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Douglas Koch is a Canadian cinematographer who has won honours at the Canadian Screen Awards and Canadian Music Video Awards.
Koch is from Vancouver and studied film at Ryerson Polytechnic Institute in Toronto, finishing in 1983. He went on to shoot music videos for artists such as Anne Murray and Sarah McLachlan, winning a cinematography award at the Canadian Music Video Awards in 1994 for "And if Venice Is Sinking".
He was nominated for the Genie Award for Best Cinematography for I've Heard the Mermaids Singing (1987) and Last Night (1998), as well as for the Canadian Society of Cinematographers Award for Best Cinematography in a Theatrical Feature for Last Night. In 2015, he won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Photography in a Comedy Program or Series for HBO Canada and Bell Media's episode "The Three Sisters" in the TV series Sensitive Skin.