Awards & Winners

Frederick Elmes

Date of Birth 04-November-1946
Place of Birth Mountain Lakes
(Morris County, New Jersey)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Fredrick Elmes, Fred Elmes, फ्रेड एल्म्स, Fred Elmes, Fredrick Elmes
Profession Cinematographer
Frederick Elmes, A.S.C. is an American cinematographer who has won the Independent Spirit Award for Best Cinematography twice, for Wild at Heart and Night on Earth. Born in Mountain Lakes, New Jersey, Elmes studied photography at the Rochester Institute of Technology, then attended the American Film Institute in Los Angeles, graduating in 1972. He enrolled in the Graduate Film Program at New York University's Department of Film and Television and graduated in 1975. At the American Film Institute, Elmes met aspiring film director David Lynch, who hired him for Eraserhead. Since then the two have collaborated on such films as Blue Velvet, and Wild at Heart. Additional credits include Real Life, Red Dawn, Real Genius, Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold, Heaven, Reckless, The Ice Storm, The Object of My Affection, Chain of Fools, The Hire: Chosen, Coffee and Cigarettes, and Kinsey.

Awards by Frederick Elmes

Check all the awards nominated and won by Frederick Elmes.

1997


Nominations 1997 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Cinematography for a Miniseries or Movie In the Gloaming
Outstanding Cinematography for a Miniseries or a Special

1993


Independent Spirit Award for Best Cinematography
Honored for : Night on Earth

Nominations 1993 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Independent Spirit Award for Best Cinematography Night on Earth

1991


Independent Spirit Award for Best Cinematography
Honored for : Wild at Heart

Nominations 1991 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Independent Spirit Award for Best Cinematography Wild at Heart

1987


Nominations 1987 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Independent Spirit Award for Best Cinematography Blue Velvet

1986


National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Cinematography
Honored for : Blue Velvet

Nominations 1986 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Cinematography Blue Velvet