Anthony Dod Mantle

Anthony Dod Mantle, DFF, BSC, ASC (born 14 April 1955) is a British cinematographer and still photographer.

Anthony Dod Mantle
Anthony Dod Mantle in May 2008
Born	(1955-04-14) 14 April 1955 (age 70) Witney, Oxfordshire, U.K.
Alma mater	National Film School of Denmark
Years active	1990–present
Website	Official website

He won the Academy Award and BAFTA Award for Best Cinematography for Slumdog Millionaire (2008). Other accolades include two Bodil Awards, two European Film Awards, and four Robert Awards.

Dod Mantle is considered a pioneer of digital filmmaking through his collaborations with directors Lars von Trier, Thomas Vinterberg and Danny Boyle, where he popularized the use of "action-style" handheld cameras over traditional, stationary 35mm rigs.^[1] A veteran of Dogme 95, he is heavily influenced by the cinéma vérité film movement.^[2] He is a member of the British, Danish, and American Society of Cinematographers, and resides in Copenhagen.^[3]

Career

Dod Mantle directed photography on three Dogme 95 films and the first two episodes of Wallander. He used the Red One digital camera on Wallander, the first British television production to do so.^[4] He won the British Academy Television Craft Award for Photography & Lighting (Fiction/Entertainment) for his work on the series^[5] and was nominated for a RTS Craft & Design Award for Lighting, Photography & Camera—Photography—Drama.^[6] He was also cinematographer on Slumdog Millionaire (Danny Boyle, 2008), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography in 2009. Dod Mantle is included in the book Conversations with Cinematographers by David A Ellis.

On 19 November 2016, during the Camerimage festival, Anthony Dod Mantle received the Brown Frog award for his cinematography on Snowden.^[7][8]

Dod Mantle lives with his family in Copenhagen, Denmark.^[4]

Style and technique

Dod Mantle helped pioneer the use of digital cinematography with his early use of home-quality DV in The Celebration, and eventually won an Academy Award for Best Cinematography for his work on Slumdog Millionaire, the first time that award went to a film shot digitally.^[9]

Dod Mantle has also experimented with extreme slow motion with high speed cameras in films like Antichrist and Dredd.^[10]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Director	Notes
1990	Kaj's fødselsdag	Lone Scherfig	With Kim Hattesen
1992	Die Terroristen!	Philip Gröning
1995	Menneskedyret	Carsten Rudolf
	Operation Cobra	Lasse Spang Olsen
1996	The Biggest Heroes	Thomas Vinterberg
1997	Det store flip	Niels Gråbøl
	Nonnebørn	Cæcilia Holbek Trier
1998	The Celebration	Thomas Vinterberg
1999	Mifune	Søren Kragh-Jacobsen
	Bornholms stemme	Lotte Svendsen
	Julien Donkey-Boy	Harmony Korine
2002	28 Days Later	Danny Boyle
2003	It's All About Love	Thomas Vinterberg
	Dogville	Lars von Trier
2004	Millions	Danny Boyle
2005	Dear Wendy	Thomas Vinterberg
	Manderlay	Lars von Trier
	Brothers of the Head	Keith Fulton Louis Pepe
2006	The Last King of Scotland	Kevin Macdonald
	Istedgade	Birgitte Stærmose
2007	Just like Home	Lone Scherfig
	A Man Comes Home	Thomas Vinterberg
2008	My Black Little Heart	Claire Angelique
	Country Wedding	Valdís Óskarsdóttir
	Slumdog Millionaire	Danny Boyle
2009	Antichrist	Lars von Trier
2010	127 Hours	Danny Boyle	With Enrique Chediak
2011	The Eagle	Kevin MacDonald
2012	Dredd	Pete Travis
2013	Trance	Danny Boyle
	Rush	Ron Howard
2015	In the Heart of the Sea
2016	Our Kind of Traitor	Susanna White
	Snowden	Oliver Stone
2017	T2 Trainspotting	Danny Boyle
	First They Killed My Father	Angelina Jolie
2018	Kursk	Thomas Vinterberg
2019	Radioactive	Marjane Satrapi
	Gutterbee	Ulrich Thomsen
2024	My Penguin Friend	David Schurmann
2025	28 Years Later †	Danny Boyle	Post-production
TBA	The Runner †	Kevin Macdonald	Filming

Television

TV movies

Year	Title	Director
1999	En verdensomsejling under bordet	Maria Walbom
2000	D-dag	Søren Kragh-Jacobsen Kristian Levring Thomas Vinterberg
2001	Strumpet	Danny Boyle
	Vacuuming Completely Nude in Paradise

TV series

Year	Title	Director	Notes
2008	Wallander	Philip Martin	2 episodes
2017	The Putin Interviews	Oliver Stone	Documentary series; With Rodrigo Prieto
2020	The Undoing	Susanne Bier	Miniseries
2022	Pistol	Danny Boyle

Awards and nominations

Academy Awards

Year	Title	Category	Result
2008	Slumdog Millionaire	Best Cinematography	Won

BAFTA Awards

Year	Title	Category	Result
2008	Slumdog Millionaire	Best Cinematography	Won
2010	127 Hours		Nominated

European Film Awards

Year	Title	Category	Result
2002	28 Days Later	Best Cinematographer	Won
2003	Dogville		Won
2005	Manderlay		Nominated
2006	The Last King of Scotland		Nominated
2008	Slumdog Millionaire		Won
2009	Antichrist

Independent Spirit Awards

Year	Title	Category	Result
1999	Julien Donkey-Boy	Best Cinematography	Nominated
2005	Brothers of the Head		Nominated

Online Film Critics Society

Year	Title	Category	Result
2008	Slumdog Millionaire	Best Cinematography	Nominated
2010	127 Hours		Nominated

San Diego Film Critics Society

Year	Title	Category	Result
2008	Slumdog Millionaire	Best Cinematography	Won
2010	127 Hours		Nominated

Other awards

Year	Title	Award	Result
2008	Slumdog Millionaire	National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Cinematography	Won
		New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Cinematography	Won
2010	127 Hours[11]	Satellite Award for Best Cinematography	Nominated