1901–1988 · Japan · Cinematographer
Asakazu Nakai
Kurosawa's camera for rain, mud and vast colour battlefields.
Seven Samurai, 1954Source: Wikipedia
CINEMATOGRAPHER · 1915–2014 · UNITED KINGDOM
Oswald Morris
Inventive colour treatments across six decades.
- Born
- 1915
- Died
- 2014
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Field
- Cinematographer
KNOWN FOR
- 1971Fiddler on the Roof
- 1952Moulin Rouge
- 1956Moby Dick
- 1962Lolita
WHY THEY MATTER
Won the Academy Award for Fiddler on the Roof; nominated for Oliver! and The Wiz.
THE LIFE
Morris was raised in Middlesex and started as an unpaid gofer for Michael Powell at Wembley Studios after leaving school in 1932. He rose through clapper boy and camera assistant to cameraman, with a career that spanned six decades. He shot John Huston's Moulin Rouge and Moby Dick and Stanley Kubrick's Lolita. He was nominated for Academy Awards for Oliver!, Fiddler on the Roof and The Wiz, and won for Fiddler on the Roof.
Also born in 1900–1929
1901–1996 · United States · Cinematographer
John Alton
Hard shadows and pools of light that defined film noir.
T-Men, 1947Source: Wikipedia
1901–1974 · United States · Cinematographer
Leon Shamroy
Bold Technicolor of the Fox studio era.
Leave Her to Heaven, 1945Source: Wikipedia
1902–1998 · United Kingdom · Cinematographer
Freddie Young
Sweeping, lush widescreen colour.
Lawrence of Arabia, 1962Source: Wikipedia
1902–2000 · Italy · Cinematographer
Otello Martelli
Neorealist grit that opened up into Fellini's nocturnal spectacle.
La Dolce Vita, 1960Source: Wikipedia
1904–1948 · United States · Cinematographer
Gregg Toland
Deep focus, with near and far planes sharp at once.
Citizen Kane, 1941Source: Wikipedia