Benoît Debie

{{Infobox person

|name=Benoît Debie

|birth_date= {{birth year and age|1968}}

|birth_place=Liège, Belgium

|years_active=1992–present

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Benoît Debie (born 1968) Ariane Damain Vergallo, [https://www.afcinema.com/Benoit-Debie-SBC-the-attraction-of-opposites.html?lang=fr Benoît Debie, SBC, the attraction of opposites], 1 March 2018, at afcinema.com. is a Belgian cinematographer, known for his collaborations with Gaspar Noé.

Career

Debie attended the Institut des Arts de Diffusion (IAD), a Belgian film school. After graduating, he worked as a camera assistant before taking up cinematography jobs on various television series. He worked in television for ten years while also shooting short films and advertisements.{{cite web|last=Feuillère|first=Anna|date=26 April 2006|url=http://cineuropa.org/interview.aspx?documentID=64056|title=Interview with Benoît Debie|work=Cineuropa|accessdate=18 February 2015}} The first feature film he was involved with as a director of photography was Irréversible, a controversial 2002 film directed by Gaspar Noé. Noé contacted him to shoot the film after seeing Debie's previous work, specifically a short film titled A Wonderful Love (1999) directed by Fabrice Du Welz. Debie's next project was Lucile Hadžihalilović's Innocence (2004), followed by The Card Player (2004), an Italian film directed by Dario Argento, and The Ordeal, another collaboration with Fabrice du Welz. In 2006 he photographed the French feature Locked Out.

Debie went on to film Day Night Day Night, Julia Loktev's first film, released in 2006, before returning to work with his previous collaborators: Vinyan (2008) with Fabrice du Welz and Enter the Void (2009) with Gaspar Noé. In 2010 he was cinematographer on The Runaways, a biopic about Joan Jett's first band, and by 2011 he had finished shooting Adrian Grunberg's action film Get the Gringo. The same year, he was named one of Variety magazine's "10 Cinematographers to Watch".{{cite news|url=https://variety.com/2011/film/news/benoit-debie-rock-sensibility-on-runaways-1118031765/|work=Variety|title=Benoit Debie: Rock sensibility on 'Runaways'|last=Anderson|first=John|date=11 February 2011|accessdate= 18 February 2015}} He photographed Harmony Korine's Spring Breakers in 2012—which was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for Best Cinematography—and Wim Wenders' Every Thing Will Be Fine the following year.{{cite web|url=http://www.piaget-cinema.com/spirit-awards/en/nominees/benoit-debie|title=Benoit Debie|year=2014|publisher=Independent Spirit Awards|accessdate=18 February 2015}} In 2013 he was hired by American actor Ryan Gosling (whom Debie had first met in 1998) to shoot Gosling's first film, Lost River, which was filmed in 2013 and premiered at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival.{{cite web|url=http://www.afcinema.com/Cinematographer-Benoit-Debie-SBC-discusses-his-work-on-Lost-River-by-Ryan-Gosling.html|first1=François |last1=Reumont|first2=Alex |last2=Raiffe|title=Cinematographer Benoît Debie, SBC, discusses his work on "Lost River", by Ryan Gosling|date=20 May 2014|accessdate=18 February 2015|publisher=French Society of Cinematographers}}

Debie is a member of the Belgian Society of Cinematographers (SBC).

Filmography

Short film

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Year ! Title ! Director ! Notes
1992 \| La Pureté \| Yvan Le Moine \| Segment of Les sept péchés capitaux
1998 \| Le bouton rouge \| Marc-Olivier Picron \|
1999 \| Quand on est amoureux, c'est merveilleux \| Fabrice Du Welz \|
2000 \| La télévision \| Marc-Olivier Picron \|
2007 \| Ubs: The wind \| Sebastien Chantrel \|
2008 \| New York, I Love You \| Yvan Attal Shekhar Kapur \| 2 segments
2009 \| Passage \| Shekhar Kapur \|
2015 \| Heineken's the Chase \| Tom Kuntz \|
2023 \| Modern Jam \| Gaspar Noé \| Segment of Circus Maximus

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Year

! Title

! Director

! Notes

1992

| La Pureté

| Yvan Le Moine

| Segment of Les sept péchés capitaux

1998

| Le bouton rouge

| Marc-Olivier Picron

1999

| Quand on est amoureux, c'est merveilleux

| Fabrice Du Welz

2000

| La télévision

| Marc-Olivier Picron

2007

| Ubs: The wind

| Sebastien Chantrel

2008

| New York, I Love You

| Yvan Attal
Shekhar Kapur

| 2 segments

2009

| Passage

| Shekhar Kapur

2015

| Heineken's the Chase

| Tom Kuntz

2023

| Modern Jam

| Gaspar Noé

| Segment of Circus Maximus

Feature film

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Year ! Title ! Director ! Notes
2002 \| Irréversible \| Gaspar Noé \| Shared credit with Gaspar Noé
rowspan=3\|2004 \| The Card Player \| Dario Argento \|
The Ordeal \| Fabrice Du Welz \|
Innocence \| Lucile Hadžihalilović \|
rowspan=2\|2006 \| Locked Out \| Albert Dupontel \|
Day Night Day Night \| Julia Loktev \|
2007 \| Joshua \| George Ratliff \|
2008 \| Vinyan \| Fabrice Du Welz \|
rowspan=2\|2009 \| Enter the Void \| Gaspar Noé \|
Carriers \| Àlex Pastor David Pastor \|
2010 \| The Runaways \| Floria Sigismondi \|
rowspan=2\|2012 \| Get the Gringo \| Adrian Grunberg \|
Spring Breakers \| Harmony Korine \|
rowspan=2\|2014 \| Lost River \| Ryan Gosling \|
Colt 45 \| Fabrice du Welz \|
rowspan=2\|2015 \| Every Thing Will Be Fine \| Wim Wenders \|
Love \| Gaspar Noé \| Also made a cameo as "Yuyo"
rowspan=2\|2016 \| The Dancer \| Stéphanie Di Giusto \|
The Beautiful Days of Aranjuez \|rowspan=2\|Wim Wenders \|
2017 \| Submergence \|
rowspan=2\|2018 \| Climax \| Gaspar Noé \|
The Sisters Brothers \| Jacques Audiard \|
rowspan=2\|2019 \| The Beach Bum \| Harmony Korine \|
Lux Æterna \|rowspan=2\|Gaspar Noé \|
2021 \| Vortex \|
2023 \| Seneca – On the Creation of Earthquakes \| Robert Schwentke \|
2025 \| Something Beautiful \| Miley Cyrus, Jacob Bixenman and Brendan Walter \|
TBA \| Outcome \| Jonah Hill \| Post-production

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Year

! Title

! Director

! Notes

2002

| Irréversible

| Gaspar Noé

| Shared credit with Gaspar Noé

rowspan=3|2004

| The Card Player

| Dario Argento

The Ordeal

| Fabrice Du Welz

Innocence

| Lucile Hadžihalilović

rowspan=2|2006

| Locked Out

| Albert Dupontel

Day Night Day Night

| Julia Loktev

2007

| Joshua

| George Ratliff

2008

| Vinyan

| Fabrice Du Welz

rowspan=2|2009

| Enter the Void

| Gaspar Noé

Carriers

| Àlex Pastor
David Pastor

2010

| The Runaways

| Floria Sigismondi

rowspan=2|2012

| Get the Gringo

| Adrian Grunberg

Spring Breakers

| Harmony Korine

rowspan=2|2014

| Lost River

| Ryan Gosling

Colt 45

| Fabrice du Welz

rowspan=2|2015

| Every Thing Will Be Fine

| Wim Wenders

Love

| Gaspar Noé

| Also made a cameo as "Yuyo"

rowspan=2|2016

| The Dancer

| Stéphanie Di Giusto

The Beautiful Days of Aranjuez

|rowspan=2|Wim Wenders

2017

| Submergence

rowspan=2|2018

| Climax

| Gaspar Noé

The Sisters Brothers

| Jacques Audiard

rowspan=2|2019

| The Beach Bum

| Harmony Korine

Lux Æterna

|rowspan=2|Gaspar Noé

2021

| Vortex

2023

| Seneca – On the Creation of Earthquakes

| Robert Schwentke

2025

| Something Beautiful

| Miley Cyrus, Jacob Bixenman and Brendan Walter

TBA

| Outcome

| Jonah Hill

| Post-production

Documentary film

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Year ! Title ! Director ! Note
2016 \| One More Time with Feeling \| Andrew Dominik \| Shared credit with Alwin H. Küchler

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Year

! Title

! Director

! Note

2016

| One More Time with Feeling

| Andrew Dominik

| Shared credit with Alwin H. Küchler

Music video

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Year ! Title ! Director ! Artist
2013 \| "Who Do We Think We Are" \| Paul Gore \| John Legend
2015 \| "Bitch Better Have My Money"{{Cite web\|url=http://benoitdebie.com/commercials.php\|title=Benoît Debie • Director of photography\|access-date=13 August 2015\|archive-date=10 August 2015\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150810233033/http://benoitdebie.com/commercials.php\|url-status=dead}} \| Megaforce Rihanna Leo Berne \| Rihanna
2018 \| "Apeshit" \| Ricky Saiz \| Beyoncé Jay-Z

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Year

! Title

! Director

! Artist

2013

| "Who Do We Think We Are"

| Paul Gore

| John Legend

2015

| "Bitch Better Have My Money"{{Cite web|url=http://benoitdebie.com/commercials.php|title=Benoît Debie • Director of photography|access-date=13 August 2015|archive-date=10 August 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150810233033/http://benoitdebie.com/commercials.php|url-status=dead}}

| Megaforce
Rihanna
Leo Berne

| Rihanna

2018

| "Apeshit"

| Ricky Saiz

| Beyoncé
Jay-Z

Awards and nominations

Lumières Awards

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Year ! Category ! Title ! Result
2016 \|rowspan=3\|Best Cinematography \| The Dancer \| {{nom}}
rowspan=2\|2018 \| Climax \| {{nom}}
The Sisters Brothers \| {{nom}}

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Year

! Category

! Title

! Result

2016

|rowspan=3|Best Cinematography

| The Dancer

| {{nom}}

rowspan=2|2018

| Climax

| {{nom}}

The Sisters Brothers

| {{nom}}

Magritte Awards

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Year ! Category ! Title ! Result
2016 \|rowspan=2\|Best Cinematography \| The Dancer \| {{nom}}
2018 \| The Sisters Brothers \| {{nom}}

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Year

! Category

! Title

! Result

2016

|rowspan=2|Best Cinematography

| The Dancer

| {{nom}}

2018

| The Sisters Brothers

| {{nom}}

Other awards

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Year ! Award ! Category ! Title ! Result
2012 \| Independent Spirit Awards \| Best Cinematography \| Spring Breakers \| {{nom}}
2018 \| César Awards \| Best Cinematography \| The Sisters Brothers \| {{won}}

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Year

! Award

! Category

! Title

! Result

2012

| Independent Spirit Awards

| Best Cinematography

| Spring Breakers

| {{nom}}

2018