David Watkin
Camera
Awards
Won 1 Academy Award
Academy Awards 1 won
- 1986 Best Cinematography Won Out of Africa
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David Watkin BSC (23 March 1925 – 19 February 2008) was an English cinematographer, an innovator who was among the first directors of photography to experiment heavily with the usage of bounce light as a soft light source. He worked with such film directors as Richard Lester, Peter Brook, Tony Richardson, Mike Nichols, Ken Russell, Franco Zeffirelli, Sidney Lumet and Sydney Pollack.
In 1985, Watkin won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography for his work on Out of Africa. He received lifetime achievement awards in 2004 from the British Society of Cinematographers and the cinematographic-centric Camerimage Film Festival in Łódź, Poland.
In Chariots of Fire, he "helped create one of the most memorable images of 1980s cinema: the opening sequence in which a huddle of young male athletes pounds along the water's edge on a beach" to the film's theme music by Vangelis.
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Filmography
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56 credits
Jesus of Nazareth
This Boy's Life
The Devils
The Three Musketeers
Out of Africa
Moonstruck
Chariots of Fire
Endless Love
Milk Money
The Four Musketeers
Return to Oz
Catch-22
Robin and Marian
White Nights
Memphis Belle
Jane Eyre
Hamlet
Hanover Street
The Good Mother
To the Devil a Daughter
Masquerade
Tea with Mussolini
Diesel Trainride
Yentl
Bogus
How I Won the War
Cuba
Help!
The Charge of the Light Brigade
The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade
Gloria
Critical Care
The Hotel New Hampshire
Night Falls on Manhattan
The Boy Friend
The Object of Beauty
La Cenerentola
Used People
The Knack... and How to Get It
Joseph Andrews
Mahogany
The Bed Sitting Room
Murder on the Moon
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Bopha!
Obsession
Last Rites
Mademoiselle
Sky Bandits
A Delicate Balance
All Forgotten
The Homecoming
Red, White, and Zero
That Summer!
The Signal Engineers
Under Night Streets
Acting
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Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
THE BEATLES in HELP!
Rhythm 'n' Greens
It Is Now Our Time: Peter Sellars’ The Merchant of Venice
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