Feature Film – Inshallah A Boy, Directed by Amjad El Rasheed (2024)
– 2024 Cannes Festival Marché du film – Winner of Best Cinematography, The Critics Awards by Arab Cinema Center
– 2023 Cannes Festival – Nominated for Critics’ Week
– 2023 Camerimage – Winner of Golden Frog Award for Director’s Débuts Competition
TV shows – Top Boy Season 3, episodes 5 – 6, Netflix (2023)
– 2024 BAFTA Awards – Winner of the Best Drama Series in 2024 – Winner of the Best Support Actress, Jasmin Jobson
TV shows – Top Boy Season 2, episodes 7 – 8, Netflix (2022)
– 2023 BAFTA Awards – Winner of the Best Director of the Television Craft in 2024, William Stephan Smith
Commercial – New Girl, Play New, by Caroline Koning
– 2022 Clio Awards 22- 61 seconds to five minutes category
Music Video – Octavian “Poison” by Crowns & Owls
– 2021 Berlin Music Video Awards – Nominated for Best Cinematography
– 2020 UK Music Video Awards – Best Hip Hop / Grime / Rap Video
Music Video – Dua Lipa “Break My Heart” by Henry Scholfield
– 2020 UK Music Video Awards – Nominated for Best Colour Grading Commercial – SetApp by Jeff Low
– 2020 Kinsale Shark Awards – Grand Prix for the campaign
– 2020 Kinsale Shark Awards – Silver Prize for Best Colour Grading – Clio Awards 2020 – Silver
Feature Film – “Abou Leila” by Amin Sidi-Boumédiène
– 2019 Cannes Festival – Nominated for Critics’ Week
– 2019 Cinemed Festival Cinéma Méditerranéen Montpellier – Winner of Critics’ Prize
Music Video – Stormzy “Vossi Bop” by Henry Scholfield
– 2019 UK Music Video Awards
– Nominated for Best Cinematography
– Winner of Best Video of the Year, Best Urban Video UK, Best Director, and Best Producer.
– 2019 Shark Awards Kinsale – Nominated for Best Cinematography
Music Video – Wiley ft. Idris Elba – “Boasty” directed by Henry Scholfield
– 2019 UK Music Video Awards – Nominated for Best Urban Video UK
Short Film – “The Marvelous Misadventures of the Stone Lady” by Gabriel Abrantes
– 2019 Cannes Festival – Nominated for Directors’ Fortnight
– 2019 BFI London Film Festival – Nominated for “Joy to the World”
Short Film – “Homesick” by Koya Kamura
– 2019 Hollyshorts – Winner of Best Director
– 2019 San Jose – Winner of Best short film
– 2019 Rhode Island Film Festival – Winner of Best Cinematography
– 2019 Krakow Int Film Fest – Nomination
– 2019 Pantin Coté Court – Nomination
– 2019 Palm Spring Int Film Fest – Nomination
Documentary – “Crazy Tiger” by Kanamé Onoyama
– 2019 Berlin Motion Picture Festival – Selection for Feature Documentary
– 2019 Los Angeles Movie Awards – Winner of Best Cinematography
Music Video – “Aufgang – Backstabbers” by Laurent Chanez
– 2019 Berlin Music Video Awards – Winner of Best Cinematography
– 2019 UK Music Video Awards – Nominated for Best Cinematography
Music Video – “Indochine – Station 13” by Bouha Kazmi
– 2018 Camerimage – Nominated for Best Cinematography
– 2018 Soundie Music Video Awards – Winner of Best Cinematography
– 2018 UK Music Video Awards – Nominated for Best Cinematography
– 2018 Kinsale Shark Awards – Nominated for Best Cinematography
– 2018 Kinsale Shark Awards – Nominated for Best Colour Grade
– 2018 17th Miami Short Film Festival – Winner of Best Music Video
– 2018 Promonews – Best Music Videos of the Year: Narrative
– 2018 Promonews – Best Music Videos of the Year: Favourite Videos Of The Year
Short Film – “NOVACIÉRIES” by (LA)HORDE
– 2016 Festival IFFR, Rotterdam, Hollande – Selection
– 2016 Festival du court métrage de Clermont-Ferrand – Selection
Documentary – “MR.X”, Directed by Tessa Louise-Salomé
– 2014 Sundance Film Festival – Selected for World Documentary
– 2014 Rotterdam Int’ Film Festival – Selected for Signals : Regained
Video Art – “GROSSE FATIGUE”, Directed by Camille Henrot
– 2013 The Biennale of Venise – Silver Lion
Short Film – “SHUMPO” by Steven Briand
– 2013 Cannes Young Director Award – First Prize European Video Art
– 2013 Back Up Festival – Video Art Award
Short Film – “L’île – Al Djazira” directed by Amin Sidi-Boumédiène
– 2013 Abu Dhabi Film Festival – Winner of Grand Prix, Best Picture, and Best Production
– 2013 Festival du film arabe d’Oran – Winner of Grand Prix
©Morgan Sinclair
Kanamé Onoyama is a director of photography born in Osaka, Japan. He studied in Paris and currently works on various international projects, fluent in English, Japanese, and French. Kanamé’s iconic images and his adeptness at collaborating effectively with others have attracted directors from various forms of media, including feature films, TV shows, commercials, and music videos.
He made his TV show debut in the UK on the renowned Netflix show “Top Boy Season 2” in 2020, directed by William Stephan Smith, who was awarded Best Director of the Year at the BAFTA. He has been invited to work on other shows such as “Say Nothing (FX)” directed by Mary Nighy and Alice Seabright, “Butterfly (Amazon Prime)” directed by Kitao Sakurai, “Get Millie Black (HBO)”, and also “Top Boy Season 3”. Episode 6 of season 3 was nominated for Best Director in Fiction at the BAFTA Television Craft Awards 2024.
Two of his independent feature films found success at festivals. The Jordanian movie “Inshallah a Boy” by Amjad Al Rasheed was selected for the Cannes Festival and the Toronto Film Festival in 2023. The Algerian-French movie “Abou Leila” directed by Amin Sidi-Boumédiène was also selected for the Cannes Festival in 2019. Additionally, the short film “Homesick” received critical acclaim, winning 40 awards out of 58 selections at various film festivals.
He gained recognition in the UK industry for his symbolic music videos in 2019. Collaborating with top director Henry Scholfield, he shot some of the most influential videos in the UK music scene. The unforgettable Stormzy’s “Vossi Bop” was nominated for Best Cinematography at the UK Music Video Awards in 2020, and won the award for Best Cinematography at the Kinsale Film Festival. He also directed videos for renowned artists such as Dua Lipa, Ed Sheeran, Wiley, Idris Elba, and Stefflon Don. His work on Laurent Chanez’s “Aufgang – Backstabbers” won the Best Cinematography award at the Berlin Music Video Awards 2019. Additionally, Bouha Kazmi’s “Indochine – Station 13” was nominated for Best Cinematography at the UK Music Video Awards 2018 and Camerimage 2019.
PRESS
Courrier Japan – Interview (Japanese, 2024)
507 Heures – Podcast (French, 2024)
#31 Kanamé Onoyama – Directeur de la photographie
AdverTimes – Interview (Japanese, 2023)
AFC – Interview (French, 2023)
Entretien avec Kanamé Onoyama AFC, à propos de “Inchallah un fils”, d’Amjad Al Rasheed, par Hélène de Roux, pour l’AFC
Bahn Mi Podcast – (French, 2022)
#28 Kanamé Onoyama – “Le collectif Divé+ pour transmettre, éduquer, influencer, les gens dans le cinéma français”
ARRI – Interview (English, 2022)
ARRI spotlights commercials and music videos: DP Kanamé Onoyama
AFC – Interview “Un road movie au soleil” (French, 2019)
Le directeur de la photographie Kanamé Onoyama parle de son travail sur “Abou Leila”, d’Amin Sidi Boumédiène