Janusz Zygmunt Kamiński, ASC (born June 27, 1959), better known as Janusz Kamiński, is a Polish cinematographer and film director. He has photographed all of Steven Spielberg's films since 1993's Schindler's List.
Kamiński was born in Ziębice, Poland, the son of mother, Jadwiga Celner and father, Marian Kaminski. He emigrated at the age of 21—after Prime Minister Jaruzelski imposed martial law in 1981—to the United States. There, he attended Colu...
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Janusz Zygmunt Kamiński, ASC (born June 27, 1959), better known as Janusz Kamiński, is a Polish cinematographer and film director. He has photographed all of Steven Spielberg's films since 1993's Schindler's List.
Kamiński was born in Ziębice, Poland, the son of mother, Jadwiga Celner and father, Marian Kaminski. He emigrated at the age of 21—after Prime Minister Jaruzelski imposed martial law in 1981—to the United States. There, he attended Columbia College in Chicago from 1982 to 1987, taking up film making as a profession before transferring to the AFI Conservatory, where he graduated with an M.F.A. degree. At AFI, he met future Academy Award Nominee Wally Pfister, known for his cinematography work with Christopher Nolan on Batman Begins and The Dark Knight, whom he recruited as a grip and electrician for various projects.
Kamiński twice won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography in the 1990s, for Schindler's List and Saving Private Ryan.
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