Barry Ackroyd

British cinematographer

Barry Ackroyd

Born|  (1954-05-12) 12 May 1954 (age 70)

Oldham, Lancashire, England, UK

Occupation(s)| Cinematographer and President of BSC
Known for| The Hurt Locker and Captain Phillips
Website| http://www.barryackroyd.com

Barry Ackroyd, BSC (born 12 May 1954) is an English cinematographer and director.[1] Ackroyd has frequently worked with directors Ken Loach and Paul Greengrass. He worked on Kathryn Bigelow's 2008 war film The Hurt Locker as well as the critically acclaimed 2013 biographical thriller Captain Phillips, the former earning him a BAFTA Award and an Academy Award nomination for Best Cinematography. In 2014, Ackroyd became the president of the British Society of Cinematographers.

## Life and career

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Ackroyd was born in Oldham, England. He received a BAFTA nomination for Best Cinematography for The Lost Prince. His latest credits are on Ken Loach's award-winning feature, The Wind That Shakes The Barley, Paul Greengrass's take on the 9-11 disaster, United 93, and the Kathryn Bigelow-directed Iraq War film, The Hurt Locker.[2]

Teamwork and group effort is the Loach modus operandi. Loach has denied his status as an auteur director. Unlike most directors who routinely overstate the importance of their personal achievements, Loach celebrates the contributions of his crew, such as frequent collaborator, cinematographer Barry Ackroyd.[3]

Film reviewer Jack Matthews of the New York Daily News remarked about the filmmaking behind The Wind That Shakes The Barley: "Beautifully shot, both in darkened homes and on the misty green Irish landscape by Loach's frequent cinematographer Barry Ackroyd, "Wind" has a you-are-there intensity and intimacy about it that make it nearly overwhelming."[4]

In 2016, he reunited with Greengrass for the fourth time for the fifth Bourne movie.

## Filmography

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### Television

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TV movies

Year  | Title  | Director

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1987  | Big George Is Dead | Henry Martin
1996  | Hillsborough | Charles McDougall
1997  | Bumping the Odds | Rob Rohrer
2002  | Sunday | Dominic Savage
2003  | The Lost Prince | Stephen Poliakoff
Eroica | Simon Cellan Jones
2005  | Friends and Crocodiles | Stephen Poliakoff
Gideon's Daughter
2010  | The Special Relationship | Richard Loncraine
2011  | The Miraculous Year | Kathryn Bigelow
2013  | The Missionary | Baltasar Kormákur

TV series

Year  | Title  | Director  | Notes

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1993  | Spender | Ian Knox  | Episode "Retreat"
ScreenPlay | Les Blair | Episode "The Merrihill Millionaires"
1995–1996  | Screen Two | Tim Fywell
Michael Whyte  | Episodes "Life After Life" and "Flowers of the Forest"
2012  | The Newsroom | Greg Mottola | Episode "We Just Decided To"
2024  | The Sympathizer | Fernando Meirelles | Episode "Give Us Some Good Lines"

### Feature film

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Key  †  | Denotes films that have not yet been released

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Year  | Title  | Director  | Notes

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1991  | Riff-Raff | Ken Loach |
1993  | Raining Stones |
1994  | Ladybird, Ladybird |
1995  | Land and Freedom |
1996  | Carla's Song |
Stella Does Tricks | Coky Giedroyc |
1997  | Under the Skin | Carine Adler |
1998  | My Name Is Joe | Ken Loach  |
1999  | The Lost Son | Chris Menges |
Beautiful People | Jasmin Dizdar |
Mauvaise passe | Michel Blanc |
2000  | Bread and Roses | Ken Loach  |
2001  | Very Annie Mary | Sara Sugarman |
Dust | Milcho Manchevski |
The Navigators | Ken Loach  | With Mike Eley
2002  | Sweet Sixteen |
2003  | Os Imortais | António-Pedro Vasconcelos |
2004  | Ae Fond Kiss... | Ken Loach  |
2005  | Love + Hate | Dominic Savage |
2006  | The Wind That Shakes the Barley | Ken Loach  |
United 93 | Paul Greengrass |
2007  | Battle in Seattle | Stuart Townsend |
2009  | The Hurt Locker | Kathryn Bigelow |
Looking for Eric | Ken Loach  |
2010  | Green Zone | Paul Greengrass  |
2011  | Coriolanus | Ralph Fiennes |
2012  | Contraband | Baltasar Kormákur |
2013  | Captain Phillips | Paul Greengrass  |
Parkland | Peter Landesman |
2015  | Dark Places | Gilles Paquet-Brenner |
The Big Short | Adam McKay |
2016  | Jason Bourne | Paul Greengrass  |
The Last Face | Sean Penn |
2017  | Detroit | Kathryn Bigelow  |
2018  | Outlaw King | David Mackenzie |
2019  | Bombshell | Jay Roach |
2020  | The Old Guard | Gina Prince-Bythewood | With Tami Reiker
2021  | Sweet Girl | Brian Andrew Mendoza  |
2022  | Whitney Houston:
I Wanna Dance with Somebody | Kasi Lemmons |
2024  | The Old Guard 2 †  | Victoria Mahoney | Post-production

Short film

Year  | Title  | Director

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1994  | Fever | Carine Adler
1997  | The Butterfly Man | Himself
1998  | Amazing Grace | Maeve Murphy
2012  | I Missed My Mother's Funeral | Ben Quinn
2013  | Dr. Easy | Jason Groves
Chris Haring
Richard Kenworthy
2022  | Nicholas Brothers: Stormy Weather | Michael Shevloff

### Documentary works

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Short film

Year  | Title  | Director

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1989  | Lake Baikal: The Sacred Sea | Irina Mishina

Film

Year  | Title  | Director

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1990  | Hunters and Bombers | Hugh Brody
Nigel Markham
1991  | The Leader, His Driver, and the Driver's Wife | Nick Broomfield
1992  | Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer
1995  | Anne Frank Remembered | Jon Blair

TV movies

Year  | Title  | Director  | Notes

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1986  | Inside the Labyrinth | Desmond Saunders | With Rafi Rafaeli and John Warwick
1989  | The View from the Woodpile | Ken Loach | With Robin Probyn
Angkor Wat Under Siege | Shari Robertson |
1990  | Inside the Khmer Rouge | With Ned Johnston and Prasit Sangrungrueng
1992  | Too White for Me | Nick Broomfield |
1997  | Boogie Nights in Suburbia | Edmund Coulthard  |

TV series

Year  | Title  | Director  | Notes

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1988  | 40 Minutes | Sam Organ  | Episode "Diary of a Frontliner"
1989  | Dispatches | Shari Robertson | Episode "Return to Year Zero?"
Split Screen | Ken Loach | Episode "Time to Go"
1988–1989  | Byline | Marjorie Wallace
David Collison  | Episodes "Whose Mind Is It Anyway?" and "Johnny and Alf Go Home"
1993  | Nova | Dave Duncan  | Episode "The Real Jurassic Park"
1996  | Modern Times | Ken Loach  | Episode "The Flickering Flame"
2003  | The Blues | Mike Figgis | Episode "Red, White and Blues"

## Awards and nominations

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Academy Awards

Year  | Category  | Title  | Result

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2009  | Best Cinematography | The Hurt Locker | Nominated

BAFTA Awards

Year  | Category  | Title  | Result

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2006  | Best Cinematography | United 93 | Nominated
2009  | The Hurt Locker | Won
2013  | Captain Phillips | Nominated

American Society of Cinematographers

Year  | Category  | Title  | Result

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2009  | Outstanding Cinematography | The Hurt Locker | Nominated
2013  | Captain Phillips | Nominated

Other awards

Year  | Title  | Award/Nomination

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2009  | The Hurt Locker | Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Cinematography
Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Cinematography
Houston Film Critics Society Award for Best Cinematography
Nominated – Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Cinematography
Nominated – Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Award for Best Cinematography
Nominated – Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Cinematography
Nominated – National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Cinematography
Nominated – Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Cinematography
Nominated – St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Award for Best Cinematography

## References

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1. ^ "Biography". Barry Ackroyd. Retrieved 7 March 2018.
2. ^ "National Film and Television School "Barry Ackroyd BSC"". Archived from the original on 16 July 2011. Retrieved 25 June 2008.
3. ^ "Ken Loach" by Mike Robbins
4. ^ New York Daily News, Jack Matthews "The Wind That Shakes the Barley" review quote. Archived 2007-06-28 at the Wayback Machine

## External links

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* National Film and Television School "Barry Ackroyd BSC"
* Barry Ackroyd at IMDb
* "Ken Loach" by Mike Robbins
* New York Daily News, Jack Matthews "The Wind That Shakes the Barley" review quote
* May 21, 2008 Picks & Pans - Movies "Battle in Seattle" - Seattle Weekly
* United 93

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Houston Film Critics Society Award for Best Cinematography

* Roger Deakins (2007)
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