Cast & creator

Andrew Lesnie

1956-01-01 (died at 59) Sydney, AustraliaIMDb

Best known for The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

Andrew Lesnie ACS ASC (1 January 1956 – 27 April 2015) was an Australian cinematographer. He was best known for his collaboration with director Peter Jackson on The Hobbit trilogy (2012–2014) and The Lord of the Rings trilogy (2001–2003), for which the letter earned him the Academy Award for Best Cinematography in 2002 for his work on The Fellowship of the Ring. Description above from the Wikipedia article Andrew Lesnie, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Movies

film credits

Series

television credits

Career

1980–2014 · acting roles

Credit score

6.3

average across scored titles

Signature credits

Known for

Ordered by popularity

★ 8.4

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

Director of Photography · 2001

★ 8.5

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

Corsair of Umbar (uncredited) · 2003

★ 8.5

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

Director of Photography · 2003

★ 7.3

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies

Director of Photography · 2014

★ 8.4

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

Director of Photography · 2002

Across film & television

Filmography (59)

Showing 59 of 59 credits

Andrew Lesnie

Known for

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

Filmography (59)

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

Rise of the Planet of the Apes

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

I Am Legend

The Lovely Bones

The Last Airbender

King Kong

Happy Feet

Babe: Pig in the City

Babe

The Water Diviner

Two If by Sea

Cyclone Tracy

Shine a Light

The Delinquents

The Delinquents

Passage to Middle-Earth: The Making of 'The Lord of the Rings'

The Shrimp on the Barbie

The Making of 'The Fellowship of the Ring'

The Turning

A Filmmaker's Journey: Making 'The Return of the King'

The Fellowship of the Ring: Cameras in Middle-earth

The Long and Short of It

The Making of 'The Long and Short of It'

The Rainbow Warrior Conspiracy

Incident at Raven's Gate

The Fellowship of the Ring: From Book to Script

Doing Time for Patsy Cline

The Fellowship of the Ring: Scale

Temptation of a Monk

The Quest Fulfilled: A Director's Vision

Boys in the Island

The Killing of Angel Street

Fantasy Man

Bran Nue Dae

Love's Brother

Around the World in Eighty Ways

New Zealand as Middle Earth

Fair Game

Spider and Rose

Spider and Rose

Healing

Dark Age

The Fellowship of the Ring: Digital Grading

The Sugar Factory

The Fellowship of the Ring: Assembling an Epic

Unfinished Business

Fatal Past

The Comeback

Daydream Believer

Schwarzenegger: Total Rebuild

Dead Easy

Australian Dream

Early Frost