THE KODAK CINEMATOGRAPHER-IN-RESIDENCE PROGRAM AT UCLA

The Kodak Cinematographer-in-Residence Program was established in the 1999-2000 academic year to bring together the worlds of professional and academic cinematography, exposing TFT students to critically acclaimed industry veterans who have attained the highest levels of achievement within the filmmaking industry. Students study with these experts for an entire academic term through a series of workshops and screenings. No other film program in the country offers this level of access to such artists on an annual basis.

2018-19
Dan Mindel, ASC, BSC, SASC
(Star Trek, Mission: Impossible III, Star Wars: Episode VII — The Force Awakens)

2017-18
Michael Goi, ASC
(American Horror Story, Glee, My Name Is Earl)

2016-17
Rodrigo Prieto, ASC
(Silence, The Wolf of Wall Street, Argo, Babel, Brokeback Mountain)

2015-16
Bradford Young, ASC
(Pawn Sacrifice, A Most Violent Year, Selma, Ain't Them Bodies Saints)

2014-15
Mandy Walker, ASC, ACS
(Australia, Shattered Glass, Red Riding Hood, Jane Got a Gun)

2013-14
Guillermo Navarro, ASC, AMC
(From Dusk Till Dawn, Spy Kids, Hellboy, Pan's Labyrinth, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part 1, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part 2, Pacific Rim)

2011-12
Dante Spinotti, ASC
(Public Enemies, Tower Heist, Hercules)

2010-11
Richard Crudo, ASC
(American Pie)

2009-10
John Bailey, ASC
(American Gigolo, In the Line of Fire, As Good as it Gets, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, He's Just Not That Into You)

2008-09
Vilmos Zsigmond, ASC
(Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The Deer Hunter, The River)

2007-08
Victor J. Kemper, ASC
(Dog Day Afternoon, American Pie Presents Band Camp)

2006-07
Stephen H. Burum, ASC
(The Untouchables, Mission: Impossible)

2005-06
Joan Churchill, ASC
(Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer)

2004-05
Roger Deakins, BSC, ASC
(No Country for Old Men, True Grit, Skyfall)

2003-04
Laszlo Kovacs, ASC
(Ghostbusters, Radio Flyer, My Best Friend’s Wedding, Miss Congeniality)

2002-03
Owen Roizman, ASC
(The Exorcist, Tootsie, Wyatt Earp)

2001-02
Conrad L. Hall, ASC
(Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, American Beauty, Road to Perdition)

2000-01
Dean Cundey, ASC
(Back to the Future, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Jurassic Park, Apollo 13, The Holiday, Jack and Jill)

1999-2000
Allen Daviau, ASC
(E.T., The Extra-Terrestrial, The Color Purple, Empire of the Sun, Avalon, Bugsy, Congo, Van Helsing)