César Charlone (cinematographer)

Uruguayan cinematographer

César Charlone
Born	1950 (age 73–74) Montevideo, Uruguay
Occupation(s)	Film director, screenwriter, actor, cinematographer

César Charlone (born February 20, 1950) is a Uruguayan film director, screenwriter, actor and cinematographer. He was born in Montevideo but lives in Brazil. In 2003, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Cinematography for his work on the highly acclaimed film City of God. On 2007, he directed his first feature film, The Pope's Toilet, which was selected by Uruguay as its official submission for the 80th Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. A year earlier, he was invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Director	Writer	Producer	Notes
2007	The Pope's Toilet	Yes	Yes	No	Co-directed with Enrique Fernández
2011	La Redota - Una Historia de Artigas	Yes	Yes	Yes
2014	Rio, I Love You	Uncredited	No	No	Segment "The Muse"

Television

Year	Title	Director	Writer	Notes
2002-2017	City of Men	Yes	Yes	Directed 3 episodes, wrote 2 episodes
2013	Destino	Yes	No	Episode "Ileana Quer Casar... Ainda."
2016	3%	Yes	No	3 episodes

Year	Title	Director	Notes
1985	Aqueles Dois	Sergio Amon
1986	The Man in the Black Cape	Sérgio Rezende
1987	Feliz Ano Velho	Roberto Gervitz
1989	Doida Demais	Sérgio Rezende	With Antonio Luiz Mendes and Antonio Luis Soares
1996	How Angels Are Born	Murilo Salles
2002	City of God	Fernando Meirelles Kátia Lund
2005	The Constant Gardener	Fernando Meirelles
2007	The Pope's Toilet	Himself Enrique Fernández
2008	Blindness	Fernando Meirelles
2011	La Redota - Una Historia de Artigas	Himself	With Fabio Burtin
2017	American Made	Doug Liman
2019	The Two Popes	Fernando Meirelles
2024	Mother Mother	K'naan Warsame

Short film

Year	Title	Director	Notes
2008	Blackout	Daniel Rezende
2014	The Muse	Fernando Meirelles	Segment of Rio, I Love You

Year	Title	Director	Notes
1985	Em Nome da Segurança Nacional	Renato Tapajós	With Adrian Cooper, José Roberto Eliezer and Zetas Malzoni
1995	Two Billion Hearts	Murilo Salles	With José Roberto Eliezer, Pedro Farkas, Lúcio Kodato and Carlos Pacheco
2000	Pierre Fatumbi Verger: Mensageiro Entre Dois Mundos	Lula Buarque de Hollanda
2007	Stranded	Gonzalo Arijón
2010	Futebol Brasileiro	Miki Kuretani
2012	No Place on Earth	Janet Tobias	With Eduard Grau, Sean Kirby and Peter Simonite
2017	Unseen Enemy	Janet Tobias	With Zac Nicholson
2017	Red Trees	Marina Willer	With Fabio Burtin and Jonathan Clabburn
2021	Alvorada	Anna Muylaert Lô Politi	With Lô Politi
2022	Benedetti, 60 años con Luz	Andrés Varela

Year	Title	Director	Notes
2000	Brava Gente	Mário Márcio Bandarra Fernando Meirelles Kátia Lund	Episode "Palace II"
2004	Sucker Free City	Spike Lee	TV movie
2009	Independent Lens	Gonzalo Arijon	Episode "Stranded: The Andes Plane Crash Survivors"
2012	Destino	Alex Gabassi Fábio Mendonça	3 episodes
2024	Sugar	Fernando Meirelles	5 episodes

Year	Award	Category	Title	Result
2002	Academy Awards	Best Cinematography	City of God	Nominated
2005	Satellite Awards	Best Cinematography	The Constant Gardener	Won
2005	BAFTA Awards	Best Cinematography	The Constant Gardener	Nominated

v t e Satellite Award for Best Cinematography
John Seale (1996) Janusz Kamiński (1997) John Toll (1998) Emmanuel Lubezki (1999) John Mathieson (2000) Roger Deakins (2001) Conrad Hall (2002) John Toll (2003) Xiaoding Zhao (2004) César Charlone (2005) Tom Stern (2006) Janusz Kamiński (2007) Mandy Walker (2008) Dion Beebe (2009) Wally Pfister (2010) Janusz Kamiński (2011) Claudio Miranda (2012) Bruno Delbonnel (2013) Dick Pope (2014) John Seale (2015) Bill Pope (2016) Roger Deakins (2017) Matthew Libatique (2018) Roger Deakins (2019) Erik Messerschmidt (2020) Greig Fraser (2021) Claudio Miranda (2022) Matthew Libatique (2023)

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