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Stéphane Fontaine is an award-winning French cinematographer. 2016 was a big year for Fontaine, as he lensed Captain Fantastic, for which Viggo Mortensen was Academy Award®– nominated; Pablo Larraín’s Jackie, which was nominated for multiple Independent Spirit Awards and Oscars®; and Paul Verhoeven’s Elle, which was also nominated for an Academy Award®. Fontaine himself received a Critics’ Choice Award nomination for Jackie and a César Award nomination for Elle. Most recently, Fontaine lensed Julie Delpy’s My Zoe, Francis Lee’s Ammonite and Alice Winocour’s Revoir Paris.

Stéphane Fontaine graduated from the École nationale supérieure Louis-Lumière in 1985 and began his career as first assistant camera on features directed by Arnaud Desplechin, Jim Jarmusch, Leos Carax and Olivier Assayas, among other filmmakers. He won the César Award for Best Cinematography in 2006 for The Beat That My Heart Skipped and another in 2010 for A Prophet. Fontaine was nominated for another César in 2012 for Rust and Bone. The following year he was nominated for a Lumière Award for Jimmy P: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian.

Press release from Fosforo Press.

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