Walter C Pfister was born on July 8,1961 and is an American director and former cinematographer.
18 Facts About Wally Pfister
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Wally Pfister was born in Chicago, Illinois, and raised in the New York City suburb of Irvington-on-Hudson.
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Wally Pfister is the son of Patricia Ann and Walter J Pfister, Jr.
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Wally Pfister's grandfather was the city editor of a newspaper in Wisconsin.
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Wally Pfister's father, known as Wally, was a TV news producer, who began his career with CBS-TV in Chicago in 1955.
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Later, as an executive at ABC News, the elder Wally Pfister worked with David Brinkley and Peter Jennings, covering political conventions, space flights and the civil rights movement.
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When Wally Pfister was about 11, a film company shot scenes for Shamus, featuring Burt Reynolds, in his Irvington neighborhood.
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Wally Pfister emulated his father by shooting slides on Kodachrome film and assembling them into shows for family and friends.
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Wally Pfister covered the United States Congress, the White House and breaking news from 1982 through 1985.
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In 1985 Wally Pfister began a freelance career shooting documentaries for the PBS series Frontline and industrial videos for various Washington production companies.
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Wally Pfister drew on his documentary experience, and lit it darkly and stark, using a single light so the actor could play in and out of that source.
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Wally Pfister saw Pfister's film and recruited him as a grip and electrician for various projects, including a few with Phedon Papamichael.
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In 1995, Papamichael asked Wally Pfister to operate for him on Diane Keaton's Unstrung Heroes.
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In 1998, Wally Pfister shot The Hi-Line in Montana in the dead of winter on a $300,000 budget, which got into the competition at Sundance Film Festival.
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From seven movies directed by Nolan, Wally Pfister received four nominations for the Academy Award for Best Cinematography, winning one for his work on Inception in 2011.
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Wally Pfister made his directorial debut with the science fiction thriller Transcendence in 2014, with Nolan acting as executive producer.
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Ever since, Wally Pfister had worked mostly in commercials and television series, like Flaked and The Tick.
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Wally Pfister is a member of the American Society of Cinematographers since 2002, and the British Society of Cinematographers since 2011.