematography for a Limited Series for The Night Of (2016).
Born in Mountain Lakes, New Jersey, Elmes studied photography at the Rochester Institute of Technology and then attended the American Film Institute in Los Angeles, graduating in 1972. He enrolled in the Graduate Film Program at New York University's Department of Film and Television and graduated in 1975.
At the American Film Institute, Elmes met aspiring film director David Lynch, who hired him for Eraserhead (1977). Since then the two have collaborated on Blue Velvet (1986) and Wild at Heart (1990). Elmes is also a frequent collaborator with directors Ang Lee and Jim Jarmusch. Elmes has been a member of the American Society of Cinematographers since 1993.
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Filmography
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Other credits
48 credits
Hunters
Hulk
The Night Of
Blue Velvet
Bride Wars
Brothers
Eraserhead
Moonwalker
Wild at Heart
The Ice Storm
Olive Kitteridge
The Dead Don't Die
River's Edge
Father Mother Sister Brother
Synecdoche, New York
Night on Earth
Paterson
Broken Flowers
Valley Girl
Horns
Ride with the Devil
Kinsey
Trapped
Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold
Coffee and Cigarettes
The Namesake
Chain of Fools
Wilson
A Late Quartet
Aria
The Jesus Rolls
A Dog Year
Storytelling
Trial by Jury
Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet
The Saint of Fort Washington
Hollywood Mavericks
Permanent Record
Heaven
In the Gloaming
Street Scenes 1970
I Know Catherine, the Log Lady
Cold Dog Soup
Chosen
Coffee and Cigarettes III
The Cowboy and the Frenchman
The Amputee
Conspiracy: The Trial of the Chicago 8
Acting
16 credits
Dune
Eraserhead
Red Dawn
Real Genius
A Woman Under the Influence
Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
Modern Romance
Young Lady Chatterley
Mysteries of Love
Street Scenes 1970
I Know Catherine, the Log Lady
Visions of Light
Edge of Outside
Jonathan Ross Presents for One Week Only: David Lynch
Invasion of the Blood Farmers
Directing
1 credit
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