It won an Oscar for Vilmos Zsigmond's cinematography, as well as a special achievement award for special effects.
Let the Right One In was nominated in five categories for the Swedish Film Institute's 2008 Guldbagge Award, eventually winning for best directing, screenplay and cinematography as well as a Best Achievement-award to production designer Eva Norén.
He is assisted by some deft hand-held-camera work and beautiful color cinematography as well as by the natural vibrancy of Rio.
Here he turns his talents (he helped write the film and supervised its cinematography as well) to gauzy erotic reveries and pulsating psychedelia, realized the old-fashioned way with solarization effects rather than digital intervention.
The film, about a young man of Arabic descent and his journey through the French prison system, took home nine Césars in all, including those for best director, original screenplay and cinematography, as well as acting awards for Tahar Rahim, who plays the central character, and Niels Arestrup, who plays an aging mob boss whose influence he falls under.
Mendes, a London theatre director who has made the transition to Hollywood golden boy, is just short of last year's record 16 nominations for Shakespeare in Love, but his film is in contention for best film, best director and best cinematography, as well as acting, design and music awards.
Some viewers may find the dissipation self-conscious or arty; the meticulousness of Mr. Curran's direction and Dion Beebe's cinematography, as well as the carefully appointed mess of Cynthia and Gordon's living quarters, are hard to miss.
Balkan war drama In the Land of Blood and Honey picked up a nod for best foreign language film at the celebrity-obsessed Golden Globes in 2011, and last year's Unbroken scored Oscar nominations for Roger Deakins' cinematography, as well as in two technical sound categories.
Some viewers may find the dissipation self-conscious or arty; the meticulousness of Mr. Curran's direction and Dion Beebe's cinematography, as well as the carefully appointed mess of Cynthia and Gordon's living quarters, are hard to miss.
The film is known for Leone's use of long shots and close-up cinematography, as well as his distinctive utilization of violence, tension, and stylistic gunfights.
