Anthony Dod Mantle

Anthony Dod Mantle
Anthony Dod Mantle in May 2008
Born (1955-04-14) 14 April 1955 (age 69)
Witney, Oxfordshire, U.K.
Alma materNational Film School of Denmark
Years active1990–present
WebsiteOfficial website

Anthony Dod Mantle, DFF, BSC, ASC (born 14 April 1955) is a British cinematographer and still photographer.

He won the Academy Award and BAFTA Award for Best Cinematography for Slumdog Millionaire (2008). Other accolades include two Bodil Awards, two European Film Awards, and four Robert Awards.

Dod Mantle is considered a pioneer of digital filmmaking through his collaborations with directors Lars von Trier, Thomas Vinterberg and Danny Boyle, where he popularized the use of "action-style" handheld cameras over traditional, stationary 35mm rigs.[1] A veteran of Dogme 95, he is heavily influenced by the cinéma vérité film movement.[2] He is a member of the British, Danish, and American Society of Cinematographers, and resides in Copenhagen.[3]

Career

Dod Mantle directed photography on three Dogme 95 films and the first two episodes of Wallander. He used the Red One digital camera on Wallander, the first British television production to do so.[4] He won the British Academy Television Craft Award for Photography & Lighting (Fiction/Entertainment) for his work on the series[5] and was nominated for a RTS Craft & Design Award for Lighting, Photography & Camera—Photography—Drama.[6] He was also cinematographer on Slumdog Millionaire (Danny Boyle, 2008), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography in 2009. Dod Mantle is included in the book Conversations with Cinematographers by David A Ellis.

On 19 November 2016, during the Camerimage festival, Anthony Dod Mantle received the Brown Frog award for his cinematography on Snowden.[7][8]

Dod Mantle lives with his family in Copenhagen, Denmark.[4]

Style and technique

Dod Mantle helped pioneer the use of digital cinematography with his early use of home-quality DV in The Celebration, and eventually won an Academy Award for Best Cinematography for his work on Slumdog Millionaire, the first time that award went to a film shot digitally.[9]

Dod Mantle has also experimented with extreme slow motion with high speed cameras in films like Antichrist and Dredd.[10]

Filmography

Film

Year Title Director Notes
1990 Kaj's fødselsdag Lone Scherfig With Kim Hattesen
1992 Die Terroristen! Philip Gröning
1995 Menneskedyret Carsten Rudolf
Operation Cobra Lasse Spang Olsen
1996 The Biggest Heroes Thomas Vinterberg
1997 Det store flip Niels Gråbøl
Nonnebørn Cæcilia Holbek Trier
1998 The Celebration Thomas Vinterberg
1999 Mifune Søren Kragh-Jacobsen
Bornholms stemme Lotte Svendsen
Julien Donkey-Boy Harmony Korine
2002 28 Days Later Danny Boyle
2003 It's All About Love Thomas Vinterberg
Dogville Lars von Trier
2004 Millions Danny Boyle
2005 Dear Wendy Thomas Vinterberg
Manderlay Lars von Trier
Brothers of the Head Keith Fulton
Louis Pepe
2006 The Last King of Scotland Kevin Macdonald
Istedgade Birgitte Stærmose
2007 Just like Home Lone Scherfig
A Man Comes Home Thomas Vinterberg
2008 My Black Little Heart Claire Angelique
Country Wedding Valdís Óskarsdóttir
Slumdog Millionaire Danny Boyle
2009 Antichrist Lars von Trier
2010 127 Hours Danny Boyle With Enrique Chediak
2011 The Eagle Kevin MacDonald
2012 Dredd Pete Travis
2013 Trance Danny Boyle
Rush Ron Howard
2015 In the Heart of the Sea
2016 Our Kind of Traitor Susanna White
Snowden Oliver Stone
2017 T2 Trainspotting Danny Boyle
First They Killed My Father Angelina Jolie
2018 Kursk Thomas Vinterberg
2019 Radioactive Marjane Satrapi
Gutterbee Ulrich Thomsen
2024 My Penguin Friend David Schurmann
2025 28 Years Later † Danny Boyle Post-production
TBA Animal Within † Agnieszka Lukasiak

Television

TV movies

Year Title Director
1999 En verdensomsejling under bordet Maria Walbom
2000 D-dag Søren Kragh-Jacobsen
Kristian Levring
Thomas Vinterberg
2001 Strumpet Danny Boyle
Vacuuming Completely Nude in Paradise

TV series

Year Title Director Notes
2008 Wallander Philip Martin 2 episodes
2017 The Putin Interviews Oliver Stone Documentary series;
With Rodrigo Prieto
2020 The Undoing Susanne Bier Miniseries
2022 Pistol Danny Boyle

Awards and nominations

Academy Awards

Year Title Category Result
2008 Slumdog Millionaire Best Cinematography Won

BAFTA Awards

Year Title Category Result
2008 Slumdog Millionaire Best Cinematography Won
2010 127 Hours Nominated

European Film Awards

Year Title Category Result
2002 28 Days Later Best Cinematographer Won
2003 Dogville Won
2005 Manderlay Nominated
2006 The Last King of Scotland Nominated
2008 Slumdog Millionaire Won
2009 Antichrist

Independent Spirit Awards

Year Title Category Result
1999 Julien Donkey-Boy Best Cinematography Nominated
2005 Brothers of the Head Nominated

Online Film Critics Society

Year Title Category Result
2008 Slumdog Millionaire Best Cinematography Nominated
2010 127 Hours Nominated

San Diego Film Critics Society

Year Title Category Result
2008 Slumdog Millionaire Best Cinematography Won
2010 127 Hours Nominated

Other awards

Year Title Award Result
2008 Slumdog Millionaire National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Cinematography Won
New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Cinematography Won
2010 127 Hours[11] Satellite Award for Best Cinematography Nominated

References

  1. ^ "Anthony Dod Mantle".
  2. ^ "Interview: Anthony Dod Mantle". 20 January 2017.
  3. ^ "Anthony Dod Mantle: Profile". 12 October 2012.
  4. ^ a b Strauss, Will (13 May 2008), "Anthony Dod Mantle interview". Broadcast (EMAP). Retrieved on 18 September 2008.
  5. ^ "Television Craft Nominations 2009". British Academy of Film and Television Arts. Retrieved on 18 May 2009.
  6. ^ "RTS Craft & Design Winners 2009 Archived 2009-11-29 at the Wayback Machine". Royal Television Society. Retrieved on 24 November 2009.
  7. ^ "Camerimage 2016 Winners!". www.camerimage.pl. Camerimage – International Film Festival. 19 November 2016. Archived from the original on 20 November 2016. Retrieved 2016-11-20.
  8. ^ Tizard, Will (19 November 2016). "'Lion' Cinematographer Greig Fraser Wins Camerimage's Golden Frog". variety.com. Variety Media, LLC / Penske Business Media, LLC. Retrieved 2016-11-20.
  9. ^ Frazer, Bryant (7 October 2010). "10 High Points in Digital Cinematography". Studio Daily. Retrieved 18 June 2018.
  10. ^ LionsgateVOD (15 January 2013). "Dredd: Slo-Mo Featurette". YouTube. Archived from the original on 2021-12-21. Retrieved 18 June 2018.
  11. ^ Prince, Ron (March 30, 2011). "Camera Creative: Anthony Dod Mantle". The British Society of Cinematographers. Retrieved May 21, 2011.