Andrew Lesnie (born 1956) is an Australian cinematographer. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Australia topics. He lives in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Sydney (ˈsɪdniː is the most populous city in Australia, with a Metropolitan area population of approximately 4 Lesnie attended the Australian Film, Television and Radio School (AFTRS), graduating in 1979. The Australian Film Television and Radio School (AFTRS is the Australian national centre for professional education and advanced training in film television radio and His first job after graduation was as a cameraman on the Logie Award-winning Australian magazine-style afternoon TV show Simon Townsend's Wonder World Simon Townsend gave Lesnie almost daily opportunities to develop his craft with little restriction over a wide variety of stories and situations, and to experiment with camera and lighting techniques in hundreds of locations and situations. Simon Townsend's Wonder World was a multi-award winning Australian children's television show that aired on the Ten Network from 1979 until 1986 In return Lesnie produced some sensational visual work for Simon Townsend's Wonder World!, and made a significant contribution to the creative brilliance that drew such a large audience to this TV show.
After two years working on this show, Lesnie moved on to numerous Australian film and television productions, including the mini-series Bodyline,[1] but his work only started attracting major international attention after the release of Kennedy Miller's exquisitely anthropomorphic pig-story Babe (1995) and its sequel, Babe: Pig in the City. This page is about the Bodyline television miniseries For the events on which the miniseries was based see Bodyline Babe is a 1995 Australian Film narrated by Roscoe Lee Browne that tells the story of a Pig who wants to be a Sheep Babe Pig in the city is the 1998 Sequel to the Film Babe. It occurs in the fictional city of Metropolis He was Director of Photography (DP) on Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy, and received an Oscar for his work in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring in 2002. Peter Robert Jackson, CNZM (born 31 October 1961 is a three-time Academy Award -winning New Zealand director producer and writer best known for directing The Lord of the Rings film trilogy consists of three Live action Fantasy Epic films The Fellowship of the Ring ( 2001 "The Oscar" redirects here for the film see The Oscar (film. The Lord of the Rings The Fellowship of the Ring is a 2001 Fantasy film directed by Peter Jackson based on the similarly titled first He was also DP on Jackson's "King Kong". King Kong is the name of a fictional giant ape from the fictional Skull Island, who has appeared in several works since 1933
He worked on I Am Legend recently and lives on the North Coast of Sydney, Australia. I Am Legend is a 1954 Science fiction Novel by Richard Matheson about the last man alive in a future Los Angeles California
Andrew Lesnie has made some low budget films with Peter Jackson