The 92nd Academy Awards- The Oscars- Best Cinematography
Without good cinematography, a movie would not be entertaining to watch at all. The movies with the best cinematography are always remembered for that. Thus, there is an award for the movie with the very best cinematography and we are going to go through the nominations. We have also already covered the nominations for Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, and Best Animated Feature.
The first nomination is already on a few other nomination lists, and that is The Irishman. This epic tells the story of World War II vet Frank Sheeran reflects on his life as a hustler and mob hitman, working alongside many notorious figures, including Jimmy Hoffa, the subject of one of the greatest unsolved mysteries in American history. The way that the cinematography is done makes it all feel more realistic.
Following up on the list is another movie with multiple nominations going for it. Joker sees a comic steadily losing his hold on reality and slowly descending into madness. The movie has already been praised for the incredible acting of Joaquin Phoenix and the story of the film as well. To add to it, the cinematography is one of the things that helped to get it nominated for Best Picture in the first place.
The third film on the nomination list is a movie called The Lighthouse, starring Robert Pattinson and Willem DeFoe. The Lighthouse sees two troubled lighthouse keepers confront epic storms and personal demons on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s. The visuals seen throughout the film give us a sense of what the descent into madness for the two men is like.
Following that we have the movie 1917. The premise of which is that during World War I, two British soldiers are sent on a dangerous mission to stop an attack by the British 7th Division that will result in a massacre by the Germans. Their assignment takes on extra urgency as one of the young soldiers’ brothers is fighting in that Division. The goal of the cinematography in this movie is to, of course, make us experience WWI through the eyes of soldiers who lived it.
The last nominee for best cinematography is Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time… In Hollywood. In the movie, we see Los Angeles in 1969, and aging TV star Rick Dalton and his longtime stunt double Cliff Booth struggle to make their way around an industry and a city they hardly recognize anymore. With excellent cinematography we properly experience the end of the Golden Age of Hollywood.
