95th Oscars: Best Cinematography

[Tim Tyler]

Congratulations to James Friend!

WINNER

• James Friend - ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT

NOMINEES

• Darius Khondji - BARDO, FALSE CHRONICLE OF A HANDFUL OF TRUTHS
• Mandy Walker - ELVIS
• Roger Deakins - EMPIRE OF LIGHT
• Florian Hoffmeister - TÁR

 

 

 

 

[Stephen Perera]

great film and worth winner

[Agustin Saavedra Suau]

This film was a great surprise. How they made good use of Open Gate 65 digital format in the Alexa, the latitud is has when pushed in high ISOs during the shoot of this film, the election of lenses with vintage character and how they exposed the image to make good use of DaVinci Resolve in post. Using different exposure curves for day and night. It looks like film. Remember when Fincher started to use digital cameras with this scope, and soon Nicolas Winding Refn, even saying in multiple interviews that the thing is about how you film in digital sensors. Claudio  Miranda says the same. Obviously when it comes to the ultimate projection quality 15 perf 70 mm IMAX is the thing, and you can feel the same with 35mm film when you see  a Chivo-Malik feature films  (with all those backlight atmospheric dynamic wide shots). But what is interesting is how filmmakers are mastering digital so they can convey a pretty solid look that can take the story to another level. And for this reason I feel that ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT is a solid winner .