Seamus McGarvey

Seamus McGarvey
McGarvey filming No.1 Ladies Detective Agency
Born	(1967-06-29) 29 June 1967 (age 49) Armagh, Northern Ireland
Occupation	Cinematographer, director

Seamus McGarvey, ASC, BSC (born 29 June 1967) is an Irish cinematographer.

McGarvey was born in Armagh, Northern Ireland. He began his career as a still photographer, before attending film school at the University of Westminster in London.

He has collected two Academy Award nominations for his cinematography on Joe Wright's 2007 drama, Atonement and his 2012 adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's classic novel Anna Karenina.

In addition to the Oscar nominations, McGarvey won the British Society of Cinematographers (B.S.C.) award for Anna Karenina, as well as a nomination for Atonement, and also earned BAFTA and A.S.C. nods for both projects. Atonement also earned him nominations for the British Independent Film Award, the Chicago Film Critics Association and the Online Film Critics Society, while walking off with the top honor from the Phoenix Film Critics Society.

McGarvey has also won three Evening Standard British Film Awards for Atonement, Anna Karenina and Stephen Daldry's The Hours; and a quartet of Irish Film & Television Awards for Atonement, Anna Karenina, Sahara and We Need to Talk About Kevin. In 2004, he was awarded the Royal Photographic Society's prestigious Lumiere Medal, sharing the company of such pioneers as Jack Cardiff, Freddie Francis, Roger Deakins and Ridley Scott, for contributions to the art of cinematography.