Biography
Rodrigo Prieto Stambaugh, ASC, AMC (born November 23, 1965), is a Mexican cinematographer and film director. He has collaborated with Martin Scorsese and Alejandro González Iñárritu, among other prominent directors. He is a member of the Mexican Society of Cinematographers and the American Society of Cinematographers. Throughout his career, Prieto has received many awards and nominations, including four Academy Award nominations for Best Cinematography in Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain (2005) and...
Known For
Complete Filmography
El Sarape
2024
Director of Photography

Pedro Páramo
2024
Director, Director of Photography, Production Executive
A man searches for his father, Pedro Páramo, in a town doomed by violence and the fury of a frustrated love.

Killers of the Flower Moon
2023
Director of Photography
When oil is discovered in 1920s Oklahoma under Osage Nation land, the Osage people are murdered one by one—until the FBI steps in to unravel the myste...

Barbie
2023
Director of Photography
Barbie and Ken are having the time of their lives in the colorful and seemingly perfect world of Barbie Land. However, when they get a chance to go to...

The Glorias
2020
Director of Photography
An equal rights crusader, journalist and activist: Gloria Steinem embodies these and more. From her role in the revolutionary women's rights movement ...

Making 'The Irishman'
2020
as Self
Join legendary director Martin Scorsese, and acting icons Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci and Al Pacino going behind the scenes of their universally acclaim...

R&R
2019
Director, Writer, Director of Photography

The Irishman
2019
Director of Photography
Pennsylvania, 1956. Frank Sheeran, a war veteran of Irish origin who works as a truck driver, accidentally meets mobster Russell Bufalino. Once Frank ...

Together
2018
Director of Photography
Together is a VR experience about the power of human connection. The piece fuses dance and technology, putting the viewer in the middle of an emotiona...

MaNyfaCedGod
2017
Director of Photography
An abstract depiction of a couple going through a tumultuous time in their relationship.

Silence
2016
Director of Photography
In the 17th century, two Portuguese Jesuit priests travel to Japan in an attempt to locate their mentor, who is rumored to have committed apostasy, an...

Passengers
2016
Director of Photography
A spacecraft traveling to a distant colony planet and transporting thousands of people has a malfunction in its sleep chambers. As a result, two passe...

The Audition
2015
as Self
Robert De Niro and Leonardo DiCaprio must compete for the lead role in Martin Scorsese's next film.

The Audition
2015
Director of Photography
Robert De Niro and Leonardo DiCaprio must compete for the lead role in Martin Scorsese's next film.

Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
2014
Additional Photography
A fading actor best known for his portrayal of a popular superhero attempts to mount a comeback by appearing in a Broadway play. As opening night appr...

A Midsummer Night's Dream
2014
Director of Photography
A recording of Julie Taymor's New York stage production of William Shakespeare's comedy.

The Homesman
2014
Director of Photography
When three women living on the edge of the American frontier are driven mad by harsh pioneer life, the task of saving them falls to the pious, indepen...

Human Voice
2014
Director of Photography
Based on Jean Cocteau's iconic one-woman play of the same name; set against the backdrop of 1950 Naples, Angela is a woman in her twilight years, who ...

The Wolf of Wall Street
2013
Director of Photography
A New York stockbroker refuses to cooperate in a large securities fraud case involving corruption on Wall Street, corporate banking world and mob infi...

Likeness
2013
Director, Writer, Director of Photography
For Mia, beauty is everything. A trophy, a promise, a ball and chain, a wish upon a star. A life sentence.

Argo
2012
Director of Photography
As the Iranian revolution reaches a boiling point, a CIA 'exfiltration' specialist concocts a risky plan to free six Americans who have found shelter ...

We Bought a Zoo
2011
Director of Photography
Benjamin has lost his wife and, in a bid to start his life over, purchases a large house that has a zoo – welcome news for his daughter, but his son i...

Water for Elephants
2011
Director of Photography
In this captivating Depression-era melodrama, impetuous veterinary student Jacob Jankowski joins a celebrated circus as an animal caretaker but faces ...

Biutiful
2010
Director of Photography
This is a story of a man in free fall. On the road to redemption, darkness lights his way. Connected with the afterlife, Uxbal is a tragic hero and fa...

Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
2010
Director of Photography
As the global economy teeters on the brink of disaster, a young Wall Street trader partners with disgraced former Wall Street corporate raider Gordon ...

State of Play
2009
Director of Photography
When a congressional aide is killed, a Washington, D.C. journalist starts investigating the case involving the Representative, his old college friend.

Broken Embraces
2009
Director of Photography
Harry Caine, a blind writer, reaches this moment in time when he has to heal his wounds from 14 years back. He was then still known by his real name, ...

Common Ground: Under Construction Notes
2007
as Self
The making of Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Babel is chronicled through an observational approach that captures the creative and logistical challenges...

Common Ground: Under Construction Notes
2007
Camera Operator
The making of Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Babel is chronicled through an observational approach that captures the creative and logistical challenges...

Lust, Caution
2007
Director of Photography
During World War II, a secret agent must seduce and assassinate an official who works for the Japanese puppet government in Shanghai.

Babel
2006
Director of Photography
Tragedy strikes a married couple vacationing in the Moroccan desert, which jumpstarts an interlocking story involving four different families.

Brokeback Mountain
2005
as Young Mexican (uncredited)
In 1960s Wyoming, two men develop a strong emotional and sexual relationship that endures as a lifelong connection complicating their lives as they ge...

Brokeback Mountain
2005
Director of Photography
In 1960s Wyoming, two men develop a strong emotional and sexual relationship that endures as a lifelong connection complicating their lives as they ge...

Alexander
2004
Director of Photography
Alexander, the King of Macedonia, leads his legions against the giant Persian Empire. After defeating the Persians, he leads his army across the then ...

Looking for Fidel
2004
Director of Photography
Oliver Stone's second documentary on/interview with Fidel Castro specifically addresses his country's recent crackdown on Cuban dissidents; namely, th...

21 Grams: In Fragments
2004
as Self
A documentary on the making of 21 Grams (2003).

21 Grams
2003
Director of Photography
Paul Rivers, an ailing mathematician lovelessly married to an English émigré; Christina Peck, an upper-middle-class suburban housewife and mother of t...

Persona Non Grata
2003
Director of Photography
2003 documentary film produced by Oliver Stone for the HBO series America Undercover about the conflict in occupied Palestine. He speaks with Ehud Bar...

The Evolution of an American Filmmaker
2003
as Self
Spike Lee's filmmaking career is examined in this partial making-of for the film 25th Hour (2002). Interviews with cast members from this film and his...

Comandante
2003
Director of Photography
Oliver Stone spends three days filming with Fidel Castro in Cuba, discussing an array of subjects with the president such as his rise to power, fellow...

25th Hour
2002
Director of Photography
In New York City in the days following the events of 9/11, Monty Brogan is a convicted drug dealer about to start a seven-year prison sentence, and hi...

8 Mile
2002
Director of Photography
For Jimmy Smith, Jr., life is a daily fight just to keep hope alive. Feeding his dreams in Detroit's vibrant music scene, Jimmy wages an extraordinary...

Frida
2002
Director of Photography
A biography of artist Frida Kahlo, who channeled the pain of a crippling injury and her tempestuous marriage into her work.

Ten Tiny Love Stories
2002
Director of Photography
Rodrigo Garcia's Ten Tiny Love Stories follows the stories of ten women with very different emotional and psychological experiences across ten scripte...

Original Sin
2001
Director of Photography
A young man is plunged into a life of subterfuge, deceit and mistaken identity in pursuit of a femme fatale whose heart is never quite within his gras...

Ricky 6
2000
Director of Photography
Based on the true story of drugs, satanism, and murder in the upper class town of Northport, Long Island in 1984.

Amores Perros
2000
Director of Photography
A fatalistic car crash in Mexico city sets off a chain of events in the lives of three people: a supermodel, a young man wanting to run off with his s...

Under a Spell
1999
Director of Photography
In the Yucatan coast of the thirties , Elisha, a boy of 13, is initiated into the art of love by Felipa , his schoolteacher. After discovering the rel...

Optical Fibre
1998
Director of Photography
When a Brazilian woman is falsely accused of killing a prominent Mexican politician, Marco, a young journalist, is hired by a stranger to discover the...

All of Them Witches
1996
Director of Photography
Something strange is going on in Dolores' apartment house--or is it mainly in Dolores' head that the strangeness lies... When her best friend Eva is m...

Oedipus Mayor
1996
Director of Photography
Edipo, is appointed mayor of a town plunged in misery and violence. His first mission is to discover and punish the murderers of Layo, a well-known po...
Out of This World
1994
Director of Photography

Perfume, efecto inmediato
1994
Director of Photography
A cosmetologist invents a perfume that helps her sister seduce her boss. When her boss realizes the power of the perfume he will try to steal the form...

Dama de Noche
1993
Director of Photography
Bruno, a novelist with no luck goes to call for help from his love always sofia, who is in Veracruz desolate without knowing what to do with the corps...

El Asesino del Zodiaco
1993
Director of Photography

Sólo con tu pareja
1992
Second Unit Director
Tomás Tomás is a young yuppie playboy with a string of discarded girlfriends. But when Silvia, the victim of one of his adventures, tries to get reven...

Lost Objects
1992
Director of Photography
Juan and Pilar return to Mexico City on the same train. Destiny cross their paths in a taxi stop, off the train station. A cab arrives and they take e...

Paty chula
1991
Director of Photography
Paty, an employee of an advertising company, is summoned to a business dinner by Mr. Gutiérrez, a successful businessman. She cannot refuse the invita...
Apparat
N/A
Director of Photography
A middle aged, married couple spend a night at their desert cabin. What was planned as an anniversary getaway erupts into a brutalizing void of two to...
Untitled Hawaiian Gangster Project
N/A
Director of Photography
Based on the untold true story of a man who fought to preserve his homeland through a ruthless quest for absolute power — igniting the last great Amer...