| Larry Fong | |
|---|---|
| Born | Los Angeles, California, USA |
| Occupation | Cinematographer |
Larry Fong is an American cinematographer born in Los Angeles, California. He showed interest and talent in art at a young age. His experience in photography and film was self-taught, beginning in junior high with short films shot on Super 8, cel animation, and stop motion projects. He graduated from UCLA with a B.A. in Linguistics and Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, specializing in film and photography.
He began his professional career filming music videos. In shooting three winners of the MTV Video Music Award for Video of the Year (for R.E.M., Van Halen, and Goo Goo Dolls), he garnered more attention which resulted in him filming two independent films and various TV pilots, commercials, and shorts.
In 2004 he was hired to film the Lost pilot, for which he was nominated for an ASC Award.[1][2]
2007 saw the release of his first studio film, 300, directed by Zack Snyder.
In 2011 he was accepted into the American Society of Cinematographers. [3]
He is an accomplished magician.[4][5][6][7]
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| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | Super 8 | director: J. J. Abrams | |
| Sucker Punch | director: Zack Snyder | ||
| 2009 | Watchmen | ||
| 2007 | 300 | ||
| 2004 | Cape of Good Hope | director: Mark Bamford | |
| 2000 | Hero | ||
| Cost of Living | director: Stan Schofield | ||
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 2010 | Cut Throat | director: Bronwen Hughes | |
| 2009 | Cop House | "Pilot" | director: Brett Ratner |
| Anatomy of Hope | "Pilot" | director: J. J. Abrams | |
| 2006 | Secrets of a Small Town | "Pilot" | director: Adam Davidson |
| 2005 | The Catch | "Pilot" | director: Jesse Peretz |
| 2004 | Lost | "Pilot" | "Special"; "Whatever the Case May Be"; "Solitary"; "Confidence Man"; "House of the Rising Sun"; "Walkabout"; "Tabula Rasa" |
| 1997 | Sleepwalkers | "Pilot" | director: David Nutter |
| 1992 | Red Shoe Diaries | "Accidents Happen" & "Just Like That" director: Ted Kotcheff |
In 2005, he was nominated for an ASC Award for "Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography in Movies of the Week/Mini-Series/Pilot for Broadcast TV" for the pilot episode of Lost (2004).