The Mexican Rodrigo Prieto, nominated for best cinematography at the Oscars for 'The Assassins of the Moon'

Director Rodrigo Prieto has been nominated for an Oscar in the category of Best Cinematography for his work on

(

), the most recent film by American Martin Scorsese, which also received nine other nominations, including Best Picture and Best Director, to name a few.

The 58-year-old artist, originally from Mexico City, will compete in the shortlist against names such as Hoyte Van Hoytema (

), Robbie Ryan (

), Matthew Libatique (

) and Edward Lachman (

)

Prieto is no stranger to the eyes of the US Academy, since with this he adds his fourth nomination after

(2005; Ang Lee);

(2016) and

(2019) —both with Scorsese—, although still without luck in taking the maximum alibuster.

also marks the fourth consecutive collaboration of the Mexican with the author of classics such as

.

Only two other cinematographers, Michael Ballhaus (7) and Robert Richardson (5), have worked more times with Scorsese.

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The most recent collaboration between the Chilango and the

follows the story, based on true events, of how, between 1921 and 1925, the Osage Indian tribe of Oklahoma was granted the right to benefit from a good number of oil deposits in their lands.

Later how they begin to be murdered for their wealth in a series of brutal crimes.

An FBI investigation will unravel a story of ambition, betrayal, and violence that fits into America's historic founding architecture.

“In the case of cinema, filmmakers try to express something that perhaps they cannot explain with words.

And if there is anyone who masters those words, in terms of cinematic language, it is Scorsese.

He uses the camera to express ideas that he may not even know exactly what they mean.

But we create these shots... he creates these shots and I execute them, that really says things,” Prieto told the US Film Academy's A.frame magazine about working with Scorsese.

Prieto has more than 20 years of work and experimentation in the creation of images for cinema.

His signature as a photographer has achieved worldwide prestige for years, the same that has led him to work, apart from Scorsese, with great directors such as Oliver Stone, Ang Lee, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Pedro Almodóvar, among many others, with whom he has captured different visual universes.

Trained at the Cinematographic Training Center (CCC), Prieto entered the international film circle by working behind the scenes on

(2000), a film that also put the spotlight on and promoted the careers of Alejandro González Iñárritu and Gael García Bernal .

Today Rodrigo Prieto, along with Emmanuel Lubezki and Gabriel Beristáin, is part of the Olympus of photographers who have marked Mexican cinema and have managed to transcend borders.

Prieto's nomination for Best Director of Photography is the cherry on top of a 2023 in which he not only participated in one of the best films of the year, as he also left his photographic stamp on last year's box office success and was also nominated this 2024 for Best Film,

, by Greta Gerwig.

Thanks to the contributions of the cinematographer, the iconic pigment present in the flowers, textiles and architecture of Mexico reached the most anticipated premiere of last summer.

Inspired by the bougainvilleas in the streets, the textiles used in traditional clothing and the architecture of Luis Barragán, the Oscar nominee convinced Gerwig and the production director, Sarah Greenwood, to include this shade in the film.

This 2024 will also mark the debut year in the director's chair for Prieto, with the film adaptation of

, the work of Juan Rulfo, which he is making for Netflix and which is scheduled for release in 2024.

was released last year and is now available

through Apple TV+.

The Oscar gala will take place on March 10 at the Dolby Theater in Hollywood, Los Angeles, where it will be known if Rodrigo Prieto crowns one of the best years of his career.

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