​MARKUS FÖRDERER

Award-winning cinematographer Markus Förderer has quickly developed an impressive range of visually unique and critical acclaimed feature films and television series. 

Most recently from Förderer is the feature film, SEPTEMBER 5, which marks his third collaboration with director Tim Fehlbaum. The dramatic thriller set around the live coverage of the 1972 Munich Olympics terrorist attack, premiered to critical acclaim and garnered accolades for Förderer’s cinematography at the Venice International Film Festival and Telluride Film Festival. SEPTEMBER 5 was Oscar nominated for Best Original Screenplay with another 25 wins and 27 nominations, among them a nomination for Best Motion Picture at the Golden Globes in 2025. 

Förderer’s work on SEPTEMBER 5 was nominated at the German Camera Awards for Best Cinematography and won the Best Cinematography Award in Gold at the German Film Awards.

Among Förderer’s other recent credits as cinematographer are the pilot and second episode of CONSTELLATION, the AppleTV+ ambitious sci-fi thriller directed by Michelle MacLaren and starring Noomi Rapace; and the action-comedy feature film RED NOTICE, directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber, which launched on Netflix and is the streamer’s most watched movie of all time. Förderer just reunited with Thurber on the anticipated feature film adaptation, VOLTRON, for Amazon MGM and starring Henry Cavill and Daniel Quinn-Toye. 

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Förderer made his feature film debut on Fehlbaum’s post-apocalyptic feature, HELL.  The film garnered him several awards including the  2012 German Camera Award for Best Cinematography, the Best Cinematography Award at the 2011 Sitges Film Festival in Spain, and a nomination for Best Cinematography Debut at the world-renowned Camerimage Festival in 2012.

Since his impressive debut, his range of credits include two feature films with director Roland Emmerich, the landmark period drama STONEWALL, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2015, and the blockbuster INDEPENDENCE DAY: RESURGENCE.  Additional credits include Mike Cahill‘s sci-fi drama, I ORIGINS, which won the 2014 Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize and the Sundance Film Festival; the feature film I REMEMBER, which premiered at the Berlin Film Festival in 2015 and won the German Camera Award for Best Cinematography; the pilot for the sci-fi horror series NIGHTFLYERS, by “Games of Thrones” writer George R.R. Martin; and the drama BLISS, directed by Mike Cahill, starring Owen Wilson and Salma Hayek.

In 2019, Förderer became the youngest active member of the American Society of Cinematographers and has been featured in Variety's 10 Stars behind the Camera.  Based in Los Angeles, Förderer was born in Germany and graduated from University of Television and Film in Munich.​​

GERMAN CAMERA AWARD 2025
Best Cinematography
[nominated]