Haskell Wexler: 2011 AFF Cinematography Award Recipient
We are honored to welcome Mr. Haskell Wexler to the 2011 Albuquerque Film Festival. Mr. Wexler is the recipient of the 2011 AFF Cinematography Award and will be honored at the Closing Night Award’s Ceremony on Sunday, August 21st at 8:00pm. Tickets are $40. Click here to purchase tickets.
Haskell Wexler is considered to be one of the most important cinematographers working in the film industry today. Wexler has photographed a wide range of films that have earned him five Academy Award nominations and two Oscars for Best Cinematography. His nominations came for his work on his first feature documentary, THE LIVING CITY; a short film T FOR TUMBLEWEED; Milos Forman’s ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST; John Sayles’ MATEWAN and Touchstone Pictures BLAZE. He took home statuettes for his work on Mike Nichols’ WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF and Hal Ashby’s BOUND FOR GLORY. Other films shot for Ashby include COMING HOME, SECOND-HAND HEART and LOOKIN’ TO GET OUT.
Among Wexler’s other credits are three films for Norman Jewison: IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT, THE THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR and OTHER PEOPLE’S MONEY; George Lucas’ AMERICAN GRAFFITI; Dennis Hopper’s controversial hit, COLORS and Touchstone Pictures’ hit comedy, THREE FUGITIVES; the film, THE BABE, a Universal Picture; the Rolling Stones World Tour AT THE MAX. This IMAX film was a photographic breakthrough; a second John Sayles film, THE SECRET OF ROAN INISH and a film directed by Michael Moore, CANADIAN BACON; an IMAX film, IMAX:MEXICO, and MGM/The Zanuck Co. film MULHOLLAND FALLS; RICH MANS WIFE, and a third John Sayles film, LIMBO, HBO 61*, directed by Billy Crystal and has received several Emmy nomination including Outstanding Cinematography. Recently, a fourth John Sayles film, SILVER CITY.
As a director, Wexler crafted two features, MEDIUM COOL, a groundbreaking film shot during the Democratic convention in Chicago and LATINO in Nicaragua which received a special honor at Canne Film Festival. Both films broke the mold of conventional story telling by using the immediacy of documentary-style filmmaking. He has directed over fifty documentaries, rock videos and award winning commercials. Including THE BUS, BUS II and BUS RIDERS UNION; INTRODUCTION TO THE ENEMY, shot in Vietnam with Jane Fonda; INTERVIEW WITH MY LAI VETERANS, which also won an Academy Award, NO NUKES with Barbara Kopple, and TARGET NICARAGUA: INSIDE A SECRET WAR.
Wexler has been elected by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to the Board of Governors to represent the Cinematographers Branch.
Wexler has also received many honors, i.e., The American Society of Cinematographers’ Lifetime Achievement Award, Liberty Hill Foundation Upton Sinclair Award, Poland’s Camerimage Lifetime Achievement Award, Eastman Kodak Outstanding Photographic Achievement for Blaze and Matewan, to name a few.
Wexler has received Honorary Doctorates from Columbia College, American Film Institute and California Institute of the Arts.
Wexler is the first Cinematographer in over thirty-five years to receive a star on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame.
Biography courtesy of chicagofilmarchives.org
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