Bonnie Elliott

Bonnie Elliott is an Australian cinematographer. She has been nominated for and won numerous AACTA Awards in cinematography, including for Spear (2015), Seven Types of Ambiguity (2017), H Is for Happiness (2019), and Stateless (2020).

Biography
While studying at the University of Technology Sydney, she was involved in the production of student films and the teen drama Heartbreak High. Elliott's first feature film was My Tehran for Sale (2008). At the 2012 Sorta Unofficial New Zealand Film Awards, she won Best Short Film Cinematography for I'm the One.

In 2016, she was nominated for the AACTA Award for Best Cinematography for Spear at the 6th AACTA Awards. In 2017, she won the AACTA Award for Best Cinematography in Television for "Joe", the second episode of Seven Types of Ambiguity. David Stratton praised Elliott's "attractive photography" in his review of Undertow (2018) in The Australian.

In 2020, at the 10th AACTA Awards, she was nominated for the AACTA Award for Best Cinematography for H Is for Happiness, and won the AACTA Award for Best Cinematography in Television for "The Circumstances in Which They Come", the first episode of Stateless. The same year, Elliott devised the concept for #whoisinyourcrew, a campaign to promote female representation in cinematography.

In 2021, she had three nominations at the 11th AACTA Awards – the AACTA Award for Best Cinematography in Television for "Everything's Gone", the second episode of Fires, and the AACTA Award for Best Cinematography in a Documentary for Freeman and Step into Paradise. Of these three, she won only the first award. In Comic Book Resources' review of Run Rabbit Run (2023), Josh Bell said that, as cinematographer, Elliott works with Daina Reid, the film's director, to "continue creating striking images even as the plot goes in circles."