Walter C Pfister was born on July 8,1961 and is an American director and former cinematographer, who is best known for his work with filmmaker Christopher Nolan.
22 Facts About Wally Pfister
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In 2014, Wally Pfister made his directorial debut with Transcendence, through Alcon Entertainment.
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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.
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Wally Pfister is the only cinematographer that has worked with director Christopher Nolan between Memento and The Dark Knight Rises, and has served as cinematographer for all of Nolan's films except for Following, for which Nolan acted as cinematographer himself, Interstellar, Dunkirk, and Tenet, in those of which he was replaced by Hoyte van Hoytema, after Pfister got the chance to direct his first film, Transcendence.
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Wally Pfister has been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Cinematography four times, each time for a film directed by Nolan.
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Wally Pfister won an Academy Award for his work on Inception at the 83rd Academy Awards.
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Wally Pfister has been nominated three times for the American Society of Cinematographers Award for Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography in Theatrical Releases, for Batman Begins, The Dark Knight and Inception, winning for the latter, in 2011.
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Wally Pfister made his directorial debut with the science fiction thriller Transcendence, starring Johnny Depp, which was released by Warner Bros.
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Wally Pfister had stated in 2015 he is finished with working as a cinematographer and planned to continue as a director.
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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.