Template:Realworld Matthew F. Leonetti was the cinematographer (i.e., director of photography) for Star Trek: First Contact and Star Trek: Insurrection for director Jonathan Frakes. Educated at Loyola University in Chicago, Illinois and having served in the U.S. Army, Leonetti has been working in the film industry for nearly four decades, starting out as a camera assistant on the Robert Scheerer-directed drama Adam at Six A.M. and as a photographer on TV commercials.
Leonetti's first work as a cinematographer was the 1974 horror film, The Bat People (starring Stewart Moss, Michael Pataki, and Paul Carr), for which Leonetti also served as executive producer. Throughout the remainder of the 1970s, he worked as a cinematographer on a large number of made-for-TV movies and a few feature films, including 1979's Breaking Away, starring Dennis Christopher and Paul Dooley.
Since then, Leonetti has worked as the cinematographer on such popular films as Poltergeist (1982), Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982), Weird Science (1985), Commando (1985), Dragnet (1987), Angels in the Outfield (1994), Strange Days (1995), Rush Hour 2 (2001), The Butterfly Effect (2004) and Dawn of the Dead (2004). His latest project was the romantic comedy The Heartbreak Kid for the Farrelly brothers, due out in October 2007.
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- Leonetti's entry on the Internet Encyclopedia of Cinematographers