StuartDryburgh
- Cinematographer
Cinematographer Stuart Dryburgh has helped create some of the most iconic images of New Zealand cinema: the girl with a mop of red hair, standing at the end of a country road in Angel at my Table; the piano on a deserted beach in The Piano, and the charged kitchen scenes of Once Were Warriors.
Screenography
Biography
Cinematographer Stuart Dryburgh helped create the distinctive look of Kiwi classics The Piano, An Angel at My Table, Kitchen Sink and In My Father's Den. In recent years Dryburgh has worked mainly overseas, on projects as various as Lone Star, Bridget Jones's Diary, and HBO series Boardwalk Empire. His early beginnings as a gaffer taught him much about how light can create mood.
Awards
2005 New Zealand Screen Awards
Award for Achievement in Cinematography: for In My Father's Den
2005 Dinard British Film Festival (France)
Kodak Award for Best Cinematography: for In My Father's Den
2005 Shanghai Inernational Film Festival
Golden Goblet for Best Cinematography: for In My Father's Den
2000 Csapnivalo Awards (Hungary)
Nominated for Best Cinematography Golden Slate: for Runaway Bride
“... it was a kind of old fashioned look, a glamour look — and it worked very well. We were doing glamour lighting in a dirty old state house.”