Frederick Elmes (born May 4, 1946) is an American cinematographer who has won the Independent Spirit Award for Best Cinematography twice, for Wild at Heart and Night on Earth. Events 1256 - The Augustinian monastic order is constituted at the Lecceto Monastery when Pope Alexander IV Year 1946 ( MCMXLVI) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full 1946 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the The Independent Spirit Award for Best Cinematography is one of the annual awards given by Film Independent a non-profit organization dedicated to independent film and independent filmmakers Wild at Heart is a 1990 American film written and directed by David Lynch, and based on Barry Gifford 's pulp novel
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. Mountain Lakes is a Borough in Morris County, New Jersey, United States. The American Film Institute ( AFI) is an independent Non-profit organization created by the National Endowment for the Arts, which was established in 1967 Los Angeles (lɑˈsændʒələs los ˈaŋxeles in Spanish) is the largest City in the state of California and the American West He enrolled in the Graduate Film Program at New York University's Department of Film and Television and graduated in 1975 [1]. New York University ( NYU) is a private, Nonsectarian, Coeducational Research University in New York City.
At the American Film Institute, Elmes met aspiring film director David Lynch, who hired him for Eraserhead. A film director, or filmmaker, is a person who directs the making of a Film. David Keith Lynch (born January 20 1946 is an American director, Screenwriter, producer, painter, Cartoonist, Composer Eraserhead is a 1977 Surrealist Horror film written and directed by David Lynch. Since then the two have collaborated on such films as Dune, Blue Velvet, and Wild at Heart. This article is about the 1984 film See Frank Herbert's Dune for the 2000 television adaptation Blue Velvet is a 1986 American Mystery film, written and directed by David Lynch, that exhibits elements of both Film noir
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, Coffee and Cigarettes, and Kinsey. Red Dawn is a 1984 war film by John Milius about a fictional invasion of the United States by the Soviet Union, Cuba and Real Genius is a 1985 Comedy film starring Val Kilmer and Gabriel Jarret. Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold is a movie directed by Gary Nelson and released on May 16, 1987 in the USA. Reckless is a 1995 American Dark comedy Film directed by Norman René. The Ice Storm is a 1994 American Novel by Rick Moody. The novel was widely acclaimed by readers and critics alike hailed as The Object of My Affection is a 1998 movie adapted from the book of the same title by Stephen McCauley. Chain of Fools (also known by its production title Shiny New Enemies) is a 2000 heist comedy/romance film about a hapless barber named Kresk ( Steve Coffee and Cigarettes is a 2003 Independent film directed by Jim Jarmusch. Kinsey is a 2004 Biographical film written and directed by Bill Condon.