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Sven Nykvist
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Biography
Sven Vilhem Nykvist (3 December 1922 – 20 September 2006) was a Swedish cinematographer. He worked on over 120 films, but is known especially for his work with director Ingmar Bergman. He won Academy Awards for his work on two Bergman films, Cries and Whispers (Viskningar och rop) in 1973 and Fanny and Alexander (Fanny och Alexander) in 1983, and the Independent Spirit Award for Best Cinematography for The Unbearable Lightness of Being. His work is generally noted for its naturalism and simplicity. He is considered by many to be one of the greatest cinematographers of all time. In 2003, Nykvist was judged one of history's ten most influential cinematographers in a survey conducted by the International Cinematographers Guild.
Notable films
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Highlights from credits and KinoChain journeys.
Persona
Appears in a KinoChain journey
Hour of the Wolf
Appears in a KinoChain journey
Sleepless in Seattle
Director of Photography
Celebrity
Director of Photography
Pretty Baby
Director of Photography
What's Eating Gilbert Grape
Director of Photography
The Virgin Spring
Director of Photography
Crimes and Misdemeanors
Director of Photography
Chains
KinoChain journeys
Public chains that pass through their films — or name them as a bridge.
The Slow Creep of European Dread
Seven films that prove horror lives in the corner of the frame, not the jump cut. A chain through the quiet, unshakeable dread of European arthouse cinema.
7 films
The Many Faces We Wear
From classic Hollywood to French farce and beyond, a journey through cinema's most audacious transformations and borrowed identities.
7 films
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Cinematography
Celebrity
1998
Mixed Nuts
1994
What's Eating Gilbert Grape
1993
Sleepless in Seattle
1993
Chaplin
1992
Crimes and Misdemeanors
1989
New York Stories
1989
The Postman Always Rings Twice
1981
Starting Over
1979
King of the Gypsies
1978
Pretty Baby
1978
The Tenant
1976
Cries and Whispers
1972
Hour of the Wolf
1968
Persona
1966
The Virgin Spring
1960