Sylvain Brault

Sylvain Brault (born 1958) is a Canadian cinematographer from Quebec. He is most noted as a two-time Genie Award nominee for Best Cinematography, receiving nods at the 15th Genie Awards in 1994 for My Friend Max (Mon amie Max),^[1] and at the 17th Genie Awards in 1996 for Rowing Through.^[2]

He is the son of filmmaker and cinematographer Michel Brault,^[3] with whom he worked on several films early in his career; the short documentary film L'Emprise won awards at the Yorkton Film Festival in 1988 for both Michel as best director and Sylvain as best cinematographer.^[4] He directed and filmed music videos for Julie Masse and Joe Bocan in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and married Masse in 1993;^[5] Brault and Masse were divorced by 1995,^[6] when Masse remarried to Corey Hart.