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Chris Menges (born September 15, 1940 in Kingston, Herefordshire, England) is a British cinematographer and film director.

He began his career in the 1960s as camera operator for documentaries by Adrian Cowell and for movies like Poor Cow
by Ken Loach and If...
by Lindsay Anderson. Kes, directed by Ken Loach, was his first film as cinematographer. He was also behind the camera on Stephen Frears' first feature film Gumshoe in 1971.

After several documentaries and feature films like Black Beauty
(1971), Bloody Kids (1978), The Game Keeper (1980), Babylon (1980) and Angel (1982) he became notable for more ambitious works for which he was critically acclaimed.

In 1983 he received his first BAFTA nomination for the Bill Forsyth movie Local Hero
and only a year later won his first Academy Award for the powerful film The Killing Fields
about the genocide in Cambodia. He continued his work with helmer Roland Joffe and he won his second Oscar in 1986 with the historical drama The Mission
.

In 1988 he gave his directional debut with A World Apart. This film was celebrated at the 1988 International Cannes Film Festival and won three major awards.

His second film as director Criss Cross with Goldie Hawn was a flop. In 1996 he moved back behind the camera and to shoot the award winning films The Boxer
(directed by Jim Sheridan) and Michael Collins (about the first IRA leader). For the latter he received his third Academy Award nomimation in 1997.

Other works

Chris Menges also made brave documentaries. In the early 1970s he went to Burma with British film maker Adrian Cowell to shoot The Opium Warlords, a movie about the drug trade. After the release of the documentary in 1974 the local government has set a price on their head.

Filmography

as Cinematographer (selected)

1983: Local Hero
directed by Bill Forsyth
1984: The Killing Fields
directed by Roland Joffe
1986: The Mission
directed by Roland Joffe
1987: Shy People directed by Andrei Konchalovsky
1996: Michael Collins directed by Neil Jordan
1997: The Boxer
directed by Jim Sheridan
2001: The Pledge
directed by Sean Penn
2003: Concert For George directed by David Leland
2005: North Country
directed by Niki Caro

as Director

1988: A World Apart
1992: Criss Cross

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