Person
David Watkin
Camera
- Known for
- Camera
- Born
- Mar 23, 1925
- Died
- Feb 19, 2008
- From
- Margate, Kent, England, UK
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article David Watkin (cinematographer), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Images
Credits
THE BEATLES in HELP!
Hell on Earth: The Desecration & Resurrection of The Devils
One Continuous Take: Kay Mander's Life in Film
Out of Africa
Hamlet
Yentl
Catch-22
Tea with Mussolini
Robin and Marian
The Three Musketeers
Moonstruck
Gloria
Last Rites
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
Diesel Trainride
Lancashire Coast
White Nights
A Delicate Balance