Behind The Lens Spotlight: Roman Osin, Pride & Prejudice 2005 film’s Cinematographer
“The film was to be beautiful not pretty, romantic but not sentimental. We would set it in a countryside full of life, as muddy as things must have been back then”. - Paul Webster (P&P producer)
In celebration of P&P’s 14th year anniversary of its U.S. Theatrical release...Here’s an appreciation post about Pride & Prejudice's own brilliant Cinematographer/Director of Photography Roman Osin, who won a BIFA (British Independent Film Award) for The Warrior for Best Technical Achievement. It’s very interesting that he was only nominated a few times for P&P and didn’t win any award either... Can’t believe he didn’t even get an Oscar nomination nor a BAFTA and Golden Globe nominations with his breathtakingly brilliant Cinematography work for this movie! He was only nominated for P&P movie in the following categories:
•Best Cinematographer from the European Film Awards
•Best Cinematography from the Chicago Film Critics Association Awards (CFCAA Awards)
•Best Cinematography or Visual/Special Effects from St. Louis Film Critics Association.
A few top film Critics mentioning and phrasing the impressive and stunning for this movie:
•"the film is gorgeously shot, with some of England's most dazzling estates doubling for the novel's Pemberley and Netherfield Park manses.” (Claudia Puig, USA Today)
•"Anyone coming to the movie fresh and not demanding a chapter-by-chapter adaptation will respond to the pic's emotional sweep, sumptuous lensing and marvelous sense of ensemble." (Derek Elley, Variety)
•"It's an exuberant film adaptation of real personality -- lively, coltish, imaginatively conceived for a fluid camera." (Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune)
And a few of his other DoP/Cinematography work were from the following movies...
•Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium
•I Am David
•The Warrior
His upcoming Films for 2019-2020:
•Mortal (2020)
•Scary stories to tell in the dark (2019)
This is quite possibly one of the most spectacularly well photographed films I've ever clapped eyes on. Truly, a stunning piece of cinematography. One scene after another, filmed in such breathtakingly beautiful tones that it's difficult to pinpoint any one scene which individually could describe the splendor which has been captured by Mr. Roman Osin.
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