Brian Burgoyne discovered a love of films and visual storytelling in high school and decided to attend NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts for Film Production. Subsequently he studied at the American Film Institute, earning an MFA in Cinematography. Burgoyne was awarded the American Society of Cinematographers ASC Heritage Award for his AFI thesis film.
Brian’s recent feature film work includes “I Want You Back” for Amazon, “Do Revenge” for Netflix, “Spoiler Alert” for Focus Features, and “Turtles All The Way Down” for HBOMax. Some other noteworthy films Burgoyne has lensed include “The Lovebirds” directed by Michael Showalter for Paramount, “Coffee and Kareem” directed by Michael Dowse for Netflix, the Sundance sensation “The Big Sick”; SXSW audience award winner “Hello, My Name is Doris” starring Sally Field; and the 2016 Sundance Film Festival opening night film “Other People” for director Chris Kelly, which received four Independent Spirit Award nominations.
Burgoyne’s television work includes “The English Teacher” for FX, “Grosse Pointe Garden Society” for NBC/Uni, “Bupkis” for Peacock, “Swimming With Sharks starring Diane Kruger and Kiernan Shipka, the Golden Globe nominated series “Smilf” for Showtime; the TBS series “Miracle Workers”, starring Daniel Radcliffe and Steve Buscemi; season two of “Crashing” for HBO; and the pilot episodes for “The Flight Attendant”, “In The Dark”, “As We See it”, “Champions”, and “Single Drunk Female”.
WHAT THEY LEFT BEHIND, a documentary on gun violence that he photographed for the Sandy Hook Foundation, earned a Clio.
Burgoyne lives in Los Angeles with his wife, two children, an assortment of cats, and two highly enthusiastic dogs.
In between projects Brian loves playing the electric guitar and being endlessly disappointed by the Philadelphia Sixers.”
