14 Facts About Rodrigo Prieto

Rodrigo Prieto has collaborated with Martin Scorsese and Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, among other prominent directors.

Rodrigo Prieto is a member of both the Mexican Society of Cinematographers and the American Society of Cinematographers.

Rodrigo Prieto's grandfather escaped with his family to Texas and then to Los Angeles, where Rodrigo Prieto's father would spend most of his childhood.

Rodrigo Prieto's father studied aeronautical engineering at New York University, where he met and married Rodrigo Prieto's mother, an artist.

Rodrigo Prieto graduated from Centro de Capacitacion Cinematografica in Mexico City, where Prieto had become an established cinematographer, working with such names as Spike Lee, Curtis Hanson, Ang Lee and Pedro Almodovar.

In 2002, Rodrigo Prieto shot Frida, a film about Frida Kahlo, a Communist Mexican artist.

In 2003, Rodrigo Prieto cooperated with Oliver Stone in two documentary projects: Comandante, about Fidel Castro, and Persona Non Grata, about Yasser Arafat.

Rodrigo Prieto worked with Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu on the acclaimed Amores perros, 21 Grams, Babel and Biutiful.

Rodrigo Prieto is noted for his unconventional use of the camera often combined with strong moody lighting.

In 25th Hour, Rodrigo Prieto utilized overexposure and other techniques to create original dream-like images to signify that the events shown on screen are memories or visions.

Rodrigo Prieto is interested in evoking naturalism, most evident in The Homesman and Brokeback Mountain.

Rodrigo Prieto has formed an artistic collaboration with Martin Scorsese; first on The Wolf of Wall Street, Silence, for which he garnered his second Academy Award nomination for Best Cinematography, and most recently The Irishman, released in November 2019.

In December 2019, Rodrigo Prieto announced he would be involved with Scorsese's upcoming film Killers of the Flower Moon.

Rodrigo Prieto is the recipient of the 2021 Vilcek Prize in Filmmaking, awarded by the Vilcek Foundation.