Roman Vasyanov

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🎂 1980-10-24

Roman Sergeyevich Vasyanov, ASC, RGC (Russian: Роман Сергеевич Васьянов; born October 24, 1980, in Moscow) is a Russian cinematographer. He is best known for his collaborations with director David Ayer and the Russian musical film Stilyagi, for which he was nominated for a Golden Eagle Award for Best Cinematography. Roman Vasyanov was born on October 24, 1980, in Moscow, in a Russian family. As a child, he was engaged in photography with his father, who worked at the ZIL automobile plant. Made photos and videos as a freelancer for magazines and newspapers. Later, thanks to his father's friend M. D. Koroptsov, he got acquainted with the profession of a cameraman. In 1998 he entered VGIK (the workshop of V. I. Yusov). At the XXIV International Film Festival, VGIK received the prize for the best camera work in the film "Hide and Seek" (dir. V. Panov). While studying at VGIK, he worked as an assistant cameraman to Yu. Raisky on the set of the cult TV series Brigada. Graduated from VGIK in 2003. Filmed over 300 commercials for Philips, Puma, Budweiser, Dell, Pepsi, and others. In 2008, he was the cinematographer for Valery Todorovsky's cult film Stilyagi. In 2012 he worked on David Ayer's police thriller End of Watch, which earned him a nomination as Best Cinematographer at the 28th Independent Spirit Awards. Afterwards Vasyanov worked on the movies The Motel Life and The East. Vasyanov again teamed up with Ayer for the World War II film Fury and the comic book adaptation Suicide Squad. Vasyanov has been a member of the Russian Guild of Cinematographers and the American Society of Cinematographers since 2022. Description above from the Wikipedia article Roman Vasyanov, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.