Thomas Burstyn

Canadian cinematographer

Thomas Burstyn (born 1954 in Montreal, Quebec), sometimes credited as Tom Burstyn, is a Canadian cinematographer and documentary filmmaker.^[1] He is most noted for his work on the 1995 film Magic in the Water, for which he won the Genie Award for Best Cinematography at the 16th Genie Awards.^[2] He was nominated in the same category on two other occasions, at the 10th Genie Awards in 1989 for The Tadpole and the Whale (La Grenouille et la baleine),^[3] and at the 14th Genie Awards in 1993 for The Lotus Eaters.^[4]

As a filmmaker he directed the documentary film Some Kind of Love,^[5] for which he received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Cinematography in a Documentary at the 4th Canadian Screen Awards in 2016.^[6]

He moved to New Zealand in the 2000s after marrying New Zealand filmmaker Barbara Sumner, with whom he cofounded the production company Cloud South Films.^[7]

References

^ Julia Brown, "Filmmaking - the great adventure; Tom Burstyn, cinematographer, on trailer homes and HD technology". OnFilm, June 2005.
^ John Griffin, "Saltspring Islander's drama takes six Genies". Vancouver Sun, January 15, 1996.
^ "List of nominees for the Genie Awards". Montreal Gazette, February 14, 1989.
^ "The Lotus Eaters strong contender at Genies". The Globe and Mail, December 11, 1993.
^ "Some Kind of Love: Thomas Burstyn". Exclaim!, June 12, 2015.
^ "2016 Canadian Screen Awards Nominees Announced". ET Canada, January 19, 2016.
^ Sarah Catherall, "Living in a library: the Napier home with 5500 books". Stuff, February 16, 2018.

External links

Thomas Burstyn at IMDb

Canadian Screen Award for Best Cinematography

Canadian Film Award
1963–1978

Donald Wilder and Guy Borremans (1963)
Stan Brede and John Spotton (1964)
Francis Chapman, Christopher Chapman and Jean-Claude Labrecque (1965)
Jean-Claude Labrecque and Georges Dufaux (1966)
Gilles Gascon and Grahame Woods (1967)
Georges Dufaux and Bernard Gosselin (1968)
Réo Grégoire and Tony Ianzelo (1969)
Bernard Chentrier (1970)
Michel Brault (1971)
Michel Brault (1972)
Donald Wilder (1973)
no award (1974)
Paul Van der Linden (1975)
Richard Leiterman (1976)
Pierre Mignot (1977)
Miklós Lente (1978)

Genie Award
1980–2011

John Coquillon (1980)
Michel Brault (1981)
Richard Leiterman (1982)
Michel Brault (1983)
Pierre Mignot (1984)
Pierre Mignot (1985)
François Protat (1986)
Pierre Mignot (1987)
Guy Dufaux (1988)
Peter Suschitzky (1989)
Guy Dufaux (1990)
Peter James (1991)
Peter Suschitzky (1992)
Alain Dostie (1993)
Paul Sarossy (1994)
Thomas Burstyn (1995)
Peter Suschitzky (1996)
Paul Sarossy (1997)
Alain Dostie (1998)
Paul Sarossy (1999)
André Turpin (2000)
Pierre Gill (2001)
Paul Sarossy (2002)
Allen Smith (2003)
Paul Sarossy (2004)
Giles Nuttgens (2005)
Pierre Gill (2006)
Peter Suschitzky (2007)
Gregory Middleton (2008)
Pierre Gill (2009)
André Turpin (2010)
Jean-François Lord (2011)

Canadian Screen Award
2012–present

Nicolas Bolduc (2012)
Nicolas Bolduc (2013)
André Turpin (2014)
Yves Bélanger (2015)
André Turpin (2016)
Nicolas Bolduc (2017)
Sara Mishara (2018)
Norm Li (2019)
Maya Bankovic (2020)
Sara Mishara (2021)
Sara Mishara (2022)
Jared Raab (2023)

Note: From 1963 to 1969, two separate awards were consistently presented for colour and black-and-white cinematography. This distinction did not continue from 1970 on.