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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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Charles Rosher
Charles Rosher, A.S.C. (November 17, 1885 - January 15, 1974) was a two-time Academy Award-winning cinematographer who worked from the early days of silent films through the 1950s. Born in London, he was the first cinematographer to receive an...
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- 1928
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- x Year:
- 1946
- x Award Winner:
- Arthur E. Arling,
- Leonard Smith
- x Winning work:
- The Yearling
- x Notes/Description:
Clyde De Vinna
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- x Year:
- 1929
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- White Shadows in the South Seas
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Joseph T. Rucker
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- x Year:
- 1930
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- With Byrd at the South Pole
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Floyd Crosby
Floyd Delafield Crosby, A.S.C. (December 12, 1899 – 30 September 1985) was an award winning American cinematographer.
Crosby was born and raised in West Philadelphia, the son of Julia Floyd (née Delafield) and Frederick Van Schoonhoven Crosby. In...
Lee Garmes
Lee Garmes, A.S.C. (May 27, 1898 - August 31, 1978) was an award-winning American cinematographer. During his career, he worked with directors Howard Hawks, Max Ophuls, Josef von Sternberg, Alfred Hitchcock, King Vidor, Nicholas Ray and Henry...
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- 1932
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- Shanghai Express
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Charles Lang
Charles Bryant Lang, Jr., A.S.C. (July 4, 1901, Bluff, Utah – April 3, 1998) was an Oscar-winning American film cinematographer.
Early in his career he worked with the Akeley camera, a gyroscope-mounted "pancake" camera designed by Carl Akeley for...
Victor Milner
Victor Milner, A.S.C. (December 15, 1893 - October 29, 1972) was an American cinematographer. He was nominated for ten cinematography Academy Awards, winning once for 1934's Cleopatra. Milner worked on more than 130 films, including dramas (Broken...
Hal Mohr
Hal Mohr, A.S.C. (August 2, 1894, San Francisco – May 10, 1974 in Santa Monica, California) was a famed movie cinematographer. He is one of only six cinematographers to have a "Star" on the famous Hollywood Walk of Fame, the others being J. Peverell...
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- x Year:
- 1935
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
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- x Year:
- 1943
- x Award Winner:
- W. Howard Greene
- x Winning work:
- Phantom of the Opera (Color)
- x Notes/Description:
Gaetano Gaudio
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- x Year:
- 1936
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- Anthony Adverse
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Karl Freund
Karl W. Freund, A.S.C. (January 16, 1890-May 3, 1969) was an Oscar-winning German cinematographer and film director.
Born in Königinhof, Bohemia, his career began in 1905 when, at age 15, he got a job as an assistant projectionist for a film company...
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- x Year:
- 1937
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- x Winning work:
- The Good Earth
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Joseph Ruttenberg
Joseph Ruttenberg, A.S.C. (July 4, 1889 - May 1, 1983) was a photojournalist and Academy Award-winning cinematographer.
Ruttenberg was accomplished winning accolades. At MGM, Ruttenberg was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Cinematography ten...
Gregg Toland
Gregg Toland, A.S.C. (May 29, 1904 - September 26, 1948) was a highly influential American cinematographer noted for his innovative use of lighting and techniques such as deep focus, an example of which can be found in his work on Orson Welles'...
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- x Year:
- 1939
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- Wuthering Heights (Black-and-White)
- x Notes/Description:
Ernest Haller
Ernest Haller, A.S.C. also credited as Ernie B. Haller, (31 May 1896 - 21 October 1970), was an American cinematographer.
Born in Los Angeles, California, Haller joined Biograph Studios as an actor in 1914, then began to freelance as a...
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- x Year:
- 1939
- x Award Winner:
- Ray Rennahan
- x Winning work:
- Gone with the Wind (Color)
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George Barnes
George S. Barnes, A.S.C. (October 16, 1892 – May 30, 1953) was an American cinematographer from the era of silent films to the early 1950s. Over the course of his career, he was nominated for an Academy Award five times, including his work on The...
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- x Year:
- 1940
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- Rebecca (Black-and-White)
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Georges Périnal
Georges Périnal (b. 1897, Paris - d. 23 April 1965, London) was a French cinematographer.
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- x Year:
- 1940
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- The Thief of Bagdad
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Ernest Palmer
Ernest Palmer (born in Kansas City, Missouri, December 6, 1885; died in Pacific Palisades, California, February 22, 1978) was a Hollywood cinematographer for more than 160 films. His earliest known credit was for a 1912 adaptation of Ivanhoe.
In...
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- x Year:
- 1941
- x Award Winner:
- Ray Rennahan
- x Winning work:
- Blood and Sand
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Ray Rennahan
Ray Rennahan, A.S.C. (May 1, 1896 in Las Vegas, Nevada – May 19, 1980 in Tarzana, California) was a movie cinematographer.
For his work in movies, he became one of the only six cinematographers to have a "Star" on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The...
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- x Year:
- 1941
- x Award Winner:
- Ernest Palmer
- x Winning work:
- Blood and Sand
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- x Year:
- 1939
- x Award Winner:
- Ernest Haller
- x Winning work:
- Gone with the Wind (Color)
- x Notes/Description:
Leon Shamroy
Leon Shamroy, A.S.C. (16 July 1901, New York City – 7 July 1974, Los Angeles) was an American film cinematographer. Together with Charles Lang, he holds the record for most number of Academy Award nominations for Cinematography. Throughout his five...
W. Howard Greene
William Howard Greene (August 16, 1895 - February 28, 1956) was an Academy Award winning cinematographer. He was born in Connecticut and died in Los Angeles.
Greene, sometimes billed as William H. Greene and W. Howard Greene, was a cinematographer...
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- x Year:
- 1943
- x Winning work:
- Phantom of the Opera (Color)
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Joseph LaShelle
Joseph LaShelle, A.S.C. (July 9, 1900 - August 20, 1989) was a Los Angeles born film cinematographer.
He won an Academy Award for Laura (1944), and was nominated eight additional times.
LaShelle's first job in the film industry was as an assistant...
Harry Stradling
Harry Stradling Sr., A.S.C. (1 September 1901-14 February 1970) was an Academy Award-winning an American cinematographer with over 130 films to his credit.
His son Harry Stradling Jr. is also a cinematographer.
Stradling was born in Newark, New...
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- x Year:
- 1945
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- The Picture of Dorian Gray
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- x Year:
- 1964
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- My Fair Lady
- x Notes/Description:
Leonard Smith
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- x Year:
- 1946
- x Award Winner:
- Charles Rosher,
- Arthur E. Arling
- x Winning work:
- The Yearling
- x Notes/Description:
Arthur E. Arling
Arthur E. Arling, A.S.C. (September 19, 1906 – October 16, 1991) was a Hollywood cameraman and cinematographer. His early work included 1939's Gone with the Wind and 1946's The Yearling, for which he won a joint Oscar which he shared with Charles...
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- x Year:
- 1946
- x Award Winner:
- Charles Rosher,
- Leonard Smith
- x Winning work:
- The Yearling
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Jack Cardiff
Jack Cardiff, OBE (18 September 1914 – 22 April 2009) was a British cinematographer, director and photographer.
His career spanned the development of cinema, from silent film, through early experiments in Technicolor to filmmaking in the 21st...
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- x Year:
- 1947
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- Black Narcissus
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- x Year:
- 1961
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- Sons and Lovers
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Guy Green
Guy Green OBE (November 15, 1913 – September 15, 2005) was an English film director, screenwriter, and cinematographer. In 1946 he won an Academy Award as cinematographer on the film of Great Expectations. In 2002 Green was given a Lifetime...
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- x Year:
- 1947
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- Great Expectations
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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
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William V. Skall
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- x Year:
- 1948
- x Award Winner:
- Joseph Valentine,
- Winton Hoch
- x Winning work:
- Joan of Arc
- x Notes/Description:
Joseph Valentine
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- x Year:
- 1948
- x Award Winner:
- Winton Hoch,
- William V. Skall
- x Winning work:
- Joan of Arc
- x Notes/Description:
Arthur Miller
Arthur Asher Miller (October 17, 1915 – February 10, 2005) was an American playwright and essayist. He was a prominent figure in American theatre, writing dramas that include awards-winning plays such as All My Sons, Death of a Salesman, and The...
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
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- 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:
Paul C. Vogel
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- x Year:
- 1949
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- Battleground
- x Notes/Description:
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...
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
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- 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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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:
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
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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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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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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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Lionel Lindon
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- x Year:
- 1956
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- Around the World in Eighty Days
- x Notes/Description:
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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Sam Leavitt
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- x Year:
- 1958
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- The Defiant Ones
- 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...
Daniel L. Fapp
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- x Year:
- 1961
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- West Side Story
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Eugen Shuftan
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- x Year:
- 1961
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- The Hustler
- x Notes/Description:
Jean Bourgoin
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- x Year:
- 1962
- x Award Winner:
- Walter Wottitz
- 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:
Walter Wottitz
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- x Year:
- 1962
- x Award Winner:
- Jean Bourgoin
- x Winning work:
- The Longest Day
- 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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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:
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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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
- x Notes/Description:
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...
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
- x Notes/Description:
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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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
- x Notes/Description:
