Academy Award-winning for his work on Rob Marshall’s Memoirs of a Geisha, filmmaker with whom he has filmed seven times (from Chicago to The Little Mermaid), the Australian cinematographer Dion Beebe also collaborated with Jane Campion (Holy Smoke and In the cut) and with Michael Mann (Collateral and Miami Vice).
He is currently shooting the biopic of Michael Jackson, directed by Antoine Fuqua.
For the 12th year, Angénieux, the world-renowned optical manufacturer and flagship of the French industry for the last ninety years, will pay tribute to a leading name in photography during an exceptional evening opened by Thierry Frémaux, Delegate General of the Cannes Film Festival and presented by French journalist Charlotte Lipinska.
An official partner of the Cannes Film Festival since 2013, the Pierre Angénieux ceremony, is a unique event during which world-leading image experts - without whom cinema would not exist - are highlighted and celebrated.
On Friday, May 23 at 8:00 pm (Salle Buñuel), this year’s award will honour Australian cinematographer DION BEEBE and South Korean cinematographer EUNSOO CHO will be awarded Angénieux Special Encouragement
Angénieux is world-renowned for its camera lenses. Recognized four times in Hollywood by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 1964, 1989 and 2009, and by the Society of Camera Operators in 2012, as well as in 2014 by the British Society of Cinematographers in London, Angénieux lenses are a benchmark for image professionals. They are used worldwide for cinema, TV dramas, music videos or commercials.
* Some examples of outstanding films released this year, shot with Angénieux lenses: Conclave by Edward Berger, Emilia Pérez by Jacques Audiard, Anora by Sean Baker, The Substance dby Coralie Fargeat, I'm still there by Walter Salles et Gladiator 2 by Ridley Scott.
The history of the brand started 90 years ago in 1935, with the creation of the Pierre Angénieux Company. Since 1993, Angénieux has become a Thales Group brand.
Cinema enthusiast and genius inventor, Pierre Angénieux laid the foundations of the modern zoom lenses and ensured the continued success of his company, which has experienced an incredible destiny. Pierre Angénieux was not only interested in cinema: he also turned to photography, television, optronics, and medicine. Angénieux lenses have even been all the way to the moon! Chosen initially by NASA in the 1960s, they have since participated in different missions of the prestigious American organisation. They were aboard Apollo 11 and participated in the extraordinary success of the mission that, 50 years ago, showed the images of man’s first step on the Moon. .
Published in 2019, the book “Angénieux and Cinema: From Light to Image” (Silvana Editoriale) retraces through 270 lavishly illustrated pages, the incredible adventure of the Angénieux brand up to its most current challenges. The book is available in both English and French.
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FILMOGRAPHY
DION BEEBE
Feature films
2025 Michael by Antoine Fuqua *
2023 The Little Mermaid by Rob Marshall *
2019 Gemini Man by Ang Lee
2019 I Am Woman by Unjoo Moon
2018 Mary Poppins Returns by Rob Marshall *
2017 The Snowman by Tomas Alfredson *
2016 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi by Michael Bay
2014 Into the woods by Rob Marshall
2014 Edge of Tomorrow Special by Doug Liman
2013 Gangster Squad by Ruben Fleischer *
2011 Green Lantern by Martin Campbell *
2009 Nine by Rob Marshall *
2009 Land of the Lost by Brad Silberling
2007 Rendition by Gavin Hood *
2006 Miami Vice by Michael Mann
2005 Memoirs of a Geisha by Rob Marshall
2004 Collateral by Michael Mann
2003 In the Cut by Jane Campion
2002 Chicago by Rob Marshall *
2002 Equilibrium by Kurt Wimmer
2001 Charlotte Gray by Gillian Armstrong *
2000 The Goddess of 1967 by Clara Law
2000 Forever Lulu by John Kaye
1999 Holy Smoke by Jane Campion *
1998 Memory & Desire by Niki Caro *
1998 Praise by John Curran
1996 What I Have Written by John Hughes
1996 Floating Life by Clara Law
1995 Vacant Possession by Margot Nash
1992 Crush by Alison Maclean *
* Angénieux lenses were used by Dion Beebe on these films.
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