Alan Stewart (cinematographer)
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Alan Stewart (born 1960) is a Scottish cinematographer.
Born in Comrie, Perth and Kinross,[1] Stewart first served as a tea boy for the camera crew of various productions before gaining work as a clapper loader, focus puller, and eventually a camera operator, working under the likes of Ellen Kuras and Seamus McGarvey.[1]
Stewart relocated to England in the mid-1990s, and in 1998, alongside Peter Middleton, was nominated for a BAFTA television award for his work on the BBC limited series Holding On.[2]
He would work in the camera department on film and television projects like Band of Brothers, Into the Woods, Ready Player One and Mary Poppins Returns.[3]
Stewart began working with director Guy Ritchie in the camera department for movies like Sherlock Holmes, A Game of Shadows and King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, before making his big break as director of photography on Disney's Aladdin.[3][4][5]