Biography
Mitchell Amundsen is an American cinematographer. Born Charles Mitchell Amundsen on 31 May 1958 in San Francisco, he grew up in Larkspur, Marin County. He studied film at Montana State University in Bozeman before leaving in 1980 to work as a production assistant on Francis Ford Coppola's One from the Heart (1981) and subsequent features.
He progressed through roles as camera assistant and operator before debuting as director of photography on the comedy The Country Bears (2002). Amundsen has worked on numerous large-scale productions, including Transformers (2007), Wanted (2008), Now You See Me (2013) and Renfield (2023). In 2008 he was named one of Variety's "10 Cinematographers to Watch".
