ASC Welcomes New Member Lol Crawley
The cinematographer's credits include Four Lions, 45 Years, Vox Lux, The Childhood of a Leader, and The Brutalist, which earned him an Oscar.
Lol Crawley, ASC, BSC has been behind the camera for more than two decades and won an Academy Award last year for The Brutalist, for which he also received an ASC Award nomination.
The U.K. native, who now resides in Los Angeles, earned a B.A. in media production at Northumbria University and started out in the industry as a camera assistant on 16mm dramas, working for BSC members Ernie Vincze and John McGlashan, among other cinematographers. He made his feature-cinematography debut on Lance Hammer’s Ballast, for which he won the Excellence in Cinematography Award (Drama) at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. Crawley was thrilled to receive a congratulatory and appreciative email from Harris Savides, ASC, whose work he had long admired. He also cites ASC members Ellen Kuras and Anthony Dod Mantle as particularly inspiring and supportive at that point in his career.
The Brutalist marked Crawley’s third feature with writer-director Brady Corbet, following Vox Lux and The Childhood of a Leader; the cinematographer was nominated for the ASC Spotlight Award for his work on the latter. His credits also include the features White Noise, The Humans, 45 Years and the Camerimage Golden Frog nominee Hyde Park on Hudson; episodes of The OA and Black Mirror; music videos for Arcade Fire and Coldplay; and commercials for Volkswagen, Adidas, Samsung and Dior.
He recently wrapped the feature Wicker for directors Alex Huston Fischer and Eleanor Wilson.
Visit Crawley’s website here, and follow him on Instagram here.
View the current ASC membership roster here.
