Larry Fong

Larry Fong is an American cinematographer. He has been the director of photography for four Zack Snyder films: 300 (2007), Watchmen (2009), Sucker Punch (2011) and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016).

Larry Fong
Born	Los Angeles, California, United States
Occupation	Cinematographer

Early life and career

Fong showed interest and talent in art at a young age. His experience in photography and film was self-taught, beginning in junior high with short films shot on Super 8, cel animation, and stop motion projects. He graduated from UCLA with a B.A. in Linguistics and Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, specializing in film and photography.

He began his professional career filming music videos, and garnered enough attention to result in him filming two independent films and various TV pilots, commercials, and shorts.

In 2004, he was hired to film the Lost pilot, for which he was nominated for an ASC Award.^[1][2]

2006 saw the release of his first studio film, 300, directed by Zack Snyder.

In 2011, he was accepted into the American Society of Cinematographers,^[3] and in 2012 he was accepted into the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.^[4]

Fong is also an accomplished magician and is a member of the Academy of Magical Arts.^[5][6][7]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Director	Notes
2000	Cost of Living	Stan Schofield
2004	Cape of Good Hope	Mark Bamford
2006	300	Zack Snyder
2009	Watchmen
2011	Sucker Punch
	Super 8	J. J. Abrams
2013	Now You See Me	Louis Leterrier	With Mitchell Amundsen
2016	Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice	Zack Snyder
2017	Kong: Skull Island	Jordan Vogt-Roberts
2018	The Predator	Shane Black
2021	The Tomorrow War	Chris McKay
2022	Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers	Akiva Schaffer
	Secret Headquarters	Henry Joost Ariel Schulman
2024	Damsel	Juan Carlos Fresnadillo
2025	Death of a Unicorn †	Alex Scharfman	Post-production
TBA	Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice †	BenDavid Grabinski	Filming

Short film

Year	Title	Director
2000	Hero	Mark Bamford
2019	Battle at Big Rock	Colin Trevorrow
2023	An Electric State	Anthony Leonardi III

Television

Year	Title	Director	Episode(s)
1992	Red Shoe Diaries	Ted Kotcheff	"Accidents Happen"
			"Just Like That"
1997	Sleepwalkers	David Nutter	"Pilot"
2004	Lost	J. J. Abrams	"Pilot"
		Jack Bender	"Tabula Rasa"
			"Walkabout"
		Michael Zinberg	"House of the Rising Sun"
		Tucker Gates	"Confidence Man"
		Greg Yaitanes	"Solitary"
		Jack Bender	"Whatever the Case May Be"
		Greg Yaitanes	"Special"

TV movies

Year	Title	Director
2005	The Catch	Jesse Peretz
2006	Secrets of a Small Town	Adam Davidson
2009	Anatomy of Hope	J. J. Abrams
	Cop House	Brett Ratner
2010	Cutthroat	Bronwen Hughes

Awards

In 2005, he was nominated for an ASC Award for "Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography in Movies of the Week/Mini-Series/Pilot for Broadcast TV" for the pilot episode of Lost (2004).