Ernest Roscoe Dickerson (born June 25, 1951) is an American film and cinematographer director. As a cinematographer, he is known for his frequent collaboration with Spike Lee. As a director, he is known for films such as Juice , Siluman Knight , Bones and Never Die Alone . He has also directed several episodes of the famous television series such as Once Upon a Time , The Wire , Dexter and The Walking Dead
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Dickerson was born in Newark, New Jersey. He studied architecture at Howard University, but also took a film class with Haile Gerima because he was already interested in the movie. He then moved to New York City to attend the New York University film program at Tisch School of the Arts, where he will meet fellow Spike Lee students. His first feature film as a director of photography was also Lee's first film, Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads (1983), filmed while both were students.
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Careers
After graduating, Dickerson started his career as a cinematographer on music videos for Bruce Springsteen, Anita Baker, and Miles Davis, and went on to film John Sayles' Brother from Another Planet (1984), his first professional film as director of photography.
While working on the first two seasons of the George Romero television series The Story of the Darkside, Dickerson was a cameraman in the concert film John Jopson One Night with Blue Note (1985) and then contacted by Spike Lee, who has found a budget for filming his movie She She Gotta Have It (1986). Dickerson continued his collaboration with Lee on five more films, including Do the Right Thing (1989). Their last collaboration was at Malcolm X in 1992, the same year Dickerson made his directorial debut with the drama crime Juice . He also worked as a unit 2 director at Lee's Miracle at St Anna (2008).
For television, Dickerson has directed several episodes of famous events such as Once Upon a Time , Dexter , The Walking Dead and Treme >. As a fan of old horror films, he also worked with Mick Garris at both the Masters of Horror and Fear Itself and directed the Demon Knight and the i i < Bones (2001).
Wire
Dickerson joined the drama crew HBO The Wire as director for the second season series in 2003. He directed the episode "Bad Dreams". The reviewers drew a comparison between Spike Lee and The Wire even before Dickerson joined the crew. "Bad Dreams" were sent to the American Film Institute for consideration in their TV program from the award of the year and the award winning event. After this success Dickerson returned as director for the third season in 2004. He directed the episode "Hamsterdam" and the end of the season "Mission Achieved". In 2006 he contributed two further episodes to the fourth season of the event: "Misgivings" and the final of the season "Final Grades". The fourth season received a second AFI Award and Dickerson attended a ceremony to collect awards. Showrunner David Simon says Dickerson is the show's performance horse and he knows the show and the producers; Simon praises Dickerson's command that he "sends every time".
Dickerson returned as director for the fifth and final series of seasons in 2008 and led the episode of "Unconfirmed Reports".
Later work
He will then work with David Simon again, directing several episodes of the New Orleans-based drama Treme, including the final of season 2 of "Do Watcha Wanna", which won the Dickerson NAACP Image Award for Positioning in the Drama Series.
Dickerson also works with Executive Producer and author Eric Overmyer on both The Wire and Treme. Dickerson directed the episode "Fugazi" for the Bosch Overmyer series Bosch in 2014.
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External links
- Ernest Dickerson on IMDb
- Ernest Dickerson interviewed about Mo's Better Blues.
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