Burnett Guffey, the Glossary
Burnett Guffey, A.S.C. (May 26, 1905 – May 30, 1983) was an American cinematographer. He won two Academy Awards: From Here to Eternity (1953) and Bonnie and Clyde (1967). Burnett Guffey, who was born on May 26, 1905 in Del Rio, Tennessee, went to school in Etowah, Tennessee. He began working as a messenger boy at a bank, then transitioned to a camera assistant at Fox in 1923.[1]
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92 relations: A Bird in the Head, Academy Award for Best Cinematography, Academy Awards, All the King's Men (1949 film), American Society of Cinematographers, And Baby Makes Three, Assignment – Paris!, Battle Stations (film), Birdman of Alcatraz (film), Bonnie and Clyde (film), Cinematographer, Columbia Pictures, Convicted (1950 film), Count Three and Pray (film), Cry for Happy, Decision at Sundown, Del Rio, Tennessee, Eadie Was a Lady, Edge of Eternity (film), Emergency Wedding, Famous Players–Lasky, Father Is a Bachelor, Film noir, Flight from Ashiya, Framed (1947 film), From Here to Eternity, Gallant Journey, Gidget (film), Goleta, California, Good Neighbor Sam, Halls of Anger, Hell to Eternity, Homicidal, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (film), Human Desire, IFilm, In a Lonely Place, John Ford, Johnny O'Clock, Kid Galahad, King Rat (film), Knock on Any Door, Love Over Night, Me and the Colonel, Meet Me on Broadway, Mr. Sardonicus, My Name Is Julia Ross, Night Editor, Nightfall (1956 film), Paramount Network, ... Expand index (42 more) »
- Presidents of the American Society of Cinematographers
A Bird in the Head
A Bird in the Head is a 1946 short subject directed by Edward Bernds starring American slapstick comedy team The Three Stooges (Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Curly Howard).
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Academy Award for Best Cinematography
The Academy Award for Best Cinematography is an Academy Award awarded each year to a cinematographer for work on one particular motion picture.
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Academy Awards
The Academy Awards of Merit, commonly known as the Oscars or Academy Awards, are awards for artistic and technical merit for the film industry.
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All the King's Men (1949 film)
All the King's Men is a 1949 American political drama film written, produced, and directed by Robert Rossen.
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American Society of Cinematographers
The American Society of Cinematographers (ASC), founded in Hollywood in 1919, is a cultural, educational, and professional organization that is neither a labor union nor a guild.
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And Baby Makes Three
And Baby Makes Three is a 1949 American romantic comedy film directed by Henry Levin and starring Robert Young and Barbara Hale.
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Assignment – Paris!
Assignment – Paris! is a 1952 American Cold War film noir directed by Robert Parrish and starring Dana Andrews, Märta Torén, George Sanders and Audrey Totter.
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Battle Stations (film)
Battle Stations is a 1956 American war film directed by Lewis Seiler and starring John Lund, William Bendix and Keefe Brasselle.
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Birdman of Alcatraz (film)
Birdman of Alcatraz is a 1962 American biographical drama film directed by John Frankenheimer and starring Burt Lancaster.
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Bonnie and Clyde (film)
Bonnie and Clyde is a 1967 American biographical neo-noir crime film directed by Arthur Penn and starring Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway as the title characters Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker.
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Cinematographer
The cinematographer or director of photography (sometimes shortened to DP or DOP) is the person responsible for the recording of a film, television production, music video or other live-action piece.
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Columbia Pictures
Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc., commonly known as Columbia Pictures or simply Columbia, is an American film production and distribution company that is a member of the Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group, a division of Sony Entertainment's Sony Pictures, which is one of the Big Five studios and a subsidiary of the multinational conglomerate Sony Group Corporation.
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Convicted (1950 film)
Convicted is a 1950 American crime film noir directed by Henry Levin and starring Glenn Ford and Broderick Crawford.
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Count Three and Pray (film)
Count Three and Pray is a 1955 American CinemaScope Western film directed by George Sherman and starring Van Heflin and Joanne Woodward in her first feature film.
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Cry for Happy
Cry for Happy is a 1961 American CinemaScope comedy film directed by George Marshall and starring Glenn Ford and Donald O'Connor.
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Decision at Sundown
Decision at Sundown is a 1957 American Western film directed by Budd Boetticher and starring Randolph Scott.
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Del Rio, Tennessee
Del Rio is an unincorporated community in Cocke County, Tennessee, United States.
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Eadie Was a Lady
Eadie Was a Lady is a 1945 American musical comedy film directed by Arthur Dreifuss starring Ann Miller, Joe Besser and William Wright.
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Edge of Eternity (film)
Edge of Eternity is a 1959 American crime film starring Cornel Wilde, Victoria Shaw, and Mickey Shaughnessy.
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Emergency Wedding
Emergency Wedding (titled Jealousy in the UK) is a 1950 American comedy film directed by Edward Buzzell and starring Larry Parks, Barbara Hale and Willard Parker.
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Famous Players–Lasky
The Famous Players–Lasky Corporation was an American motion picture and distribution company formed on June 28, 1916, from the merger of Adolph Zukor's Famous Players Film Companyoriginally formed by Zukor as Famous Players in Famous Playsand the Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company.
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Father Is a Bachelor
Father Is a Bachelor is a 1950 American musical romantic comedy film directed by Abby Berlin and Norman Foster.
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Film noir
Film noir is a cinematic term used primarily to describe stylized Hollywood crime dramas, particularly those that emphasize cynical attitudes and motivations.
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Flight from Ashiya
Flight from Ashiya (aka Ashiya Kara no hiko) is a 1964 film about the U.S. Air Force's Air Rescue Service, flying from Ashiya Air Base, Japan.
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Framed (1947 film)
Framed is a 1947 American crime film noir directed by Richard Wallace and starring Glenn Ford, Janis Carter and Barry Sullivan.
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From Here to Eternity
From Here to Eternity is a 1953 American romantic war drama film directed by Fred Zinnemann and written by Daniel Taradash, based on the 1951 novel of the same name by James Jones.
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Gallant Journey
Gallant Journey is a 1946 American historical film written, produced and directed by William A. Wellman and starring Glenn Ford, Janet Blair and Charles Ruggles.
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Gidget (film)
Gidget is a 1959 American CinemaScope comedy film directed by directed by Paul Wendkos and starring Variety film review; March 18, 1959, page 6.
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Goleta, California
Goleta (Spanish for "schooner") is a city in southern Santa Barbara County, California, United States.
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Good Neighbor Sam
Good Neighbor Sam is a 1964 American Eastman Color screwball comedy film co-written and directed by David Swift, based on the 1963 novel of the same name by Jack Finney.
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Halls of Anger
Halls of Anger is a 1970 American drama film directed by Paul Bogart, and starring Calvin Lockhart, Janet MacLachlan, Jeff Bridges and James A. Watson Jr.
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Hell to Eternity
Hell to Eternity is a 1960 American World War II film starring Jeffrey Hunter, David Janssen, Vic Damone and Patricia Owens, directed by Phil Karlson.
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Homicidal
Homicidal is a 1961 American horror-thriller film produced and directed by William Castle, and starring Glenn Corbett, Patricia Breslin, Eugenie Leontovich, Alan Bunce and Jean Arless.
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How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (film)
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying is a 1967 American romantic musical comedy-drama film based on the 1961 stage musical of the same name, which in turn was based on Shepherd Mead's 1952 book.
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Human Desire
Human Desire is a 1954 American film noir drama starring Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame and Broderick Crawford directed by Fritz Lang.
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IFilm
iFilm is a discontinued U.S.-based video-sharing website on which users could upload, share and view videos.
In a Lonely Place
In a Lonely Place is a 1950 American film noir directed by Nicholas Ray and starring Humphrey Bogart and Gloria Grahame, produced for Bogart's Santana Productions.
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John Ford
John Martin Feeney (February 1, 1894 – August 31, 1973), known professionally as John Ford, was an American film director and producer.
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Johnny O'Clock
Johnny O'Clock is a 1947 American film noir crime film directed by Robert Rossen and starring Dick Powell, Evelyn Keyes, Lee J. Cobb and Ellen Drew.
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Kid Galahad
Kid Galahad is a 1962 American musical film starring Elvis Presley as a boxer.
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King Rat (film)
King Rat is a 1965 American war film written and directed by Bryan Forbes and starring George Segal and James Fox.
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Knock on Any Door
Knock on Any Door is a 1949 American courtroom trial film noir directed by Nicholas Ray and starring Humphrey Bogart.
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Love Over Night
Love Over Night is a 1928 American silent comedy film produced and distributed by Pathé Exchange and starring Rod La Rocque.
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Me and the Colonel
Me and the Colonel is a 1958 American comedy film based on the play Jacobowsky und der Oberst by Franz Werfel.
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Meet Me on Broadway
Meet Me on Broadway is a 1946 American comedy film directed by Leigh Jason and written by George Bricker and Jack Henley.
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Mr. Sardonicus
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My Name Is Julia Ross
My Name Is Julia Ross is a 1945 American film noir thriller directed by Joseph H. Lewis, and starring Nina Foch, Dame May Whitty, and George Macready.
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Night Editor
Night Editor is a 1946 American film noir directed by Henry Levin and starring William Gargan, Janis Carter and Jeff Donnell.
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Nightfall (1956 film)
Nightfall is a 1956 American crime film noir directed by Jacques Tourneur and starring Aldo Ray, Brian Keith and Anne Bancroft.
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Paramount Network
Paramount Network is an American basic cable television channel owned by the MTV Entertainment Group unit of Paramount Media Networks, a division of Paramount Global.
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Private Hell 36
Private Hell 36 is a 1954 American crime film noir directed by Don Siegel starring Ida Lupino, Steve Cochran, Howard Duff, Dean Jagger and Dorothy Malone.
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Sailor's Holiday (1944 film)
Sailor's Holiday is a 1944 American comedy film directed by William Berke and starring Arthur Lake, Jane Lawrence and Bob Haymes.
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Scandal Sheet (1952 film)
Scandal Sheet is a 1952 American film noir directed by Phil Karlson.
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Screaming Mimi (film)
Screaming Mimi is a 1958 American film noir directed by Gerd Oswald and starring Anita Ekberg, Philip Carey and Gypsy Rose Lee.
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Sirocco (film)
Sirocco is a 1951 American thriller film noir directed by Curtis Bernhardt and starring Humphrey Bogart, Märta Torén and Lee J. Cobb.
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So Dark the Night
So Dark the Night is a 1946 American crime film with film noir influences featuring Steven Geray, Micheline Cheirel and Eugene Borden.
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Some Kind of a Nut
Some Kind of a Nut is a 1969 American comedy film written and directed by Garson Kanin and starring Dick Van Dyke, Angie Dickinson and Rosemary Forsyth.
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Storm Center
Storm Center is a 1956 American film noir drama directed by Daniel Taradash.
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Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came
Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came (also known as War Games, Old Soldiers Never) is a 1970 American drama-comedy film directed by Hy Averback, produced by Fred Engel, and starring Brian Keith, Don Ameche, Tony Curtis, Ernest Borgnine, Suzanne Pleshette, Ivan Dixon, and Pamela Britton.
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The Ambushers (film)
The Ambushers is a 1967 American spy comedy film directed by Henry Levin starring Dean Martin as Matt Helm, along with Senta Berger and Janice Rule.
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The Bamboo Prison
The Bamboo Prison is a 1954 American Korean War–drama film directed by Lewis Seiler and starring Robert Francis, Brian Keith, Dianne Foster, and Jerome Courtland.
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The Brothers Rico
The Brothers Rico is a 1957 American crime film noir directed by Phil Karlson and starring Richard Conte, Dianne Foster and Kathryn Grant.
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The Family Secret (1951 film)
The Family Secret is a 1951 American film noir crime film directed by Henry Levin and starring John Derek and Lee J. Cobb.
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The Fighting Guardsman
The Fighting Guardsman is a 1946 American historical adventure film directed by Henry Levin and starring Willard Parker, Anita Louise, Janis Carter and John Loder.
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The Gallant Blade
The Gallant Blade is a 1948 American Cinecolor adventure film directed by Henry Levin and starring Larry Parks.
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The Gay Senorita
The Gay Senorita is a 1945 American comedy-drama film directed by Arthur Dreifuss, which stars Jinx Falkenburg, Jim Bannon, and Steve Cochran.
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The Girl of the Limberlost
The Girl of the Limberlost is a 1945 American drama film starring Ruth Nelson, Dorinda Clifton, and Loren Tindall, and directed by Mel Ferrer.
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The Great White Hope (film)
The Great White Hope is a 1970 American biographical romantic drama film written and adapted from the 1967 Howard Sackler play of the same name.
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The Harder They Fall (1956 film)
The Harder They Fall is a 1956 American boxing film noir directed by Mark Robson, produced and written by Philip Yordan, based on Budd Schulberg's 1947 novel.
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The Iron Horse (film)
The Iron Horse is a 1924 American silent Western film directed by John Ford and produced by Fox Film.
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The Learning Tree
The Learning Tree is a 1969 American coming-of-age film written, produced and directed by Gordon Parks, who also scored the film.
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The Madwoman of Chaillot (film)
The Madwoman of Chaillot is a 1969 American satirical film made by Commonwealth United Entertainment and distributed by Warner Bros.-Seven Arts.
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The Mountain Road
The Mountain Road is a 1960 war film starring James Stewart and directed by Daniel Mann.
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The Reckless Moment
The Reckless Moment is a 1949 American film noir melodrama directed by Max Ophüls, produced by Walter Wanger, and released by Columbia Pictures with Burnett Guffey as cinematographer.
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The Sign of the Ram
The Sign of the Ram is a 1948 American film noir directed by John Sturges and screenplay by Charles Bennett, based on a novel written by Margaret Ferguson.
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The Silencers (film)
The Silencers is a 1966 American spy comedy film directed by Phil Karlson, starring Dean Martin as agent Matt Helm.
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The Sniper (1952 film)
The Sniper is a 1952 American film noir, directed by Edward Dmytryk, written by Harry Brown and based on a story by Edna and Edward Anhalt.
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The Split (film)
The Split is a 1968 American neo-noir crime drama film directed by Gordon Flemyng and written by Robert Sabaroff based upon the Parker novel The Seventh by Richard Stark (a pseudonym of Donald E. Westlake).
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The Strange One
The Strange One is a 1957 American film noir about students faced with an ethical dilemma in a military college in the Southern United States.
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The True Story of Lynn Stuart
The True Story of Lynn Stuart (originally titled The Other Life of Lynn Stuart) is a 1958 American biographical crime drama film starring Betsy Palmer, Jack Lord, Barry Atwater and released by Columbia Pictures.
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The Undercover Man
The Undercover Man is a 1949 American crime film noir directed by Joseph H. Lewis and starring Glenn Ford, Nina Foch and James Whitmore.
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The Violent Men
The Violent Men is a 1955 American CinemaScope Western film directed by Rudolph Maté and starring Glenn Ford, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson, Dianne Foster, Brian Keith, and May Wynn.
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They Came to Cordura
They Came to Cordura is a 1959 American Western film co-written and directed by Robert Rossen and starring Gary Cooper, Rita Hayworth, Van Heflin and Tab Hunter.
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Tight Spot
Tight Spot is a 1955 American film noir crime film directed by Phil Karlson and starring Ginger Rogers, Edward G. Robinson and Brian Keith.
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To the Ends of the Earth (1948 film)
To the Ends of the Earth is a 1948 American film noir thriller film directed by Robert Stevenson and starring Dick Powell, Signe Hasso and Ludwig Donath.
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Two of a Kind (1951 film)
Two of a Kind is a 1951 American crime film directed by Henry Levin and starring Edmond O'Brien, Lizabeth Scott and Terry Moore.
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26th Academy Awards
The 26th Academy Awards were held on March 25, 1954, simultaneously at the RKO Pantages Theatre in Hollywood (hosted by Donald O'Connor), and the NBC Center Theatre in New York City (hosted by Fredric March).
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29th Academy Awards
The 29th Academy Awards were held on March 27, 1957, to honor the films of 1956.
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35th Academy Awards
The 35th Academy Awards, honoring the best in film for 1962, were held on April 8, 1963, at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica, California, hosted by Frank Sinatra.
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38th Academy Awards
The 38th Academy Awards, honoring the best in film for 1965, were held on April 18, 1966, at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica, California.
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40th Academy Awards
The 40th Academy Awards were held on April 10, 1968, to honor film achievements of 1967.
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7th Golden Globe Awards
The 7th Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film for 1949 films, were held on February 23, 1950.
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See also
Presidents of the American Society of Cinematographers
- Arthur Edeson
- Arthur Miller (cinematographer)
- Burnett Guffey
- Charles G. Clarke
- Daniel B. Clark
- Daryn Okada
- Ernest Laszlo
- Fred Jackman
- George Folsey
- Hal Mohr
- Homer Scott
- James Van Trees
- John Arnold (cinematographer)
- John F. Seitz
- John W. Boyle
- Kees Van Oostrum
- Lee Garmes
- Leon Shamroy
- Leonard Smith (cinematographer)
- Lester Shorr
- Linwood G. Dunn
- Michael Goi
- Owen Roizman
- Phil Rosen
- Ralph Woolsey
- Ray Rennahan
- Richard Crudo
- Sol Halperin
- Stanley Cortez
- Tony Gaudio
- Victor J. Kemper
- Victor Milner
- Walter Strenge
- William A. Fraker
- William Daniels (cinematographer)
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burnett_Guffey
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