Janusz KaminskiFilmography

Born:: June 27, 1959 in Ziembice, Poland
Occupation:: Cinematographer
Biography:: In the United States from 1981, Polish-born Janusz Kaminski graduated from Columbia College, and thereafter recieved a BA in Film from the AFI. His debut as a cinematographer occurred with 1988's Lisa, which won him the Line Eagel Award at the Illinois Film Festival. Kaminski's Hollywood career...Read More

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Funny People

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Adam Sandler, Seth Rogen, Leslie Mann, Eric Bana, Jonah Hill, Jason Schwartzman

Synopsis: Judd Apatow casts his former real-life roommate Adam Sandler as George Simmons, a comic superstar who learns in the movie's opening scene that he suffers from a rare blood disorder that will likely kill him within a year. This news gives him the impulse to go back out and work on his standup Read More

7/31/09
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Harrison Ford, Cate Blanchett, Karen Allen, Ray Winstone, John Hurt, Jim Broadbent, Shia LaBeouf, Igor Jijikine

Synopsis: Everyone's favorite archeologist adventurer dusts off his hat and trusty whip for yet another globetrotting trek as Indiana Jones returns to the big screen nearly 20 years after racing for the Holy Grail alongside his father in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989). Harrison Ford reprises his Read More

5/22/08
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Mathieu Amalric, Emmanuelle Seigner, Marie-Josée Croze, Anne Consigny, Patrick Chesnais

Synopsis: The astonishing true-life story of Jean-Dominic Bauby -- a man who held the world in his palm, lost everything to sudden paralysis at 43 years old, and somehow found the strength to rebound -- first touched the world in Bauby's best-selling autobiography The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (aka La Read More

12/19/07
Hania

Crew: Director

2007
Munich

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Eric Bana, Daniel Craig, Ciarán Hinds, Mathieu Kassovitz, Hanns Zischler

Synopsis: Much as Steven Spielberg followed 1993's special-effects blockbuster Jurassic Park with a far more downbeat and personal project later the same year, Schindler's List, in 2005 after tearing up the box office with War of the Worlds the director closed out the year with a powerful and thoughtful Read More

12/23/05
War of the Worlds

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Tom Cruise, Dakota Fanning, Miranda Otto, Justin Chatwin, Tim Robbins

Synopsis: An ordinary man has to protect his children against alien invaders in this science fiction thriller, freely adapted from the classic story by H.G. Wells. Ray Ferrier (Tom Cruise) is a dockworker living in New Jersey, divorced from his first wife Mary Ann (Miranda Otto) and estranged from his two Read More

6/29/05
The Terminal

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Tom Hanks, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Stanley Tucci, Chi McBride, Diego Luna

Synopsis: Shot almost entirely on a two-and-a-half-story recreation of a full-size operating airport terminal, this romantic comedy from director Steven Spielberg revolves around an Eastern European man by the name of Viktor Navorski (Tom Hanks), whose plans of immigrating to New York were hastened by a Read More

6/18/04
Catch Me If You Can

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hanks, Christopher Walken, Martin Sheen, Nathalie Baye

Synopsis: A gifted forger and confidence man attempts to stay one step ahead of the lawman determined to bring him to justice in this comedy-drama from Steven Spielberg, based on a true story. Frank W. Abagnale Jr. (Leonardo DiCaprio) is a 16-year-old high school student who finds himself emotionally cut Read More

12/25/02
Minority Report

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Tom Cruise, Colin Farrell, Samantha Morton, Max von Sydow, Lois Smith

Synopsis: Based on a short story by the late Philip K. Dick, this science fiction-thriller reflects the writer's familiar preoccupation with themes of concealed identity and mind control. Tom Cruise stars as John Anderton, a Washington, D.C. detective in the year 2054. Anderton works for "Precrime," a Read More

6/21/02
A.I.: Artificial Intelligence

Crew: Cinematographer, Still Photographer

Actors: Haley Joel Osment, Jude Law, Frances O'Connor, Brendan Gleeson, William Hurt

Synopsis: Based on the 1969 short story Super-Toys Last All Summer Long, by Brian Aldiss, this science fiction fantasy bears similarities to Pinocchio (1940) and originated as a long-gestating project of director Stanley Kubrick that passed to his friend Steven Spielberg after Kubrick's death. Haley Joel Osment Read More

6/29/01
Lost Souls

Crew: Director

Actors: Winona Ryder, Ben Chaplin, Sarah Wynter, Philip Baker Hall, John Hurt

Synopsis: A woman who has survived the touch of ultimate evil must now save one man from the same fate in order to protect the world in this supernatural thriller. Maya Larkin (Winona Ryder) is a devout Catholic who is said to have been possessed by a demon as a child; she now works with Father Lareaux Read More

10/13/00
Saving Private Ryan

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Tom Hanks, Edward Burns, Tom Sizemore, Jeremy Davies, Vin Diesel

Synopsis: Steven Spielberg directed this powerful, realistic re-creation of WWII's D-day invasion and the immediate aftermath. The story opens with a prologue in which a veteran brings his family to the American cemetery at Normandy, and a flashback then joins Capt. John Miller (Tom Hanks) and GIs in a Read More

7/24/98
Amistad

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Jeremy Northam, Arliss Howard, Morgan Freeman, Anthony Hopkins, Matthew McConaughey, Nigel Hawthorne, Djimon Hounsou

Synopsis: This Steven Spielberg-directed exploration into a long-ago episode in African-American history recounts the trial that followed the 1839 rebellion aboard the Spanish slave ship Amistad and captures the complex political maneuverings set in motion by the event. Filmed in New England and Puerto Read More

1997
The Lost World: Jurassic Park

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Richard Attenborough, Vince Vaughn, Jeff Goldblum, Julianne Moore, Pete Postlethwaite

Synopsis: Just when you'd think that scientists would realize dinosaurs and humans don't mix, along comes The Lost World: Jurassic Park to prove you wrong. In this sequel, John Hammond (Richard Attenborough) summons chaos theorist and onetime colleague Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum) to his home with some Read More

1997
Jerry Maguire

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Tom Cruise, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Renée Zellweger, Kelly Preston, Jay Mohr, Jerry O'Connell, Bonnie Hunt, Jonathan Lipnicki, Regina King

Synopsis: Combining drama, comedy, and romance, Jerry Maguire was a critical and commercial success built on an original script by writer/director Cameron Crowe and an Oscar-nominated performance by Tom Cruise. Jerry Maguire (Tom Cruise) is an agent with a major sports management firm. He's enthusiastic Read More

1996
How to Make an American Quilt

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Winona Ryder, Anne Bancroft, Maya Angelou, Ellen Burstyn, Kate Nelligan, Jean Simmons

Synopsis: A young woman at a crossroads in her life finds herself receiving plenty of advice from her older and wiser counterparts in this drama. Finn Dodd (Winona Ryder) is a graduate student trying to finish up her doctoral thesis on women's folk art while deciding if she should marry her fiancé Sam (Dermot Mulroney Read More

1995
Tall Tale

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Patrick Swayze, Oliver Platt, Roger Aaron Brown, Nick Stahl, Scott Glenn

Synopsis: This ambitious Disney movie uses a remarkable screenplay from Steven L. Bloom and Robert Rodat to tell a rollicking tale of America's transition from a close-to-the-land culture of mythic heroes to a corporate world of real estate tycoons. The strong theme about the decline of folk culture is Read More

1994
Little Giants

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Rick Moranis, Ed O'Neill, John Madden, Shawna Waldron, Mary Ellen Trainor

Synopsis: A successful retired jock and his geeky younger brother play out their sibling rivalry by coaching rival little league football teams in this family comedy. Ed O'Neill plays the older brother, Kevin O'Shea, a former Heisman Trophy winner whose gridiron exploits have made him a local hero in his Read More

1994
The Adventures of Huck Finn

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Elijah Wood, Courtney Vance, Robbie Coltrane, Jason Robards, Jr., Ron Perlman

Synopsis: This eighth adaptation of the timeless Mark Twain novel casts Elijah Wood as Huckleberry Finn, the half-literate son of a drunk who runs away from home and follows the Mississippi River with an escaped slave named Jim (Courtney S. Vance). Along the way, the duo encounter adventures with colorful Read More

1993
Schindler's List

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes, Caroline Goodall, Jonathan Sagall

Synopsis: Based on a true story, Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List stars Liam Neeson as Oskar Schindler, a German businessman in Poland who sees an opportunity to make money from the Nazis' rise to power. He starts a company to make cookware and utensils, using flattery and bribes to win military Read More

1993
Killer Instinct

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Christopher Bradley, Bruce Nozick, Rachel York, Jeff Griggs

Synopsis: This brutal biopic tells the blood-soaked tale of how Vincent "Mad Dog" Coll rose to become one of the most ruthless, powerful gangsters of the 1920s. Mad Dog Coll was shot simultaneously with Hit the Dutchman with Moscow locations substituting for New York. Both films basically used the same Read More

1992
Trouble Bound

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Michael Madsen, Patricia Arquette, Florence Stanley, Seymour Cassel, Sal Jenco

Synopsis: In this lively crime thriller, luckless ex-con Harry Talbot wins several thousand dollars and a luxury car in a poker game. He is delighted, having no idea that the others let him win because the trunk of the Lincoln contains the remains of Gordo. No, Harry is finally feeling lucky and in his Read More

1992
Cool as Ice

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Vanilla Ice, Kristen Minter, Michael Gross, Sidney Lassick, Dody Goodman

Synopsis: The leader of a motorcycle gang (rapper Vanilla Ice) falls in love with a small-town girl (Kristen Minter) and finds out that while her family is involved in the Witness Protection Program, they are being pursued by corrupt cops. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

10/18/91
The Terror Within 2

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Andrew Stevens, Stella Stevens, Chick Vennera, R. Lee Ermey, Burton Gilliam

Synopsis: This sci-fi/horror sequel is set in the 21st century where the human race has been decimated by a man-made plague. Most of the normal survivors now live underground while the Earth's surface is populated by terrifying mutants. The survivors have developed a plague vaccine, but must gather the Read More

1/25/91
Wildflower

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Patricia Arquette, William McNamara, Reese Witherspoon, Beau Bridges

Synopsis: Set in the rural South of the '30s, the made-for-cable film Wildflower is about a pair of teenaged siblings who become friends with an epileptic girl named Alice (Patricia Arquette), who has been forced to live in the barn behind her father's house because he believed her seizures were the work of Read More

1991
Pyrates

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Kevin Bacon, Kyra Sedgwick, Bruce Payne, Kristin Dattilo-Hayward, Debbie Falconer

Synopsis: Two lovers inadvertently take the notion of fiery passion too far when their lovemaking begins generating real conflagrations in this romantic fantasy. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1991
The Rain Killer

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Ray Sharkey, David Beecroft, Tania Coleridge, Michael Chiklis, Bill LaVallee

Synopsis: Ray Sharkey plays Detective Vince Capra of the LAPD whose job it is to discover the identity of a serial killer who has been murdering rich single ladies when the rain falls. He's saddled with an FBI agent who's supposed to assist him in solving the crime, but tends to get in his way. There are Read More

9/14/90