Romanian gets Best Cinematographer award for American drama The Master

Romanian image director and photographer Mihai Mălaimare Jr. recently received a prize from the Boston Society of Film Critics for the movie The Master, directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. The Romanian was also nominated for Best Cinematography for the same movie at the Satellite Awards, which will be awarded on December 16. Mihai Mălaimare Jr., the son of theater actor and director Mihai Malaimare, previously worked with other international directors, such as Francis Ford Coppola, for the movies Youth without youth and Tetro. The full list of winners at the Boston Society of Film Critics awards is here. The Master is a 2012 American drama film written, directed, and co-produced by Paul Thomas Anderson and starring Joaquin Phoenix, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Amy Adams. It was produced by Annapurna Pictures and Ghoulardi Film Company, and filming started June 2011, on a EUR 30 million budget. Mihai Malaimare started taking photos when he was 15 and later went on to filming. He was introduced to Anderson by Francis Ford Coppola with whom he had previously worked. Malaimare recently shot the MTV Video Music Awards campaign, featuring artists such as Eminem, Drake, Kesha and Nikki Minaj. He is also an avid stills photographer. editor@romania-insider.com