Biography
Dean Semler is an Australian cinematographer. He began his career as a television cameraman in Adelaide before joining Film Australia, where he shot documentaries and educational films. He later worked as a camera operator on feature films and went freelance in the early 1980s.
Semler is known for his work on Mad Max 2 (1981), Dances with Wolves (1990), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography, and City Slickers (1991). Other credits include Waterworld (1995), Apocalypto (2006) and Maleficent (2014). He has received multiple Australian Film Institute Awards for cinematography.
Semler is a member of the Australian Cinematographers Society and the American Society of Cinematographers. In 2002 he was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia for services to the arts.
