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- The 8th Academy Awards Memorable Moments Best Picture: Mutiny On The Bounty Hal Mohr became the first, and only, write-in Oscar winner with his win for Best Cinematography for A Midsummer Night’s Dream. This was the last year that write-in votes were allowed for any category.
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The 8th Academy Awards | 1936. Biltmore Bowl of the Biltmore Hotel. Thursday, March 5, 1936. Honoring movies released in 1935.
The 8th Academy Awards to honour films released during 1935 were held on March 5, 1936, at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, California and hosted by AMPAS president Frank Capra. This was the first year in which the awards were called "Oscars".
The Academy Award for Best Cinematography is an Academy Award awarded each year to a cinematographer for work on one particular motion picture.
The 8th Academy Awards Memorable Moments. Best Picture: Mutiny On The Bounty. Hal Mohr became the first, and only, write-in Oscar winner with his win for Best Cinematography for A Midsummer Night’s Dream. This was the last year that write-in votes were allowed for any category.
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award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, located in Beverly Hills, California. It honors outstanding achievement by a cinematographer in a movie from a given year, as determined by the academy’s voting members.
At the inaugural Academy Awards ceremony, in 1929, the award recognized the work in films released from August 1, 1927, to August 1, 1928. The next 5 ceremonies honored work in films released from August to July. Beginning with the 7th ceremony (1935), only work in movies released the previous calendar year was eligible for consideration. In the 9th through 11th ceremonies (1936–38), a special award was given for color cinematography, and from the 12th to the 39th ceremonies (1939–66), except for the 30th ceremony (1957), separate Academy Awards were given for color and black-and-white cinematography. The winning cinematographers are given a gold-plated statuette known as an Oscar.
•1927–28: Charles Rosher and Karl Struss (Sunrise)
•1928–29: Clyde De Vinna (White Shadows in the South Seas)
•1929–30: Joseph T. Rucker and Willard Van Der Veer (With Byrd at the South Pole)
•1930–31: Floyd Crosby (Tabu)
•1931–32: Lee Garmes (Shanghai Express)
•1932–33: Charles Bryant Lang, Jr. (A Farewell to Arms)
•1940: Black-and-White: George Barnes (Rebecca); Color: Georges Périnal (The Thief of Bagdad)
•1941: Black-and-White: Arthur Miller (How Green Was My Valley); Color: Ernest Palmer and Ray Rennahan (Blood and Sand)
•1942: Black-and-White: Joseph Ruttenberg (Mrs. Miniver); Color: Leon Shamroy (The Black Swan)
•1943: Black-and-White: Arthur Miller (The Song of Bernadette); Color: Hal Mohr and W. Howard Greene (Phantom of the Opera)
•1944: Black-and-White: Joseph LaShelle (Laura); Color: Leon Shamroy (Wilson)
•1945: Black-and-White: Harry Stradling (The Picture of Dorian Gray); Color: Leon Shamroy (Leave Her to Heaven)
•1960: Black-and-White: Freddie Francis (Sons and Lovers); Color: Russell Metty (Spartacus)
•1961: Black-and-White: Eugen Shuftan (The Hustler); Color: Daniel L. Fapp (West Side Story)
•1962: Black-and-White: Jean Bourgoin and Walter Wottitz (The Longest Day); Color: Freddie Young (Lawrence of Arabia)
•1963: Black-and-White: James Wong Howe (Hud); Color: Leon Shamroy (Cleopatra)
•1964: Black-and-White: Walter Lassally (Zorba the Greek); Color: Harry Stradling (My Fair Lady)
•1965: Black-and-White: Ernest Laszlo (Ship of Fools); Color: Freddie Young (Doctor Zhivago)
•1980: Geoffrey Unsworth and Ghislain Cloquet (Tess)
•1981: Vittorio Storaro (Reds)
•1982: Billie Williams and Ronnie Taylor (Gandhi)
•1983: Sven Nykvist (Fanny & Alexander)
•1984: Chris Menges (The Killing Fields)
•1985: David Watkin (Out of Africa)
•2000: Peter Pau (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon)
•2001: Andrew Lesnie (The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring)
•2002: Conrad L. Hall (Road to Perdition)
•2003: Russell Boyd (Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World)
•2004: Robert Richardson (The Aviator)
•2005: Dion Beebe (Memoirs of a Geisha)
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Nov 29, 2019 · From 1936 to 1938, a second Academy Award for Best Cinematography was presented as a Special Achievement Award for color cinematography (at the time, a majority of films released each year were shot in black-and-white because of the expense of the color process).
