Cinematographer Barry Ackroyd was born on May 12, 1954 in Manchester, England. He has worked on many film and TV projects as a cinematographer, a camera operator and even a director in the film, The Butterfly Man. Ackroyd has often teamed with Director Ken Loach. Beginning with their first two movies together, Riff Raff and Raining Stones, Ackroyd and Loach begin winning awards. Ackroyd and Loach continued to work together through the nineties, working on such films as Carla's Song, My Name is Joe, Bread and Roses and, in 2004, Ae Fond Kiss.

Barry Ackroyd won the BAFTA Award for Best Cinematography for The Hurt Locker as well as the BSFC Award and the Austin Film Critics Association Award for the same catagory. http://www.nftsfilm-tv.ac.uk/index.php?module=People&type=Visiting Tutors&people_id=386&back=course&course_id=145

Barry Ackroyd receive a nomination for Best Achievement in Cinematography for the 2009 movie The Hurt Locker. The Hurt Locker, released March 17, 2009 in the USA with an estimated $11 million dollar budget, was nominated for a total of nine Academy Awards in addition to Ackroyd's Best Achievement in Cinematography. Other nominations include Best Achievement in Directing for Kathryn Bigelow, Best Achievement in Editing for Bob Murawski and Chris Innis, Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Score for Marco Beltrami and Buck Sanders, Best Achievement in Sound for Paul N.J. Ottosson and Ray Beckett, Best Achievement in Sound Editing for Paul N.J. Ottosson, Best Motion Picture of the Year for Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal, Nicolas Chartier and Greg Shapiro, Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role for Jeremy Renner and Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen for Mark Boal. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0887912/awards

• Coriolanus (2010) (pre-production)
• The Special Relationship (2010) (post-production)
• Green Zone (2010)
• Looking for Eric (2009)
• The Hurt Locker (2008)
• Battle in Seattle (2007)
• The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006)
• United 93 (2006)
• Gideon's Daughter (2005) (TV) (director of photography)
• Friends & Crocodiles (2005) (TV) (director of photography)
• Love + Hate (2005)
• Ae Fond Kiss... (2004) (photography)
• Os Imortais (2003)
• Eroica (2003) (TV)
• "The Blues" (1 episode, 2003)

• The Lost Prince (2003) (TV)
• Out of Control (2002) (TV)
• Sweet Sixteen (2002/I)
• Sunday (2002) (TV)
• The Navigators (2001)
• Dust (2001/I)
• Very Annie Mary (2001) (TV)
• Bread and Roses (200)
• Mauvaise passe (1999)
• Beautiful People (1999)
• Boogie Nights in Suburbia (1999) (TV)
• The Lost Son (1999)
• Amazing Grace (1998)
• My Name Is Joe (1998)
• Bumping the Odds (1997) (TV)
• Under the Skin (1997)
• Hillsborough (1996) (TV)
• Stella Does Tricks (1996)
• Carla's Song (1996)
• Flowers of the Forest (1996) (TV)
• Anne Frank Remembered (1995)
• Land and Freedom (1995) (director of photography)
• Life After Life (1995) (TV)
• Fever (1994)
• Tracking Down Maggie: The Unofficial Biography of Margaret Thatcher (1994)
• Ladybird Ladybird (1994)
• "Screenplay" (1 episode, 1993)

• Raining Stones (1993)
• Too White for Me (1992) (TV)
• Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer (1992)
• The Leader, His Driver and the Driver's Wife (1991)
• Riff-Raff (1991)
• Hunters and Bombers (1990)
• The View from the Woodpile (1989) (TV)

• Big George Is Dead (1987) (TV)
• Inside the Labyrinth (1986) (TV)

Camera and Electrical Department:

• Green Zone (2010) (camera operator: "b" camera)
• "Great Performances" (camera operator) (1 episode, 2004)

• Danny and the Dirty Dog: The Making of 'Roald Dahl's Danny the Champion of the World' (1989) (TV) (camera operator)

Director:

• The Butterfly Man (1996)

Self:

• "British Film Forever" .... Himself (1 episode, 2007)

Himself

• The 50 Greatest Documentaries (2005) (TV) .... Himself http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0010096/#cinematographer