Donald McAlpine, ASC, ACS, is truly an international cinematographer, having shot some of the films that raised Australia’s movie industry to worldwide prominence in the 1970s and, since then, more than two dozen films for Hollywood studios. Two of McAlpine’s feature credits, Gillian Armstrong’s My Brilliant Career (1979) and Bruce Beresford’s Breaker Morant (1980), were among the well-received films that showcased the power and beauty coming out of the Australian industry of the time. Since working on his first American picture, Paul Mazursky’s Tempest (1982), the cinematographer has kept busy on a variety of popular Hollywood projects, including John McTiernan’s Predator (1987); Phillip Noyce’s Patriot Games (1992) and Clear and Present Danger (1994); Baz Luhrmann’s frenetic Romeo + Juliet (1996) and Moulin Rouge (2001); and Gavin Hood’s Wolverine.
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