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HARIS ZAMBARLOUKOS, BSC, GSC (Director of Photography) acquired a BA in Fine Arts from Central Saint Martin’s College of Art & Design, and while studying in London photographed Debbie Emmin’s Docket Box at Shepperton Studios, which garnered a Fuji Film Award.
Zambarloukos received his MFA in Cinematography from the American Film Institute in 1997 and was mentored by Conrad Hall on A Civil Action, after which he shot many commercials, documentaries, and shorts in the U.S., Europe, and Central America.
The AFI thesis film First Daughter won numerous awards, including the 1998 San Jose Film Festival, the 1997 City of Angels Film Festival, the Empire State Film Festival, and it received the International Cinematographers Guild Award for Artistic Achievement in Cinematography.
Zambarloukos has shown a wide range of abilities, fulfilling the promise signified by his inclusion in Variety’s 2006 list “10 to Watch: Cinematographers.”
In 1999 he shot his first U.S. feature, Camera Obscura. In 2004 he earned a nomination for Best Technical Achievement at the British Independent Film Awards for Enduring Love(2004) with Daniel Craig and quickly went on to build a reputation through his work on films like Venus (2006) starring Peter O’Toole and Kenneth Branagh’s Sleuth, starring Michael Caine and Jude Law. Other collaborations with Branagh are Jack Ryan, Thor, Cinderella, Death on the Nile, Murder on the Orient Express, A Haunting in Venice, and Belfast. Haris’ work on Belfast earned him anomination for Outstanding Achievement in Cinematographyat the American Society of Cinematographer’s 36th ASC Awards. Zambarloukos and Branagh received a best Director Cinematographer duo award at the Camerimage Cinematography Festival in 2018.
Further films include Richard Eyre’s The Other Man; Gillian Armstrong’s Death Defying Acts, starring Guy Pearce and Catherine Zeta-Jones, for which he was nominated for a 2008 AFI Award for Best Cinematography; Phyllida Lloyd’s larger-than-life musical Mamma Mia!; Locke, written and directed by Steven Knight; Mick Jackson’s Denial; Ben Wheatley’s Meg 2: The Trench; and Eye in the Sky, directed by Gavin Hood.
Haris has just recently photographed Beetlejuice Beetlejuice for Tim Burton.
He is a member of the British Society of Cinematographers, the Greek Society of Cinematographers, a member of AMPAS and BAFTA. He lives in London.