Film And Television, Director/producer/cinematographer history

Citizen Kane (1941) has always been among the top five in all the respected Best Films of All Time lists, and usually in the first position.

Krasker’s debut as a Director of Photography was in the epic Henry V (1944), directed by Laurence Olivier.

Roger Deakins (1949 – )

He is known for his long track shots, specially in Rashomon (1950), his first of three productions with Kurosawa.

Sven first worked with Bergman when he shot the interior scenes of Sawdust and Tinsel (1953). Bergman is rumored to have said he wanted Sven to photograph all his following films after an impressive 180-degree pan shot he made.

A witty story tells his first work as a cinematographer: he was invited by the director Pierre Schoendoerffer to photograph his film The Devil’s Pass (1958). However, Coutard believed that he was going to shoot production stills and, never having used a film camera before, accepted.

Twenty-nine years old Tarkovsky, still a student in the Russian leading film school (All-Union State Institute of Cinematography), approached him to shoot The Steamroller and the Violin (1960), his diploma film.

Idziak joined the Łódź Film School in 1963, when life in Poland was very hard due to the communism.

His career as a cinematographer―which consists of more than a hundred films―began in his early twenties and lasted until his death in 1976.

Five years later, John Alcott’s use of the Steadicam in The Shining (1980) would innovate camera movements and perpetuate his deserved recognition among the greatest cinematographers.

The first masterpiece he shot was Platoon (1986), still considered one of the best war movies of all times.

Native from Poland, Janusz Kaminski achieved international recognition with Schindler’s List (1993), which has given him seven awards, an oscar included, for Best Cinematography.

Fifty years later, in 2003, he would be considered one of the ten most influential cinematographers of all time by the International Cinematographers Guild.

Gondry’s stunning The Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind (2004) might be the greatest aesthetic achievement of her career.

He died of a heart attack in 2005, a few months after being awarded the American Society of Cinematographers’ International Achievement Award.

A documentary called Cameraman – The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff (2010) dives into the trajectory of this remarkable artist in a very poetic way and is highly recommended.