Jim Denault, ASC is a cinematographer whose career spans independent features, studio films, premium cable and streaming series. He has earned Primetime Emmy nominations for Carnivàle and Game Change,  an ASC Award Nomination for All The Way, and an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Nadja.

He began in New York's independent film scene, shooting Michael Almereyda's Another Girl Another Planet and Nadja, Kelly Reichardt's River of Grass, and Kimberly Peirce's Boys Don't Cry. Nadja returned in a 4K restoration in 2026.

His long collaboration with director Jay Roach includes Recount, Game Change, The Campaign, Trumbo and All the Way. Other features include Pitch Perfect 2, Bad Moms, Maria Full of Grace, City of Ghosts and The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2.

In television he has shot HBO's Carnivàle, Six Feet Under and Silicon Valley, Hulu's The Looming Tower and Paramount Network's Yellowstone.

A graduate of Rochester Institute of Technology, he is a member of the American Society of Cinematographers, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the Television Academy.