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 times, winning four. In addition, he won the 1954 Golden Globe Award for his camera work on the film Brigadoon. Born into a Jewish family in St. Petersburg, Russia, Joseph Ruttenberg was ten years old... more

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 times, winning four. In addition, he won the 1954 Golden Globe Award for his camera work on the film Brigadoon. Born into a Jewish family in St. Petersburg, Russia, Joseph Ruttenberg was ten years old when his family emigrated to the United States, settling in Boston, Massachusetts. As a young man he went to work at the Boston Globe newspaper as a photojournalist but left in 1915 to accept a job with the Fox Film Corporation in New York City to train as a cinematographer. Two years later he was behind the camera for his first silent film--The Painted Madonna (1917)--in what would be a remarkably successful career. In the late 1920s Ruttenberg went to work for Paramount Pictures in New York. His first talkie assignment was The Struggle ... less