The Mexican photographer Rodrigo Prieto was nominated for the 2024 Oscar Awards for his work on The Assassins of the Moon.
Prieto competes for the statuette for Best Cinematography with Hoyte van Hoytema (‘Oppenheimer’), Matthew Libatique (‘Maestro’), Robbie Ryan (‘Poor Things’) and Edward Lachman (‘The Count’).
This is the fourth Oscar nomination that the Mexican has accumulated in his career, he had previously been nominated for ‘Brokeback Mountain’, ‘Silence’ and ‘The Irishman’, the latter two also directed by Scorsese.
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Prieto was also part of the production of ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’ by the renowned American director, and his career also includes films such as ‘Babel’ and ‘Biutiful’, by Alejandro González Iñárritu, and ‘Los Abrazos Rotos’, by Pedro Almodóvar.
So far in the 2024 awards season, Prieto managed to be nominated twice in the category of best photography at the Critics Choice Awards, as he was also the cinematographer of the summer phenomenon ‘Barbie’, however, Van Hoytema was the one who left the winner in this gala.
For ‘The Moon Killers’, the director of photography had the challenge of portraying a community of the Osage indigenous people in Oklahoma (central USA) in the 1920s, while in the film starring Margot Robbie, he worked to capture the pink world of the plastic doll.
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