Seale started his career collaborating with director
Peter Weir, both as a
camera operator and
director of photography, gaining a reputation as one of Australia's leading cinematographers. He received an Oscar nomination for his first American film,
Witness, as well as for
Rain Man, and
Cold Mountain, while winning one for
The English Patient. In addition to cinematography, Seale directed a feature film,
Till There Was You (1990). Seale was appointed a
Member of the Order of Australia in the
2002 Australia Day Honours in recognition of his "service to the arts as an Australian and internationally acclaimed cinematographer". After shooting
The Tourist, Seale decided to retire from the film industry, before returning in 2012 to shoot
George Miller's
Mad Max: Fury Road (2015), for which he received another Academy Award nomination. He retired again after the production of Miller's following film
Three Thousand Years of Longing (2022). ==Filmography==