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- Andrew Lesnie was an Australian cinematographer who frequently worked with Peter Jackson. He did the photography for The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit film trilogies. He also did the photography for Babe, King Kong, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, I Am Legend and The Lovely Bones. He passed away in April 2015 due to a heart attack.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Christian Frates
- Unkempt hair and glasses
- Often worked with Peter Jackson
- Peter Jackson hired Lesnie for his Lord of the Rings trilogy after seeing his work on Babe (1995), the Australian film about a plucky pig.
- Christopher Lee described him and Freddie Young as the two best cinematographers he had ever worked with.
- He began his career as a camera assistant on the low-budget horror film "Patrick" in 1978, while he was still a student at the Australian Film Television and Radio School. He later worked as a freelance cameraman for ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation). In the 1980s, he shot music videos for performers including INXS, UB40, and Mental As Anything.
- (1999-2001) Working in New Zealand as cinematographer for the Lord of the Rings trilogy.
- Member of the Australian Cinematographers Society (ACS) since 1989, and the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) since 2005.
- [on his often unmotivated and impossible light sources] Where does the light come from? The same place as the music.
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