Alan Stewart (born 1960) is a Scottish cinematographer.
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Life and career
Born in Comrie, Perth and Kinross, Stewart first served as a tea boy for the camera crew of various productions before gaining work as a clapper loader, focus puller, and eventually a camera operator, working under the likes of Ellen Kuras and Seamus McGarvey.
Stewart relocated to England in the mid-1990s, and in 1998, alongside Peter Middleton, was nominated for a BAFTA television award for his work on the BBC limited series Holding On.
He would work in the camera department on film and television projects like Band of Brothers, Into the Woods, Ready Player One and Mary Poppins Returns.
Stewart began working with director Guy Ritchie in the camera department for movies like Sherlock Holmes, A Game of Shadows and King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, before making his big break as director of photography on Disney's Aladdin.