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Andrew Lesnie is an Australian cinematographer who was born on 1 January 1956 in Sydney, Australia. He is best known for his work on The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, for which he won an Academy Award for Best Cinematography in 2002. Lesnie began his career in the film industry in the late 1970s, working as a camera assistant on various Australian films. He then moved into cinematography, working on films such as The Year My Voice Broke (1987), Babe (1995), and The Lord of the Rings trilogy (2001-2003). Lesnie has won numerous awards for his work, including an Academy Award for Best Cinematography for The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2002), a BAFTA Award for Best Cinematography for The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003), and an Australian Film Institute Award for Best Cinematography for The Year My Voice Broke (1987). Lesnie has an estimated net worth of $2 million.

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Occupation Cinematographer
Age 59 years old
Zodiac Sign Capricorn
Born 1 January 1956
Birthday 1 January
Birthplace Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Date of death April 27, 2015,
Died Place Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Nationality Australia

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Children Sam Lesnie, Jack Lesnie

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2015

Lesnie lived on Sydney's north coast. He was a member of both the Australian Cinematographers Society and the American Society of Cinematographers. Lesnie died of a heart attack in his Sydney home on 27 April 2015.

2014

Lesnie's final film, The Water Diviner, directed by and starring Russell Crowe, was released in Australia in December 2014 and in America in April 2015, one week before his death.

1995

His work began receiving major attention after the release of the anthropomorphic pig story Babe (1995) and its sequel, Babe: Pig in the City. He was director of photography on Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy, and received an Oscar for his work on The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring in 2002. Since then, he filmed several other Jackson-directed films, including King Kong and The Lovely Bones, and also filmed The Hobbit films directed by Jackson.

1983

Lesnie would then go on to develop his craft as he photographed films such as Stations (1983), The Delinquents (1989), Temptation of the Monk (1993), and Spider and Rose (1994).

1981

Later, he worked as a second camera assistant on the film The Killing of Angel Street (1981).

1979

His first job after graduation in 1979 was as a cameraman on the Logie Award-winning Australian magazine-style afternoon TV show Simon Townsend's Wonder World. Simon Townsend gave Lesnie almost daily opportunities to develop his craft with little restriction over a wide variety of stories and situations, and to experiment with camera and lighting techniques in hundreds of locations and situations. After two years of working on the show, Lesnie moved on to numerous Australian film and television productions, including the mini-series Bodyline.

1974

He was educated at Sydney Grammar School. Andrew was well liked and popular at school. Lesnie finished 6th form and his Higher School Certificate in 1974. He started his career in 1978 as an assistant camera operator on the film Patrick (1978) while he was still in school at Australian Film, Television and Radio School (AFTRS). sd

1956

Andrew Lesnie ACS ASC (1 January 1956 – 27 April 2015) was an Australian cinematographer. He was best known as the cinematographer for The Lord of the Rings trilogy (2001–2003) and its prequel The Hobbit trilogy (2012–2014), both directed by New Zealand director Peter Jackson. He received the Academy Award for Best Cinematography for his work on The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring in 2002.