TAK FUJIMOTO

#1: 2003

#2: 2001

#3: 1997

TAK FUJIMOTO ASC

Born: 12 July 1939, San Diego, Calif., USA, as Takashi Fujimoto.

Education: San Dieguito High School, San Diego County [1957]; University of California, Berkeley; London School of Film Technique [LSFT] [later London International Film School; now The London Film School], London, UK.

Career: Became Haskell Wexler's general asst at Dove Films [1969].

Member of the ASC since 1997.

Retired in 2012.

Awards: BSFC Award [1991] & BAFTA Film Award nom [1992] for 'The Silence of the Lambs'; NSFC Award [1996] for 'Devil in a Blue Dress'; CFCA Award nom [1999] & Golden Satellite Award nom [1999] for 'Beloved'; ASC Award nom [2000] for 'The Sixth Sense'; 'Emmy' Award [2008] for 'John Adams' [ep #2 'Independence']; 'Emmy' Award nom [2008; shared] for 'John Adams' [ep #3 'Don't Tread on Me'].

FILMS
1967	Child in a Glass Ball [P. Bradbury] 16mm/b&w; doc/13m; lighting; c.op: A. Orr & J. Nemeth; prod LSFT
1972	Chicago Blues [Harley Cokliss] c; mus doc/49m; cph: Terry Bedford
1973	Badlands [Terrence Malick] c; cph: Brian Probyn & Stevan Larner
1973	Bootleggers/Bootleggers' Angel [Charles B. Pierce] tao35/c; addph: Gordon Eastman & C.B. Pierce
1974	Caged Heat/Renegade Girls [Jonathan Demme] c
1974	Switchblade Sisters/The Jezebels/Playgirl Gang [Jack Hill] c; 2uc (+ c.op); ph: Stephen M. Katz
1975	The Watts Monster/Dr. Black and Mr. White/Dr. Black, Mr. Hyde [William Crain] c
1975	Crazy Mama [Jonathan Demme] c; 2uc; ph: Bruce Logan
1975	Death Race 2000/T.P. Sloan [Paul Bartel] c; 2uc: Eric Saarinen & Henning Schellerup
1976	Star Wars [: Episode IV: A New Hope] [George Lucas] p/c; co-2uc; ph: Gilbert Taylor
1976	Cannonball!/Carquake [Paul Bartel] c; 2uc: Bob Collins; action ph: Henning Schellerup
1976	Almos' a Man [Stan Lathan] c; short/39m
1976	Chatterbox [Tom DeSimone] c
1977	Bad Georgia Road [John C. Broderick] c
1977	Remember My Name [Alan Rudolph] c

[Left] with Andrew Davis, c.asst Randall Robinson & asst dir James Dennett - "Stony Island"

1977	Stony Island/My Main Man from Stony Island [Andrew Davis] c
1978	Last Embrace [Jonathan Demme] c; addph: Dick Kratina & Ed Lachman
1979	Melvin and Howard [Jonathan Demme] c
1979	Where the Buffalo Roam [Art Linson] c; 2uc: Roger Shearman
1979	Borderline [Jerrold Freedman] c
1981	National Lampoon Goes to the Movies/National Lampoon's Movie Madness [seg 'Success Wanters' & 'Growing Yourself' dir by Bob Giraldi] p/c; seg 'Municipalians' dir by Henry Jaglom and ph by Charles Correll
1982	Heart Like a Wheel [Jonathan Kaplan] c; 2uc: John Stephens & (Washington) László Pal
1983	Swing Shift [Jonathan Demme] c
1985	Pretty in Pink [Howard Deutch] c

1985	Ferris Bueller’s Day Off/A Day on the Town/Daytrippers [John Hughes] s35/c; 2uc (Chicago): George Kohut
1986	Something Wild [Jonathan Demme] c; creative cons: Jacek Laskus
1986	Backfire [Gilbert Cates] c
1987	Sweet Hearts Dance [Robert Greenwald] c; 2uc: Dyanna Taylor
1987	Married to the Mob [Jonathan Demme] c; 2uc: Dyanna Taylor
1988	Cocoon: The Return [Daniel Petrie] c; vfx ph: Patrick Turner; uwph: Jordan Klein
1988	Miami Blues [George Armitage] c
1989	The Silence of the Lambs [Jonathan Demme] c; filmed 1989-90
1990	Crooked Hearts [Michael Bortman] c
1991	Gladiator [Rowdy Herrington] c; + small part
1991	Singles [Cameron Crowe] c; cph: Ueli Steiger; 2uc: Bill O'Drobinak; aph: Frank Holgate
1991	Night and the City [Irwin Winkler] c
1992	Philadelphia [Jonathan Demme] c; + small part
1994	Devil In a Blue Dress [Carl Franklin] c
1994	The Complex Sessions [Jonathan Demme] c; mus doc/30m
1995	Grumpier Old Men/Grumpy Old Men 2 [Howard Deutch] c
1995	That Thing You Do! [Tom Hanks] c
1996	A Thousand Acres [Jocelyn Moorhouse] c
1997	Beloved [Jonathan Demme] c; 2uc: Kyle Rudolph

[Right] with dir M. Night Shyamalan - "The Sixth Sense"

1998	The Sixth Sense [M. Night Shyamalan] c; addph: David Golia
1999	The Replacements [Howard Deutch] c; addph: David Golia; uwph: Mike Thomas
2001	The Truth About Charlie [Jonathan Demme] p/c; 2uc France: Manuel Teran; remake of 'Charade' (1962-63, Stanley Donen; ph: Charles Lang Jr.)
2001	Signs [M. Night Shyamalan] c; 2uc: Patrick Capone; aph: David B. Nowell
2003	The Final Cut [Omar Naïm] s35+HD (Panasonic VariCam)+mdv (Panasonic AG-DVX100)-to-35mm scope/b&w-c; 2uc (+ Zoe unit ph): Peter Wunstorf

[Right] with dir Jonathan Demme [left] - "The Manchurian Candidate"

2003	The Manchurian Candidate [Jonathan Demme] c; 2uc New York/Washington D.C.: Tony Jannelli; uwph: Pete Romano; remake of film (1962, John Frankenheimer; ph: Lionel Lindon)
2005	Breach [Billy Ray] c; uncred re-shoots ph: Oliver Wood; 2uc Washington D.C.: David Insley & J.P. Locherer (+ 2u c.op); aph: David Norris
2006	The Great Buck Howard [Sean McGinly] c; add unit ph: Robbie Greenberg
2007	The Happening [M. Night Shyamalan] 35mm (+ D-Cinema)/c; splinter unit ph: Patrick Capone; uncred aph: Phil Pastuhov
2009	Devil [John Erick Dowdle] s35 (+ D-Cinema)/c; opening seq ph: John Frost; aph Philadelphia: Phil Pastuhov
2011	Gods Behaving Badly [Marc Turtletaub] HD (ARRI ALEXA)/c; addph: Craig Haagensen; uwph: Raphy Molinary; replaced ph Tom Richmond

TELEVISION
1977	This Man Stands Alone/Lawman Without a Gun/He Who Walks Alone [Jerrold Freedman] tvm
1978	At Home with Shields and Yarnell [Andrew Davis] tvm/5m
1978	Some Kind of Miracle [Jerrold Freedman] tvm
1981	Divorce Wars [: A Love Story] [Donald Wrye] tvm
1983	The Seduction of Gina/Another High Roller [Jerrold Freedman] tvm
1984	Seduced [Jerrold Freedman] tvm
1984	Blackout [Douglas Hickox] tvm
1985	MacGyver [pilot dir by Alan Smithee (= Jerrold Freedman)] 139-part series, 1985-92; 1st season, 1985-86; uncred 2uc (pilot): Curtis Petersen
1989	Cast the First Stone [: The Diane Martin Story] [John Korty] tvm
2007	John Adams [ep #1 (ph) 'Join or Die', #2 (ph) 'Independence', #3 (cph) 'Don't Tread on Me', #4 (cph) 'Reunion', #5 (cph) 'Unite or Die', #6 (cph) 'Unnecessary War' & #7 (addph) 'Peacefield' dir by Tom Hooper] 7-part miniseries/35mm-to-HD, 2008; other ph: Danny Cohen; 2uc: Kyle Rudolph; snow unit ph: Stephen Lyons
2011	A Gifted Man [pilot dir by Jonathan Demme] 16-part series/HD (ARRI ALEXA), 2011-12; other ph: Tom Weston

MISCELLANEOUS
1972	Private Parts/Blood Relations [Paul Bartel] 1st c.asst; ph: Andrew Davis
1972	Group Marriage [Stephanie Rothman] c.asst; ph: Daniel Lacambre
1974	Switchblade Sisters/The Jezebels/Playgirl Gang [Jack Hill] c.op (+ 2uc); ph: Stephen M. Katz
1988	84C MoPic/84 Charlie Mopic [Patrick Sheane Duncan] thanks; ph: Alan Caso
2013	No Escape/The Coup [John Erick Dowdle] co-special thanks; ph: Léo Hinstin