Rachel Morrison

Rachel Morrison

Birth : 1978-04-27, Massachusetts, USA

History

Rachel Morrison is an American cinematographer. She is best known for the films Fruitvale Station, Black Panther, and Mudbound. In 2018 she became the first female nominee for Best Cinematography in the 90-year history of the Academy Awards.

Profile

Rachel Morrison

Movies

Seberg
Director of Photography
An ambitious young FBI agent is assigned to investigate iconic actress Jean Seberg when she becomes embroiled in the tumultuous civil rights movement in late 1960s Los Angeles.
Image Makers: The Adventures of America's Pioneer Cinematographers
Herself
Documentary following the history of America's first cinematographers.
Black Panther
Director of Photography
King T'Challa returns home to the reclusive, technologically advanced African nation of Wakanda to serve as his country's new leader. However, T'Challa soon finds that he is challenged for the throne by factions within his own country as well as without. Using powers reserved to Wakandan kings, T'Challa assumes the Black Panther mantle to join with ex-girlfriend Nakia, the queen-mother, his princess-kid sister, members of the Dora Milaje (the Wakandan 'special forces') and an American secret agent, to prevent Wakanda from being dragged into a world war.
Mudbound
Director of Photography
In the post–World War II South, two families are pitted against a barbaric social hierarchy and an unrelenting landscape as they simultaneously fight the battle at home and the battle abroad.
Confirmation
Director of Photography
Judge Clarence Thomas' nomination to the United States' Supreme Court is called into question when former colleague, Anita Hill, testifies that he had sexually harassed her.
The 4%: Film's Gender Problem
Self
Explores the hot-button issues around the striking gender gap in Hollywood. Both women and men in the entertainment industry share first-person insights, questions, and anecdotes about the place of women in Hollywood.
Dope
Director of Photography
Malcolm is carefully surviving life in a tough neighborhood in Los Angeles while juggling college applications, academic interviews, and the SAT. A chance invitation to an underground party leads him into an adventure that could allow him to go from being a geek, to being dope, to ultimately being himself.
The Harvest
Director of Photography
Maryann moves in with her grandparents after she's orphaned. Desperately lonely, she sets out to befriend a neighboring deathly ill, bed-ridden boy, despite the outright disapproval of his mother. Maryann's persistence pays off, however, and during a series of secret visits she gradually uncovers some seriously sinister goings-on in the house.
What Happened, Miss Simone?
Additional Photography
The film chronicles Nina Simone's journey from child piano prodigy to iconic musician and passionate activist, told in her own words.
Cake
Director of Photography
After having visions of a member of her support group who killed herself, a woman who also suffers with chronic pain seeks out the widower of the suicide.
Little Accidents
Director of Photography
In a small American coal town living in the shadow of a recent mining accident, the disappearance of a teenage boy draws three people together—a surviving miner, the lonely wife of a mine executive, and a local boy—in a web of secrets.
Druid Peak
Director of Photography
A troubled teen is sent to live with his estranged father, a park ranger. During his time there, he develops an unusual affinity with and passion for the wolves in a local pack.
Fruitvale Station
Director of Photography
Oakland, California. Young Afro-American Oscar Grant crosses paths with family members, friends, enemies and strangers before facing his fate on the platform at Fruitvale Station, in the early morning hours of New Year's Day 2009.
Some Girl(s)
Director of Photography
On the eve of his wedding, a successful writer travels around the country to meet up with ex-lovers in an attempt to make amends for his wrongdoings.
Dorfman in Love
Director of Photography
Unknowingly trapped in her role as caretaker of her unappreciative family, a young single woman desperately needs to get her own life. When she volunteers to cat sit at her unrequited love's downtown L.A loft, her world, as she knows it, changes forever.
Any Day Now
Director of Photography
In the late 1970s, when a mentally handicapped teenager is abandoned, a gay couple takes him in and becomes the family he's never had. But once the unconventional living arrangement is discovered by authorities, the men must fight the legal system to adopt the child.
Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie
Camera Operator
Two guys get a billion dollars to make a movie, only to watch their dream run off course.
Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie
Director of Photography
Two guys get a billion dollars to make a movie, only to watch their dream run off course.
The Terrys
Director of Photography
The Terrys is a short film by Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim.
Sound of My Voice
Director of Photography
A journalist and his girlfriend get pulled in while they investigate a cult whose leader claims to be from the future.
Palo Alto, CA
Director of Photography
On their last night of Thanksgiving break, four old friends, now all college freshmen, realize their small town has more meaning than they ever imagined.
Just an American Boy
Director of Photography
A musical documentary film about the politically minded singer/songwriter Steve Earle.
Flint Strong
Director
Flint Strong tells the true story of 17-year-old Claressa “T-Rex” Shields, a Flint, Michigan native whose dreams of becoming the first woman in history to win an Olympic gold medal in boxing were realized at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. At the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio, Shields won a second gold medal in women’s middleweight boxing.