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Mexican Cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto is Nominated for an Oscar

Mexican cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto has been nominated for an Oscar for his outstanding work on Martin Scorsese´s Silence (2016), marking the second time that Prieto has been nominated for the prize. In 2010, he presented Alejandro González Iñárritu´s Biutiful as the opening night film at the 8th edition of FICM.

Prieto graduated from the Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica (CCC). At the end of the 1980s and beginning of the 1990s he began his career as a cinematographer in Mexico, working on various short and feature films, including Carlos Carrera´s Un embrujo (1998), which won the Best Photography prize at both the San Sebastián Film Festival and the Ariel Awards.

He gained international renown for working with Iñárritu on films from Amores Perros (2000) to Biutiful (2010). In 2005 he earned his first Oscar nomination for his work on Ang Lee´s Brokeback Mountain, and his extraordinary career has seen him working with prominent directores like Oliver Stone, Spike Lee, Pedro Almodóvar and Martin Scorsese, among others.

Below we include a gallery of images from some of the cinematographer´s most important films.