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{{Short description|British cinematographer}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
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| name               = Barry Ackroyd
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| birth_date         = {{Birth date and age|1954|05|12|df=yes}}
| birth_place        = [[Oldham]], [[Lancashire]], England
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| occupation         = [[Cinematographer]], president of [[British Society of Cinematographers]]
| known_for          = ''[[The Hurt Locker]]''<br>''[[Captain Phillips (film)|Captain Phillips]]''
| website            = {{URL|barryackroyd.com}}
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'''Barry Ackroyd''' (born 12 May 1954) is an English [[cinematographer]] and [[Film director|director]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.barryackroyd.com/biography/|title=Biography|website=Barry Ackroyd|language=en-US|access-date=2018-03-07}}</ref> Ackroyd has frequently worked with directors [[Ken Loach]] and [[Paul Greengrass]]. He worked on [[Kathryn Bigelow]]'s 2008 war film ''[[The Hurt Locker]],'' and with Greengrass on the critically acclaimed 2013 biographical thriller ''[[Captain Phillips (film)|Captain Phillips]]'', the former earning him a [[BAFTA Award for Best Cinematography|BAFTA Award]] and an [[Academy Award]] nomination for [[Academy Award for Best Cinematography|Best Cinematography]]. In 2014, Ackroyd became the president of the [[British Society of Cinematographers]].

==Life and career==
Ackroyd was born in [[Oldham]], England. He received a BAFTA nomination for Best Cinematography for ''[[The Lost Prince]]''. His latest credits are on Ken Loach's award-winning feature, ''[[The Wind That Shakes The Barley (film)|The Wind That Shakes The Barley]]'', [[Paul Greengrass]]'s take on the [[9-11]] disaster, ''[[United 93 (film)|United 93]]'', and the [[Kathryn Bigelow]]-directed [[Iraq War]] film, ''[[The Hurt Locker]]''.<ref name="NFTSFILM">{{Cite web |url=http://www.nftsfilm-tv.ac.uk/index.php?module=People&type=Visiting%20Tutors&people_id=386&back=course&course_id=145 |title=National Film and Television School "Barry Ackroyd BSC" |access-date=2008-06-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716144326/http://www.nftsfilm-tv.ac.uk/index.php?module=People&type=Visiting%20Tutors&people_id=386&back=course&course_id=145 |archive-date=2011-07-16 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Teamwork and group effort is the Loach [[modus operandi]]. Loach has denied his status as an [[auteur]] director. Unlike most directors who routinely overstate the importance of their personal achievements, Loach celebrates the contributions of his crew, such as frequent collaborator, cinematographer Barry Ackroyd.<ref name="Loach">[http://www.sensesofcinema.com/2003/great-directors/loach/ "Ken Loach" by Mike Robbins]</ref>

Film reviewer Jack Matthews of the ''New York Daily News'' remarked about the filmmaking behind ''The Wind That Shakes The Barley'': "Beautifully shot, both in darkened homes and on the misty green Irish landscape by Loach's frequent cinematographer Barry Ackroyd, "Wind" has a you-are-there intensity and intimacy about it that make it nearly overwhelming."<ref name="NYDNews">[http://www.metacritic.com/film/titles/windthatshakesthebarley New York Daily News, Jack Matthews "The Wind That Shakes the Barley" review quote]. {{Archive url|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070628094639/https://www.metacritic.com/film/titles/windthatshakesthebarley|date=2007-06-28}}</ref>

In 2016, he reunited with Greengrass for the fourth time for the fifth [[Jason Bourne (film)|''Bourne'']] movie.

==Filmography==
===Television===
'''TV movies'''
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Year
! Title
! Director
|-
| 1987
| ''Big George Is Dead''
| Henry Martin
|-
| 1996
| ''[[Hillsborough (1996 film)|Hillsborough]]''
| [[Charles McDougall]]
|-
| 1997
| ''Bumping the Odds''
| Rob Rohrer
|-
| 2002
| ''[[Sunday (2002 film)|Sunday]]''
| [[Dominic Savage]]
|-
|rowspan=2|2003
| ''[[The Lost Prince]]''
| [[Stephen Poliakoff]]
|-
| ''[[Eroica (2003 film)|Eroica]]''
| [[Simon Cellan Jones]]
|-
|rowspan=2|2005
| ''[[Friends and Crocodiles]]''
|rowspan=2|Stephen Poliakoff
|-
| ''[[Gideon's Daughter]]''
|-
| 2010
| ''[[The Special Relationship (film)|The Special Relationship]]''
| [[Richard Loncraine]]
|-
| 2011
| ''The Miraculous Year''
| [[Kathryn Bigelow]]
|-
| 2013
| ''The Missionary''
| [[Baltasar Kormákur]]
|}

'''TV series'''
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Year
! Title
! Director
! Notes
|-
|rowspan=2|1993
| ''[[Spender]]''
| Ian Knox
| Episode "Retreat"
|-
| ''[[ScreenPlay]]''
| [[Les Blair]]
| Episode "The Merrihill Millionaires"
|-
| 1995–1996
| ''[[Screen Two]]''
| [[Tim Fywell]]<br>Michael Whyte
| Episodes "Life After Life" and "Flowers of the Forest"
|-
| 2012
| ''[[The Newsroom (American TV series)|The Newsroom]]''
| [[Greg Mottola]]
| Episode "[[We Just Decided To]]"
|-
| 2024
| ''[[The Sympathizer (miniseries)|The Sympathizer]]''
| [[Fernando Meirelles]]
| Episode "[[Give Us Some Good Lines]]"
|}

===Feature film===
{| class="wikitable"
|+Key
| style="background:#ffc;"| {{dagger|alt=Films that have not yet been released}}
| Denotes films that have not yet been released
|}
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Year
! Title
! Director
! Notes
|-
| 1991
| ''[[Riff-Raff (1991 film)|Riff-Raff]]''
|rowspan=5|[[Ken Loach]]
|
|-
| 1993
| ''[[Raining Stones]]''
|
|-
| 1994
| ''[[Ladybird, Ladybird (film)|Ladybird, Ladybird]]''
|
|-
| 1995
| ''[[Land and Freedom (film)|Land and Freedom]]''
|
|-
|rowspan=2|1996
| ''[[Carla's Song]]''
|
|-
| ''[[Stella Does Tricks]]''
| [[Coky Giedroyc]]
|
|- 
| 1997
| ''[[Under the Skin (1997 film)|Under the Skin]]''
| [[Carine Adler]]
|
|-
| 1998
| ''[[My Name Is Joe]]''
| Ken Loach
|
|-
|rowspan=3|1999
| ''[[The Lost Son (film)|The Lost Son]]''
| [[Chris Menges]]
|
|-
| ''[[Beautiful People (film)|Beautiful People]]''
| [[Jasmin Dizdar]]
|
|-
| ''Mauvaise passe''
| [[Michel Blanc]]
|
|-
| 2000
| ''[[Bread and Roses (2000 film)|Bread and Roses]]''
| Ken Loach
|
|-
|rowspan=3|2001
| ''[[Very Annie Mary]]''
| [[Sara Sugarman]]
|
|-
| ''[[Dust (2001 film)|Dust]]''
| [[Milcho Manchevski]]
|
|-
| ''[[The Navigators (film)|The Navigators]]''
|rowspan=2|Ken Loach
| With Mike Eley
|-
| 2002
| ''[[Sweet Sixteen (2002 film)|Sweet Sixteen]]''
|
|-
| 2003
| ''Os Imortais''
| [[António-Pedro Vasconcelos]]
|
|-
| 2004
| ''[[Ae Fond Kiss ... (film)|Ae Fond Kiss...]]''
| Ken Loach
|
|-
| 2005
| ''[[Love + Hate (2005 film)|Love + Hate]]''
| [[Dominic Savage]]
|
|-
|rowspan=2|2006
| ''[[The Wind That Shakes the Barley (film)|The Wind That Shakes the Barley]]''
| Ken Loach
|
|-
| ''[[United 93 (film)|United 93]]''
| [[Paul Greengrass]]
|
|-
| 2007
| ''[[Battle in Seattle]]''
| [[Stuart Townsend]]
|
|-
|rowspan=2|2009
| ''[[The Hurt Locker]]''
| [[Kathryn Bigelow]]
|
|-
| ''[[Looking for Eric]]''
| Ken Loach
|
|-
| 2010
| ''[[Green Zone (film)|Green Zone]]''
| Paul Greengrass
|
|-
| 2011
| ''[[Coriolanus (film)|Coriolanus]]''
| [[Ralph Fiennes]]
|
|-
| 2012
| ''[[Contraband (2012 film)|Contraband]]''
| [[Baltasar Kormákur]]
|
|-
|rowspan=2|2013
| ''[[Captain Phillips (film)|Captain Phillips]]''
| Paul Greengrass
|
|-
| ''[[Parkland (film)|Parkland]]''
| [[Peter Landesman]]
|
|-
|rowspan=2|2015
| ''[[Dark Places (2015 film)|Dark Places]]''
| [[Gilles Paquet-Brenner]]
|
|-
| ''[[The Big Short (film)|The Big Short]]''
| [[Adam McKay]]
|
|-
|rowspan=2|2016
| ''[[Jason Bourne (film)|Jason Bourne]]''
| Paul Greengrass
|
|-
| ''[[The Last Face]]''
| [[Sean Penn]]
|
|-
| 2017
| ''[[Detroit (film)|Detroit]]''
| Kathryn Bigelow
|
|-
| 2018
| ''[[Outlaw King]]''
| [[David Mackenzie (director)|David Mackenzie]]
|
|-
| 2019
| ''[[Bombshell (2019 film)|Bombshell]]''
| [[Jay Roach]]
|
|-
| 2020
| ''[[The Old Guard (2020 film)|The Old Guard]]''
| [[Gina Prince-Bythewood]]
| With [[Tami Reiker]]
|-
| 2021
| ''[[Sweet Girl (film)|Sweet Girl]]''
| Brian Andrew Mendoza
|
|-
| 2022
| ''[[Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody|Whitney Houston:<br>I Wanna Dance with Somebody]]''
| [[Kasi Lemmons]]
|
|-
|rowspan=2|2025
|style="background:#ffc;"|''[[The Old Guard 2]]'' {{dagger}}
| [[Victoria Mahoney]]
|rowspan=2|Post-production
|-
|style="background:#ffc;"|''[[A House of Dynamite]]'' {{dagger}}
| Kathryn Bigelow
|}
<!---
'''Short film'''
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Year
! Title
! Director
|-
| 1989
| ''Lake Baikal: The Sacred Sea''
| Irina Mishina
|-
| 1994
| ''Fever''
| [[Carine Adler]]
|-
| 1997
| ''The Butterfly Man''
| Himself
|-
| 1998
| ''Amazing Grace''
| [[Maeve Murphy]]
|-
| 2012
| ''I Missed My Mother's Funeral''
| Ben Quinn
|-
| 2013
| ''Dr. Easy''
| [[Shynola|Jason Groves<br>Chris Haring<br>Richard Kenworthy]]
|-
| 2022
| ''Nicholas Brothers: Stormy Weather''
| Michael Shevloff
|}
--->
===Documentary works===
'''Film'''
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Year
! Title
! Director
|-
| 1990
| ''Hunters and Bombers''
| [[Hugh Brody]]<br>Nigel Markham
|-
| 1991
| ''[[The Leader, His Driver, and the Driver's Wife]]''
|rowspan=2|[[Nick Broomfield]]
|-
| 1992
| ''[[Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer]]''
|-
| 1995
| ''[[Anne Frank Remembered]]''
| [[Jon Blair]]
|}
<!---
'''TV movies'''
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Year
! Title
! Director
! Notes
|-
| 1986
| ''Inside the Labyrinth''
| [[Desmond Saunders]]
| With Rafi Rafaeli and John Warwick 
|-
|rowspan=2|1989
| ''The View from the Woodpile''
| [[Ken Loach]]
| With Robin Probyn 
|-
| ''Angkor Wat Under Siege''
|rowspan=2|[[Shari Robertson]]
| 
|-
| 1990
| ''Inside the Khmer Rouge''
| With Ned Johnston and Prasit Sangrungrueng
|-
| 1992
| ''Too White for Me''
| [[Nick Broomfield]]
| 
|-
| 1997
| ''Boogie Nights in Suburbia''
| Edmund Coulthard
|
|-
|}
--->
'''TV series'''
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Year
! Title
! Director
! Notes
|-
| 1988
| ''[[40 Minutes]]''
| Sam Organ
| Episode "Diary of a Frontliner"
|-
|rowspan=2|1989
| ''[[Dispatches (TV programme)|Dispatches]]''
| [[Shari Robertson]]
| Episode "Return to Year Zero?"
|-
| ''Split Screen''
| [[Ken Loach]]
| Episode "Time to Go"
|-
| 1988–1989
| ''Byline''
| [[Marjorie Wallace (SANE)|Marjorie Wallace]]<br>David Collison
| Episodes "Whose Mind Is It Anyway?" and "Johnny and Alf Go Home"
|-
| 1993
| ''[[Nova (American TV program)|Nova]]''
| Dave Duncan
| Episode "The Real Jurassic Park"
|-
| 1996
| ''Modern Times''
| Ken Loach
| Episode "The Flickering Flame"
|-
| 2003
| ''[[The Blues (film series)|The Blues]]''
| [[Mike Figgis]]
| Episode "Red, White and Blues"
|}

==Awards and nominations==
'''Academy Awards'''
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Year
! Category
! Title
! Result
|-
| 2009
| [[Academy Award for Best Cinematography|Best Cinematography]]
| ''The Hurt Locker''
| {{nom}}
|}

'''BAFTA Awards'''
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Year
! Category
! Title
! Result
|-
| 2006
|rowspan=3| [[BAFTA Award for Best Cinematography|Best Cinematography]]
| ''United 93''
| {{nom}}
|-
| 2009
| ''The Hurt Locker''
| {{won}}
|-
| 2013
| ''Captain Phillips''
| {{nom}}
|}

'''American Society of Cinematographers'''
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Year
! Category
! Title
! Result
|-
| 2009
|rowspan=2| [[American Society of Cinematographers Award for Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography in Theatrical Releases|Outstanding Cinematography]]
| ''The Hurt Locker''
| {{nom}}
|-
| 2013
| ''Captain Phillips''
| {{nom}}
|}

'''Other awards'''
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Year
! Title
! Award/Nomination
|-
|2009
|''The Hurt Locker''
|[[Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Cinematography]]<br />[[Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Cinematography]]<br />[[Houston Film Critics Society Award for Best Cinematography]]<br />Nominated – [[Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Cinematography]]<br />Nominated – [[Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best Cinematography|Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Award for Best Cinematography]]<br />Nominated – [[Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Cinematography]]<br />Nominated – [[National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Cinematography]]<br />Nominated – [[Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Cinematography]]<br />Nominated – [[St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association Award for Best Cinematography|St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Award for Best Cinematography]]
|-
|}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20110716144326/http://www.nftsfilm-tv.ac.uk/index.php?module=People&type=Visiting%20Tutors&people_id=386&back=course&course_id=145 National Film and Television School "Barry Ackroyd BSC"]
*{{IMDb name|0010096}}
* {{screenonline name| 557404 }}
*[http://www.sensesofcinema.com/2003/great-directors/loach/   "Ken Loach" by Mike Robbins]
*[http://www.metacritic.com/film/titles/windthatshakesthebarley New York Daily News, Jack Matthews "The Wind That Shakes the Barley" review quote]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20080527043913/http://www.seattleweekly.com/2008-05-21/film/week-1-picks-pans.php May 21, 2008 Picks & Pans - Movies "Battle in Seattle" - Seattle Weekly]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20080328063122/http://www.writingstudio.co.za/page1248.html United 93]

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