David Watkin
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.
Filmography (25)
Gloria
Tea with Mussolini
Night Falls on Manhattan
Critical Care
Jane Eyre
Bogus
Milk Money
This Boy's Life
Hamlet
Memphis Belle
The Good Mother
Moonstruck
Return to Oz
Out of Africa
White Nights
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
Yentl
Chariots of Fire
Robin and Marian
The Four Musketeers
The Three Musketeers
The Devils
Catch-22
The Bed Sitting Room
