Australian cinematographer Dean Semler worked the "reality" side of the street in newsreels and documentaries before moving into fictional features in 1976. Semler's first movie of note was Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981), in which he convincingly conveyed a parched, dusty, post-apocalyptic world. Mad Max 2 proved to be Semler's ticket to Hollywood, where he received an Oscar nomination for his deft blending of actual western landscapes with optical effects and glass shots in Kevin Costner's Dances With Wolves (1990). More recently, Semler has manned the cameras for Costner's Waterworld (1995), an obscenely expensive effort that many observers labeled "Mad Max on water."
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In the Land of Blood and Honey
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2011 | |||
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Date Night
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2010 | |||
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Secretariat
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2010 | |||
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2012
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2009 | |||
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Appaloosa
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2008 | |||
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Get Smart
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2008 | |||
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I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry
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2007 | |||
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Apocalypto
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2006 | |||
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Participant |
2006 | |||
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Click
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2006 | |||
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Just My Luck
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2006 | |||
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Stealth
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2005 | |||
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The Longest Yard
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2005 | |||
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The Alamo
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2004 | |||
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Bruce Almighty
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2003 | |||
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Dragonfly
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2002 | |||
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The Adventures of Pluto Nash
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2002 | |||
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We Were Soldiers
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2002 | |||
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XXX
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2002 | |||
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Heartbreakers
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2001 | |||
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Eye See You
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2000 | |||
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The Nutty Professor II: The Klumps
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2000 | |||
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The Bone Collector
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1999 | |||
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Firestorm
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1998 | |||
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The Patriot
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1998 | |||
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Gone Fishin'
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1997 | |||
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Waterworld
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1995 | |||
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Welcome II the Terrordome
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1995 | |||
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The Cowboy Way
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1994 | |||
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Last Action Hero
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1993 | |||
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Super Mario Bros.
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1993 | |||
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The Three Musketeers
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1993 | |||
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The Power of One
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1992 | |||
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City Slickers
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1991 | |||
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Dances With Wolves
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1990 | |||
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Impulse
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1990 | |||
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Young Guns II
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1990 | |||
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Dead Calm
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1989 | |||
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Farewell to the King
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1989 | |||
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K-9
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1989 | |||
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Cocktail
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1988 | |||
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Young Guns
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1988 | |||
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Bullseye
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1986 | |||
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Going Sane
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1986 | |||
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Passion Flower
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1986 | |||
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Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
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1985 | |||
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Return to Eden
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1985 | |||
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The Coca-Cola Kid
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1985 | |||
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Bodyline
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1984 | |||
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In Memory of Malawan
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1984 | |||
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Razorback
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1984 | |||
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The Dismissal
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1983 | |||
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Undercover
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1983 | |||
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Kitty and the Bagman
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1982 | |||
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Hoodwink
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1981 | |||
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Stepping Out: The Debolts Grow Up
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1981 | |||
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The Road Warrior
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1981 | |||
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Let the Balloon Go
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1976 |
