Barry Sonnenfeld Overview

Hailing from the Big Apple, Sonnenfeld graduated from New York University's Graduate Institute of Film and Television in 1978. He began his career by working on pornography films, corporate films and documentaries including the Oscar-nominated In Our Water (1982). In 1984, he joined one of his former classmates, Joel Coen, in making the black-comedy feature Blood Simple. The film launched his career as a cinematographer, and for the next six years, he continued to work in feature film... See All