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Peter Biziou

Peter Biziou (born August 8, 1944) is a retired British cinematographer.

Biziou was born in Bangor, North Wales in 1944; the son of special effects cameraman and cinematographer Leon Bijou, best known for shooting Foxes in 1980.

Biziou began his career in the mid-1960s, where he worked on short films by Norman J. Warren and Robert Freeman. In 1973, he began his collaboration with director Alan Parker, shooting the short films Footsteps (1974) and Our Cissy (1976), before working on Parker's feature film Bugsy Malone, while sharing credit with Michael Seresin.

He received the Academy Award and BAFTA Award for Best Cinematography for the 1988 film Mississippi Burning, as well as another BAFTA nomination for the 1998 film The Truman Show.

After working on Derailed, Biziou retired in 2005, and currently lives in southwest France.

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