Robert Elswit

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Robert Christopher Elswit, ASC (born April 22, 1950) is an American cinematographer. He has collaborated with Paul Thomas Anderson from 1996 to 2014, winning the Academy Award for Best Cinematography for There Will Be Blood. Elswit has also collaborated with directors and screenwriters Tony and Dan Gilroy on all six films that either brother directed. Description above from the Wikipedia article Robert Elswit, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

• Animals (2026)
• The Punisher: One Last Kill (2026)
• Ella McCay (2025)
• Bob Marley: One Love (2024)
• King Richard (2021)
• The King of Staten Island (2020)
• Velvet Buzzsaw (2019)
• Skyscraper (2018)
• Write When You Get Work (2018)
• Roman J. Israel, Esq. (2017)
• Remembering Reno: Reflections on the Making of Desert Hearts (2017)
• Suburbicon (2017)
• Gold (2016)
• The Diary of a Teenage Girl (2015)
• Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (2015)
• Inherent Vice (2014)
• Nightcrawler (2014)
• The Bourne Legacy (2012)
• Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (2011)
• The Town (2010)
• Salt (2010)
• The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009)
• Duplicity (2009)
• The Burning Plain (2008)
• Redbelt (2008)
• Shine a Light (2008)
• There Will Be Blood (2007)
• Michael Clayton (2007)
• The Informer: Out of the Fog (2006)
• American Dreamz (2006)
• Syriana (2005)
• Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005)
• Runaway Jury (2003)
• Gigli (2003)
• Behind the Red Door (2003)
• Punch-Drunk Love (2002)
• Impostor (2001)
• Heist (2001)
• Bounce (2000)
• That Moment: Magnolia Diary (2000)
• Magnolia (1999)
• 8MM (1999)
• Richard Lester! (1998)
• Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)
• Boogie Nights (1997)
• Hard Eight (1997)
• Boys (1996)
• The Pallbearer (1996)
• The River Wild (1994)
• A Dangerous Woman (1993)
• A Murderous Affair: The Carolyn Warmus Story (1992)
• Waterland (1992)
• The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (1992)
• Paris Trout (1991)
• The Summer My Father Grew Up (1991)
• Prison Stories: Women on the Inside (1991)
• Opposites Attract (1990)
• A Killing in a Small Town (1990)
• Bad Influence (1990)
• Heart of Dixie (1989)
• How I Got Into College (1989)
• Margaret Bourke-White (1989)
• Return of the Living Dead Part II (1988)
• Cadillac Dreams (1988)
• Into the Homeland (1987)
• Long Gone (1987)
• Amazing Grace and Chuck (1987)
• A Different Affair (1987)
• Trick or Treat (1986)
• The Children of Times Square (1986)
• Desert Hearts (1985)
• Moving Violations (1985)
• The Sure Thing (1985)
• Tiger Town (1984)
• Summerspell (1983)
• Return of the Jedi (1983)
• Waltz Across Texas (1982)
• E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
• All Summer in a Day (1982)
• The End of August (1981)
• The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
• Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)
• Genesis: Four Billion Years in the Making (1978)
• Fraternity Row (1977)
• Faster, Cheaper, Better