Aaron Schneider

Aaron Schneider

Birth : 1965-07-26, Mossville, Illinois, Estados Unidos

History

Aaron Schneider is a filmmaker and cinematographer. His first feature film, Get Low, drew widespread praise when it premiered at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival, and was subsequently purchased for distribution by Sony Pictures Classics. His cinematography work includes the TV series Murder One (for which he was nominated for a 1996 Emmy Award), and the pilot episode of the series Supernatural; and the films Kiss the Girls and Simon Birch. He was also the second unit director of photography for Titanic. In 2003, he won the Oscar for Best Short Subject for the live action short film Two Soldiers (shared with producer Andrew J. Sacks). The 40-minute short was based on a short story written by William Faulkner. His debut directorial feature film, Get Low, was released in the US on July 30th, 2010. It stars Robert Duvall in a much-lauded performance, in addition to Sissy Spacek, Bill Murray, and Lucas Black. Description above from the Wikipedia article Aaron Schneider, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.​

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Aaron Schneider

Movies

Greyhound
Director
A first-time captain leads a convoy of allied ships carrying thousands of soldiers across the treacherous waters of the “Black Pit” to the front lines of WW2. With no air cover protection for 5 days, the captain and his convoy must battle the surrounding enemy Nazi U-boats in order to give the allies a chance to win the war.
Get Low
Editor
A movie spun out of equal parts folk tale, fable and real-life legend about the mysterious, 1930s Tennessee hermit who famously threw his own rollicking funeral party... while he was still alive.
Get Low
Director
A movie spun out of equal parts folk tale, fable and real-life legend about the mysterious, 1930s Tennessee hermit who famously threw his own rollicking funeral party... while he was still alive.
Two Soldiers
Editor
Set during WWII, a young boy wants to join his brother in the "war at Pearl Harbour".
Two Soldiers
Writer
Set during WWII, a young boy wants to join his brother in the "war at Pearl Harbour".
Two Soldiers
Director
Set during WWII, a young boy wants to join his brother in the "war at Pearl Harbour".
Simon Birch
Director of Photography
Simon Birch and Joe Wenteworth are boys who have a reputation for being oddballs. Joe never knew his father, and his mother, Rebecca, is keeping her lips sealed no matter how much he protests. Simon, meanwhile, is an 11-year-old dwarf whose outsize personality belies his small stature. Indeed, he often assails the local reverend with thorny theological questions and joins Joe on his quest to find his biological father.
Titanic
Second Unit Director of Photography
101-year-old Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story of her life aboard the Titanic, 84 years later. A young Rose boards the ship with her mother and fiancé. Meanwhile, Jack Dawson and Fabrizio De Rossi win third-class tickets aboard the ship. Rose tells the whole story from Titanic's departure through to its death—on its first and last voyage—on April 15, 1912.
Kiss the Girls
Director of Photography
Forensic psychologist Alex Cross travels to North Carolina and teams with escaped kidnap victim Kate McTiernan to hunt down "Casanova," a serial killer who abducts strong-willed women and forces them to submit to his demands. The trail leads to Los Angeles, where the duo discovers that the psychopath may not be working alone.
Dead Girls
Director of Photography
A female band, who are exponents of "death rock", retreat to a cabin for the weekend. They soon find themselves being knocked off by a masked killer who uses weapons they have mentioned in their songs.
Untold
Producer
The true story of how Vrba, with the help of his close friend and his mentor, managed to become the first prisoners to escape from Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Untold
Director
The true story of how Vrba, with the help of his close friend and his mentor, managed to become the first prisoners to escape from Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Bum's Rush
Director
The relationship between Pearl, a highly skilled custom boot maker who crosses paths with a singular stray dog Bum. The two highly independent souls find themselves at a serious crossroads, one that will change both their hearts and minds in ways they can hardly imagine.