The Cinematography of Poor Things, with DP Robbie Ryan | The

Our coverage of the 2024 Oscars continues in this episode with our guest, Robbie Ryan, BSC, ISC. Robbie is a two-time Academy Award® nominee for Cinematography.
In today’s episode, he discusses his second collaboration with director Yorgos Lanthimos on the film "Poor Things," following their acclaimed work together on "The Favourite," which earned Robbie his first nomination for Best Cinematography. This year, "Poor Things" boasts 11 Academy Award nominations, including Best Director for Lanthimos and Best Picture. In this wide-ranging conversation, Robbie explains how he crafted the film’s unique, almost dreamlike look, which was mostly captured in-camera, and on film, without post-production effects:
“[Yorgos] wanted to have a kind of porthole, vignetted, wide angle [aesthetic]… And I'd kind of done a bit of photography lately where there's a lot of lenses [that] don't fit on the large format sensor, so you get this vignette. So I said, ‘well, hang on - if we use a 16 mil lens on a 35 mil negative, that might happen.’ And it worked out really perfect. We had this 4mm lens for 16 mil, that when you put it on 35 mil, just had that perfect circle… You get these aberrations around the very edges of it and it has this organic quality to it, which was very sweet… None of that was post. That was all real.“
-Robbie Ryan, BSC, ISC, Director of Photography, “Poor Things”
Be sure to check out “Poor Things” ahead of the Academy Awards, live from the Dolby Theatre® on March 10th:
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[@eandrsn]

Robbie is such an eloquent artist. Lovely to hear him speak on this incredible film!

[@alejandrotarangolearns1969]

Robbie seems so down to earth. He's humble with his craft and doesn't act like he is the perfect cinematographer like... Cough... Deakins lol

[@PJazz82]

Dolby Gênio ❤

[@taidghrichards4329]

130k views but only 4 comments?

[@46thandBliss]

4K uploads when

[@fritillarymeleagris6778]

Please pronounce Yorgos Lanthimos's name correctly. It's so rude not to bother to say someone's name correctly. It's Yor-goss (as in gossip) Lanthis-moss (as in moss), not Yor-ghos (as in ghost) Lanthi-mhos (as in mostly). Short 'o', not a long 'o'.