Alar Kivilo

Alar Kivilo (born 17 February 1953 in Montréal, Canada) is a Canadian-Estonian cinematographer.^[1]

Life and career

He has graduated from York University in Toronto, where he studied film.

In 1997, he moved to the USA.

He is an honorary member of the Estonian Society of Cinematographers.

Filmography

Short film

Year	Title	Director	Notes
1974	The Estonians: For the Record	Tiina Soomet
1981	The Olden Days Coat	Bruce Pittman	TV short
1983	Boys and Girls	Don McBrearty
1994	The Passion of John Ruskin	Alex Chapple
2013	Through Ice and Time	Himself	Also writer
2018	The Wedding Singer's Daughter	Haifaa al-Mansour

Feature film

Year	Title	Director
1986	Vincent Price's Dracula	John Muller
1988	Da	Matt Clark
1998	A Simple Plan	Sam Raimi
2000	Frequency	Gregory Hoblit
2001	The Glass House	Daniel Sackheim
2002	Hart's War	Gregory Hoblit
2005	Aurora Borealis	James C.E. Burke
	The Ice Harvest	Harold Ramis
2006	The Lake House	Alejandro Agresti
2007	The Lookout	Scott Frank
2009	Year One	Harold Ramis
	The Blind Side	John Lee Hancock
2011	Bad Teacher	Jake Kasdan
2012	The Lucky One	Scott Hicks
2016	The Choice	Ross Katz
	Fallen	Scott Hicks
2018	The Land of Steady Habits	Nicole Holofcener
	Nappily Ever After	Haifaa al-Mansour
2020	The Broken Hearts Gallery	Natalie Krinsky
2022	Space Oddity	Kyra Sedgwick

Television

TV movies

Year	Title	Director
1982	984: Prisoner of the Future	Tibor Takács
	David	Bruce Pittman
1983	Copper Mountain	David Mitchell
1994	Heads	Paul Shapiro
	Mary Silliman's War	Stephen Surjik
	Avalanche	Paul Shapiro
1995	Choices of the Heart: The Margaret Sanger Story
	Young at Heart	Allan Arkush
	Friends at Last	John David Coles
1996	Gotti	Robert Harmon
	The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault	Eriq La Salle
1997	Weapons of Mass Distraction	Stephen Surjik
1999	Deep in My Heart	Anita W. Addison
	Black and Blue	Paul Shapiro
2003	Normal	Jane Anderson
2004	NYPD 2069	Gregory Hoblit
2009	Taking Chance	Ross Katz
2017	Story of a Girl	Kyra Sedgwick

TV series

Year	Title	Director	Notes
1995	The Invaders	Paul Shapiro	Miniseries
2006	Windfall	David Semel	Episode "Pilot"

Awards

• 1995 Gemini Award nomination for "Heads"^[1]
• 1997 Emmy Award nomination for "Gotti"