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Don Burgess
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Biography
Don Michael Burgess, ASC (born May 28, 1956) is an American cinematographer best known for his collaborations with director Robert Zemeckis. He was nominated for the Academy Award and BAFTA Award for Best Cinematography for Zemeckis' Forrest Gump (1994). In 2024, he received the American Society of Cinematographers' Lifetime Achievement Award. Description above from the Wikipedia article Don Burgess (cinematographer), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Notable films
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Highlights from credits and KinoChain journeys.
Spider-Man
Director of Photography
Forrest Gump
Director of Photography
The Book of Eli
Appears in a KinoChain journey
Here
Appears in a KinoChain journey
Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom
Director of Photography
The Conjuring 2
Director of Photography
Aquaman
Director of Photography
Radio
Director of Photography
Chains
KinoChain journeys
Public chains that pass through their films — or name them as a bridge.
Ghosts in the Machine
From a stuntman's final role to a star's digital encore, these eight films trace cinema's long affair with performing from beyond the grave.
8 films
Signals in the Ash
From a father's vigil to a robot's devotion, eight films trace the fragile threads that hold humanity together when the world falls quiet.
8 films
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Cinematography
The Thursday Murder Club
2025
Here
2024
Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom
2023
The Christmas Chronicles: Part Two
2020
Roald Dahl's The Witches
2020
Aquaman
2018
Wonder
2017
The Conjuring 2
2016
Muppets Most Wanted
2014
Flight
2012
The Muppets
2011
Priest
2011
The Book of Eli
2010
Aliens in the Attic
2009
Fool's Gold
2008
Enchanted
2007
My Super Ex-Girlfriend
2006
Christmas with the Kranks
2004
The Polar Express
2004
13 Going on 30
2004
Radio
2003
Spider-Man
2002
Cast Away
2000
What Lies Beneath
2000
Contact
1997
Forrest Gump
1994