Biography

Zac Nicholson started in the industry as an assistant and worked his way up in the camera department. As camera operator he was twice nominated for the BSC operators award and has collaborated with leading filmmakers such as Shane Meadows, Stephen Poliakoff and Tom Hooper. His first feature was Skeletons directed by Nick Whitfield, which won the Best British Feature in Edinburgh International Film Festival in 2019, and in 2011 was BAFTA nominated for Outstanding Debut. He went on to lens two episodes of the Emmy award-winning series Black Mirror: The Entire History of You with director Brian Welsh; and White Bear with director Carl Tibbets. Then followed a number of acclaimed television projects including Hugo Blick's The Honourable Woman, starring Maggie Gyllenhaa for which he was BAFTA and RTS nominated for cinematography; Dominic Cooke 's The Hollow Crown for Neal Street Productions; War Book with director Tom Harper; the mini-series Capital directed by Euros Lynn; and The Rack Pack, the first exclusive film for BBC iPlayer, on which he worked again with Brian Welsh. In 2015, Nicholson won a BAFTA Television Entertainment Craft Team Award for his work on The Sound of Music Live, directed by Coky Giedroyc. The same year he shot his first major feature film The Death of Stalin directed by Armando Iannucci, with whom he collaborated again in 2018 on The Personal History of David Copperfield which was BIFA nominated for cinematography. Further feature credits include: Misbehaviour directed by Phillips Lowthorpe starring Kiera Knightly, The Guernsey Literary And Potato Peel Pie Society by director Mike Newell; Red Joan starring Judi Dench and Kenneth Branagh's Shakespeare biopic All Is True. In 2021 he shot the big budget family film A Boy Called Christmas with director Gil Kenan for Blueprint Pictures and StudioCanal.

In 2022 he was nominated by the BSC for his cinematography on The Pursuit of Love written and directed by Emily Mortimer.

Recently Zac has photographed The Lost King for Stephen Frears starring Sally Hawkins and One Life by Jame's Hawes staring Anthony Hopkins.
- IMDb mini biography by: UTA