
Simon Dennis
Camera
Biography
Simon Dennis is a Bafta nominated Cinematographer who has been shooting diverse movies and high end TV drama around the world. Drawn to both fiction as well as true stories that challenge as well as entertain, he prides himself on being versatile and passionate to create visuals that are story driven and emotionally motivated. Raised in rural Devon, UK and bit of a day dreamer at school he was a very curious photographer from a young age, falling in love with Ansel Adams and Black & White imagery. It wasn’t until a course in Fine Arts as a Graphic Designer that he discovered his interest and inner love for film-making and eventually went on to graduate with a first-class Honours Degree in Film & TV studies at Napier Film School in Scotland. It was during this course he discovered the curious role of a Cinematographer for the first time and was fixated by it. So much so he took a leap and spent most of his educational grant on a 16mm Arriflex ST Camera and began to experiment with fellow students. He learnt and honed his craft initially on various 35mm Music Videos before winning a Scottish Bafta for his photography on the short film Sex & Death. He then photographed his first feature film The Last Great Wilderness for acclaimed director David Mackenzie as well other feature length projects including The Sweeney starring Ray Winstone. He then got invited to photograph TV projects including Dr.Who and Ripper Street which then led quickly to the acclaimed Peaky Blinders for which he was nominated for a Bafta and Royal Television Society award for his lighting and craft. He continued with more feature films including The Girl With All The Gifts starring Glenn Close and The Limehouse Golem starring Bill Nighy, plus TV shows Jekyll & Hyde for ITV Studios, Black Sails for Starz and Krypton for Warner Bros. In 2017 he was invited to America to photograph Ryan Murphys now Multi Emmy and Golden Globe winning The Assassination Of Gianni Versace which led to the much acclaimed shows Pose, Ratched, Hollywood and Impeachment : American Crime Story for Fox Studios / Netflix. More recently he shot the 5 part limited series Candy for Hulu and Golden Globe nominated 8 part limited series Fellow Travelers for Showtime. He was invited into the BSC in 2018 and the ASC in 2023.
Known For

A gangster family epic set in 1919 Birmingham, England and centered on a gang who sew razor blades in the peaks of their caps, and their fierce boss Tommy Shelby, who means to move up in the world.
Peaky Blinders

The Doctor is a Time Lord: a 900 year old alien with 2 hearts, part of a gifted civilization who mastered time travel. The Doctor saves planets for a living—more of a hobby actually, and the Doctor's very, very good at it.
Doctor Who

An anthology series centered around some of history's most famous criminal investigations.
American Crime Story

Max is the new on-board doctor for a luxury cruise ship where the small but mighty medical team navigate unique medical crises and each other, miles from shore.
Doctor Odyssey

A dance musical that explores the juxtaposition of several segments of 1980s life and society in New York: the ball culture world, the rise of the luxury Trump-era universe and the downtown social and literary scene.
POSE

Set two generations before the destruction of the legendary Man of Steel’s home planet, Krypton follows Superman’s grandfather — whose House of El was ostracized and shamed — as he fights to redeem his family’s honor and save his beloved world from chaos.
Krypton

In post-World War II Hollywood, an ambitious group of aspiring actors and filmmakers will do almost anything to make their showbiz dreams come true.
Hollywood

Candy Montgomery is a 1980s housewife and mother who did everything right — but when the pressure of conformity builds within her, her actions scream for just a bit of freedom. Until someone tells her to shush. With deadly results.
Candy

In the future, a strange fungus has changed nearly everyone into thoughtless, flesh-eating monsters. When a scientist and a teacher find a girl who seems to be immune to the fungus, they all begin a journey to save humanity.
The Girl with All the Gifts

Set in a near future, technology-reliant society that pits man against killing machines. Against this backdrop an elite army unit is helicoptered to a remote, off-the-grid island training facility. What starts out as a simple training exercise for Captain Bukes and his tight-knit unit, descends into a terrifying battle to the death, as the marines discover the island is overrun by an enemy that transcends the human concept of evil.
Kill Command

A series of murders has shaken the community to the point where people believe that only a legendary creature from dark times – the mythical Golem – must be responsible.
The Limehouse Golem

Ten years after an apocalyptic event left the world haunted by ghosts, Veronica 'Ronnie' Calder receives a threatening message from beyond the grave. Joining forces with a mysterious classmate, Kirk, Ronnie descends into a shadow world that blurs the bounds of the living and the dead—and begins a desperate race against time to stop a cunning killer.
I Still See You

Jack Regan, a hardened cop who doesn’t play by the rules, is confronted with a criminal from his past. With sidekick George Carter they are put on the case of a jewellery store heist that ends in a killing. But is that killing really an execution in disguise? With pressure from his boss and the fact that Regan is having an affair with that boss’s wife, it’s not going to be easy for him to stay out of trouble.
The Sweeney

In London, a drug dealer grows increasingly desperate over the course of a week after a botched deal lands him in the merciless clutches of a ruthless crime lord. The more desperate his behaviour, the more isolated he becomes until there's nothing left between him and the bullet his debtors intend to fire his way.
Pusher

Lillian Hall, a Broadway actress, has never missed a performance throughout her long, illustrious career. Yet in rehearsals for a new play her confidence is challenged. People and events conspire to take away her ability to do what she loves most.
The Great Lillian Hall

A feisty young woman returns to Glasgow to run her deceased father's curry house.
Nina's Heavenly Delights

Two private bankers, Alistair and Jamie, who have the world at their feet get their kicks from playing a 12 hour game of hunt, hide and seek with people from the margins of society. Their next target is Sean Macdonald a parentless teenager who lives with his sister on a housing estate on the outskirts of Edinburgh. She's in debt, he's going nowhere fast. Sean agrees to play for cash.
New Town Killers

Melvin, a reluctant hero who is far from super, has been suppressing his telekinetic powers for years with booze, drugs, and women. In the process, he has failed at practically everything, most of all as a parent to his son. After a brush with death, Melvin decides to use his powers for good and clean up the streets of New Orleans with the help of his best friend/definitely-not-a-sidekick, Lucille. For a man who can do the impossible, it might be a fight even he can’t win.
American Hero

The compelling story of an extraordinary woman's journey from her birth in a paper thin shack in the cotton fields of Georgia to her recognition as a key writer of the twentieth Century.Walker made history as the first black woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for her groundbreaking novel, The Color Purple.
Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth

An astronomer enters into a destructive affair with a photographer.