Haskell Wexler: “He was the first cinematographer in over 35 years to receive a star on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame." Haskell Wexler, who has died today at the age of 93, was considered one of the industry’s most important and influential cinematographers.
He photographed a wide range of films that earned him five Academy Award nominations and two Oscars for Best Cinematography for Mike Nichols’ Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf in 1966 and a decade later for Hal Ashby’s Bound For Glory. He also photographed the Oscar-winning short-subject documentary Interviews With My Lai Veterans in 1971.
His Academy Award nominations came for his work on his first feature documentary, The Living City; a short film, T for Tumbleweed; Milos Forman’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest; John Sayle’s Matewan; and Ron Shelton’s Huey Long biopic Blaze.
Born in Chicago, Wexler attended the University of California,...
He photographed a wide range of films that earned him five Academy Award nominations and two Oscars for Best Cinematography for Mike Nichols’ Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf in 1966 and a decade later for Hal Ashby’s Bound For Glory. He also photographed the Oscar-winning short-subject documentary Interviews With My Lai Veterans in 1971.
His Academy Award nominations came for his work on his first feature documentary, The Living City; a short film, T for Tumbleweed; Milos Forman’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest; John Sayle’s Matewan; and Ron Shelton’s Huey Long biopic Blaze.
Born in Chicago, Wexler attended the University of California,...
- 12/27/2015
- by Richard Mowe
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
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