Michael Coulter

Michael Coulter BSC (born 1952) is a Scottish cinematographer. On some films, he does additional photography and is a camera operator.

He was nominated at the 68th Academy Awards in the category of Best Cinematography for the film Sense and Sensibility (1995).^[1]

He is a member of the British Society of Cinematographers (B.S.C.). Represented by McKinney Macartney Management in the UK and Gersh in the US. ^[2]

Career[]

He was introduced to the local film business by his director brother-in-law, the late Charles Gormley.^[3] He started as a gopher for local production companies making industrial films, before moving on to load the black and white film stock into camera magazines at football matches. He went freelance in 1975.

Coulter soon became acquainted with writer/director Bill Forsyth and, having recently purchased a 16mm camera, was invited to use it as the director of photography on Forsyth's first feature That Sinking Feeling (1979). Coulter operated for Chris Menges on Forsyth's next pictures, Local Hero (1983) and Comfort and Joy (1984), which Coulter describes as "unmissable opportunities to work with a man I admired tremendously". During the early 1980s he also worked on many documentaries. "Documentaries made you resourceful, inventive. You had to make things work somehow. Also the life-experience of 'travel broadening the mind' was important for me". He enjoyed a brief stint in France during the early 1980s, as an assistant to cinematographer Pierre-William Glenn, but it was back in the UK that he passed a watershed. He was just about to start work as the camera operator on No Surrender (1985), when the original director of photography had to pull out. "One of producers, Mamoun Hassan, asked if I would shoot the film. I decided to pick up the ball and run with it". He has shot numerous commercials directed by Charles Sturridge, Tom Hooper, Mark Mylod, David Jellison (for Kleenex), Gerard de Thame (for Nissan,  Rolex, and KIA), among others.

Filmography[]

Key

Denotes films that have not yet been released

Awards[]

Academy Awards, USA

BAFTA Awards

Awards Circuit Community Awards

BAFTA Awards, Scotland

British Society of Cinematographers

Chlotrudis Awards

References[]

External links[]

• Michael Coulter at IMDb

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