Biography
Tristan Oliver is a British cinematographer specialising in stop-motion animation. He trained at Bristol University, completing a postgraduate certificate in film after earlier studies in drama and English. He began working regularly with Aardman Animations in the early 1990s.
His credits include director of photography on Chicken Run (2000), Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005), Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009), ParaNorman (2012) and Isle of Dogs (2018). He has also served as stop-motion director of photography or model unit cinematographer on several Wes Anderson projects, including the stop-motion unit for Asteroid City (2023). Oliver is a member of the British Society of Cinematographers.
