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Dean Semler
Born 1943-05-26 · Renmark, South Australia, Australia
Dean Semler is an Australian cinematographer. Over his career, he has worked as a cinematographer, camera operator, director, second unit director, and assistant director. He is a three-time recipient of the AACTA Award for Best Cinematography and an Academy Award winner. He is a member of both the Australian Cinematographers Society (ACS) and the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC). In 2002 he was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM). From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Acting credits
7.8The long and hard road that the makers of Waterworld had to face when making the, then, highest budgeted film.
Maelstrom: The Odyssey of Waterworld
2018
6.0Retrospective on the making of "Mad Max 2".
Road War: The Making of 'The Road Warrior'
2016
8.0A documentary of the making of Dances with Wolves told through interviews with cast and crew. It describes the financial and production details, scouting locations, the buffalo hunt, the Lakota Sioux, and the recognition and success the film achieved.
Dances with Wolves: The Creation of an Epic
2003
A short documentary about the making of 'We Were Soldiers'.
We Were Soldiers: Getting It Right
2002
Behind the camera
5.6A deadly virus threatens to wipe out an entire Rocky Mountain town, leaving the town doctor to find some way to escape the soldiers who enforce the town's quarantine and devise an antidote. Matters take a more deadly turn after the physician is captured by a dangerously unstable band of militia extremists.
The Patriot
1998
5.2Firefighter Jesse Graves has to save ornithologist Jennifer and other people caught in a forest fire, which was set up by the lawyer of convicted killer Earl Shaye, who escaped from the prison with several of his inmates posing as firefighters to recover $37,000,000 in stashed loot.
Firestorm
1998
NRA shearer, his wife and six children leave their farmhouse at daybreak for the week's big event - a Saturday visit to the nearest town, Lake Cargelligo. There's a trip to the barber, icecream for the kids, the weekly football match and a beer at the pub. Come nightfall, it's either a movie or the local dance. This beautifully shot film by Academy Award winner Dean Semler captures all the atmosphere of a weekly ritual repeated in country towns right across Australia.
Saturday
1979