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Academy Award for Best Cinematography
The Academy Award for Best Cinematography is an Academy Award awarded each year to a cinematographer for work in one particular motion picture.
In its first year, 1927-28, this award (like others such as the acting awards) was not tied to a specific film; all of the work by the nominated...
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Anthony Dod Mantle
Anthony Dod Mantle, BSC, DFF, (born 1955 in Oxfordshire, England) is an academy award winning British cinematographer notable for his work in digital cinematography. Dod Mantle directed photography on three Dogme 95 films and the first two episodes...
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- 2008
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- Slumdog Millionaire
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Robert Elswit
Robert Elswit, ASC (born April 22, 1950) is an Academy Award-winning American cinematographer. He has had multiple Oscar, BAFTA, and Independent Spirit nominations for several films, including There Will Be Blood. Elswit frequently works with...
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- 2007
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- x Winning work:
- There Will Be Blood
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Guillermo Navarro
Guillermo Navarro, ASC, A.M.C. (born 1955) is an Academy Award-winning Mexican cinematographer. He has worked in Hollywood since 1993 and is a frequent collaborator of Guillermo del Toro and Robert Rodriguez.
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- 2006
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- x Winning work:
- Pan's Labyrinth
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Dion Beebe
Dion Beebe, A.C.S., ASC (born 1968) is an Australian cinematographer. Originally from Brisbane, Australia, his family moved to Cape Town, South Africa in 1972. Dion studied cinematography at the Australian Film Television and Radio School from 1987...
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- x Year:
- 2005
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- Memoirs of a Geisha
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Russell Boyd
Russell Boyd (born April 21, 1944) is an Academy Award-winning Australian cinematographer. He rose to prominence with his highly-praised work on Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975), the first of several collaborations with director Peter Weir. He is also...
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- x Year:
- 2003
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
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Andrew Lesnie
Andrew Lesnie (born 1956) is an Australian cinematographer. Lesnie attended the Australian Film Television and Radio School (AFTRS), graduating in 1979. His first job after graduation was as a cameraman on the Logie Award-winning Australian magazine...
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- x Year:
- 2001
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
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Peter Pau
Peter Pau Tak-Hei (traditional Chinese: 鮑德熹), born 1951 in Hong Kong, is a Hong Kong-based cinematographer, best known to western audiences as the cinematographer in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, for which he won the Best Cinematographer Oscar in...
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- x Year:
- 2000
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
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Conrad L. Hall
Conrad Lafcadio Hall, ASC (June 21, 1926 – January 4, 2003) was an American cinematographer from Papeete, Tahiti, French Polynesia. Named after writers Joseph Conrad and Lafcadio Hearn, he was best known for photographing films, such as Morituri,...
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- x Year:
- 1999
- x Award Winner:
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- American Beauty
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- x Year:
- 1969
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
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- x Year:
- 2002
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- Road to Perdition
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Russell Carpenter
Russell Paul Carpenter, ASC (born December 9, 1950 in Van Nuys, California, U.S.) is an Academy Award-winning American cinematographer. He is most widely known for his collaborations with director James Cameron. An alum of Van Nuys High School, he...
John Seale
John Clement Seale, A.S.C., A.C.S. (born 5 October 1942) is an Australian cinematographer. He won an Oscar for the 1996 film The English Patient.
Seale was born in Warwick, Queensland, Australia, the son of Marjorie Lyndon (née Pool) and Eric...
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- 1996
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- The English Patient
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John Toll
John Toll A.S.C. is a two-time Academy Award-Winning, Cleveland-born American cinematographer.
In 1978 he worked on his first film, Norma Rae, as camera operator. He won back-to-back Academy Awards for Best Cinematography in 1994 and 1995, for the...
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- x Year:
- 1994
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- Legends of the Fall
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- x Year:
- 1995
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- Braveheart
- x Notes/Description:
Janusz Kamiński
Janusz Zygmunt Kamiński, ASC (born June 27, 1959), better known as Janusz Kamiński, is a Polish cinematographer and film director. He has photographed all of Steven Spielberg's films since 1993's Schindler's List.
Kamiński was born in Ziębice,...
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- x Year:
- 2008
- x Award:
- American Society of Cinematographers Award for Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography in Theatrical Releases
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
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- x Year:
- 1993
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- Schindler's List
- x Notes/Description:
- x Year:
- 1998
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- Saving Private Ryan
- x Notes/Description:
Philippe Rousselot
Philippe Rousselot is a French director of photography, born on 4 September 1945 in Briey, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France.
After having studied cinema at l'Ecole Louis Lumière, he graduated in 1966 with, among others, François About, Eduardo Serra, Noël...
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- x Year:
- 1992
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- A River Runs Through It
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Robert Richardson
Robert Bridge Richardson, ASC (born August 27, 1955) is an American cinematographer. He has won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography twice, for his work on JFK and The Aviator. Richardson is a frequent collaborator with director Oliver Stone....
Dean Semler
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- x Year:
- 1990
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- Dances with Wolves
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Peter Biziou
Peter Biziou (born 8 August 1944 in Wales) is a British cinematographer.
Peter Biziou is the son of a special effects cameraman. He began his career in the mid 1960s where he worked on short films by Norman J. Warren and Robert Freeman. In 1973 he...
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- x Year:
- 1988
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- Mississippi Burning
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David Watkin
David Watkin (23 March 1925 – 19 February 2008) was an influential British cinematographer, an innovator who was among the first directors of photography to experiment heavily with the usage of bounce light as a soft light source. He worked with...
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- x Year:
- 1985
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- Out of Africa
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Chris Menges
Chris Menges (born September 15, 1940) is an English cinematographer and film director. He is a member of both the American and British Societies of Cinematographers.
Menges was born in Kington, Herefordshire, the son of composer/conductor Herbert...
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- x Year:
- 1984
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- The Killing Fields
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- x Year:
- 1986
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- The Mission
- x Notes/Description:
Billy Williams
Billy Williams OBE (born 3 June 1929, Walthamstow, London) is a British cinematographer.
Williams was responsible for shooting a number of films, including Women in Love (1969), Gandhi (1982), for which he won an oscar, and On Golden Pond (1981)....
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- x Year:
- 1982
- x Award Winner:
- Ronnie Taylor
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Ronnie Taylor
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- x Year:
- 1982
- x Award Winner:
- Billy Williams
- x Notes/Description:
Ghislain Cloquet
Ghislain Cloquet (18 April, 1924 – 2 November 1981) was a Belgian-born French cinematographer. Cloquet was born in Antwerp, Belgium in 1924. He went to Paris to study and became a French citizen in 1940.
Cloquet is known for his work with Robert...
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- x Year:
- 1980
- x Award Winner:
- Geoffrey Unsworth
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Vittorio Storaro
Vittorio Storaro, A.S.C., A.I.C. (born 24 June 1940 in Rome) is a three-time Academy Award winning Italian cinematographer.
The son of a film projectionist, Storaro began studying photography at the age of 11, and went on to formal cinematography...
Néstor Almendros
Néstor Almendros, A.S.C. (October 30, 1930 – March 4, 1992) was a Spanish cinematographer.
One of the highest appraised contemporary cinematographers, Néstor Almendros Cuyas was born in Barcelona, Spain, but moved to Cuba at age 18 to join his...
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- 1978
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- x Winning work:
- Days of Heaven
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Vilmos Zsigmond
Vilmos Zsigmond, A.S.C. (born June 16, 1930) is an Academy Award winning Hungarian-American cinematographer.
Zsigmond was born in Szeged, Hungary, the son of Bozena (née Illichman), an administrator, and Vilmos Zsigmond, a celebrated soccer player...
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- x Year:
- 1977
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- x Winning work:
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind
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Haskell Wexler
Haskell Wexler, A.S.C. (born February 6, 1922 in Chicago, Illinois) is an Academy Award-winning American cinematographer, and a film producer and director. Wexler was judged to be one of film history's ten most influential cinematographers in a...
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- x Year:
- 1976
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- Bound for Glory
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- x Year:
- 1966
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
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John Alcott
John Alcott, B.S.C. (1931 London – 28 July 1986) was an Oscar winning cinematographer best known for his four collaborations with director Stanley Kubrick: 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), for which he took over as lighting cameraman from Geoffrey...
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- x Year:
- 1975
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- Barry Lyndon
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Joseph F. Biroc
Joseph Francis Biroc, A.S.C. (February 12, 1903 - September 7, 1996) was a highly successful film and television cinematographer. Biroc, born in New York City, began working in film at Paragon Studios in Fort Lee, New Jersey. After working for about...
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- x Year:
- 1974
- x Award Winner:
- Fred J. Koenekamp
- x Winning work:
- The Towering Inferno
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Fred J. Koenekamp
Fred J. Koenekamp, A.S.C. (born November 11, 1922) is a U.S. cinematographer. He is the son of cinematographer Hans F. Koenekamp.
He worked in television and feature films from the 1960s. He was nominated for an Oscar for Patton (1970) and "The...
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- x Year:
- 1974
- x Award Winner:
- Joseph F. Biroc
- x Winning work:
- The Towering Inferno
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Sven Nykvist
Sven Vilhem Nykvist (3 December 1922 – 20 September 2006) was a two-time Academy Award winning Swedish cinematographer. He worked on over 120 films, but is known especially for his work with director Ingmar Bergman. He won Academy Awards for his...
Geoffrey Unsworth
Geoffrey Unsworth OBE, BSC (1914, Leigh, Greater Manchester – 28 October 1978, Britanny) was a British cinematographer who worked on nearly 90 feature films spanning over more than 40 years.
After working as a camera operator on films for Michael...
Oswald Morris
Oswald Norman Morris OBE, DFC, AFC, BSC (born November 22, 1915, Ruislip) is a British cinematographer. Known to his colleagues by the nicknames "Os" or "Ossie", Morris' film cinematography career spanned six decades.
Morris grew up in what was then...
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- x Year:
- 1971
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- Fiddler on the Roof
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Pasqualino De Santis
Pasqualino De Santis (24 April 1927 - 23 June 1996) was an Academy Award winning Italian cinematographer.
Born at Fondi, he was the brother of film director Giuseppe De Santis. They worked together in Non c'è pace tra gli ulivi, Uomini e lupi (1956)...
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- x Year:
- 1968
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- Romeo and Juliet
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Ted Moore
Ted Moore, B.S.C. (August 7, 1914 - 1987) was a cinematographer and camera operator on nearly fifty films, and is probably most famous for his work on seven of the James Bond films in the 1960s and early 1970s.
Born in South Africa, Moore moved to...
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- x Year:
- 1966
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- A Man for All Seasons
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Ernest Laszlo
Ernest Laszlo, A.S.C. (April 23 in Budapest, Hungary, 1898–January 6, 1984) was an Academy Award-winning Hungarian-American cinematographer for over 60 films, and was known for his frequent collaborations with directors Robert Aldrich and Stanley...
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- x Year:
- 1965
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- Ship of Fools
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Freddie Young
Freddie Young OBE, BSC (9 October 1902 - 1 December 1998), (sometimes credited as Frederick A. Young) was one of Britain's most distinguished and influential cinematographers. He is probably best known for his work on David Lean's films Lawrence of...
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- x Year:
- 1965
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- Doctor Zhivago
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- x Year:
- 1970
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- Ryan's Daughter
- x Notes/Description:
Walter Lassally
Walter Lassally (born 18 December 1926) is a German-born British cinematographer. He was closely associated with the Free cinema movement in the 1950s, and the British New Wave in the early 1960s. He also worked with Greek filmmaker Michael...
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- x Year:
- 1964
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- Zorba the Greek
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Jean Bourgoin
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- x Year:
- 1962
- x Award Winner:
- Walter Wottitz
- x Winning work:
- The Longest Day
- x Notes/Description:
Walter Wottitz
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- x Year:
- 1962
- x Award Winner:
- Jean Bourgoin
- x Winning work:
- The Longest Day
- x Notes/Description:
Fred A. Young
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- x Year:
- 1962
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- Lawrence of Arabia
- x Notes/Description:
Eugen Shuftan
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- x Year:
- 1961
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- The Hustler
- x Notes/Description:
Daniel L. Fapp
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- x Year:
- 1961
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- West Side Story
- x Notes/Description:
Freddie Francis
Frederick William (Freddie) Francis./ (22 December 1917 – 17 March 2007) was an English cinematographer and film director.
He achieved his greatest successes as a cinematographer, including winning two Academy Awards, for Sons and Lovers (1960) and...
Russell Metty
Russell Metty, A.S.C. (20 September 1906 – 28 April 1978) was an American cinematographer, who worked on many films during the forties, fifties and sixties.
Metty career began around 1925 as an assistant with Standard Film Laboratory, who was then...
Sam Leavitt
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- x Year:
- 1958
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- The Defiant Ones
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Jack Hildyard
Jack Hildyard, B.S.C. (17 March 1908, London—September 1990, London) was a British cinematographer who worked on more than 80 films during his career. He made several films with David Lean including The Sound Barrier (1952) and Hobson's Choice (1954...
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- x Year:
- 1957
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- The Bridge on the River Kwai
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Lionel Lindon
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- x Year:
- 1956
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- Around the World in Eighty Days
- x Notes/Description:
James Wong Howe
James Wong Howe, A.S.C. (Chinese 黃宗霑; pinyin: Huáng Zōngzhān) (August 28, 1899 - July 12, 1976) is considered one of the greatest American cinematographers. He has over 130 films to his credit. A master at the use of shadow, he was one of the first...
Robert Burks
Robert Burks, A.S.C. (4 July 1909 – 13 May 1968) was an American cinematographer known for being proficient in virtually every genre and equally at home with black-and-white or color.
Burks began his career as a special effects technician in the...
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- x Year:
- 1955
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- To Catch a Thief
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Boris Kaufman
Boris Abelevich Kaufman, A.S.C. (Russian: Борис Абелевич Кауфман; August 24, 1897 – June 24, 1980) was an Oscar-winning (1954) cinematographer. He was the younger brother of famous filmmakers Dziga Vertov (Denis Kaufman) and Mikhail Kaufman.
Kaufman...
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- x Year:
- 1954
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- On the Waterfront
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Milton R. Krasner
Milton R. Krasner, A.S.C. (February 17, 1901 – July 17, 1988) was a film cinematographer. He won an Academy Award for Three Coins in the Fountain (1954).
Working in films since the 1930s, director of photography Krasner is remembered for his work in...
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- x Year:
- 1954
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- Three Coins in the Fountain
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Burnett Guffey
Burnett Guffey, A.S.C. (May 26, 1905 - May 30, 1983 in Del Rio, Tennessee) was an American cinematographer.
He won two Academy Awards: From Here to Eternity (1953) and Bonnie and Clyde (1967).
While still a teenager, the future Academy Award-winning...
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- x Year:
- 1953
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- From Here to Eternity
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- x Year:
- 1967
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- Bonnie and Clyde
- x Notes/Description:
Archie Stout
Archie Stout, A.S.C. was a second unit photographer whose career spanned from 1921 to 1954. In a career largely confined to B movies, he provided cinematography assistance on such films as the original version of The Ten Commandments (1923) and...
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- x Year:
- 1952
- x Award Winner:
- Winton Hoch
- x Winning work:
- The Quiet Man
- x Notes/Description:
William C. Mellor
William C. Mellor, A.S.C. (29 June 1903 – 30 April 1963) was a cinematographer who worked at Paramount, MGM and 20th Century Fox during a career that spanned three decades.
After earning his stripes on a string of B-movies in the 1930s, he first...
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- x Year:
- 1951
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- A Place in the Sun
- x Notes/Description:
- x Year:
- 1959
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- The Diary of Anne Frank
- x Notes/Description:
Alfred Gilks
Alfred Gilks (December 1891 - September 1970) was a cinematographer from 1920 through to 1956. He worked on many silent films in the 1920s, his most productive period. He also worked on well known sound films such as Ruggles of Red Gap in 1935,...
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- x Year:
- 1951
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- An American in Paris
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Robert Krasker
Robert Krasker, A.S.C. (21 August 1913 - 16 August 1981) was a gifted cinematographer, who worked on more than fifty films in his career.
He was born in Perth, Australia and travelled to England in 1932 via photographic studios in Paris and Dresden,...
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- x Year:
- 1950
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- The Third Man
- x Notes/Description:
Robert Surtees
Robert L. Surtees, A.S.C. (August 9, 1906 - January 5, 1985) was an American cinematographer who won Academy Awards three times, for the films King Solomon's Mines, The Bad and the Beautiful and the 1959 version of Ben Hur.
His son Bruce is also a...
Paul C. Vogel
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- x Year:
- 1949
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- Battleground
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Winton Hoch
Winton C. Hoch, A.S.C. (born July 31, 1905 in Storm Lake, Iowa; died following a stroke on March 20, 1979) in Santa Monica was originally a lab technician who contributed to the development of Technicolor before becoming a cinematographer in 1936....
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- x Year:
- 1949
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
- x Notes/Description:
- x Year:
- 1952
- x Award Winner:
- Archie Stout
- x Winning work:
- The Quiet Man
- x Notes/Description:
- x Year:
- 1948
- x Award Winner:
- Joseph Valentine,
- William V. Skall
- x Winning work:
- Joan of Arc
- x Notes/Description:
William H. Daniels
William H. Daniels, A.S.C. (December 1, 1901 - June 14, 1970) was an Academy Award-winning film cinematographer best known as Greta Garbo's personal lensman. He worked regularly with director Erich von Stroheim.
His career as a cinematographer...
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- x Year:
- 1948
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- The Naked City
- x Notes/Description:
