Tony Pierce-Roberts
Pierce-Roberts' first film was "Caught on a Train" (1980), but he really didn't gain notice until he created a grimy, workaday London for Jerzy Skolimowski's "Moonlighting" (1982). Among the earlier films on which Pierce-Roberts was director of photography were the children's drama "Kipperbang" (1982), "A Private Function" (1984), his first US film "A Tiger's Tale" (1987) and the Alaskan drama "White Fang" (1991). But Pierce-Roberts is perhaps best known for his work on the films of Merchant-Ivory. He won his first Oscar nomination for the sumptuous compositions and Venetian locations of "A Room with a View" (1986) and earned a second nomination for "Howards End" (1992), which effectively blended lush pastoral landscapes with scenes of dingy urban confinement. He also photographed Ivory's trendy urban comedy "Slaves of New York" (1989) and the well-received "Mr. and Mrs. Bridge" (1990), "The Remains of the Day" (1993) and "Surviving Picasso" (1996). His work has also ventured from the delicacy of Merchant-Ivory, however. George Romero's "The Dark Half" (1993), shot in Pittsburgh, was a moderately-budgeted thriller, while Joel Schumacher's "The Client" (1994) was shot in the South and Barry Levinson's "Disclosure" (both 1994) took audiences into corporate boardrooms. Among Pierce-Roberts other credits are the hair-raising thrillers "Copycat" and "Haunted" (both 1995), the comedy "Jungle2Jungle" (1997) and the Italian romance "Something to Believe In" (lensed 1996).