
Sven Nykvist
Highest Rated: 100% Lumiere and Company (1995)
Lowest Rated: 17% One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1971)
Birthday: Dec 3, 1922
Birthplace: Moheda, Sweden
A master of natural lighting, Swedish cameraman Sven Nykvist found his artistic soul mate in Ingmar Bergman, collaborating with the great writer-director on more than 20 projects. Nykvist's parents, Lutheran missionaries in the Congo, had left him and his siblings to be raised by relatives in Stockholm, and the sense of detachment created by their long absences helped prepare him for his long association with Bergman and the themes of alienation and isolation that captivated them both. Deciding early on a career as a cinematographer, Nykvist attended a photography school (there were no Swedish film schools then) and began working at Sandrews studios as a camera assistant in 1941, hoping to emulate the great Swedish cameramen Julius Jaenzon, Goran Strindberg and Gunnar Fischer. He graduated to director of photography on "13 Chairs" (1945), helmed the documentary "Reverence for Life" (1952, about Albert Schweitzer) and even co-directed and co-scripted "Under the Southern Cross" (also 1952), based on an experience his parents had with a witch doctor, before teaming with Bergman (himself the son of a Lutheran minister) for the first time.
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Filmography
Movies
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | One Day in the Life of Andrei Arsenevich |
Himself/ |
- | 2000 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Curtain Call | Cinematographer | - | 1998 |
42% | 42% | Celebrity | Cinematographer | $5.0M | 1998 |
82% | 83% | Private Confessions | Cinematographer | - | 1996 |
39% | 52% | Something to Talk About | Cinematographer | $49.7M | 1995 |
100% | 77% | Lumiere and Company | Unknown (Character) | - | 1995 |
No Score Yet | 48% | Kristin Lavransdatter | Cinematographer | - | 1995 |
90% | 89% | What's Eating Gilbert Grape | Cinematographer | $7.8M | 1993 |
75% | 75% | Sleepless in Seattle | Cinematographer | $125.6M | 1993 |
No Score Yet | 71% | The Ox | Director | - | 1991 |
92% | 91% | Crimes and Misdemeanors | Cinematographer | $17.6M | 1989 |
75% | 56% | New York Stories | Cinematographer | $10.6M | 1989 |
85% | 84% | The Unbearable Lightness of Being | Cinematographer | $9.3M | 1988 |
59% | 75% | Another Woman | Cinematographer | $499.5K | 1988 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Katinka | Cinematographer | - | 1988 |
86% | 90% | The Sacrifice | Cinematographer | $61.0K | 1986 |
92% | 81% | After the Rehearsal | Cinematographer | - | 1984 |
No Score Yet | 54% | Swann in Love | Cinematographer | - | 1984 |
81% | 70% | Star 80 | Cinematographer | - | 1983 |
100% | 94% | Fanny and Alexander | Cinematographer | - | 1982 |
79% | 58% | The Postman Always Rings Twice | Cinematographer | - | 1981 |
64% | 77% | From the Life of the Marionettes | Cinematographer | - | 1980 |
71% | 59% | Pretty Baby | Cinematographer | - | 1978 |
87% | 92% | Autumn Sonata | Cinematographer | - | 1978 |
78% | 83% | Face to Face | Cinematographer | - | 1975 |
50% | 53% | Black Moon | Photographer | - | 1975 |
91% | 95% | Scenes From a Marriage | Cinematographer | - | 1973 |
94% | 90% | Cries and Whispers | Cinematographer | - | 1972 |
17% | 91% | One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich | Cinematographer | - | 1971 |
No Score Yet | 67% | First Love | Cinematographer | - | 1970 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Faro Document | Cinematographer | - | 1970 |
75% | 72% | The Rite | Cinematographer | - | 1969 |
100% | 84% | The Passion of Anna | Cinematographer | - | 1969 |
65% | 88% | Shame | Cinematographer | - | 1968 |
92% | 86% | Hour of the Wolf | Cinematographer | - | 1968 |
91% | 94% | Persona | Cinematographer | - | 1966 |
27% | 43% | All These Women | Cinematographer | - | 1964 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Loving Couples | Cinematographer | - | 1964 |
84% | 88% | The Silence | Cinematographer | - | 1963 |
74% | 91% | Winter Light | Cinematographer | - | 1962 |
100% | 92% | Through a Glass Darkly | Cinematographer | - | 1961 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Matter of Morals | Cinematographer | - | 1961 |
88% | 92% | The Virgin Spring | Cinematographer | - | 1959 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Gorilla |
Director, Cinematographer |
- | 1956 |
100% | 84% | Sawdust and Tinsel | Cinematographer | - | 1953 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Barabbas | Cinematographer | - | 1953 |