David Watkin

Camera

Born March 23, 1925 in Margate, Kent, England, UK

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.

Filmography

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Self

Hell on Earth: The Desecration & Resurrection of The Devils

Self

All Forgotten

One Continuous Take: Kay Mander's Life in Film

Himself

Tea with Mussolini

Gloria

Critical Care

Obsession

Night Falls on Manhattan

Bogus

Jane Eyre

It Is Now Our Time: Peter Sellars’ The Merchant of Venice

Milk Money

Bopha!

This Boy's Life

Used People

The Cabinet of Dr. Ramirez

The Object of Beauty

Hamlet

Memphis Belle

Murder on the Moon

Last Rites

The Good Mother

Journey to the Center of the Earth

Masquerade

Moonstruck

Sky Bandits

Out of Africa

White Nights

Return to Oz

Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes

The Hotel New Hampshire

Yentl

Endless Love

Chariots of Fire

La Cenerentola

Cuba

That Summer!

Hanover Street

Jesus of Nazareth

Joseph Andrews

Robin and Marian

To the Devil a Daughter

Mahogany

The Four Musketeers

The Three Musketeers

A Delicate Balance

The Homecoming

The Boy Friend

The Devils

Catch-22

The Bed Sitting Room

The Charge of the Light Brigade

Red, White, and Zero

How I Won the War

The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade