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Nina Kellgren
British cinematographer From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Nina Kellgren (born 26 August 1948) is a British cinematographer. Her work on Solomon & Gaenor (1999) made her the first British woman cinematographer to shoot an Academy Award-nominated film and the second woman in the International Feature Film category. Kellgren, the second woman to join the British Society of Cinematographers,[1] was honoured with the John Alcott Memorial Award at the 2021 BSC Awards.[2][3][4]
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Early life
Kellgren was born in Manchester to Jonas Kellgren, a British physician of Swedish and Russian descent, and Thelma Reynolds, an American nurse of English descent from Amesbury, Massachusetts. She has three sisters as well as a half-sister from her father's previous marriage. Kellgren holds a Bachelor and a Master of Fine Arts from University College London's Slade School of Fine Art, having completed her studies in 1972. She got her first job as a camera assistant for Diane Tammes.[5]
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