Inspired by the visual richness of Mexico City, Jaime Reynoso started his life as a cinematographer in Los Angeles at the prestigious American Film Institute. Since, he’s been able to build a solid international career shooting features, TV drama and documentaries in the US, Mexico, England, France, Mali, Colombia, Argentina, Cambodia and Cuba.
The indie feature Robbing Petter was nominated for the John Cassavetes Award at the 2005 independent spirit awards. Curandero written by Robert Rodríguez, was awarded best cinematography at the 2006 San Antonio FF. Cansada de Besar Sapos was nominated for the 2007 Gabriel Figueroa Award. Tlatelolco, Sumer of ‘68 won best film at the 2013 Chicago International FF. Un Extraño Enemigo was nominated for the X Platino Awards. The Inmate was nominated for the International Emmy Awards as well as for best cinematography at the 2019 PRODU awards. A Cambodian Winter wont best cinematography both at the New York cinematography awards and the Canadian cinematography awards in 2020.
He was nominated consecutively for the 37th and 38th ASC awards, for The Kominsky Method (Michael Douglas) and Snowpiercer (Jennifer Connelly) He was also nominated for the first edition of the AFC Awards for Nightbirds, an episodes of Extrapolations written by Scott Z. Burns. Back in the music video days he worked with the likes of Café Tacvba, Juanes and Kenny Rogers.
Other credits include:
The New Look (Ben Mendelsohn, Juliette Binoche, Mayssie Williams, John Malkovich)
Bloodline (Sissy Spacek, Kyle Chandjer, Ben Mendelsohn)
The Kominski Method (Michael Douglas, Chuck Lorre)
Latin History for Morons (John Leguizamo)
Un extraño Enemigo (Gabriel Ripstein, Daniel Giménez Cacho)
Here on Earth (Gael García Bernal, Tenoch Huerta)
Ballers (Dwayne Johnson)
Shooter (Ryan Phillipe, Omar Epps)
Tulsa King (Sylvester Stallone)
Additionally he’s been invited to direct episodes in TV series such as Shooter, The Purge, El Candidato (James Purefoy) nominated for best TV series in the 2019 Pantalla de Cristal awards. And Prison Cell 211 with Diego Calva, Noé Hernández and Gerardo Taracena RIP