- Lukasz Zal is an Academy Award-nominated cinematographer based in Poland. Cold War, directed by Pawel Pawlikowski, landed Lukasz Zal not only the Oscar nomination but also ASC Award, the Silver Frog Award for cinematography at the 2018 Camerimage Festival in Poland, as well as a nomination for BAFTA Award.
For the first time, Lukasz was nominated for the Academy Award in 2016 for Pawlikowski's Ida and was one of two cinematographers of an Oscar- nominated animation Loving Vincent (dir. Dorota Kobiela, Hugh Welchman) in 2017.
Cinematographer on Dovlatov (dir. Aleksiej German Jr.), which premiered at the Berlinale 2018 and The Here After (dir. Magnus von Horn), which premiered at Quinzaine des Réalisateurs (Directors' Fortnight) at Cannes Film Festival in 2015.
Most recently, Lukasz was responsible for the cinematography in Charlie Kaufman's film I'm Thinking of Ending Things, available on Netflix.
- IMDb mini biography by: Match and Spark
- Member of PSC (Polish society of Cinematographers).
- Lukasz Zal was nominated for a 2019 Academy Award in the Best Cinematography category for his work on Cold War (2018) but lost to Alfonso Cuarón for Roma (2018).
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