Variety features the cinematographer for the Golden Compass, Henry Braham, among its top ten cinematographers to watch this year. “For Braham, the pic’s major challenges sprung from its heavy reliance on visual effects. “Certain movies you can work on in near isolation,” he says, “but this type of moviemaking has to be collaborative. And because it’s a completely imaginary world, everything needs to be thought through and make sense, so that the audience isn’t distracted by the way it looks, but rather excited by it.” Read more.