Alice Brooks ASC is an American director of photography best known for her cinematography work on feature films. Brooks grew up in Los Angeles and New York, the daughter of Candace Coulston of South Bristol, ME, and Stephen Levi, the late playwright who had numerous plays published by New York publishing company Samuel French. As a child, she acted in various national television commercial spots and was in a recurring skit on Late Night With David Letterman. Brooks graduated from USC School of Cinematic Arts magna cum laude in 2001. Her work includes In the Heights, the film adaptation of Lin-Manuel Miranda's Broadway production directed by Jon M. Chu, which received widespread critical acclaim for its cinematography, and Tick, Tick... Boom!, Miranda's directorial debut starring Andrew Garfield and produced by Ron Howard, based on the stage show by Jonathan Larson. Brooks collaborates with Chu frequently; prior to In The Heights, the two worked together on The LXD: The Legion of Extraordinary Dancers in 2011, Jem and the Holograms in 2015, and Home Before Dark, Apple TV+'s 2020 crime-drama series. She will work again with Chu on the two-part film adaptation of Stephan Schwartz's Broadway musical Wicked for Universal Pictures. The first part was released in November 2024. Her work on The Remix: Hip Hop X Fashion from directors Farah X and Lisa Cortés premiered at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival and went on to win awards from Martha's Vineyard African American Film Festival, Milwaukee Film Festival, Napa Valley Film Festival, and the Sidewalk Film Festival. Her work has been featured on the cover of ICG Magazine. Brooks also worked on 2021's Queen Bees, director Michael Lembeck's comedy-drama starring Ellen Burstyn, Jane Curtin, Loretta Devine, and James Caan. In 2004, Brooks was nominated and awarded WorldFest-Houston's Independent Short Subject-Films & Video - Cinematography - Shorts Platinum Award for her work on Charlie 2.0, Matthew Hsu's comedy short. In 2024, she and gaffer Dave Smith became the first recipients of the SUMOLIGHT Creative Synergy Award at the 2024 Manaki Brothers Film Festival for their work on Wicked. She has been married to Samuel Spencer since September 8, 2012. Description above from the Wikipedia article Alice Brooks, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Biography from TMDB.
- January 26, 1979 (47)
- USA
- Cinematographer
- 10 on MovieCove · 21 credits in all
What are Alice Brooks' films like?
Across their 10 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Self and Bonds.
Themes
What they feel like to watch
Ironic 0 · Wry 0 · Earnest 10
A split, not a type: Light 5 · Serious 3 · Dark 2
A split, not a type: Grounded 5 · Stylized 1 · Heightened 4
A split, not a type: Gentle 4 · Charged 2 · Intense 4
Steady 5 · Shifting 4 · Whiplash 1
Straight-faced 2 · Some laughs 8 · Funny 0
Slow burn 4 · Even-paced 5 · Relentless 1
Casual 4 · Engaged 5 · Full focus 1
A split, not a type: Easy watch 4 · Affecting 2 · Heavy 4
Resolved 10 · Open-ended 0 · Ambiguous 0
Moods and endings
- Happy4
- Bittersweet6
AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.
Where can I watch Alice Brooks' films?
As of October 24, 2026, 7 of their 10 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service.
Subscription and free streaming for Alice Brooks' titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.
Filmography
21 credits, 10 with a MovieCove page; 2 appearances as themselves are hidden until asked for.
Wicked: For Good(2025)
Midcredits score: 68th percentile of all films
Wicked(2024)
Midcredits score: 92nd percentile of all films
tick, tick... BOOM!(2021)
Midcredits score: 94th percentile of all films
Queen Bees(2021)
Midcredits score: 58th percentile of all films
In the Heights(2021)
Midcredits score: 88th percentile of all films
Midcredits score: 81st percentile of all films
Alex & Me(2018)
Midcredits score: 39th percentile of all films
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands: War Within The Cartel (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2017)
One Fall (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2016)
Girl Flu. (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2016)
Dance Camp (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2016)
Jem and the Holograms(2015)
Midcredits score: 14th percentile of all films
Sitting Babies (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2012)
Love You More (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2012)
Mulligans(2008)
Midcredits score: 45th percentile of all films
Ten 'til Noon (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2007)
You Did What? (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2006)
American Storage (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2006)
Pretty Dead Girl (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2004)
Ocha Cups for Christmas (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2002)
Career shape
A full career of 21 titles, 20 of them dated from 2002 to 2025.
Biggest box office
Wicked (2024)
Highest rated
tick, tick... BOOM! (2021)
Most popular right now
Wicked (2024)
Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it. The ring is the typical Midcredits score (the median percentile) of the role's titles that are on MovieCove, shown from 5 scored.
Awards
Nominated for a Critics Choice Award in 2025, Best Cinematography.
Major bodies only: the Oscars, Primetime Emmys, Golden Globes, BAFTAs and Screen Actors Guild Awards are named; Cannes, Venice, the Berlinale, Sundance, the directors', writers' and producers' guilds, the Grammys, Critics Choice and the Independent Spirit Awards count as other major bodies. Festival and regional prizes are not counted. Source: IMDb.
How do Alice Brooks' films land?
Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 68th percentile, the median of the 9 of 10 with a score; across their 9 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 72nd percentile for acclaim.
- 75th and up4
- 50th to 74th2
- 25th to 49th2
- Below 25th1
Shape of the crowd
5 of their 9 titles are Crowd Pleasers.
- Universally Loved1
- Cult Classic1
- Crowd Pleaser5
- Mixed2
Reviewers score the cinematography 64/100 in their films, across 8 reviewed titles; fans 71, detractors 49. The element that speaks to their work as a cinematographer.
Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.
Is Alice Brooks' work okay for kids?
Across up to 7 MovieCove titles with content scores, violence & gore and frightening / intense run lighter than most films.
Severity 0–100 from the Content Guide. Categories with under 10 votes on a title are not counted. The band's colour is the severity of their median, named beside it.
Who does Alice Brooks work with?
People who share at least 2 of Alice Brooks' MovieCove titles, grouped by what they did on them; Jon M. Chu shares the most, 4.
Directors
- Jon M. ChuShared titles: Wicked: For Good (2025), Wicked (2024), In the Heights (2021), Jem and the Holograms (2015)See all 4 shared titles with Jon M. Chu
Writers
- Dana FoxShared titles: Wicked: For Good (2025), Wicked (2024)See all 2 shared titles with Dana Fox
- Gregory MaguireShared titles: Wicked: For Good (2025), Wicked (2024)See all 2 shared titles with Gregory Maguire
- Stephen SchwartzShared titles: Wicked: For Good (2025), Wicked (2024)See all 2 shared titles with Stephen Schwartz
- Winnie HolzmanShared titles: Wicked: For Good (2025), Wicked (2024)See all 2 shared titles with Winnie Holzman
Actors
- Ariana GrandeShared titles: Wicked: For Good (2025), Wicked (2024)See all 2 shared titles with Ariana Grande
- Cynthia ErivoShared titles: Wicked: For Good (2025), Wicked (2024)See all 2 shared titles with Cynthia Erivo
- Ethan SlaterShared titles: Wicked: For Good (2025), Wicked (2024)See all 2 shared titles with Ethan Slater
- Jeff GoldblumShared titles: Wicked: For Good (2025), Wicked (2024)See all 2 shared titles with Jeff Goldblum
Composers and editors
- Myron KersteinShared titles: Wicked: For Good (2025), Wicked (2024), In the Heights (2021), tick, tick... BOOM! (2021)See all 4 shared titles with Myron Kerstein
- John PowellShared titles: Wicked: For Good (2025), Wicked (2024)See all 2 shared titles with John Powell
Producers
- David NicksayShared titles: Wicked: For Good (2025), Wicked (2024)See all 2 shared titles with David Nicksay
- David StoneShared titles: Wicked: For Good (2025), Wicked (2024)See all 2 shared titles with David Stone
- Jared LeBoffShared titles: Wicked: For Good (2025), Wicked (2024)See all 2 shared titles with Jared LeBoff
- Joan SchneiderShared titles: Wicked: For Good (2025), Wicked (2024)See all 2 shared titles with Joan Schneider