César Charlone (cinematographer)

César Charlone
Born	1950 (age 73–74) Montevideo, Uruguay
Occupation(s)	Film director, screenwriter, actor, cinematographer

César Charlone (born 1950) is a Uruguayan film director, screenwriter, actor and cinematographer. He was born in Montevideo but lives in Brazil. In 2003, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Cinematography for his work on the highly acclaimed film City of God. On 2007, he directed his first feature film, The Pope's Toilet, which was selected by Uruguay as its official submission for the 80th Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. A year earlier, he was invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Filmography

Feature films

• The Man in the Black Cape (1986) cinematographer
• How Angels Are Born (1996) cinematographer
• City of God (2002) cinematographer
• The Constant Gardener (2005) cinematographer
• The Pope's Toilet (2007) director, writer, cinematographer
• Stranded: I've Come from a Plane that Crashed in the Mountains (2007) cinematographer
• Blindness (2008) cinematographer
• American Made (2017) cinematographer
• The Two Popes (2019) cinematographer

Television films

• Sucker Free City (2004) cinematographer

Television series

• City of Men (episode "A Coroa do Imperador") (2002) director, writer
• 3% (2016) director

Awards and Nominations

Academy Awards

Year	Nominated work	Result
2003	City of God	Nominated

External links

• César Charlone at IMDb