This woman is the director of photography behind the movie ELVIS—Meet the amazing Mandy Walker.

Photo of cinematographer Mandy Walker
cinematographer Mandy Walker


This morning, I received an invitation from the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) to watch a video and learn a bit about the woman behind the cameras that filmed ELVIS. I’m glad I took them up on the offer.

Here’s the video, shared with permission.

https://content.jwplatform.com/previews/KrGuuE10

The Headline from IndieWire tells the story:
Oscar Shakeup: Mandy Walker Is Now the Cinematography Frontrunner. She’d Be the First Woman to Win

Mandy Walker AM, ACS, ASC, (born 1963) is an Australian cinematographer who has been Director of Photography on major Hollywood films including Mulan, Hidden Figures, and Elvis, the latter of which earned her an Academy Award nomination for Best Cinematography. She was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia in the 2021 Queen’s Birthday Honours.

From Warner Bros., here’s a longer backgrounder on the movie. The Boy from Tupelo: Bringing Elvis to the Big Screen.


Here are your printable ballots for the SAG Awards and the Oscars. Make some popcorn, play Burning Love as a prelude, and enjoy.

By Stephen Brockelman

As a Sr. Writer at T. Rowe Price, I work with a group of the best copywriters around. We belong to the broader creative team within Enterprise Creative, a part of Corporate Marketing Services. _____________________________________________ A long and winding road: My path to T. Rowe Price was more twisted than Fidelity’s green line. With scholarship in hand, I left Kansas at 18 to study theatre in New York. When my soap opera paychecks stopped coming from CBS and started coming from the show’s sponsor, Proctor & Gamble, I discovered the power of advertising and switched careers. Over the years I’ve owned an ad agency in San Francisco; worked for Norman Lear on All in the Family, Good Times, Sanford and Son, and the rest of his hit shows; and as a member of Directors Guild of America, I directed Desi Arnaz in his last television appearance— we remained friends until his death. In 1988 I began freelancing full time didn’t look back. In January 2012 my rep at Boss Group called and said, “I know you don’t want to commute and writing for the financial industry isn’t high on your wish list, but I have a gig with T. Rowe Price in Owings Mills…” I was a contractor for eight months, drank the corporate Kool-Aid, became a TRP associate that August, and today I find myself smiling more often than not.

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