cinematographer
C2484
concept
A cinematographer is the visual storyteller responsible for crafting a film’s look through camera work, lighting, and shot composition in collaboration with the director.
All labels observed (49)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| cinematographer canonical | 1,253 |
| British cinematographer | 74 |
| French cinematographer | 24 |
| Australian cinematographer | 17 |
| Italian cinematographer | 14 |
| director of photography | 10 |
| Canadian cinematographer | 7 |
| German cinematographer | 6 |
| Brazilian cinematographer | 4 |
| Polish cinematographer | 4 |
| Spanish cinematographer | 4 |
| film cinematographer | 4 |
| Danish cinematographer | 3 |
| television cinematographer | 3 |
| Argentine cinematographer | 2 |
| Czech cinematographer | 2 |
| Dutch cinematographer | 2 |
| Hungarian cinematographer | 2 |
| Indian cinematographer | 2 |
| Irish cinematographer | 2 |
| Japanese cinematographer | 2 |
| Norwegian cinematographer | 2 |
| South African cinematographer | 2 |
| South Korean cinematographer | 2 |
| Soviet cinematographer | 2 |
| Steadicam operator | 2 |
| Swedish cinematographer | 2 |
| Taiwanese cinematographer | 2 |
| documentary cinematographer | 2 |
| war cinematographer | 2 |
| Austrian cinematographer | 1 |
| Austrian-American cinematographer | 1 |
| Bangladeshi cinematographer | 1 |
| Belgian cinematographer | 1 |
| Belgian-born French cinematographer | 1 |
| Chilean cinematographer | 1 |
| Chinese cinematographer | 1 |
| Czech-American cinematographer | 1 |
| Egyptian cinematographer | 1 |
| Estonian-Canadian cinematographer | 1 |
| Greek cinematographer | 1 |
| Hong Kong cinematographer | 1 |
| Hungarian-American cinematographer | 1 |
| Italian-American cinematographer | 1 |
| Mexican cinematographer | 1 |
| Romanian cinematographer | 1 |
| Ukrainian cinematographer | 1 |
| special effects cinematographer | 1 |
| 촬영 감독 | 1 |
Description generation (CDg)
The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.
Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class. # Response Format Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: cinematographer
Generated description
A cinematographer is the visual storyteller responsible for crafting a film’s look through camera work, lighting, and shot composition in collaboration with the director.
Instances (1,261)
| Instance | Via concept surface |
|---|---|
| Jean-Yves Escoffier | — |
| Gilbert Taylor | — |
| Donald McAlpine | — |
| Rene Ohashi | — |
| Carl E. Guthrie | — |
| David Tattersall | — |
| Philippe Rousselot | — |
| Richard H. Kline | — |
| Karl Freund | — |
| Robert Florey | — |
| Floyd Crosby | — |
| Lucien Ballard | — |
| James Whitaker | — |
| Simon Dunsdon | — |
| Frank V. Phillips | — |
| Ralf D. Bode | — |
| Chung Chung-hoon | — |
| David Watkin | — |
| Todd Fisher | — |
| Curt Courant | — |
| Josef von Sternberg | — |
| Óscar Faura | — |
| Sean Bobbitt | — |
| Leon Shamroy | — |
| Newton Thomas Sigel | — |
| Monika Lenczewska | — |
| Jonathan Sela | — |
| G. W. Bitzer | — |
| Ira Morgan | — |
| Roland Totheroh | — |
| Patricio Castilla | — |
| Linus Sandgren | — |
| Christopher Ross | — |
| David Higgs | — |
| Adam Kimmel | — |
| Paul Sarossy | — |
| Albert Duverger | — |
| Russell Boyd | — |
| David Abel | — |
| Robert Bronner | — |
| Robert De Grasse | — |
| J. Roy Hunt | — |
| Philip H. Lathrop | — |
| Greig Fraser | — |
| Leonard Smith | — |
| Guillermo Navarro | — |
| Néstor Almendros | — |
| Vilmos Zsigmond | — |
| Lance Acord | — |
| Miroljub Dikosavljevic | — |