Éric Gautier

Éric Gautier

  • Birthday: 1961-04-02
  • Place of birth: Paris, France
  • Also know as: 에릭 고티에

Biography

Éric Gautier (born 2 April 1961) is a French cinematographer. He has received numerous accolades for his work, including a César Award for Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train and an Independent Spirit Award for The Motorcycle Diaries. Gautier was born and raised in Paris; he grew up in eleventh, twelfth, nineteenth, and twentieth arrondissements with his construction engineer father, mother, and younger sister. During his youth, he excelled in music, and from the age of eleven played the piano and organ. He originally aspired to become a professional musician before becoming disillusioned with the field and deciding to pursue a career in cinema instead, which he felt combined many different creative pursuits. He attended the film school of the Louis Lumière College. After graduating from the Louis Lumière film school in 1982, Gautier began work as an assistant camera operator director on Alain Resnais's film Life Is a Bed of Roses. He left the job soon after, however, and chose instead to work as the director of photography on short films. He shot 60 films before returning to feature film work. The first feature-length film he photographed was La Vie des morts, released in 1991 and directed by Arnaud Desplechin. He won a César Award for his cinematography on Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train (1998), and received nominations for his work on Sentimental Destinies (2000), Clean (2004), Gabrielle (2005), Private Fears in Public Places (2006), and A Christmas Tale (2008). He has worked on many other French films, collaborating most often with Resnais and the directors Olivier Assayas, Arnaud Desplechin, and Claude Berri. Gautier began working in international film in the early 2000s, beginning with The Motorcycle Diaries, for which he won the Independent Spirit Award for Best Cinematography and the 2004 Cannes Film Festival Technical Grand Prize, and was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Cinematography. After seeing The Motorcycle Diaries, American actor/filmmaker Sean Penn approached Gautier to shoot the 2007 film Into the Wild, for which he won a Lumière Award. He subsequently served as director of photography on the American films Taking Woodstock (2009) and Grace of Monaco (2014).

Production

The Motorcycle Diaries

2004

As Director of Photography

Paris Je T'aime

2006

As Director of Photography

The Life of the Dead

1991

As Director of Photography

Into the Wild

2007

As Director of Photography

Intimacy

2001

As Director of Photography

A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints

2006

As Director of Photography

Summer Hours

2008

As Director of Photography

A Christmas Tale

2008

As Director of Photography

Irma Vep

1996

As Director of Photography

Taking Woodstock

2009

As Director of Photography

On the Road

2012

As Director of Photography

His Brother

2003

As Director of Photography

Something in the Air

2012

As Director of Photography

Nobody Loves Me

1994

As Director of Photography

Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train

1998

As Director of Photography

Travolta and Me

1993

As Director of Photography

Grace of Monaco

2014

As Director of Photography

Aloha

2015

As Director of Photography

Incident Urbain

2014

As Director of Photography

Wild Grass

2009

As Director of Photography

Sans Titre

1997

As Director of Photography

Rabin, the Last Day

2015

As Director of Photography

Savage Souls

2001

As Director of Photography

The Widows of Noirmoutier

2006

As Director of Photography

Brief Crossing

2001

As Director of Photography

Ash Is Purest White

2018

As Director of Photography

The Mercy

2018

As Director of Photography

The Apparition

2018

As Director of Photography

Pola X

1999

As Director of Photography

Kings and Queen

2004

As Director of Photography

The Elephant and the Butterfly

2017

As Director of Photography

Clean

2004

As Director of Photography

Le fils préféré

1994

As Director of Photography

You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet

2012

As Director of Photography

The Truth

2019

As Director of Photography

A Tramway in Jerusalem

2019

As Director of Photography

Miral

2010

As Director of Photography

Esther Kahn

2000

As Director of Photography

Hitchcock/Truffaut

2015

As Director of Photography

Noise

2006

As Director of Photography

Tykho Moon

1996

As Director of Photography

One Hundred and One Nights

1995

As Director of Photography

Both Sides of the Blade

2022

As Director of Photography

Private Fears in Public Places

2006

As Director of Photography

A Folk Horror Tale

2021

As Director of Photography

Gabrielle

2005

As Director of Photography

Stars at Noon

2022

As Director of Photography

Love, etc.

1996

As Director of Photography

My Sex Life... or How I Got Into an Argument

1996

As Director of Photography

HHH: A Portrait of Hou Hsiao-Hsien

1999

As Director of Photography

Les Secrets de la princesse de Cadignan

2023

As Director of Photography

Capital

2012

As Director of Photography

Comme un fils

2024

As Director of Photography

Suspended Time

2024

As Director of Photography

One Stays, the Other Leaves

2005

As Director of Photography

Passionnément

2000

As Director of Photography

Sentimental Destinies

2000

As Director of Photography

La femme à abattre

1993

As Director of Photography

Laila in Haifa

2021

As Director of Photography

The Housekeeper

2002

As Director of Photography

Le scorpion

1987

As Cinematography

Shikun

2024

As Cinematography

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