Barry Ackroyd
Barry Ackroyd, BSC (born 12 May 1954) is an English cinematographer and director.[1] Ackroyd has frequently worked with directors Ken Loach and Paul Greengrass. He worked on Kathryn Bigelow's 2008 war film The Hurt Locker as well as the critically acclaimed 2013 biographical thriller Captain Phillips, the former earning him a BAFTA Award and an Academy Award nomination for Best Cinematography. In 2014, Ackroyd became the president of the British Society of Cinematographers.
Barry Ackroyd | |
|---|---|
| Born | 12 May 1954 Oldham, Lancashire, England, UK |
| Occupation(s) | Cinematographer and President of BSC |
| Known for | The Hurt Locker and Captain Phillips |
| Website | http://www.barryackroyd.com |
Life and career
Ackroyd was born in Oldham, England. He received a BAFTA nomination for Best Cinematography for The Lost Prince. His latest credits are on Ken Loach's award-winning feature, The Wind That Shakes The Barley, Paul Greengrass's take on the 9-11 disaster, United 93, and the Kathryn Bigelow-directed Iraq War film, The Hurt Locker.[2]
Teamwork and group effort is the Loach modus operandi. Loach has denied his status as an auteur director. Unlike most directors who routinely overstate the importance of their personal achievements, Loach celebrates the contributions of his crew, such as frequent collaborator, cinematographer Barry Ackroyd.[3]
Film reviewer Jack Matthews of the New York Daily News remarked about the filmmaking behind The Wind That Shakes The Barley: "Beautifully shot, both in darkened homes and on the misty green Irish landscape by Loach's frequent cinematographer Barry Ackroyd, "Wind" has a you-are-there intensity and intimacy about it that make it nearly overwhelming."[4]
In 2016, he reunited with Greengrass for the fourth time for the fifth Bourne movie.
Filmography
Television
TV movies
| Year | Title | Director |
|---|---|---|
| 1987 | Big George Is Dead | Henry Martin |
| 1996 | Hillsborough | Charles McDougall |
| 1997 | Bumping the Odds | Rob Rohrer |
| 2002 | Sunday | Dominic Savage |
| 2003 | The Lost Prince | Stephen Poliakoff |
| Eroica | Simon Cellan Jones | |
| 2005 | Friends and Crocodiles | Stephen Poliakoff |
| Gideon's Daughter | ||
| 2010 | The Special Relationship | Richard Loncraine |
| 2011 | The Miraculous Year | Kathryn Bigelow |
| 2013 | The Missionary | Baltasar Kormákur |
TV series
| Year | Title | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | Spender | Ian Knox | Episode "Retreat" |
| ScreenPlay | Les Blair | Episode "The Merrihill Millionaires" | |
| 1995–1996 | Screen Two | Tim Fywell Michael Whyte |
Episodes "Life After Life" and "Flowers of the Forest" |
| 2012 | The Newsroom | Greg Mottola | Episode "We Just Decided To" |
| 2024 | The Sympathizer |
Short film
| Year | Title | Director |
|---|---|---|
| 1994 | Fever | Carine Adler |
| 1997 | The Butterfly Man | Himself |
| 1998 | Amazing Grace | Maeve Murphy |
| 2012 | I Missed My Mother's Funeral | Ben Quinn |
| 2013 | Dr. Easy | Jason Groves Chris Haring Richard Kenworthy |
| 2022 | Nicholas Brothers: Stormy Weather | Michael Shevloff |
Feature film
| † | Denotes films that have not yet been released |
| Year | Title | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | Riff-Raff | Ken Loach | |
| 1993 | Raining Stones | ||
| 1994 | Ladybird, Ladybird | ||
| 1995 | Land and Freedom | ||
| 1996 | Carla's Song | ||
| Stella Does Tricks | Coky Giedroyc | ||
| 1997 | Under the Skin | Carine Adler | |
| 1998 | My Name Is Joe | Ken Loach | |
| 1999 | The Lost Son | Chris Menges | |
| Beautiful People | Jasmin Dizdar | ||
| The Escort | Michel Blanc | ||
| 2000 | Bread and Roses | Ken Loach | |
| 2001 | Very Annie Mary | Sara Sugarman | |
| Dust | Milcho Manchevski | ||
| The Navigators | Ken Loach | With Mike Eley | |
| 2002 | Sweet Sixteen | ||
| 2003 | Os Imortais | António-Pedro Vasconcelos | |
| 2004 | Ae Fond Kiss... | Ken Loach | |
| 2005 | Love + Hate | Dominic Savage | |
| 2006 | The Wind That Shakes the Barley | Ken Loach | |
| United 93 | Paul Greengrass | ||
| 2007 | Battle in Seattle | Stuart Townsend | |
| 2009 | The Hurt Locker | Kathryn Bigelow | |
| Looking for Eric | Ken Loach | ||
| 2010 | Green Zone | Paul Greengrass | |
| 2011 | Coriolanus | Ralph Fiennes | |
| 2012 | Contraband | Baltasar Kormákur | |
| 2013 | Captain Phillips | Paul Greengrass | |
| Parkland | Peter Landesman | ||
| 2015 | Dark Places | Gilles Paquet-Brenner | |
| The Big Short | Adam McKay | ||
| 2016 | Jason Bourne | Paul Greengrass | |
| The Last Face | Sean Penn | ||
| 2017 | Detroit | Kathryn Bigelow | |
| 2018 | Outlaw King | David Mackenzie | |
| 2019 | Bombshell | Jay Roach | |
| 2020 | The Old Guard | Gina Prince-Bythewood | With Tami Reiker |
| 2021 | Sweet Girl | Brian Andrew Mendoza | |
| 2022 | Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody | Kasi Lemmons | |
| 2024 | The Old Guard 2 † | Victoria Mahoney | Post-production |
Documentary works
Short film
| Year | Title | Director |
|---|---|---|
| 1989 | Lake Baikal: The Sacred Sea | Irina Mishina |
Film
| Year | Title | Director |
|---|---|---|
| 1990 | Hunters and Bombers | Hugh Brody Nigel Markham |
| 1991 | The Leader, His Driver, and the Driver's Wife | Nick Broomfield |
| 1992 | Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer | |
| 1995 | Anne Frank Remembered | Jon Blair |
TV movies
| Year | Title | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1986 | Inside the Labyrinth | Desmond Saunders | With Rafi Rafaeli and John Warwick |
| 1989 | The View from the Woodpile | Ken Loach | With Robin Probyn |
| Angkor Wat Under Siege | Shari Robertson | ||
| 1990 | Inside the Khmer Rouge | With Ned Johnston and Prasit Sangrungrueng | |
| 1992 | Too White for Me | Nick Broomfield | |
| 1997 | Boogie Nights in Suburbia | Edmund Coulthard | |
TV series
| Year | Title | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | 40 Minutes | Sam Organ | Episode "Diary of a Frontliner" |
| 1989 | Dispatches | Shari Robertson | Episode "Return to Year Zero?" |
| Split Screen | Ken Loach | Episode "Time to Go" | |
| 1988–1989 | Byline | Marjorie Wallace David Collison |
Episodes "Whose Mind Is It Anyway?" and "Johnny and Alf Go Home" |
| 1993 | Nova | Dave Duncan | Episode "The Real Jurassic Park" |
| 1996 | Modern Times | Ken Loach | Episode "The Flickering Flame" |
| 2003 | The Blues | Mike Figgis | Episode "Red, White and Blues" |
Awards and nominations
| Year | Title | Award/Nomination |
|---|---|---|
| 2006 | United 93 | Nominated – BAFTA Award for Best Cinematography |
| 2009 | The Hurt Locker | BAFTA Award for Best Cinematography Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Cinematography Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Cinematography Houston Film Critics Society Award for Best Cinematography Nominated – Academy Award for Best Cinematography Nominated – ASC Award for Outstanding Cinematography Nominated – Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Cinematography Nominated – Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Award for Best Cinematography Nominated – Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Cinematography Nominated – National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Cinematography Nominated – Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Cinematography Nominated – St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Award for Best Cinematography |
| 2013 | Captain Phillips | Nominated – BAFTA Award for Best Cinematography Nominated – ASC Award for Outstanding Cinematography |
References
- "Biography". Barry Ackroyd. Retrieved 7 March 2018.
- "National Film and Television School "Barry Ackroyd BSC"". Archived from the original on 16 July 2011. Retrieved 25 June 2008.
- "Ken Loach" by Mike Robbins
- New York Daily News, Jack Matthews "The Wind That Shakes the Barley" review quote. Archived 2007-06-28 at the Wayback Machine