Website reedmorano.com Children Casey Walker Spouse Matthew Walker (m. 2008) | Role Cinematographer Name Reed Morano | |
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Occupation Director and cinematographer Nominations Independent Spirit Award for Best Cinematography Movies Meadowland, The Skeleton Twins, Frozen River, Kill Your Darlings, And So It Goes Similar People | ||
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Reed Morano (born April 15, 1977) is an American cinematographer and director. Reed is known for her cinematography on feature films such as Kill Your Darlings, The Skeleton Twins and Frozen River, all of which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. In 2015, Morano made her directorial debut with her feature film Meadowland. She also directed the first three episodes of Hulu's 2017 television adaptation of Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale. In 2013, Morano became the youngest member of the American Society of Cinematographers, and one of 14 women in an organization of approximately 345 active members.
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- Early life
- Career
- Personal life
- Accolades
- References
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Early life
Morano was born in Omaha, Nebraska, one of two children of Lyn and Winslow Mankin. Following a move to Minnesota and her parents' eventual divorce, she and her brother Justin lived with their mother on Long Island, in New York State. There their mother married Casey Morano, and had children Jordan, Morgan and Ali. The family moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico, returned to Long Island, and then relocated to Vermont and New Hampshire.
Morano attended New York University and graduated from the Tisch School of the Arts Film and TV program in 2000. She returned to NYU as an adjunct cinematography professor and co-instructed the first Advanced Television classes offered.
Career
Cinematography
Morano's cinematography has appeared regularly at the Sundance film festival beginning in 2008 with Frozen River, which won the Grand Jury prize and went on to be nominated for two Academy Awards (best actress for Melissa Leo and Best Screenplay) and seven Independent Spirit Awards, including Best Picture; Morano’s work on the film was the subject of an article in American Cinematographer.
In 2011, Little Birds, shot by Morano, directed by Elgin James, and starring Juno Temple and Kay Panabaker, premiered at the festival. The following year, two films shot by Morano premiered including a feature-length documentary about the band LCD Soundsystem, Shut Up and Play the Hits, and So Yong Kim’s For Ellen, starring Paul Dano.
In 2013, Kill Your Darlings, a 35mm period piece about the beat poets set in 1943. It premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, as well as the Toronto International Film Festival and screened at the Venice film festival, and was released theatrically that fall. Morano also shot The Inevitable Defeat of Mister & Pete (2013), which premiered at the festival. and theatrically released;
In 2014, two feature films shot by Morano premiered; The Skeleton Twins, a dark comedy starring Kristen Wiig and Bill Hader, directed by Craig Johnson,, and Mark Jackson’s War Story, a dark drama filmed in Sicily starring Catherine Keener and Sir Ben Kingsley both premiered at Sundance in 2014.
Other theatrical premieres of 2014 included the cult drama, Autumn Blood, which was shot in the Tyrolean Alps in Austria on 35mm and 65mm and stars Sophie Lowe and Peter Stormare. Also premiering in 2014 was Rob Reiner’s latest feature, And So It Goes, starring Michael Douglas and Diane Keaton (this is Morano's second feature with Reiner following her work as cinematographer on The Magic of Belle Isle (2012) which stars Morgan Freeman and Virginia Madsen).
2014 also marked the premiere of the first season of HBO’s original series Looking, lensed by Morano and directed by Andrew Haigh (Weekend). Morano also worked on Vinyl, it was produced by Martin Scorsese, Terence Winter and Mick Jagger.
Directing
Morano was director of photography on her first directorial feature, the drama Meadowland, starring Olivia Wilde, Luke Wilson, Giovanni Ribisi, Elisabeth Moss, Juno Temple and John Leguizamo. It premiered in the dramatic competition at the Tribeca Film Festival in April 2015.
In 2016, Morano directed the television adaptation of Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, which was released by the streaming service Hulu in April 2017.
Personal life
Morano married fellow cinematographer and gaffer Matt Walker in 2008. They have two sons and live in Brooklyn, New York. Elder son Casey played Olivia and Luke's son in Meadowland.
Accolades
In 2011, Morano was honored at the Women in Film and Television International's Crystal + Lucy awards with the 2011 Kodak Vision Award. The same year, she was named one of Variety's “10 Cinematographers to Watch”. Morano has also been featured as one of Ioncinema.com’s “American New Wave 25″ and one of five innovative cinematographers in ICG Magazine’s “Generation Next” spotlight.
Later in 2012, Morano's work was featured in Indiewire’s "On the Rise '12: 5 Cinematographers Lighting Up Screens in Recent Years." Indiewire also featured Morano as a “Heroine of Cinema” in both 2011 and 2013. In 2012, Morano was featured in Kodak’s long-running OnFilm series. The following year, she became the youngest member of the American Society of Cinematographers, and one of 14 women in an organization of approximately 345 active members.
In 2015, Morano was named Woman of the Year at the Fusion Film Festival.
She won an Emmy in 2017 for directing the Hulu series The Handmaid's Tale.