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Known for
Cinematographer
Gender
Male
Date of Birth
1975-10-03
Location
Victoria, Australia
Edit pageGreig Fraser
Biography
Greig Fraser, ACS, ASC, (born 3 October 1975) is an Australian cinematographer who studied at RMIT University.
His most well-known work includes the films Zero Dark Thirty (2012), Lion (2016), Rogue One (2016), Vice (2018), Dune (2021), The Batman (2022), and The Creator (2023).
For his short film Cracker Bag, he was nominated for Best Cinematography at the 2003 AFI Awards.
For his work on Lion, he won the American Society of Cinematographers Award for Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography in Theatrical Releases and AACTA Award for Best Cinematography and received Academy Award and BAFTA Award nominations.
Fraser shot Rogue One on the Arri Alexa 65 large format digital camera and Panavision lenses from the 1970s, making it the first feature film shot entirely with the Alexa 65.
Fraser said of working with the Alexa 65, “The images are sharper and have more resolution, and those things are an advantage, but for me, it is about the depth of the image -- there is a three-dimensionality to it.
Often the beauty came from the texture; we found that the camera excelled when we were filming something with texture; it really enhanced the quality of the picture.”
Fraser returned to the Star Wars franchise with the 2019 television series The Mandalorian. In 2020, for his work on the series, Fraser won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Cinematography for a Single-Camera Series (Half-Hour).
Fraser met costume designer Jodie Fried in Sydney in 2004, while they were working on a short film.
After moving to the United States in 2008, they were married in a helicopter above Las Vegas. They live in Los Angeles with their three children.
