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Anthony Dod Mantle
British cinematographer From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Anthony Dod Mantle, DFF, BSC, ASC (born 14 April 1955) is an English cinematographer. He became a pioneer of digital filmmaking[1] through his collaborations with directors Lars von Trier, Thomas Vinterberg, Danny Boyle, and Kevin Macdonald.[2] He won the Academy Award and BAFTA Award for Best Cinematography for Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire (2008), the first digitally-shot film to win an Oscar.[3]
His notable credits include The Celebration (1998), Julien Donkey-Boy (1999), 28 Days Later (2002) and its sequel 28 Years Later (2025), Dogville (2003), The Last King of Scotland (2006), Slumdog Millionaire (2008), Antichrist (2009), 127 Hours (2010), Dredd (2012), Rush (2013), Snowden (2016), and T2 Trainspotting (2017). During the 1990s, he was a figure in the Dogme 95 movement.[4]
In addition to his Oscar and BAFTA, his other accolades include two Bodil Awards, four Robert Awards, and two European Film Awards.
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Early life
Dod Mantle was born to Scottish parents in Witney, Oxfordshire in 1955. He was partly raised in India, where he developed an interest in photography.[5] He studied photography at the London College of Communication,[5] before enrolling in the National Film School of Denmark in 1985.[6]
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Dod Mantle directed photography on three Dogme 95 films.[4] He established a notable collaboration with director Thomas Vinterberg, winning a Robert Award for Best Cinematography for 1998's The Celebration. In 1999, he shot Harmony Korine's Julien Donkey-Boy, the first Dogme 95 film produced outside of Europe.
Dod Mantle is a regular collaborator of the British director Danny Boyle, beginning with 28 Days Later (2002). He won an Academy Award and BAFTA Award for his work on Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire.[3] He's also had recurring collaborations with Lars von Trier (Dogville, Manderlay, Antichrist), Kevin Macdonald, Oliver Stone and Ron Howard.
He won the British Academy Television Craft Award for Photography & Lighting (Fiction/Entertainment) for his work on the television series Wallander[7] and was nominated for a RTS Craft & Design Award for Lighting, Photography & Camera—Photography—Drama.[8]
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.[9][10]
He is a member of the British, Danish, and American Society of Cinematographers.[11]
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Style and techniques
A veteran of Dogme 95, he is heavily influenced by the cinéma vérité film movement.[4] He is credited with helping popularize the use of "action-style" handheld digital cameras over traditional, stationary 35mm rigs.[2]
Dod Mantle helped pioneer the use of digital cinematography with his early use of home-quality DV in The Celebration. He 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.[3] He used the Red One digital camera on Wallander, the first British television production to do so.[12] Nick Newman wrote that "Anthony Dod Mantle has done more to advance digital photography than nearly any artist in any medium."[1]
Dod Mantle has also experimented with extreme slow motion with high speed cameras in films like Antichrist and Dredd.[13] For Dredd, he helped develop a small form-factor 3D camera for shooting the various action setpiece.
On 28 Years Later, Dod Mantle and director Danny Boyle shot the majority of the film on iPhone 15 Pro Max, often several at the same time.[14][15][16]
Personal life
Dod Mantle has been a permanent resident of Denmark since 1985.[6] He lives with his family in Copenhagen.[12]
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