Éric Gautier
- Known for
- Camera
- Born
- April 2, 1961 (age 65)
- Birthplace
- Paris, France
Biography
Éric Gautier (born 2 April 1961) is a French cinematographer. He has received numerous accolades for his work, including a César Award for Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train and an Independent Spirit Award for The Motorcycle Diaries. Gautier was born and raised in Paris; he grew up in eleventh, twelfth, nineteenth, and twentieth arrondissements with his construction engineer father, mother, and younger sister. During his youth, he excelled in music, and from the age of eleven played the piano and organ. He originally aspired to become a professional musician before becoming disillusioned with the field and deciding to pursue a career in cinema instead, which he felt combined many different creative pursuits. He attended the film school of the Louis Lumière College. After graduating from the Louis Lumière film school in 1982, Gautier began work as an assistant camera operator director on Alain Resnais's film Life Is a Bed of Roses. He left the job soon after, however, and chose instead to work as the director of photography on short films. He shot 60 films before returning to feature film work. The first feature-length film he photographed was La Vie des morts, released in 1991 and directed by Arnaud Desplechin. He won a César Award for his cinematography on Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train (1998), and received nominations for his work on Sentimental Destinies (2000), Clean (2004), Gabrielle (2005), Private Fears in Public Places (2006), and A Christmas Tale (2008). He has worked on many other French films, collaborating most often with Resnais and the directors Olivier Assayas, Arnaud Desplechin, and Claude Berri. Gautier began working in international film in the early 2000s, beginning with The Motorcycle Diaries, for which he won the Independent Spirit Award for Best Cinematography and the 2004 Cannes Film Festival Technical Grand Prize, and was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Cinematography. After seeing The Motorcycle Diaries, American actor/filmmaker Sean Penn approached Gautier to shoot the 2007 film Into the Wild, for which he won a Lumière Award. He subsequently served as director of photography on the American films Taking Woodstock (2009) and Grace of Monaco (2014).
Known For
Filmography
The Fence
Movie · Director of Photography
Avec Kim
Movie · Director of Photography
Why War
Movie · Director of Photography
Like a Son
Movie · Director of Photography
Suspended Time
Movie · Director of Photography
Caught by the Tides
Movie · Director of Photography
Shikun
Movie · Director of Photography
Les secrets de la princesse de Cadignan
Movie · Director of Photography
Both Sides of the Blade
Movie · Director of Photography
Stars at Noon
Movie · Director of Photography
Laila in Haifa
Movie · Director of Photography
A Folk Horror Tale
Movie · Director of Photography
The Eddy
TV · Director of Photography · 2 eps
The Truth
Movie · Director of Photography
Ash Is Purest White
Movie · Director of Photography
The Mercy
Movie · Director of Photography
The Apparition
Movie · Director of Photography
A Tramway in Jerusalem
Movie · Director of Photography
The Elephant and the Butterfly
Movie · Director of Photography
Hitchcock/Truffaut
Movie · Director of Photography
Aloha
Movie · Director of Photography
Rabin, the Last Day
Movie · Director of Photography
Grace of Monaco
Movie · Director of Photography
Incident Urbain
Movie · Director of Photography
On the Road
Movie · Director of Photography
Something in the Air
Movie · Director of Photography
Capital
Movie · Director of Photography
You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet
Movie · Director of Photography
Miral
Movie · Director of Photography
Roses on Credit
Movie · Director of Photography
Taking Woodstock
Movie · Director of Photography
Wild Grass
Movie · Director of Photography
Summer Hours
Movie · Director of Photography
A Christmas Tale
Movie · Director of Photography
Into the Wild
Movie · Director of Photography
Paris Je T'aime
Movie · Director of Photography
Noise
Movie · Director of Photography
Private Fears in Public Places
Movie · Director of Photography
A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints
Movie · Director of Photography
Some Widows of Noirmoutier
Movie · Director of Photography
Gabrielle
Movie · Director of Photography
One Stays, the Other Leaves
Movie · Director of Photography
The Motorcycle Diaries
Movie · Director of Photography
Kings & Queen
Movie · Director of Photography
Clean
Movie · Director of Photography
His Brother
Movie · Director of Photography
The Housekeeper
Movie · Director of Photography
Intimacy
Movie · Director of Photography
Savage Souls
Movie · Director of Photography
Brief Crossing
Movie · Director of Photography
Passionnément
Movie · Director of Photography
Sentimental Destinies
Movie · Director of Photography
Esther Kahn
Movie · Director of Photography
HHH: A Portrait of Hou Hsiao-Hsien
Movie · Director of Photography
Pola X
Movie · Director of Photography
Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train
Movie · Director of Photography
Sans Titre
Movie · Director of Photography
Tykho Moon
Movie · Director of Photography
Irma Vep
Movie · Director of Photography
Love, etc.
Movie · Director of Photography
My Sex Life... or How I Got Into an Argument
Movie · Director of Photography
One Hundred and One Nights
Movie · Director of Photography
Nobody Loves Me
Movie · Director of Photography
Le fils préféré
Movie · Director of Photography
Travolta and Me
Movie · Director of Photography
La femme à abattre
Movie · Director of Photography
Albert souffre
Movie · Director of Photography
The Life of the Dead
Movie · Director of Photography
Knife Under the Throat
Movie · Camera Operator