Rodrigo Prieto

Rodrigo Prieto

1965-11-23 Mexico City, Mexico 60 Credits

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...

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El Sarape

2024

Director of Photography

Directing
Pedro Páramo

Pedro Páramo

2024

Director, Director of Photography, Production Executive

6.9
Directing

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

Killers of the Flower Moon

2023

Director of Photography

7.4
Directing

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

Barbie

2023

Director of Photography

7.0
Directing

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

The Glorias

2020

Director of Photography

6.5
Directing

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'

Making 'The Irishman'

2020

as Self

7.0
Acting

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

R&R

2019

Director, Writer, Director of Photography

Directing Writing
The Irishman

The Irishman

2019

Director of Photography

7.6
Directing

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

Together

Together

2018

Director of Photography

4.6
Directing

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

MaNyfaCedGod

2017

Director of Photography

Directing

An abstract depiction of a couple going through a tumultuous time in their relationship.

Silence

Silence

2016

Director of Photography

7.1
Directing

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

Passengers

2016

Director of Photography

7.0
Directing

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

The Audition

2015

as Self

6.2
Acting

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

The Audition

The Audition

2015

Director of Photography

6.2
Directing

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)

Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

2014

Additional Photography

7.5

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

A Midsummer Night's Dream

2014

Director of Photography

6.4
Directing

A recording of Julie Taymor's New York stage production of William Shakespeare's comedy.

The Homesman

The Homesman

2014

Director of Photography

6.5
Directing

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

Human Voice

2014

Director of Photography

7.1
Directing

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

The Wolf of Wall Street

2013

Director of Photography

8.0
Directing

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

Likeness

2013

Director, Writer, Director of Photography

6.1
Directing Writing

For Mia, beauty is everything. A trophy, a promise, a ball and chain, a wish upon a star. A life sentence.

Argo

Argo

2012

Director of Photography

7.3
Directing

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

We Bought a Zoo

2011

Director of Photography

6.8
Directing

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

Water for Elephants

2011

Director of Photography

6.9
Directing

In this captivating Depression-era melodrama, impetuous veterinary student Jacob Jankowski joins a celebrated circus as an animal caretaker but faces ...

Biutiful

Biutiful

2010

Director of Photography

7.2
Directing

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

Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps

2010

Director of Photography

6.1
Directing

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

State of Play

2009

Director of Photography

6.8
Directing

When a congressional aide is killed, a Washington, D.C. journalist starts investigating the case involving the Representative, his old college friend.

Broken Embraces

Broken Embraces

2009

Director of Photography

7.1
Directing

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

Common Ground: Under Construction Notes

2007

as Self

10.0
Acting

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

Common Ground: Under Construction Notes

2007

Camera Operator

10.0

The making of Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Babel is chronicled through an observational approach that captures the creative and logistical challenges...

Lust, Caution

Lust, Caution

2007

Director of Photography

7.2
Directing

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

Babel

Babel

2006

Director of Photography

7.2
Directing

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

Brokeback Mountain

Brokeback Mountain

2005

as Young Mexican (uncredited)

7.8
Acting

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

Brokeback Mountain

2005

Director of Photography

7.8
Directing

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

Alexander

2004

Director of Photography

5.9
Directing

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

Looking for Fidel

2004

Director of Photography

6.0
Directing

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

21 Grams: In Fragments

2004

as Self

Acting

A documentary on the making of 21 Grams (2003).

21 Grams

21 Grams

2003

Director of Photography

7.3
Directing

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

Persona Non Grata

2003

Director of Photography

5.4
Directing

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

The Evolution of an American Filmmaker

2003

as Self

7.3
Acting

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

Comandante

2003

Director of Photography

6.5
Directing

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

25th Hour

2002

Director of Photography

7.3
Directing

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

8 Mile

2002

Director of Photography

7.1
Directing

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

Frida

2002

Director of Photography

7.4
Directing

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

Ten Tiny Love Stories

2002

Director of Photography

3.6
Directing

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

Original Sin

2001

Director of Photography

6.1
Directing

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

Ricky 6

2000

Director of Photography

5.8
Directing

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

Amores Perros

Amores Perros

2000

Director of Photography

7.6
Directing

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

Under a Spell

1999

Director of Photography

6.8
Directing

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

Optical Fibre

1998

Director of Photography

4.7
Directing

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

All of Them Witches

1996

Director of Photography

5.6
Directing

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

Oedipus Mayor

1996

Director of Photography

5.2
Directing

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

Directing
Perfume, efecto inmediato

Perfume, efecto inmediato

1994

Director of Photography

5.0
Directing

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

Dama de Noche

1993

Director of Photography

6.9
Directing

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

El Asesino del Zodiaco

1993

Director of Photography

3.2
Directing
Sólo con tu pareja

Sólo con tu pareja

1992

Second Unit Director

6.6
Directing

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

Lost Objects

1992

Director of Photography

7.0
Directing

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

Paty chula

1991

Director of Photography

7.2
Directing

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

Directing

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

Directing

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...