---
name: "Adam Stone"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/adam-stone"
fi1m_id: "adam-stone"
imdb_id: "nm1309148"
tmdb_id: 71880
wikidata_id: "Q63286202"
roles: ["Cinematographer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 4
average_fi1m_score: 77
average_over: 4
updated: "2026-09-17T19:17:17.220384+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Adam Stone

## Identity

Adam Stone

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/adam-stone
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** adam-stone
- **IMDb ID:** nm1309148
- **TMDB ID:** 71880
- **Wikidata ID:** Q63286202
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q63286202, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1309148/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/71880

Cinematographer.

## Details

- **Work:** Cinematographer
- **Active:** 2011–present
- **Frequently works with:** [Jeff Nichols](https://film.one/person/jeff-nichols.md), [Michael Shannon](https://film.one/person/michael-shannon.md), [Sarah Green](https://film.one/person/sarah-green.md)
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 80 (3), 2020s 68 (1)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 77 to 78 across 4 titles
- **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 3 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Drama 3, Crime 2, Documentary 1, Horror 1, Thriller 1
- **Screen time:** 6 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $72m across 3 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q63286202, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1309148/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/71880

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Take Shelter*](https://film.one/film/take-shelter.md) (83), [*Mud*](https://film.one/film/mud.md) (78)
- **Netflix:** [*Wild Wild Country*](https://film.one/tv/wild-wild-country.md) (78)

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## Biography

Adam Stone is an American cinematographer. He trained at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts and began working with director Jeff Nichols on the latter’s debut feature *Shotgun Stories* (2007).

Stone has served as director of photography on all six of Nichols’s feature films: *Shotgun Stories* (2007), *Take Shelter* (2011), *Mud* (2012), *Midnight Special* (2016), *Loving* (2016) and *The Bikeriders* (2024). He has also photographed documentaries and series including *Wild Wild Country* (2018) and *Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes* (2019).

*Sources: panavision.com, kodak.com, focusfeatures.com, filmmakermagazine.com, britishcinematographer.co.uk.*

## On Fi1m (4)

- *The Bikeriders* (2024), Fi1m 68, Cinematography, Director of Photography — [page](https://film.one/film/the-bikeriders.md)
- *Wild Wild Country* (2018), Fi1m 78, Director of Photography, Cinematography — [page](https://film.one/tv/wild-wild-country.md)
- *Mud* (2013), Fi1m 78, Director of Photography, Cinematography — [page](https://film.one/film/mud.md)
- *Take Shelter* (2011), Fi1m 83, Cinematography, Director of Photography — [page](https://film.one/film/take-shelter.md)

## Complete filmography (28)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Bikeriders* (2024), Director of Photography — Fi1m 68, [page](https://film.one/film/the-bikeriders.md)
- *If Dreams Were Lightning* (2023), Director of Photography
- *Waco: American Apocalypse* (2023), series, Director of Photography
- *2nd Chance* (2022), Director of Photography
- *Untold: The Race of the Century* (2022), Director of Photography
- *Untold: Caitlyn Jenner* (2022), Cinematography
- *Trainwreck: Woodstock '99* (2022), series, Director of Photography
- *Conversations with a Killer: The John Wayne Gacy Tapes* (2022), series, Director of Photography
- *WWE Evil* (2022), series, Director of Photography
- *Untold: Deal with the Devil* (2021), Director of Photography
- *Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes* (2019), series, Director of Photography
- *The First* (2018), series, Director of Photography
- *Damsel* (2018), Director of Photography
- *Wild Wild Country* (2018), series, Director of Photography — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/tv/wild-wild-country.md)
- *Loving* (2016), Director of Photography
- *Masterminds* (2016), "B" Camera Operator, Second Unit Director of Photography
- *Midnight Special* (2016), Director of Photography
- *Camp X-Ray* (2014), Second Unit Director of Photography
- *Lift You Up* (2014), Director of Photography
- *Mud* (2013), Director of Photography — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/mud.md)
- *Gotham Comedy Live* (2012), series, Actor
- *Compliance* (2012), Director of Photography
- *Take Shelter* (2011), Director of Photography — Fi1m 83, [page](https://film.one/film/take-shelter.md)
- *Print* (2008), Director of Photography
- *Shotgun Stories* (2007), Director of Photography
- *Great World of Sound* (2007), Director of Photography
- *All the Real Girls* (2003), Second Unit Cinematographer
- *King Snake*, Director of Photography

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