best cinematography shots from the aviator

Richardson (seated, wearing red headband) prepares to roll on a crowd scene for Born on the Fourth of July (1989). With Bob, every shot is 100 percent, even if it’s just 36 frames.” He doesn’t do a shot just to knock it off the shot list. His filmography also includes work with directors Scott Hicks (snagging yet another Oscar nomination, for Snow Falling on Cedars), John Sayles, Barry Levinson, Robert De Niro, Ben Affleck, Robert Redford, and Matthew Heineman, among others. He just wrapped his sixth opus with Tarantino the first five racked up three more cinematography nominations from the Academy ( Inglourious Basterds, Django Unchainedand The Hateful Eight). His output with Scorsese includes seven films and two Oscars ( The Aviator and Hugo). With Stone, he shot 11 films and got his first Academy Award nomination ( Platoon) and first win ( JFK). Now, almost 40 years into his career, Richardson occupies a similar position: He’s lauded as a master operator who’s equally adept at expressive lighting, and he’s forged long and fruitful relationships with his own roster of brilliant auteurs, most notably Oliver Stone, Martin Scorsese and Quentin Tarantino. It’s also his collaborative spirit, which led to long and fruitful relationships with such renowned directors as Bernardo Bertolucci, Francis Ford Coppola and Carlos Saura. It’s not just Storaro’s expressionistic lighting and mastery of camera moves that Richardson admires. The fact that Robert Richardson, ASC - the recipient of this year’s ASC Lifetime Achievement Award - counts Vittorio Storaro, ASC, AIC as a big influence is a telling detail. Richardson accepting the ASC Lifetime Achievement Award on February 9, 2019, accompanied by presenter Quentin Tarantino. At right, studying his script, is director Oliver Stone. Framing up on co-stars Michael Douglas and Charlie Sheen, the cinematographer hand-holds the camera for an airplane interior on the set of Wall Street (1987).

Photos by Alex Bailey Sidney Baldwin Keith Bernstein Jaap Buitendijk, SMPSP Phillip Caruso Andrew Cooper, SMPSP François Duhamel, SMPSP Roland Neveu and Zade Rosenthal.

Our 2019 Lifetime Achievement Award honoree continues to demonstrate an uncontainable spirit of cinematic exploration.

Best cinematography shots from the aviator