Lol Crawley

Lol Crawley BSC is a multiple award-winning director of photography with more than 20 years of experience in film, television, commercials, and music video. His work has been nominated for and/or won BAFTA Awards, Independent Spirit Awards, International Festival Awards, VMAs, and ASC awards. He recently won the Oscar for Best Cinematography for his work on the decades/continent spanning film, The Brutalist, directed by his longtime collaborator, Brady Corbet. Shot on film, their preferred format, he notably used VistaVision to capture the 1940s and 1950s—the first English language film to do so since Marlon Brando’s One Eyed Jacks.

His film work includes White Noise; The Humans; The Devil All the Time; The Secret Garden; 45 Years; Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom; and Four Lions.

Lol also collaborated with Brady Corbet on Vox Lux and The Childhood of a Leader. For television, he’s worked on Black Mirror: The Crocodile; The OA (S1); The Crimson Petal and the White; and Utopia (S2).

He has shot commercials for many brands including Volkswagen, BMW, Mercedes, Adidas, Samsung, and Dior, and his work in the music industry includes credits with Bob Dylan, Nick Cave, and Coldplay. Originally from the U.K, Lol is currently based in Los Angeles and works across the United States and internationally.