Ellen Kuras

DirectorCinematographerDirectingProducerActor Jul 10 (age 66) New Jersey, USA 1989–2026 (37 year career)

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Biography

Ellen Kuras ASC (born July 10, 1959 in New Jersey) is an American cinematographer and director. She has collaborated several times with directors Michel Gondry and Spike Lee. In 2013 she was a member of the jury at the 63rd Berlin International Film Festival.

Known For

Film

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Director of Photography

Film

The Umbrella Academy

Director

Film

Ozark

Director

Film

Blow

Director of Photography

Film

Killers of the Flower Moon

Second Unit Director

Film

The Terminal List

Director

Film

Legion

Director

Film

Coffee and Cigarettes

Director of Photography

Filmography

Acting (6)

Movies (6)

The 4%: Film's Gender Problem

as Self

Side by Side

as Self

No Subtitles Necessary: Laszlo & Vilmos

2009

as Self

5.9

Shooting Women

2008

as Self

Women Behind the Camera

2007

as Self

3.0

September in Brooklyn: The Making of Block Party

2006

as Self

Crew (68)

Movies (54)

Lee

2024

Director

7.0

Beatles '64

2024

Director of Photography

6.6

Killers of the Flower Moon

2023

Second Unit Director

7.4

Personality Crisis: One Night Only

2022

Director of Photography

4.4

Bob Dylan: Odds and Ends

2021

Director of Photography

7.0

David Byrne's American Utopia

2020

Director of Photography

7.5

Making 'The Irishman'

2020

Director of Photography

7.0

Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese

2019

Director of Photography

7.0

Jane

2017

Director of Photography

7.5

Wormwood

2017

Director of Photography

6.9

Bob Dylan - Trouble No More

2017

Director of Photography

6.4

Monster in the Mind

2016

Director of Photography

A Little Chaos

2015

Director of Photography

6.3

Public Speaking

2011

Director of Photography

7.0

Away We Go

2009

Director of Photography

6.7

Be Kind Rewind

2008

Director of Photography

6.3

Shine a Light

2008

Director of Photography

6.8

The Betrayal – Nerakhoon

2008

Director

7.0

The Betrayal – Nerakhoon

2008

Director of Photography

7.0

The Betrayal – Nerakhoon

2008

Writer

7.0

The Key to Reserva

2007

Additional Photography

7.2

Lou Reed's Berlin

2007

Director of Photography

6.8

Neil Young: Heart of Gold

2006

Director of Photography

7.5

Dave Chappelle's Block Party

2005

Director of Photography

6.8

The Ballad of Jack and Rose

2005

Director of Photography

6.1

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

2004

Director of Photography

8.1

Coffee and Cigarettes

2004

Director of Photography

6.9

Analyze That

2002

Director of Photography

5.8

The Truth About Charlie

2002

Thanks

4.8

Personal Velocity

2002

Director of Photography

5.8

Jim Brown: All-American

2002

Director of Photography

5.0

Blow

2001

Director of Photography

7.4

A Huey P. Newton Story

2001

Director of Photography

5.1

Bamboozled

2000

Director of Photography

6.2

Summer of Sam

1999

Director of Photography

6.5

The Mod Squad

1999

Director of Photography

4.4

Just the Ticket

1998

Director of Photography

5.4

He Got Game

1998

Director of Photography

6.8

4 Little Girls

1997

Director of Photography

7.2

Angela

1996

Director of Photography

5.5

The Dadshuttle

1996

Director of Photography

5.4

If These Walls Could Talk

1996

Director of Photography

6.6

I Shot Andy Warhol

1996

Director of Photography

6.1

Roy Cohn/Jack Smith

1995

Director of Photography

Unzipped

1995

Director of Photography

5.2

Postcards from America

1995

Director of Photography

3.7

Geoffrey Beene 30

1993

Director of Photography

Swoon

1992

Director of Photography

5.7

Guerrillas In Our Midst

1992

Director of Photography

The World According to John Coltrane

Gaffer

He Was Once

Assistant Camera

Samsara: Death and Rebirth in Cambodia

1989

Director of Photography

6.0

Aldeas: A New Story

Director of Photography

Jane Goodall: An Inside Look

Director of Photography

Television (14)

Scarpetta

Director

Extrapolations

Director

The Terminal List

Director

Inventing Anna

Director

Pretend It's a City

Director of Photography

Brave New World

Director

The Umbrella Academy

Director

Catch-22

Director

Catch-22

Producer

Ozark

Director

Legion

Director

Wormwood

Director of Photography

6.3

Falling Water

2016

Director

6.3

George Harrison: Living in the Material World

2011

Director of Photography

7.5