Between 2020 and 2024 Chris Tangey has won more Drone Cinematography awards than anyone in the world including the coveted US$5000 prize for "Landscape" in South Korea's Jeju International Drone Film Festival. The world's largest online community of film and television artists, Los Angeles' Stage32.com, described Chris as "one of the most sought after drone cinematographers globally". But according to Chris: "you're only ever as good as your last gig"! Based in the small town of Alice Springs, the defacto capital of the Australian outback, his nearest city in any direction is 1000 miles distant. He recently filmed all of the Australia vision for the Nathaniel Rateliff music video
"Time Stands", shot on all 6 continents. Other aerial shoots include an upcoming Feature documentary for Universal Pictures "Boy from the bush", under Director
Kriv Stenders, the 2 part finale of the U.S. 2020 season of "The Bachelor" for Warner Brothers, "Nomad" under Director and film legend
Werner Herzog, a global TV commercial for Tourism Australia "Hemsworth", BBC's "Seven Worlds-One Planet" "Wonders of the Monsoon" and "Mammals", plus a large amount of visual material for the National Museum of Australia's new permanent exhibition "Great Southern Land".
Chris has 8 Gold and 5 silver awards from the prestigious Australian Cinematographers Society plus 28 international awards for aerial cinematography.
Winner- "Drone" New Media Film Festival® Los Angeles 2024
Gold award "Art, innovation and specialised cinematography" Australian Cinematographers Society (ACS) Awards 2023
Winner-"Narrative" AZDronefest Phoenix 2023
Winner-"Best Drone Film" Barcelona Planet Film Festival 2023
Winner "Best Cinematography-short" Buenos Aires International Film Festival 2022
Winner "Best Cinematography" Tokyo Film Awards 2022
Winner "The American Drone Award" American Film Award New York 2021
Winner “Landscape” Jeju International Drone Film Festival South Korea 2021
Winner “Landscape” AZDroneFest Arizona 2021
Winner “Best cinematography-short film” Seattle Film Festival 2021
Winner “Best Aerial Cinematography” Voce Spettacolo Film Festival Italy 2021
Winner "Best film on nature" Kalakari Film Festival India 2021
Winner inaugural "Drone film" category in the 10th annual Paris Art and Movie Awards (PAMA) 2020.
Winner "Best Cinematography" Austria International Film Festival 2020,
Winner "Best Cinematography" Buenos Aires International Film Festival 2020.
Winner "Best Drone film" and "Best Natural Scenography"
New York International Film Awards 2020.
Winner "Best Aerial Cinematography" European Cinematography Awards Amsterdam, Winner "Best Drone film" Orinos® Film Awards New York 2020.
Winner Asian Cinematography Awards Manila 2020 "Best Aerial Cinematography" and "Best cinematography of a documentary short film".
Finalist Southern California Drone Film Festival 2022 and 2023. . Boston Drone Film Festival 2021. Official selection New Media Film Festival Los Angeles 2021, Prague Independent Film Festival and the 180 Berlin FilmFest.