Frederick Elmes
Camera
Born November 4, 1946 in Mountain Lakes, New Jersey, USA
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.
Filmography
I Know Catherine, the Log Lady
Self
Father Mother Sister Brother
Hunters
The Jesus Rolls
The Dead Don't Die
Hair
Wilson
Paterson
The Night Of
Olive Kitteridge
Horns
A Late Quartet
Brothers
A Dog Year
Bride Wars
Synecdoche, New York
The Namesake
Edge of Outside
Self
Broken Flowers
Love, Death, Elvis & Oz: The Making of Wild at Heart
Kinsey
Coffee and Cigarettes
Hulk
Trapped
Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet
Mysteries of Love
Self
Storytelling
Chain of Fools
Chosen
Ride with the Devil
The Wedding
The Ice Storm
In the Gloaming
Coffee and Cigarettes III
Reckless
Trial by Jury
The Saint of Fort Washington
Visions of Light
Self
Night on Earth
Jonathan Ross Presents for One Week Only: David Lynch
Self
Hollywood Mavericks
Cold Dog Soup
Wild at Heart
Moonwalker
The Cowboy and the Frenchman
Permanent Record
Aria
Conspiracy: The Trial of the Chicago 8
Heaven
Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold
River's Edge
Blue Velvet
Real Genius
Broken Rainbow
Dune
Red Dawn
Valley Girl
Modern Romance
Eraserhead
Young Lady Chatterley
In the Region of Ice
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
A Woman Under the Influence
The Amputee
Invasion of the Blood Farmers
Street Scenes 1970