Oscar-nominated American cinematographer Don Burgess is best known for his association with Academy Award-winning writer-director Robert Zemeckis, with whom he has collaborated in movies like Forrest Gump (1994), Cast Away (2000), The Polar Express (2004), Flight (2012) and Allied (2016). A veteran with around four decades of experience behind him, Burgess has helmed the camera department in over forty feature films and has also been nominated once for a BAFTA Award and twice for American Society of Cinematographers` (ASC) Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography Award.

Other significant film credits include the sci-fi drama Contact (1997), the superhero film Spider-Man (2002), the fantasy romantic comedy 13 Going on 30 (2004), the sci-fi thriller Source Code (2011), the horror thriller The Conjuring 2 (2016), the comedy-drama Wonder (2017), the superhero movie Aquaman (2018), horror thriller The Curse Of The Weeping Woman (2019), Annabelle Comes Home (2019) and The Witches (2020).