With Jason Bourne, Barry Ackroyd marked his fourth collaboration with director Paul Greengrass. He shot the Iraq War thriller Green Zone, received a BAFTA Award nomination for his work on the award-winning United 93 and an American Society of Cinematographers Award nomination for his filming of Captain Phillips. His film credits include Adam McKay's The Big Short; Gilles Paquet-Brenner's Dark Places, which starred Charlize Theron; Contraband for director Baltasar Kormákur; Coriolanus for Ralph Fiennes; and Parkland for Peter Landesman.
A native of Manchester, England, Ackroyd studied film at Portsmouth College of Art. Afterward, he moved to London and began his career by working on documentaries. Ackroyd has regularly collaborated with director Nick Broomfield, for whom he shot The Leader, His Driver and the Driver's Wife, Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer and Tracking Down Maggie: The Unofficial Biography of Margaret Thatcher. He also shot the Academy Award®-winning documentary Anne Frank Remembered for director Jon Blair.
Ackroyd is well known for his long creative association with British director Ken Loach, a relationship spanning almost 20 years and culminating in their collaboration on The Wind That Shakes the Barley, which won the Palme d'Or at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival. The film brought Ackroyd Best Cinematographer honors at the 2006 European Film Awards. In 2010, Ackroyd received an Oscar® nomination for Best Achievement in Cinematography for his work on the Best Picture winner The Hurt Locker for director Kathryn Bigelow; he also won both the BAFTA Award and British Society of Cinematographers Award for Best Cinematography. Earlier, he directed the short film The Butterfly Man, for which he received a BAFTA Award nomination for Best Short Film. Ackroyd was also nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Photography and Lighting (Fiction/Entertainment) for his work on the 2004 miniseries The Lost Prince, directed by Stephen Poliakoff.
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