Agnès Godard

French cinematographer (born 1951)

Agnès Godard

Born|  (1951-05-28) 28 May 1951 (age 74)

Dun-sur-Auron, France

Occupation| Cinematographer
Years active| 1982–present

Agnès Godard (born 28 May 1951) is a French cinematographer. She is most famous for her long-running collaboration with filmmaker Claire Denis. For her work, she has won a César Award.

## Life and career

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Godard originally studied journalism,[1] but switched to film after several years, graduating from La Femis[2] (then known as IDHEC) in 1980. Her first project as a cinematographer was Wim Wenders' 50-minute Room 666, made for television. There she met Claire Denis, who was working as Wenders' assistant director.[3]

Godard spent much of the 1980s working as an assistant camera operator or focus puller on films by Wenders, Joseph Losey, Peter Greenaway and Alain Resnais. She also served as director of photography on a short film directed by legendary cinematographer Henri Alekan. Her first collaboration with Denis was the director's debut feature, Chocolat, where she served as the camera operator; she has been Denis' regular cinematographer since 1990, when the two worked together on a documentary about Nouvelle Vague filmmaker Jacques Rivette made for the French television series Cinema, de Notre Temps.

## Filmography

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* Let the Sunshine In (2017)
* The Falling (2015)
* Paris Follies (2014)
* The Amazing Catfish (2014)
* Bastards (2013)
* Sister (2012)
* Où va la nuit (2011)
* Simon Werner a Disparu (2010)
* Home (2008)
* 35 rhums (2008)
* Ensemble, c'est tout (2007)
* The Golden Door (2006)
* Backstage (2005)
* Vers Mathilde (2005)
* L'Intrus (2004)
* Wild Side (2004)
* Les égarés (2003)
* Ten Minutes Older: The Cello (2002) (segment "Vers Nancy")
* Vendredi soir (2002)
* Au plus près du paradis (2002)
* Trouble Every Day (2001)
* La Répétition (2001)
* Beau Travail (1999)
* Vie ne me fait pas peur (1999)
* La Nouvelle Ève (1999)
* L'Arrière pays (1998)
* The Dreamlife of Angels (1998)
* Années lycée: Petites (1997) (TV)
* Nénette et Boni (1996)
* Jeunesse sans Dieu (1996) (TV)
* À propos de Nice, la suite (1995) (segment "Nice, Very Nice")
* US Go Home (1994)
* I Can't Sleep (1994)
* Le Géographe manuel (1994)
* La robe à cerceau (1993) TV episode
* The Absence (1993)
* Sida, une histoire qui n'a pas de fin (1993)
* Histoires autour de la folie (1993) (TV)
* La Vis (1993)
* Dimanche soir (1992)
* Jacquot de Nantes (1991)
* Keep It for Yourself (1991)
* Jacques Rivette - Le veilleur (1990) (TV)
* Room 666 (1982) (TV)

## References

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1. ^ village voice > film > Agnes Godard's Candid Camera by Elisabeth Vincentelli Archived January 25, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
2. ^ Agnès Godard
3. ^ village voice > film > Agnes Godard's Candid Camera by Elisabeth Vincentelli Archived January 25, 2008, at the Wayback Machine

## External links

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* Agnès Godard at IMDb
* Entry in the Internet Encyclopedia of Cinematographers

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César Award for Best Cinematography

* Sven Nykvist (1976)
* Bruno Nuytten (1977)
* Raoul Coutard (1978)
* Bernard Zitzermann (1979)
* Ghislain Cloquet (1980)
* Néstor Almendros (1981)
* Philippe Rousselot (1982)
* Henri Alekan (1983)
* Bruno Nuytten (1984)
* Bruno de Keyzer (1985)
* Jean Penzer (1986)
* Philippe Rousselot (1987)
* Renato Berta (1988)
* Pierre Lhomme (1989)
* Yves Angelo (1990)
* Pierre Lhomme (1991)
* Yves Angelo (1992)
* François Catonné (1993)
* Yves Angelo (1994)
* Philippe Rousselot (1995)
* Thierry Arbogast (1996)
* Claude Nuridsany (1997)
* Thierry Arbogast (1998)
* Éric Gautier (1999)
* Éric Guichard (2000)
* Agnès Godard (2001)
* Tetsuo Nagata (2002)
* Paweł Edelman (2003)
* Thierry Arbogast (2004)
* Bruno Delbonnel (2005)
* Stéphane Fontaine (2006)
* Julien Hirsch (2007)
* Tetsuo Nagata (2008)
* Laurent Brunet (2009)
* Stéphane Fontaine (2010)
* Caroline Champetier (2011)
* Guillaume Schiffman (2012)
* Romain Winding (2013)
* Thomas Hardmeier (2014)
* Sofian El Fani (2015)
* Christophe Offenstein (2016)
* Pascal Marti (2017)
* Vincent Mathias (2018)
* Benoît Debie (2019)
* Claire Mathon (2020)
* Alexis Kavyrchine (2021)
* Christophe Beaucarne (2022)
* Artur Tort (2023)
* David Cailley (2024)
* Paul Guilhaume (2025)

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Lumière Award for Best Cinematography

* Éric Gautier (2008)
* Agnès Godard (2009)
* Glynn Speeckaert (2010)
* Caroline Champetier (2011)
* Pierre Aïm (2012)
* Antoine Heberlé (2013)
* Thomas Hardmeier (2014)
* Rémy Chevrin (2015)
* David Chizallet (2016)
* Jonathan Ricquebourg (2017)
* Christophe Beaucarne (2018)
* Benoît Debie (2019)
* Claire Mathon (2020)
* Hichame Alaouié (2021)
* Caroline Champetier (2022)
* Artur Tort (2023)
* Jonathan Ricquebourg (2024)
* Nicolas Bolduc (2025)

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National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Cinematography

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* Haskell Wexler (1967)
* William A. Fraker (1968)
* Lucien Ballard (1969)
* Néstor Almendros (1970)
* Vittorio Storaro (1971)
* Sven Nykvist (1972)
* Vilmos Zsigmond (1973)
* Gordon Willis (1974)
* John Alcott (1975)
* Haskell Wexler (1976)
* Thomas Mauch (1977)
* Néstor Almendros (1978)
* Caleb Deschanel (1979)
* Michael Chapman (1980)
* Gordon Willis (1981)
* Philippe Rousselot (1982)
* Hiro Narita (1983)
* Chris Menges (1984)
* Takao Saito, Shoji Ueda, and Asakazu Nakai (1985)
* Frederick Elmes (1986)
* Philippe Rousselot (1987)
* Henri Alekan (1988)
* Michael Ballhaus (1989)
* Peter Suschitzky (1990)
* Roger Deakins (1991)
* Zhao Fei (1992)
* Janusz Kamiński (1993)
* Stefan Czapsky (1994)
* Tak Fujimoto (1995)
* Robby Müller (1996)
* Roger Deakins (1997)
* John Toll (1998)
* Conrad L. Hall (1999)
* Agnès Godard (2000)

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* Christopher Doyle and Pin Bing Lee (2001)
* Edward Lachman (2002)
* Russell Boyd (2003)
* Xiaoding Zhao (2004)
* Christopher Doyle, Lai Yiu Fai, and Kwan Pun Leung (2005)
* Emmanuel Lubezki (2006)
* Robert Elswit (2007)
* Anthony Dod Mantle (2008)
* Christian Berger (2009)
* Roger Deakins (2010)
* Emmanuel Lubezki (2011)
* Mihai Mălaimare Jr. (2012)
* Bruno Delbonnel (2013)
* Dick Pope (2014)
* Edward Lachman (2015)
* James Laxton (2016)
* Roger Deakins (2017)
* Alfonso Cuarón (2018)
* Claire Mathon (2019)
* Joshua James Richards (2020)
* Andrew Droz Palermo (2021)
* Michał Dymek (2022)
* Rodrigo Prieto (2023)
* Jomo Fray (2024)

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