David Watkin
Cinematographer, Film cinematographer
1925 – 2008
Who was David Watkin?
David Watkin BSC was a British 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.
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- Born
- Mar 23, 1925
Margate - Also known as
- Wendy
- Francis David Watkin
- David Watkin BSC
- Spouses
- Nick Hand
( - 2008/02/19)
- Nick Hand
- Ethnicity
- British people
- Nationality
- England
- Profession
- Lived in
- Margate
- Died
- Feb 19, 2008
Brighton
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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