| Peter Biziou | |
| Birth Date: | 8 August 1944 |
| Birth Place: | Wales, United Kingdom |
| Occupation: | Cinematographer |
| Parents: | Leon Bijou |
Peter Biziou BSC (born 8 August 1944 in Wales) is a British cinematographer.[1] He received the Academy Award and BAFTA Award for Best Cinematography for Mississippi Burning (1988). He received a BAFTA Award nomination for The Truman Show (1998).
His other notable credits include Bugsy Malone (1976), Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979), Time Bandits (1981), Pink Floyd – The Wall (1982), Another Country (1984), In the Name of the Father (1993), Richard III (1995), The Truman Show (1998), and Ladies in Lavender (2004)
Peter Biziou is the son of special effects cameraman and cinematographer Leon Bijou best known for shooting Foxes in 1980. He began his career in the mid-1960s where he worked on short films by Norman J. Warren and Robert Freeman. In 1973 he began his collaboration with director Alan Parker. They shot the two shorts Footsteps and Our Cissy in 1974 and in 1976 Biziou got the opportunity to work on Parker's feature film Bugsy Malone. Biziou's next works include Monty Python's Life of Brian, Time Bandits and Pink Floyd - The Wall.
| Year | Title | Director | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1965 | Fragment | Norman J. Warren | Interior photography | |
| 1968 | Mini-midi | Robert Freeman | Documentary short | |
| 1974 | Footsteps | Alan Parker | ||
| Our Cissy | ||||
| 1976 | Short Ends | Ester Anderson | ||
| 1983 | The Bloody Chamber | Nick Lewin |
| Year | Title | Director | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1969 | L'Échelle blanche | Paul Feyder Robert Freeman | ||
| 1976 | Bugsy Malone | Alan Parker | Shared credit with Michael Seresin | |
| 1979 | Monty Python's Life of Brian | Terry Jones | ||
| 1981 | Time Bandits | Terry Gilliam | ||
| 1982 | Pink Floyd – The Wall | Alan Parker | ||
| 1984 | Another Country | Marek Kanievska | ||
| 1986 | 9½ Weeks | Adrian Lyne | ||
| 1988 | A World Apart | Chris Menges | ||
| Mississippi Burning | Alan Parker | |||
| 1990 | Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead | Tom Stoppard | ||
| 1992 | City of Joy | Roland Joffé | ||
| Damage | Louis Malle | |||
| 1993 | In the Name of the Father | Jim Sheridan | ||
| 1994 | The Road to Wellville | Alan Parker | ||
| 1995 | Richard III | Richard Loncraine | ||
| 1998 | The Truman Show | Peter Weir | ||
| 2002 | Unfaithful | Adrian Lyne | ||
| 2003 | Festival Express | Bob Smeaton | Documentary; Shared credit with Robert Fiore | |
| 2004 | Ladies in Lavender | Charles Dance | ||
| 2005 | Derailed | Mikael Håfström |
Biziou won the Academy Award and the BAFTA Award for Alan Parker's film Mississippi Burning. He received a further BAFTA nomination for Peter Weir's film The Truman Show.
| Year | Award | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | Mississippi Burning | [2] | |||
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| 1998 | The Truman Show | [4] | |||