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Unit photography by Scott Garfield, SMPSP, courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics. Additional images courtesy of Greig Fraser, ASC, ACS.

out of the blue to offer a lucrative sponsorship and a stately location for training.
Driven to win the approval of his
aloof mother, Jean (Vanessa Redgrave),
the paranoid and substance-abusing
multimillionaire proves to be a toxic
influence on Mark, and gradually forms
a more lasting bond with Dave. Du
Pont invites Dave to join Mark at
Foxcatcher Farm, but Dave initially
declines, unwilling to uproot his wife,
Nancy (Sienna Miller), and children.
Once Dave finally agrees to relocate and
run the training camp, a cauldron of
deep-rooted familial emotion boils over,
with tragic results.
Director Bennett Miller began
developing the project in between
production of Capote and Moneyball
after receiving an unsolicited envelope
of newspaper clippings about the story.
"It had a chemistry of characters in
worlds where they did not belong,
[with] relationships that don't make
sense on the surface but somehow made

Wanting to
escape the
shadow of his
older brother,
Dave (Mark
Ruffalo, top,
right), Mark
Schultz
(Channing Tatum,
top, left) accepts
a wrestling
sponsorship from
multimillionaire
John du Pont
(Steve Carell,
opposite, right)
that ultimately
ends in tragedy
in the feature
Foxcatcher.
Bottom:
Cinematographer
Greig Fraser, ASC,
ACS.

sense in that moment," Miller told AC
at the Toronto International Film
Festival, where the movie screened in
September. (A few months earlier,
Foxcatcher had earned Miller the Best
Director prize at Cannes.)
www.theasc.com

To help re-create the dark tale,
Miller tapped Australian-born, Los
Angeles-based director of photography
Greig Fraser, ASC, ACS. Miller had
already shot a commercial with Fraser,
whose work on director Jane Campion's
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