Daniella Nowitz / Cinematographer

ABOUT

Daniella Nowitz is an award-winning cinematographer whose work moves fluidly between narrative features and high-end television, in Israel and internationally. She was the first woman to receive the Israeli Academy Award (Ophir) for Best Cinematography, and later the first woman to win the Israeli Emmy in the same category.

Her Ophir win came for Asia (2020), directed by Ruthy Pribar and starring Shira Haas. The film went on to win nine Israeli Academy Awards and received Best Cinematography honors at both the Jerusalem Film Festival and the Tribeca Film Festival. It was also selected as Israel’s official submission for the Academy Awards’ Best International Feature Film.

Daniella later received consecutive Israeli Emmy Awards for her work on the Canneseries-winning Carthago (2023) and Netflix’s global hit Bad Boy (2024). Carthago, starring Philip Glenister, won the Young Audience Award at Canneseries. Bad Boy became one of Netflix’s most-watched non-English series worldwide, reaching number one in over forty countries, winning nine Israeli Emmys including Best Series, and earning a nomination for the International Emmy Award for Best Series.

Her earlier television work includes Normali (HBO Max), which received an International Emmy nomination in 2021.

In features, Daniella shot Live Cargo (2017), starring LaKeith Stanfield, Robert Wisdom, Sam Dillon, and Dree Hemingway. The film’s cinematography was widely praised by critics, with Variety calling it “one of the most evocatively shot films in recent memory.” She also served as cinematographer on the Philippine thriller Watch List, starring Alessandra de Rossi, which earned nominations for Best Cinematography from FAMAS and Gawad Urian, as well as a nomination for Indie Movie Cinematographer of the Year at the Star Awards for Movies in Mumbai.

Fluent in five languages, Daniella works comfortably across cultures and continents, bringing both technical precision and deep narrative sensitivity to her collaborations. Her visual approach is shaped by story first—by character, place, and emotional truth—rather than by style alone.

Daniella is a graduate of the American Film Institute Conservatory.