Name Oliver Wood | Ex-spouse Jane Forth | |
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Books The Adventures of Pluto Nash Movies The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Ultimatum, The Bourne Supremacy, The Other Guys, Safe House Similar People Patrick Crowley, Tony Gilroy, Brent White, Richard Marvin, Christopher Rouse | ||
Oliver Wood is an English cinematographer, best known for his work on blockbuster action and comedy films such as Die Hard 2, Face/Off, Freaky Friday, Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, and the Bourne franchise. He has collaborated with directors like Paul Greengrass, John Woo, Renny Harlin, Ron Underwood, and Adam McKay, and was nominated for a BAFTA Award for Best Cinematography for The Bourne Ultimatum.
Career
His first break came for director Leonard Kastle on cult crime film The Honeymoon Killers (1969) where he used available light to give the dark comedy a newsreel look.
After that, his career was quiet for a while, mostly working on obscure low-budget exploitation and B-movies, before picking up in the late 1980s. His big break came when he was director of photography for 53 episodes of stylish crime drama Miami Vice before becoming DP on big-budget Hollywood films including Die Hard 2 (1990), Face/Off (1997), U-571 (2000) Fantastic Four (2005), and Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (2013). He also shot the Bourne Trilogy, where he worked with director Paul Greengrass to produce a spontaneous, naturalistic effect, often using multiple cameras, frequently handheld, citing films such as The Battle of Algiers as an influence.
He was nominated for a BAFTA for The Bourne Ultimatum (2007).
In 2016, Wood shot the remake of Ben-Hur, directed by Timur Bekmambetov, utilizing GoPro cameras to film the movie's actions sequences.