Douglas Koch

{{Short description|Canadian cinematographer}}

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Douglas Koch is a Canadian cinematographer who has won honours at the Canadian Screen Awards and Canadian Music Video Awards.

Koch is from Vancouver and studied film at Ryerson Polytechnical Institute in Toronto, finishing in 1983.{{Cite web|url=http://playbackonline.ca/1999/05/03/25422-19990503/ |title=DOP: The versatile Doug Koch |last=Dillon |first=Mark |date=3 May 1999 |accessdate=17 April 2017 |work=Playback}} He went on to shoot music videos for artists such as Anne Murray and Sarah McLachlan, winning a cinematography award at the MuchMusic Video Awards in 1994 for "And if Venice Is Sinking".

He was nominated for the Genie Award for Best Cinematography for I've Heard the Mermaids Singing (1987) and Last Night (1998), as well as for the Canadian Society of Cinematographers Award for Best Cinematography in a Theatrical Feature for Last Night. In 2015, he won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Photography in a Comedy Program or Series for HBO Canada and Bell Media's episode "The Three Sisters" in the TV series Sensitive Skin.{{Cite web|url=http://playbackonline.ca/2015/01/13/canadian-screen-awards-15-craft-category-nominees/ |title=Canadian Screen Awards ’15: Craft category nominees |last=Playback Staff |first= |date=13 January 2015 |accessdate=17 April 2017 |work=Playback}} He was nominated for the Canadian Society of Cinematographers Award for Theatrical Feature Cinematography for the 2018 Through Black Spruce.{{cite web |url=http://www1.csc.ca/en/awardsCSC/2020/docs/CSCawardNominees2020.pdf |title=The 63rd Annual Csc Award Nominees |accessdate=11 April 2020 |publisher=Canadian Society of Cinematographers |archive-date=12 April 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200412040012/http://www1.csc.ca/en/awardsCSC/2020/docs/CSCawardNominees2020.pdf |url-status=dead }}