Robert richardson cinematographer biography definition
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Robert Richardson
Biography
Robert Richardson has won three Academy Awards and earned seven Academy Award nominations for his cinematography.
Robert richardson cinematographer biography definition
His work on director Oliver Stone's JFK earned him his first Oscar.
His second and third came with The Aviator and Hugo directed by Martin Scorsese. These two films also garnered him BAFTA nominations for Best Cinematographer.
Prior to regularly collaborating with well-known directors like Oliver Stone and Quentin Tarantino, Richardson served an apprenticeship shooting the second unit of Repo Man while filming television documentaries for PBS and the BBC.
His work in television led Stone to hire Richardson to shoot both Salvador and Platoon.
From there, he worked almost exclusively with Stone, filming Wall Street, Born on the Fourth of July, and The Doors, while occasionally branching out to shoot films like John Sayles' Eight Men Out and City of Hope.
Richardson also shot Stone's Natural Born Killers, Nixon,