Enrique Chediak

Enrique Proper Chediak ASC (born June 30, 1967) is an Ecuadorian cinematographer, who works principally in the United States.^[1][2] He was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Cinematography for his work on 127 Hours (2010).

Enrique Chediak
Born	Enrique Proper Chediak (1967-06-07) June 7, 1967 (age 58) Quito, Pichincha Province, Ecuador
Alma mater	New York University
Occupation	Cinematographer
Years active	1995–present
Awards	See below
Website	www.enriquechediak.com

His other film credits include Hurricane Streets (1997), The Faculty (1998), Boiler Room (2001), 28 Weeks Later (2007), Charlie St. Cloud (2010), The Maze Runner (2014), Deepwater Horizon (2016), Bumblebee (2018), and A Minecraft Movie (2025).

Early life and education

Chediak was born in Quito, Ecuador. He studied communication science in Santiago de Chile and photography in Madrid before studying film at New York University^[3] from 1992 to 1996.

Career

His first film as cinematographer was American Southern—released in 1995 and directed by John Joshua Clayton. He then shot the independent crime drama Hurricane Streets, which won him Best Cinematography at the 1997 Sundance Film Festival.

Throughout the late 1990s and 2000s, he worked on other indie films like The Faculty (1998, Robert Rodriguez), Boiler Room (2000, Ben Younger), The Safety of Objects (2001, Rose Troche), Brown Sugar (2002, Rick Famuyiwa), and A Home at the End of the World (2004, Michael Mayer). He shot his first film in his native Ecuador, the thriller Crónicas, in 2004.

In 2007, he shot the horror film 28 Weeks Later. His work impressed executive producer Danny Boyle, who hired him to shoot his film 127 Hours (2010), collaborating with his usual cinematographer Anthony Dod Mantle. The two earned multiple accolades, including a British Academy Film Award nomination for Best Cinematography.

In 2014, Chediak re-teamed with Danny Boyle for the TV series Babylon.

In 2018, Chediak shot the Transformers reboot Bumblebee (2018). He then shot its follow up Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (2023).

In 2025, Chediak shot A Minecraft Movie.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Director	Notes
1995	American Southern	John Joshua Clayton
1997	Hurricane Streets	Morgan J. Freeman
1998	Frogs for Snakes	Amos Poe
	Desert Blue	Morgan J. Freeman
	The Faculty	Robert Rodriguez
2000	Songcatcher	Maggie Greenwald
	Boiler Room	Ben Younger
2001	3 A.M.	Lee Davis
	The Safety of Objects	Rose Troche
2002	The Good Girl	Miguel Arteta
	Brown Sugar	Rick Famuyiwa	With Jeff Barnett
2004	Crónicas	Sebastián Cordero
	A Home at the End of the World	Michael Mayer
2005	Down in the Valley	David Jacobson
2006	The Alibi	Kurt Mattila Matt Checkowski
	Turistas	John Stockwell
2007	28 Weeks Later	Juan Carlos Fresnadillo
	The Flock	Andrew Lau
2009	Rage	Sebastián Cordero
	The Assailant	João Daniel Tikhomiroff
2010	Repo Men	Miguel Sapochnik
	Charlie St. Cloud	Burr Steers
	127 Hours	Danny Boyle	With Anthony Dod Mantle
2011	Intruders	Juan Carlos Fresnadillo
2013	Europa Report	Sebastián Cordero
	Red 2	Dean Parisot
2014	César Chávez	Diego Luna
	The Maze Runner	Wes Ball
2016	The 5th Wave	J Blakeson
	Deepwater Horizon	Peter Berg
2017	American Assassin	Michael Cuesta
2018	Bumblebee	Travis Knight
2019	Lady and the Tramp	Charlie Bean
2021	Voyagers	Neil Burger
2023	Transformers: Rise of the Beasts	Steven Caple Jr.
2025	A Minecraft Movie	Jared Hess

Documentary film

Year	Title	Director	Note
2017	Buena Vista Social Club: Adios	Lucy Walker	with Lucas Gath and Nick Higgins

Television

TV movies

Year	Title	Director	Notes
1998	Remembering Sex	Julia Lynch
2003	Undefeated	John Leguizamo	Also executive producer

TV series

Year	Title	Director	Notes
2014	Babylon	Danny Boyle Jon S. Baird Sally El Hosaini	5 episodes

Awards and nominations

Institution	Year	Category	Title	Result
BAFTA Awards	2011	Best Cinematography (with Anthony Dod Mantle)	127 Hours	Nominated
British Independent Film Awards	2007	Best Technical Achievement	28 Weeks Later (Cinematography)	Nominated
Camerimage	2010	Golden Frog (with Anthony Dod Mantle)	127 Hours	Nominated
Critics' Choice Movie Awards	2011	Best Cinematography (with Anthony Dod Mantle)		Nominated
Guadalajara International Film Festival	2010	Best Cinematography	Rage	Won
Kraków Film Festival	1999	Best Short	El Rio	Won
Málaga Film Festival	2010	Best Cinematography	style="background: #9EFF9E; color: #000; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center; " class="yes table-yes2 notheme"|Won
Online Film Critics Society	2010	Best Cinematography	127 Hours	Nominated
Prêmio ACIE de Cinema	2010	Best Cinematography	The Assailant	Nominated
Sundance Film Festival	1997	Best Cinematography - Dramatic	Hurricane Streets	Won