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In the second year, 1929, there were no nominations at all, although the Academy has a list of unofficial titles that were under consideration by the Board of Judges. In the third year, 1930, films, not cinematographers, were nominated, and the final award did not show the cinematographer's name.
The 1st Academy Awards | 1929. Blossom Room of the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. Thursday, May 16, 1929. Honoring movies released from August 1, 1927 - August 1, 1928.
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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)
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Apr 19, 2024 · From 1929 to 1967, there were separate awards for color and black-and-white cinematography. Floyd Crosby won the award for Tabu in 1931, the last silent film to win in this category. Hal Mohr won the only write-in Academy Award in 1935 for Cleopatra. Rachel Morrison became the first woman to receive a nomination in 2018.
Mar 28, 2021 · The Academy Award for best cinematography is one of the most prestigious honors bestowed each year at the Oscars. The best cinematography Oscar has been around since the inception of the award ceremony but it underwent a great deal of experimentation and evolution in the early years.
Lewis Milestone, winner for Comedy Picture, with presenter Douglas Fairbanks
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[NOTE: Though no specific titles were indicated during the presentation on May 16, 1929, or in the official results from the Central Board of Judges for this honorable mention, Academy records indicate that Mr. Slaughter was most often mentioned in connection with The Jazz Singer.]
