Barry Ackroyd
Barry Ackroyd is an English cinematographer and director. Ackroyd has frequently worked with directors Ken Loach and Paul Greengrass. He worked on Kathryn Bigelow's 2008 war film The Hurt Locker, and with Greengrass on the critically acclaimed 2013 biographical thriller Captain Phillips, the former earning him a BAFTA Award and an Academy Award nomination for Best Cinematography. In 2014, Ackroyd became the president of the British Society of Cinematographers.
Life and career
Ackroyd was born in Oldham, England. He received a BAFTA nomination for Best Cinematography for The Lost Prince. His latest credits are on Ken Loach's award-winning feature, The Wind That Shakes The Barley, Paul Greengrass's take on the 9-11 disaster, United 93, and the Kathryn Bigelow-directed Iraq War film, The Hurt Locker.Film reviewer Jack Matthews of the New York Daily News remarked about the filmmaking behind The Wind That Shakes The Barley: "Beautifully shot, both in darkened homes and on the misty green Irish landscape by Loach's frequent cinematographer Barry Ackroyd, "Wind" has a you-are-there intensity and intimacy about it that make it nearly overwhelming."
In 2016, he reunited with Greengrass for the fourth time for the fifth Bourne movie.
Filmography
Television
TV movies| Year | Title | Director |
| 1987 | Big George Is Dead | Henry Martin |
| 1996 | Hillsborough | Charles McDougall |
| 1997 | Bumping the Odds | Rob Rohrer |
| 2002 | Sunday | Dominic Savage |
| 2003 | The Lost Prince | Stephen Poliakoff |
| 2003 | Eroica | Simon Cellan Jones |
| 2005 | Friends and Crocodiles | Stephen Poliakoff |
| 2005 | Gideon's Daughter | Stephen Poliakoff |
| 2010 | The Special Relationship | Richard Loncraine |
| 2011 | The Miraculous Year | Kathryn Bigelow |
| 2013 | The Missionary | Baltasar Kormákur |
TV series
| Year | Title | Director | Notes |
| 1993 | Spender | Ian Knox | Episode "Retreat" |
| 1993 | ScreenPlay | Les Blair | Episode "The Merrihill Millionaires" |
| 1995–1996 | Screen Two | Tim Fywell Michael Whyte | Episodes "Life After Life" and "Flowers of the Forest" |
| 2012 | The Newsroom | Greg Mottola | Episode "We Just Decided To" |
| 2024 | The Sympathizer | Fernando Meirelles | Episode "Give Us Some Good Lines" |
Feature film
Documentary works
Film| Year | Title | Director |
| 1990 | Hunters and Bombers | Hugh Brody Nigel Markham |
| 1991 | The Leader, His Driver, and the Driver's Wife | Nick Broomfield |
| 1992 | Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer | Nick Broomfield |
| 1995 | Anne Frank Remembered | Jon Blair |
TV series
| Year | Title | Director | Notes |
| 1988 | 40 Minutes | Sam Organ | Episode "Diary of a Frontliner" |
| 1989 | Dispatches | Shari Robertson | Episode "Return to Year Zero?" |
| 1989 | Split Screen | Ken Loach | Episode "Time to Go" |
| 1988–1989 | Byline | Marjorie Wallace David Collison | Episodes "Whose Mind Is It Anyway?" and "Johnny and Alf Go Home" |
| 1993 | Nova | Dave Duncan | Episode "The Real Jurassic Park" |
| 1996 | Modern Times | Ken Loach | Episode "The Flickering Flame" |
| 2003 | The Blues | Mike Figgis | Episode "Red, White and Blues" |
Awards and nominations
Academy Awards| Year | Category | Title | Result |
| 2009 | Best Cinematography | The Hurt Locker | Nomitated |
BAFTA Awards
| Year | Category | Title | Result |
| 2006 | Best Cinematography | United 93 | Nomitated |
| 2009 | Best Cinematography | The Hurt Locker | Won |
| 2013 | Best Cinematography | Captain Phillips | Nomitated |
American Society of Cinematographers
| Year | Category | Title | Result |
| 2009 | Outstanding Cinematography | The Hurt Locker | Nomitated |
| 2013 | Outstanding Cinematography | Captain Phillips | Nomitated |
Other awards