John Bradley Rushing is an American cinematographer. Born and raised in

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, Rushing is based in

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. The cinematographer of numerous

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, and

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s, his extensive roster of work includes the film ''

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''. Rushing won an

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for

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's "

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" in 2002 and a

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Award for Best Music Video

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for

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's "Always On My Mind" in 2005. Rushing was the cinematographer of multiple iconic and award-winning music videos, including ''

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'' by

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and '' Without Me'' by

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. More recently, he was the cinematographer for

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's "

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" (featuring

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), and

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and

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's "

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". As a prolific director of photography, Rushing has also shot videos for artists including

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, and

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. Rushing was the director of photography for the

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original 2020 feature film ''

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'' and its 2021 sequel '' A California Christmas: City Lights'', both of which hit #1 status in the United States and worldwide. Released just two weeks before the end of the year, the former finished 2020 as Netflix's 13th most popular film of the year. Rushing was also the director of photography for two hit

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s in 2022: Netflix's ''That's Amor'' and

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' film ''Holiday Harmony'', the former of which hit #2 for American and worldwide streaming on Netflix, and the latter of which hit #1 on

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Early life

John Bradley Rushing was born and raised in

. Accepted into

Kinder High School for the Performing and Visual Arts Kinder High School for the Performing and Visual Arts (Kinder HSPVA, HSPVA or PVA) is a secondary school located at 790 Austin Street in the downtown district of Houston, Texas. The school is a part of the Houston Independent School District ...

, Rushing studied fine arts and became interested in filmmaking. Rushing majored in fine art, with a minor in film, at the

University of Houston The University of Houston (; ) is a Public university, public research university in Houston, Texas, United States. It was established in 1927 as Houston Junior College, a coeducational institution and one of multiple junior colleges formed in ...

. In his junior year at the University of Houston, Rushing left to accept a job in the film industry.

Career

Rushing's commercial and promo work includes the season two promo for ''

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'', featuring a tiger-striped

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, and the TBS promo for '' Earth to America'', starring

Jack Black Thomas Jacob "Jack" Black (born August 28, 1969) is an American actor, comedian, and musician. He is known for roles in family and comedy films, in addition to his voice work in animated films. His awards include a Children's and Family Emmy ...

. Other commercial clients include

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NASCAR The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing, LLC (NASCAR) is an American auto racing sanctioning and operating company that is best known for stock car racing. It is considered to be one of the top ranked motorsports organizations in ...

, Pepsi Light,

Pop Tarts Pop-Tarts (stylized as pop•tarts) is an American brand of toaster pastries (not tarts) produced and distributed by Kellanova (formerly Kellogg's) since 1964. The pastry consists of a sweet filling sealed inside two layers of thin, rectangul ...

Glad Glad may refer to: * Gladness, or happiness Folklore and mythology * Glaðr, a horse in Norse mythology People * Emil Glad (1929–2009), Croatian actor * Ingrid Kristine Glad (born 1965), Norwegian statistician *John Glad (1941–2015), an Am ...

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, and Aguila Beer (for "100 Years"). Rushing was the second unit cinematographer for the

feature film ''

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'', shooting much of the hit film's

visual effects Visual effects (sometimes abbreviated as VFX) is the process by which imagery is created or manipulated outside the context of a live-action shot in filmmaking and video production. The integration of live-action footage and other live-action fo ...

and stunt work.

Personal life

Rushing holds

dual citizenship Multiple citizenship (or multiple nationality) is a person's legal status in which a person is at the same time recognized by more than one sovereign state, country under its nationality law, nationality and citizenship law as a national or cit ...

for the

United States The United States of America (USA), also known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It is a federal republic of 50 U.S. state, states and a federal capital district, Washington, D.C. The 48 ...

and

Canada Canada is a country in North America. Its Provinces and territories of Canada, ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, making it the world's List of coun ...

. He is a

vegetarian Vegetarianism is the practice of abstaining from the Eating, consumption of meat (red meat, poultry, seafood, insects as food, insects, and the flesh of any other animal). It may also include abstaining from eating all by-products of animal slau ...

. Rushing is a member of the

, the

Visual Effects Society The Visual Effects Society (VES) is an entertainment industry organization representing visual effects practitioners including artists, animators, technologists, model makers, educators, studio leaders, supervisors, PR/marketing specialists and p ...

and the Digital Cinema Society.

Awards and nominations

References

External links

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