Tom Denove

Cinematographer, Lighting Designer and International award-winning Director of Photography Tom Denove chaired the Cinematography Department at the American Film Institute (1988-1994) before coming to UCLA. His resume includes over 40 feature films (“Midnight Witness,” “Puppet Master II,” “Cold Steel,” “Hunters Blood,” “Flexing with Monty,” “The Curse of the Crystal Eye,” “The Last Horror Film”), 700 plus comercials (“L’Oreal,” “McDonald’s,” “Shell Oil,” “Yamaha,” “Select Comfort,” “Canon Printers,” “Turtle Wax,” “Sears,” the Olympics, “Bran Chex,” “J.C. Penney”) and more than 100 television shows (“Star Trek: The Next Generation,” “Ally McBeal,” “Deep Space Nine”).

In 1990 Denove won a Technical Academy Award for the Belco/Denove Cinemeter exposure system.

In 1996 he produced and photographed “Hollywood Boulevard,” a film about three irreverent street angels who are assigned to Hollywood Boulevard to save the soul of a two-time Academy Award winning actress who’s about to hit rock bottom. The film starred Julilanne Phillips, Jon Tenney and John C. McGinley.

Denove has organized and conducted world-wide seminars on lighting techniques in film and television. He has authored numerous articles about lighting for various magazines (“ICG,” “Video Systems,” “International Photographer,” “On Location,” “Video Pro,” “TV Technology”) and he is a design consultant for Fuji Film and LTMCorporation of America.

Denove is a member of the International Cinematographers Guild (IATSE Local 600) and a founding member of the Fuji Cine Club.

• PROFESSOR; AREA HEAD CINEMATOGRAPHY

• Office: 225C East Melnitz
• E-mail: tdenove@tft.ucla.edu
• Phone: 310-825-0294