Rodrigo Prieto ranks among cinema’s most revered cinematographers, celebrated for meticulous setups, inventive camera movement, and sumptuous color palettes. His artistry has earned four Oscar nominations—Brokeback Mountain, Silence, The Irishman, and Killers of the Flower Moon—and sustained collaborations with auteurs such as Martin Scorsese, Ang Lee, Oliver Stone, and Alejandro González Iñárritu.

Prieto’s breakthrough came with Iñárritu’s Amores Perros (2000), the first of the trio—completed by 21 Grams and Babel—often credited with spearheading a renaissance in Mexican cinema. His range since spans Argo, Passengers, Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street, Julie Taymor’s The Glorias, and Greta Gerwig’s Barbie.

Branching into directing, Prieto premiered the short film Likeness (starring Elle Fanning) at Tribeca. He has now completed his feature directorial debut, an adaptation of Juan Rulfo’s seminal novel Pedro Páramo. Martin Scorsese has praised the film’s “boldness, bravery, and visual storytelling,” noting Prieto’s extraordinary ability to express narrative through light, composition, and camera movement.