Wally Pfister

Wally Pfister

1961-07-08 Chicago, Illinois, USA 63 Credits

Biography

Walter C. Pfister (born July 8, 1961) is an American director and former cinematographer, who is best known for his work with filmmaker Christopher Nolan. Some of his collaborations with Nolan include Memento (2000), The Dark Knight Trilogy (2005–2012), and Inception (2010). For his work on Inception, Pfister won an Academy Award for Best Cinematography and received a BAFTA Award nomination. Description above from the Wikipedia article Wally Pfister, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contri...

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Lennon or McCartney

Lennon or McCartney

2014

as Self

5.2
Acting

550 artists were interviewed over ten years. At some point during those interviews, they were asked a question and told to answer with one word only. ...

Transcendence

Transcendence

2014

Director

6.1
Directing

Two leading computer scientists work toward their goal of Technological Singularity, as a radical anti-technology organization fights to prevent them...

Turbo

Turbo

2013

Other

6.3

The tale of an ordinary garden snail who dreams of winning the Indy 500.

Ending the Knight

Ending the Knight

2012

as Self

7.2
Acting

A comprehensive look into how Director Christopher Nolan and his production team made "The Dark Knight Rises" the epic conclusion to the Dark Knight l...

Side by Side

Side by Side

2012

as Self

7.2
Acting

Since the invention of cinema, the standard format for recording moving images has been film. Over the past two decades, a new form of digital filmmak...

The Dark Knight Rises

The Dark Knight Rises

2012

Director of Photography, Camera Operator

7.8
Directing

Following the death of District Attorney Harvey Dent, Batman assumes responsibility for Dent's crimes to protect the late attorney's reputation and is...

Moneyball: Playing the Game

Moneyball: Playing the Game

2012

as Self

6.7
Acting

Cast and crew discuss the film's authentic recreation of baseball scenes and the landscape of the 2002 baseball season, sets and filming locales, cost...

Moneyball

Moneyball

2011

Director of Photography

7.3
Directing

The story of Oakland Athletics general manager Billy Beane's successful attempt to put together a baseball team on a budget, by employing computer-gen...

Inception

Inception

2010

Director of Photography

8.4
Directing

Cobb, a skilled thief who commits corporate espionage by infiltrating the subconscious of his targets is offered a chance to regain his old life as pa...

The Dark Knight

The Dark Knight

2008

Director of Photography

8.5
Directing

Batman raises the stakes in his war on crime. With the help of Lt. Jim Gordon and District Attorney Harvey Dent, Batman sets out to dismantle the rema...

Gotham Uncovered: Creation of a Scene

Gotham Uncovered: Creation of a Scene

2008

as Self

7.0
Acting

Director Christopher Nolan and creative collaborators unmask the incredible detail and planning behind The Dark Knight, including stunt staging, filmi...

The Director's Notebook: The Cinematic Sleight of Hand of Christopher Nolan

The Director's Notebook: The Cinematic Sleight of Hand of Christopher Nolan

2007

as Self

9.0
Acting

Behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of "The Prestige" (2006).

The Prestige

The Prestige

2006

Director of Photography

8.2
Directing

A mysterious story of two magicians whose intense rivalry leads them on a life-long battle for supremacy -- full of obsession, deceit and jealousy wit...

Slow Burn

Slow Burn

2005

Director of Photography

5.3
Directing

A district attorney (Ray Liotta) is involved in a 24-hour showdown with a gang leader (LL Cool J) and is, at the same time, being manipulated by an at...

Batman Begins

Batman Begins

2005

Director of Photography

7.7
Directing

Driven by tragedy, billionaire Bruce Wayne dedicates his life to uncovering and defeating the corruption that plagues his home, Gotham City. Unable t...

The Italian Job

The Italian Job

2003

Director of Photography

6.8
Directing

Charlie Croker pulled off the crime of a lifetime. The one thing that he didn't plan on was being double-crossed. Along with a drop-dead gorgeous safe...

Laurel Canyon

Laurel Canyon

2003

Director of Photography

6.0
Directing

When an uptight young man and his fiancée move into his libertine mother's house, the resulting clash of life attitudes shakes everyone up.

Insomnia

Insomnia

2002

Director of Photography

6.9
Directing

Two Los Angeles homicide detectives are dispatched to a northern town where the sun doesn't set to investigate the methodical murder of a local teen.

Rustin

Rustin

2001

Director of Photography

Directing

Rick Johnson directs and stars in this small town drama about a man who is forced to confront some uncomfortable issues when his past comes back to ha...

Scotland, PA

Scotland, PA

2001

Director of Photography

5.9
Directing

Joe McBeth is a hard-working but unambitious doofus who toils at a hamburger stand alongside his wife Pat, who is much smarter. Pat believes she could...

Sanctuary

Sanctuary

2001

Director of Photography

3.3
Directing

A famous photographer, Jo Ellen Hathaway, has been being stalked for quite some time. She returns to the island she grew up on in an effort to get awa...

Memento

Memento

2000

Director of Photography

8.2
Directing

Leonard Shelby is tracking down the man who raped and murdered his wife. The difficulty of locating his wife's killer, however, is compounded by the f...

Sharing the Secret

Sharing the Secret

2000

Director of Photography

6.3
Directing

A teenage girl, who feels she must always seem happy for her parents and friends, secretly binges and purges.

The Hi-Line

The Hi-Line

2000

Director of Photography

5.2
Directing

A con man and a young woman travel across the country, first in search of a man he knows, and then in search of a woman she knows.

The Million Dollar Hotel

The Million Dollar Hotel

2000

"B" Camera Operator

5.9

A federal agent searches for a potential killer among the bizarre residents of a dilapidated Los Angeles hotel.

Stuart Little

Stuart Little

1999

Camera Operator

6.1

When the Littles adopt Stuart, the mouse, George is initially unwelcoming to his new brother, and the family cat, Snowbell, is even less enthusiastic....

Instinct

Instinct

1999

Camera Operator

6.5

In a prison for the criminally insane, deranged anthropologist Ethan Powell is set to be examined by a bright young psychiatrist, Theo Caulder. Driven...

Breakfast with Einstein

Breakfast with Einstein

1998

Director of Photography

2.4
Directing

The outrageously wisecracking Cheech Marin unleashes the laughs as the voice of a smart-alecky dog named Einstein who's out to find himself a new fami...

Rhapsody in Bloom

Rhapsody in Bloom

1998

Director of Photography

7.0
Directing

Artist Lilah Bloom's life is upended when her widowed brother decides to remarry a strong-willed business woman. Humor and self-awareness emerge as sh...

MouseHunt

MouseHunt

1997

Second Unit Director of Photography, Camera Operator

6.5
Directing

Down-on-their luck brothers, Lars and Ernie Smuntz, aren't happy with the crumbling old mansion they inherit... until they discover the estate is wort...

A Kid in Aladdin's Palace

A Kid in Aladdin's Palace

1997

Director of Photography

5.2
Directing

Calvin, a young pizza delivery boy, is mistaken for the "Great Deliverer" by Aladdin, an eighth century genie imprisoned in a lamp. Thinking that the ...

Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery

Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery

1997

Additional Photography

6.6

As a swinging fashion photographer by day and a groovy British superagent by night, Austin Powers is the '60s' most shagadelic spy. But can he stop me...

Phenomenon

Phenomenon

1996

Camera Operator

6.5

An ordinary man sees a bright light descend from the sky, and discovers he now has super-intelligence and telekinesis.

Unstrung Heroes

Unstrung Heroes

1995

Camera Operator

5.9

Steven Lidz, unhappy with his home life since his mother became sick, moves in with his two eccentric uncles. As Steven grows closer to his uncles, he...

The Granny

The Granny

1995

Director of Photography

6.2
Directing

Granny's family wants her dead so they can collect her insurance. While she is on her death bed, she drinks an eternal life potion and returns to the ...

While You Were Sleeping

While You Were Sleeping

1995

Camera Operator

7.0

A transit worker pulls commuter Peter off railway tracks after he's mugged, but—while he's in a coma—his family mistakenly thinks she's Peter's fiancé...

Stranger by Night

Stranger by Night

1994

Director of Photography

3.2
Directing

Detective Bobby Corcoran and his partner, Detective Larson, are on the hunt for a vicious serial killer in this tense police thriller. As the murderou...

Secret Games 3

Secret Games 3

1994

Director of Photography

5.0
Directing

A neglected housewife of a busy husband who is a doctor turns to prostitution to pass the time. One of her customers develops an obsession with her an...

Animal Instincts 2

Animal Instincts 2

1994

Director of Photography

4.5
Directing

An unhappy divorcée has the bad fortune to move next door to a security systems installer, a voyeur whose hobby is planting hidden video cameras in th...

Object of Obsession

Object of Obsession

1994

Director of Photography

5.0
Directing

A divorced woman seeks new sexual adventures in this erotic tale. What she doesn't count on is that her new lover will take her as a hostage and hold ...

Mirror Images II

Mirror Images II

1993

Director of Photography

4.2
Directing

Shannon Whirry stars as Carrie and Terrie, a pair of twins who were separated in youth when their father murdered their mother and was in turn killed ...

Amityville: A New Generation

Amityville: A New Generation

1993

Director of Photography

4.2
Directing

Keyes, a successful photographer who lives at the border of Skid Row, notices a homeless man with a strange old mirror. Immediately struck by it for r...

Stepmonster

Stepmonster

1993

Director of Photography

4.5
Directing

Todd Dougherty has an imagination driven by comic books. So when he accuses his soon-to-be stepmother of being a monster, no one believes him. When ne...

Meals on Wheels

1992

Director of Photography

Directing

Made for Playboy's "Inside Out" TV show, the short follows an eccentric dweeb who, after noticing an attractive woman sucking on a popsicle, tries fol...

Inside Out 4

Inside Out 4

1992

Director of Photography

3.2
Directing

Softcore anthology film containing stories: "Natalie Would"; "Modivation"; "Put Asunder"; "Save The Wetlands"; "The Thief"; "Jilted Lover"; "Three On ...

Animal Instincts

Animal Instincts

1992

Director of Photography

5.1
Directing

A cop and his sexually frustrated wife are struggling to keep their failing marriage intact, when by chance she finds that he is at heart a voyeuristi...

Inside Out 3

Inside Out 3

1992

Director of Photography

2.5
Directing

Softcore anthology film containing stories: "Dogs Playing Poker"; "The Branding"; "The Portal"; "The Perfect Woman"; "Within Ten Minutes"; "Tango"; "T...

Night Rhythms

Night Rhythms

1992

Director of Photography

4.9
Directing

Nick, a late night DJ, has sex with a listener that he's invited to the station. The session goes out over the air until something goes wrong. Nick wa...

Leather Jackets

Leather Jackets

1992

Second Unit Director of Photography

5.0
Directing

Claudia, a girl who gets around, finally lands her dream man in Mickey. However, Mickey's friend Dobbs spoils their nuptial plans when the thugs of a ...

Inside Out 2

Inside Out 2

1992

Director of Photography

3.0
Directing

Softcore anthology film containing stories: "Mis-apprehended"; "I've Got A Crush On You"; "The Freak"; "There's This Travelling Salesman, See"; "Doubl...

Secret Games

Secret Games

1992

Director of Photography

4.2
Directing

A bored and neglected housewife joins a local escort service and soon sinks deeper into trouble when she finds that she's not permitted to quit when t...

Sketch Artist

Sketch Artist

1992

Camera Operator, Director of Photography

5.5
Directing

A sketch artist for the police helps a witness recall who she saw leaving the scene of a murder, and discovers that the person is his wife. Not willin...

In the Heat of Passion

In the Heat of Passion

1992

Director of Photography

4.0
Directing

A struggling actor lands the part of a rapist in a TV reenactment for a "Crimebusters" segment. He soon meets a beautiful rich woman whom he begins an...

Lower Level

Lower Level

1991

Director of Photography

4.7
Directing

A young female architect is left stranded in an empty highrise while her secret "admirer" stalks her.

Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire

Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire

1991

Director of Photography

5.7
Directing

Actress Sally Field looks at the dramatic life and successful career of the superb actress Barbara Stanwyck (1907-90), a Hollywood legend.

Inside Out

Inside Out

1991

Director of Photography

3.0
Directing

Softcore anthology film containing stories: "Brush Strokes"; "Shrink Rap"; "Doubletalk"; "The Leda"; "My Secret Moments"; "Life Is For The Taking"; "T...

The Unborn

The Unborn

1991

Director of Photography

4.7
Directing

A couple who cannot have children joins an in-vitro fertilization program. While she is with child, she finds strange occurrences happening within her...

Prayer of the Rollerboys

Prayer of the Rollerboys

1991

Additional Camera

5.6

Griffin, a rollerblader in the not so distant future of an economically wrecked Los Angeles, races against time to save both his younger brother and t...

Naked Obsession

Naked Obsession

1990

Additional Photography

5.4

City-council member Franklin Carlyle is mugged, knocked down and left on an alley. When he recovers, he is befriended by an alcoholic who introduces h...

Slumber Party Massacre III

Slumber Party Massacre III

1990

Second Unit Director of Photography

4.9
Directing

After a hard day of volleyball at the beach, a teen whose parents are away decides to have a slumber party with her girlfriends. Their boyfriends pred...

Body Chemistry

Body Chemistry

1990

Second Unit Director of Photography

4.8
Directing

A research project on sexual response leads two doctors into an affair and their deepest passions and darkest fantasies are revealed.

Streets

Streets

1990

Additional Director of Photography

5.1
Directing

A teenage prostitute and a runaway rich kid flee a psycho-killer motorcycle patrolman.

After Midnight

After Midnight

1989

Grip

5.5

A college professor teaching a course called "The Psychology of Fear" brings his students (including a psychic) to his home, one dark and stormy night...