Celebrating the Art of Cinema: Best Cinematography Oscar Winners of the Last 40 Years

Tess (1980) – Geoffrey Unsworth & Ghislain Cloquet

Ghislain Cloquet had to replace Geoffrey Unsworth as director of photography because Unsworth died of a heart attack during the third month of shooting the film, at the end of October 1978. Most of the film’s scenes shot by Unsworth were in the first half of the movie and are mostly exterior shots. They can be noticed by some fog and light diffusion. Then Cloquet shot the rest of the movie and most of his scenes were inside with no diffusion.

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The film was directed by Roman Polanski and made as an adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s 1891 novel Tess of the d’Urbervilles. The film received positive reviews and was nominated for six Academy Awards, including Best Picture. It won for Best Cinematography, Best Art Direction and Best Costume Design.

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