Biography
Academy Award®-nominated Darius Khondji, A.S.C., A.F.C. is one of the most celebrated cinematographers in contemporary cinema. He worked with Woody Allen on Magic in the Moonlight, To Rome With Love, Midnight in Paris, and Anything Else.
French, born in Tehran, Iran, to an Iranian father (who owned movie theatres) and a French mother, Khondji grew up in France where he began making Super-8 films in his teens. After studying film at New York University and the International Center for Photography, he returned to France where he worked as an assistant cameraman and lighting director, before making his debut as a Director of Photography in 1989 on F.J.
Ossange's The Treasure of the Bitch Islands, a sci-fi movie in black and white and CinemaScope which became a cult film, and for which he was interviewed by Cahiers du Cinema, for which it conducted one of its rare interviews with a cinematographer. Khondji's breakthrough came with his acclaimed work on Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Delicatessen.
Khondji's many nominations and awards include: Academy Award and BAFTA nominations for Evita; Cesar nominations for Delicatessen, The City of Lost Children and Ammour; American Society of Cinematographers nominations for SE7EN and Evita; and an Independent Spirit nomination for Midnight in Paris.
Cinematographer
Movies | |
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2025 |
Eddington |
Mickey 17 |
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2022 |
Armageddon Time |
Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths |
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2019 |
Uncut Gems |
2017 |
Okja |
2016 |
The Lost City of Z |
2015 |
Irrational Man |
2014 |
Magic in the Moonlight |
2013 |
The Immigrant |
2012 |
Amour |
To Rome with Love |
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2011 |
Midnight in Paris |
2009 |
Chéri |
2008 |
The Ruins |
2007 |
Funny Games |
My Blueberry Nights |
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2005 |
The Interpreter |
2004 |
Wimbledon |
2003 |
Anything Else |
Poem - Ich setzte den Fuss in die Luft, und sie trug (Hilde Domin) |
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2002 |
Panic Room |
2000 |
The Beach |
1999 |
In Dreams |
The Ninth Gate |
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1997 |
Alien: Resurrection |
1996 |
Evita |
Stealing Beauty |
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1995 |
Marie-Louise ou la permission |
Se7en |
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The City of Lost Children |
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1994 |
Wacko |
1993 |
L'Ombre du doute |
1992 |
Prague |
1991 |
Delicatessen |
1990 |
Le Trésor des îles Chiennes |
1989 |
Embrasse-moi |
Series | ||
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2021 |
Lisey's Story |
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Lisey’s Story (E08) |
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No Light, No Spark (E07) |
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Now You Must Be Still (E06) |
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more episodes (5) | ||
2019 |
Too Old to Die Young |
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Volume 10: The World (E10) |
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Volume 9: The Empress (E09) |
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Volume 8: The Hanged Man (E08) |
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more episodes (7) |
Documentaries | |
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2006 |
Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait |
1991 |
Models: The Film |
Music videos | |
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2008 |
Madonna - Miles Away |
2000 |
Limp Bizkit: Boiler |
1999 |
Leftfield Feat. Afrika Bambaataa: Afrika Shox |
1996 |
Madonna - Don't Cry For Me Argentina |
Madonna: You Must Love Me |
Video compilation | |
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2003 |
The Work of Director Chris Cunningham |
1999 |
Madonna: The Video Collection 93:99 |
Concerts | |
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2009 |
Madonna: Sticky & Sweet: Live in Buenos Aires |
Short | |
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2020 |
Strasbourg 1518 (TV movie) |
2019 |
Anima |
2013 |
Castello Cavalcanti |
2008 |
Protect You + Me. |
2002 |
Tooba |
1991 |
Le Trou de la corneille |
1988 |
Une femme pour l'hiver |
1986 |
Sur le talus |
1985 |
Classique |
1984 |
Courtes chasses |
Actor
Documentaries | |
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2017 |
Ingmar Bergman: Behind The Mask (TV movie) |
2016 |
Close Encounters with Vilmos Zsigmond |
2012 |
Miradas múltiples: La máquina loca |
2004 |
Shooting 'Panic Room' |
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