Bodrov wanted to enter the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography, but his father explained to him that " cinema is a passion and if you don't have it you should wait for it or forget about it ".

He was elected into the state assembly of Andhra Pradesh in 1978 as a member of the Congress Party, and he almost immediately became the minister of technical education and Cinematography in T Anjaiah's cabinet, making him the state's youngest assembly member and youngest minister at 28.

His work on As Tears Go By ( 1988 ), the directorial debut of Wong Kar-wai, earned him his first Hong Kong Film Award nomination for Best Cinematography.

Von Sternberg allowed him credit for his work on The Devil is a Woman ( 1935 ), and the two shared a Venice Film Festival award for " Best Cinematography " in 1935.

Quinn has collaborated with director Mira Nair on five projects, including Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love, Monsoon Wedding, Vanity Fair, and Hysterical Blindness, which earned him a nomination for the Emmy Award for Best Cinematography for a Miniseries or Movie.

Additional credits include 2x4, ( which won him the Cinematography Award at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival ), Vanya on 42nd Street, Leaving Las Vegas, One True Thing, In America, Cold Creek Manor, The Lucky Ones, Rachel Getting Married, The Private Lives of Pippa Lee and The Reluctant Fundamentalist ( 2012 ).

* Academy Awards: Oscar ; Best Black-and-White Cinematography, Gregg Toland ; Best Special Effects, R. T. Layton ( photographic ), Ray Binger ( photographic ) and Thomas T. Moulton ( sound ); Best Film Editing, Sherman Todd ; Best Original Score, Richard Hageman ; Best Picture, John Ford ; Best Screenplay Writing, Dudley Nichols ; 1941.

Spellbound won the Academy Award for Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture, and was nominated for Best Actor in a Supporting Role ( Michael Chekhov ); Best Cinematography, Black-and-White ; Best Director ; Best Effects, Special Effects ; and Best Picture.

The film won four Academy Awards: Best Cinematography ; Best Original Score for a Motion Picture ( not a Musical ); Best Music, Song ( Burt Bacharach and Hal David for " Raindrops Keep Fallin ' on My Head "); and Best Writing, Story and Screenplay Based on Material Not Previously Published or Produced.

It won Academy Awards for Best Actress in a Supporting Role ( Gloria Grahame ); Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black-and-White ( Cedric Gibbons ; Edward Carfagno, Edwin B. Willis ; F. Keogh Gleason ); Best Cinematography, Black-and-White ; Best Costume Design, Black-and-White and Best Writing, Screenplay.

* Academy Awards: Oscar, Best Cinematography, Black-and-White, Lionel Lindon ; Best Director, Robert Wise ; Best Film Editing, William Hornbeck ; Best Sound, Gordon E. Sawyer ( Samuel Goldwyn SSD ); Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium.

The film picked up the following awards: Best Film ( awarded to producers Anthony Anderson and Jan Chapman ); Best Direction ( Cate Shortland ); Best Original Screenplay ( Cate Shortland ); Best Actress in a Leading Role ( Abbie Cornish ); Best Actor in a Leading Role ( Sam Worthington ); Best Actress in a Supporting Role ( Lynette Curran ); Best Actor in a Supporting Role ( Erik Thomson ); Best Editing ( Scott Gray ); Best Cinematography ( Robert Humphreys, A. C. S.

Somersault was also a big winner at the 2004 Film Critics Circle of Australia ( FCCA ) Annual Awards where it picked up five awards: Best Film ; Best Director ( Cate Shortland ); Best Actress ( Abbie Cornish ); Best Cinematography ( Robert Humphreys ); Best Actress in a Supporting Role ( Lynette Curran ).

Hush ... Hush, Sweet Charlotte received Academy Award nominations for Best Supporting Actress ( Agnes Moorehead ); Best Art Direction ( Black-and-White ) ( William Glasgow Art Direction, Raphael Bretton Set Decoration ); Best Black-and-White Cinematography ( Joseph Biroc ); Best Costume Design Black-and-White ( Norma Koch ); Best Film Editing ( Michael Luciano ); Best Original Score ( Frank DeVol ); and Best Song (" Hush ... Hush, Sweet Charlotte ") Frank DeVol ( Music ), Mack David ( Lyrics ).

It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Cinematography, but received generally mixed reviews during its theatrical run, though it has since been hailed as one of the best films of the decade.

Cinematography, however, has a temporal aspect ( see persistence of vision ), unlike still photography, which is purely a single still image.

He has been heralded as the " Father of Cinematography " since 1930.

Le Prince's disappearance allowed Thomas Edison to take the credit for the invention of motion pictures, but he has been heralded as ' The Father of Cinematography ', in current times.

Glideascope is a London based downtempo / trip-hop artist and producer, who has pioneered a direction in the genre of downtempo music which he terms ' Audio Cinematography '.

Prieto not only shot Brokeback Mountain, for which he has garnered an Academy Award nomination for Best Cinematography, but appeared in a cameo role within the film as a Mexican gigolo whom Jake Gyllenhaal's character, Jack Twist, meets.

The kobza revival however, is impeded by the absence of museum specimens: with the exceptions of a unique surviving 17th century kobza at the Muzeum Narodowe in Kraków and a 19th century kobza, which has been refurbished as a bandura, at the Museum of Theater and Cinematography, in Kiev ; almost all evidence is entirely iconographic and some photos from the 19th century.

He graduated in 1984 from the Caragiale Academy of Theatrical Arts and Cinematography ( UNATC ) in Bucharest, where he has also taught as a professor.

He has also received the ASC Award for Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography for a Miniseries.

A graduate of Cinematography at the famed Lodz Film School in Poland, Taczanowski has been the Director of Photography on nineteen feature films and two television series.

His film Plácido was nominated in 1961 for the Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film, Gold Medal for Fine Art ( Medalla de Oro de las Bellas Artes ) in 1981, Spanish National Cinematography Prize ( Premio Nacional de Cinematografía ) in 1980, and has been granted with the Italian Commendatore Order.

( born November 4, 1946 ) is an American cinematographer who has won the Independent Spirit Award for Best Cinematography twice, for Wild at Heart and Night on Earth.

The movie won the Academy Award for Best Actor ( Maximilian Schell ) and Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium, and was nominated for Best Actor in a Leading Role ( Spencer Tracy ), Best Actor in a Supporting Role ( Montgomery Clift ), Best Actress in a Supporting Role ( Judy Garland ), Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black-and-White ( Rudolph Sternad, George Milo ), Best Cinematography, Black-and-White, Best Costume Design, Black-and-White, Best Director, Best Film Editing and Best Picture.

Cinematography was key during the silent movie era-no sound apart from background music, no dialogue-the films depended on lighting, acting and set.

Ernest Haller, who had won the 1939 Oscar for Best Color Cinematography on the movie Gone with the Wind, served as director of photography for the show.

Frank Herbert's Dune won two Emmy Awards in 2001 for Cinematography and Visual effects in a miniseries / movie, as well as being nominated for a third Emmy for Sound editing.

The movie won a Cinematography Award in 2003 from the Long Beach International Film Festival.

Graduates include: Isidore Mankofsky, Cinematography for The Muppet Movie and Somewhere in Time ; Dominick Palmer, Cinematography on the TV series M * A * S * H ; Robert Legato, Academy Award winner for Best Effects ( Digital Domain ) on the movie Titanic, Visual Effects Supervisor for The Aviator and Visual Effects on Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone ; and most recently, graduate Boris Undorf, Best Cinematography at Visionfest for his film Sonata.

The movie was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Actor in a Supporting Role ( Akim Tamiroff ), Best Cinematography and Best Music, Score.

* Mauro Fiore, class of 1984, Cinematographer In 2010, Fiore won the Academy-Award for Cinematography for the movie " Avatar.

The movie also received Oscar nominations for Art Direction-Set Decoration ( Black-and-White ) ( Robert Luthardt, Edward G. Boyle ), Best Cinematography ( Black-and-White ), and Best Writing, Story and Screenplay.

The movie earned three Academy Award nominations: Best Sound ( John Livadary ), Best Cinematography ( Black-and-White ) and Best Supporting Actor by J. Carrol Naish for his role as an Italian prisoner.

Howe was nominated for an Academy Award in 1944 in the " Best Cinematography: Black-and-White " category for his work on the movie Air Force, which nomination he shared with Elmer Dyer, A. S. C., and Charles A. Marshall.

Digital cinematography's acceptance was cemented in 2009 when Slumdog Millionaire became the first movie shot mainly in digital to be awarded the Academy Award for Best Cinematography and the highest grossing movie in the history of cinema, Avatar, not only was shot on digital cameras as well, but also made the main revenues at the box office no longer by film, but digital projection.

Cinematography uses a rotary disc shutter in movie cameras, a continuously spinning disc which conceals the image with a reflex mirror during the intermittent motion between frame exposure.

The movie was nominated for three Oscars, for Best Cinematography ( Black-and-White ), Best Film Editing & Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic Picture.

Even though Lee Garmes was awarded the Academy Award for Best Cinematography, according to Dietrich, it was Sternberg who was responsible for most of it.