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Éric Gautier
Additional CreditsBorn April 2, 1961 (64 years)
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).
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).
Éric Gautier Filmography
| 2025 | The Fence · as Director Of Photography |
| 2024 | Why War · as Director Of Photography |
| 2024 | Caught by the Tides · as Director Of Photography |
| 2024 | Suspended Time · as Director Of Photography |
| 2024 | Shikun · as Director Of Photography |
| 2023 | Like a Son · as Director Of Photography |
| 2023 | Les secrets de la princesse de Cadignan · as Director Of Photography |
| 2022 | Stars at Noon · as Director Of Photography |
| 2022 | Both Sides of the Blade · as Director Of Photography |
| 2020 | Laila in Haifa · as Director Of Photography |
| 2020 | The Eddy (TV Series) · as Director Of Photography |
| 2019 | The Truth · as Director Of Photography |
| 2018 | Ash Is Purest White · as Director Of Photography |
| 2018 | A Tramway in Jerusalem · as Director Of Photography |
| 2018 | The Apparition · as Director Of Photography |
| 2018 | |
| 2017 | Drôle de père · as Director Of Photography |
| 2015 | Rabin, the Last Day · as Director Of Photography |
| 2015 | Hitchcock/Truffaut · as Director Of Photography |
| 2015 | Aloha · as Director Of Photography |
| 2014 | Grace of Monaco · as Director Of Photography |
| 2014 | Believe (TV Series) · as Cinematographer |
| 2012 | Capital · as Director Of Photography |
| 2012 | Something in the Air · as Director Of Photography |
| 2012 | You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet · as Director Of Photography |
| 2012 | On the Road · as Director Of Photography |
| 2010 | Roses à crédit · as Director Of Photography |
| 2010 | |
| 2009 | Wild Grass · as Director Of Photography |
| 2009 | Taking Woodstock · as Director Of Photography |
| 2008 | A Christmas Tale · as Director Of Photography |
| 2008 | Summer Hours · as Director Of Photography |
| 2007 | Into the Wild · as Director Of Photography |
| 2006 | Private Fears in Public Places · as Director Of Photography |
| 2006 | A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints · as Director Of Photography |
| 2006 | Some Widows of Noirmoutier · as Director Of Photography |
| 2006 | Paris, Je T'aime · as Director Of Photography |
| 2006 | Noise · as Director Of Photography |
| 2005 | Gabrielle · as Director Of Photography |
| 2005 | One Stays, the Other Leaves · as Director Of Photography |
| 2004 | Kings & Queen · as Director Of Photography |
| 2004 | Clean · as Director Of Photography |
| 2004 | The Motorcycle Diaries · as Director Of Photography |
| 2003 | His Brother · as Director Of Photography |
| 2002 | A Housekeeper · as Director Of Photography |
| 2001 | Savage Souls · as Director Of Photography |
| 2001 | Intimacy · as Director Of Photography |
| 2001 | Brief Crossing · as Director Of Photography |
| 2000 | Esther Kahn · as Director Of Photography |
| 2000 | Les Destinées · as Director Of Photography |
| 2000 | Passionnément · as Director Of Photography |
| 1999 | Pola X · as Director Of Photography |
| 1998 | Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train · as Director Of Photography |
| 1997 | HHH: A Portrait of Hou Hsiao-Hsien · as Director Of Photography |
| 1996 | Tykho Moon · as Director Of Photography |
| 1996 | Love, etc. · as Director Of Photography |
| 1996 | Irma Vep · as Director Of Photography |
| 1996 | My Sex Life... or How I Got Into an Argument · as Director Of Photography |
| 1995 | One Hundred and One Nights · as Director Of Photography |
| 1994 | The Favorite Son · as Director Of Photography |
| 1994 | Personne ne m'aime · as Director Of Photography |
| 1993 | Tous les garçons et les filles de leur âge... (TV Series) · as Cinematographer |
| 1993 | Le nombril du monde · as Cinematographer |
| 1993 | Travolta and Me · as Director Of Photography |
| 1992 | Albert souffre · as Director Of Photography |
| 1991 | La vie des morts · as Director Of Photography |
| 1989 | Cinéma, de notre temps (TV Series) · as Cinematographer |