Seamus McGarvey, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Seamus McGarvey

Irish cinematographer

Date of Birth: 29-Jun-1967

Place of Birth: Armagh, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

Profession: cinematographer

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Seamus McGarvey, ASC, BSC (born 29 June 1967) is a cinematographer from Armagh, Northern Ireland. He lives between Tuscany, Italy and hannas, Sweden and Edinburgh, Scotland He has received two Academy Award nominations for his cinematography, on Joe Wright's 2007 drama Atonement and his 2012 adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's novel Anna Karenina. In addition to the Oscar nominations, McGarvey won the British Society of Cinematographers (B.S.C.) award for Anna Karenina, as well as a nomination for Atonement, and earned BAFTA and A.S.C.
nods for both projects.
Atonement earned him nominations for the British Independent Film Award, the Chicago Film Critics Association and the Online Film Critics Society, and he received the top honor from the Phoenix Film Critics Society. McGarvey has won three Evening Standard British Film Awards for Atonement, Anna Karenina and Stephen Daldry's The Hours and Irish Film & Television Awards for Atonement, Anna Karenina, Sahara and We Need to Talk About Kevin.
In 2004, he was awarded the Royal Photographic Society's prestigious Lumiere Medal, with Jack Cardiff, Freddie Francis, Roger Deakins and Ridley Scott, for contributions to the art of cinematography.