Originally from Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, his family moved to Cape Town, South Africa, in 1972.
Dion studied cinematography at the Australian Film, Television and Radio School from 1987 to 1989.
[citation needed] Beebe was nominated for an Academy Award and a BAFTA for his work on Rob Marshall's Chicago, and won the 2006 Academy Award for his work on the director's later Memoirs of a Geisha.
He is known for his use of stylized, highly saturated colour palettes and for his experimental use of high-speed digital video on Michael Mann's Collateral (for which he won a BAFTA for Best Cinematography) and Miami Vice.
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