Born in
Adelaide, South Australia, Simpson graduated from the
South Australian School of Art in 1969, and the
London Film School. Simpson has received critical praise for his work on films including
Shine,
Oscar and Lucinda (1997) and
Romulus, My Father (2007). He has won
Australian Film Institute awards for Best Cinematography for
The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey (1988),
Shine and
Oscar and Lucinda. ==Filmography==