Ernest Dickerson
An Emmy, Peabody, and two-time Image Award winning film and television veteran whose signature brand of visual storytelling has been entertaining movie and TV fans for more than thirty years. Dickerson’s extensive work on the silver screen and on television has successfully solidified him as one of Hollywood’s top creative talents.
A native of Newark, New Jersey, Dickerson earned his undergraduate degree from Howard University, after which he attended New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts where Dickerson met filmmaker Spike Lee. The first film he photographed was Brother From Another Planet then ultimately collaborated with Lee as Director of Photography on such classic films as She’s Gotta Have It, School Daze, Do the Right Thing, Mo’ Better Blues, and Malcolm X.
Dickerson’s 1992 feature directorial debut which he also co—wrote was JUICE, an urban drama whose social and cultural resonance continues to this day, and which launched the film careers of Tupac Shakur and Omar Epps — gave way to other big screen credits, such as Surviving the Game, Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight, Bones and Never Die Alone. Dickerson’s independent feature, Double Play, is based on the internationally acclaimed Frank Martinus Arion novel and was filmed on the island of Curacao.
His work as a visionary filmmaker and storyteller has been showcased in some of the top television shows of the past decade, including hit series like The Wire, The Walking Dead, Treme, Dexter, Bosch and Bosch Legacy, The Man In The High Castle, House of Cards, Seven Seconds, the second season premiere of HBO’s Raised By Wolves and Epix’s hit series Godfather of Harlem, and many others. Along with directing, Dickerson also served as Executive Producer on DMZ and Interrogation. Some of Dickerson’s most recent television credits includes NBC’s The IRRATIONAL.
Dickerson, who is a long-standing member of the Directors Guild of America (DGA) and the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC), currently resides in Los Angeles, California.