Cinematographer's Best #20: Gordon Willis

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Cinematographer's Best #20: Gordon Willis Jun 28, 2020 10:52:41 GMT

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Cinematographers' best cinematography - all open

	Poll date	Voters
1. Hoyte Van Hoytema - Interstellar 2. Emmanuel Lubezki - The Tree of Life 3. Roger Deakins - The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford 4. Wally Pfister - Inception 5. Robert Richardson- JFK/ The Aviator/ Inglourious Basterds 6. Jeff Cronenweth - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo 7. John Toll - The Thin Red Line 8. Conrad Hall - Road to Perdition 9. Greig Fraser - Foxcatcher 10. Christopher Doyle - In The Mood For Love 11. Bruno Delbonnel - Inside Llewyn Davis 12. Janusz Kaminski - Schindler's List 13. Rodrigo Prieto - Silence 14. Daruis Khondji - Se7en 15. Gregg Toland - Citizen Kane 16. Dante Spinotti - LA Confidential 17. Robert Elswit - There Will Be Blood 18. Vittorio Storaro - Apocalypse Now 19. Chung Chung-Hoon - The Handmaiden 20. Gordon Willis -	Nov 2017 Dec 2017 Jan 2018 April 2018 May 2018 May 2018 May 2018 June 2018 Sep 2018 March 2020 March 2020 April 2020 April 2020 April 2020 May 2020 May 2020 May 2020 June 2020 June 2020 June 2020	44 43 46 32 22 25 27 27 21 26 35 30 23 33 18 31 26 31 9

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1. Hoyte Van Hoytema 2. Emmanuel Lubezki 3. Roger Deakins
4. Wally Pfister 5. Robert Richardson 6. Jeff Cronenweth
7. John Toll 8. Conrad Hall 9. Greig Fraser 10. Christopher Doyle
11. Bruno Delbonnel 12. Janusz Kaminsk 13. Rodrigo Prieto
14. Darius Kohndji 15. Gregg Toland 16. Dante Spinotti
17. Robert Elswit 18. Vittorio Storaro 19. Chung Chung-Hoon

Winner of the Oscar honorary award in 2010 "for unsurpassed mastery of light, shadow, color and motion", the American cinematographer is most known for The Godfather trilogy and collaborations with Woody Allen.

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JangoB Legend Posts: 11,588 Likes: 10,617	Cinematographer's Best #20: Gordon Willis Jun 28, 2020 11:08:38 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by JangoB on Jun 28, 2020 11:08:38 GMT Definitely "The Godfather: Part II". He's done some amazing and rather forward-thinking work in the 70s and I think "Part II" is the apex of that streak.
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TerryMontana God Tier Posts: 8,215 Likes: 4,799	Cinematographer's Best #20: Gordon Willis Jun 28, 2020 14:24:02 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by TerryMontana on Jun 28, 2020 14:24:02 GMT GF 2 GF 1 Manhattan Klute Annie Hall GF 3

cheesecake God Tier Posts: 6,660 Likes: 4,993	Cinematographer's Best #20: Gordon Willis Jun 28, 2020 18:30:19 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by cheesecake on Jun 28, 2020 18:30:19 GMT Love me some Drowning Pool but Godfather II.

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Cinematographer's Best #20: Gordon Willis Jun 29, 2020 3:56:41 GMT Tommen_Saperstein likes this

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Post by idioticbunny on Jun 29, 2020 3:56:41 GMT

Has definitely been growing on me as one of my absolute favorite cinematographers as I've been going through the '70s. My favorite is still by far All the President's Men with its incredible use of open spaces, shadows, and of course those amazing split focus diopters.

But man, almost anything of that decade (plus The Purple Rose of Cairo) would be a worthy winner. Gotta check out more of his post-70s stuff.

ibbi God Tier "Batman's a scientist" Posts: 5,443 Likes: 4,849	Cinematographer's Best #20: Gordon Willis Jun 29, 2020 7:43:30 GMT via mobile Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by ibbi on Jun 29, 2020 7:43:30 GMT God don Willis, am I right? Those opening shots of All the President's Men are just magical. I too will go with Godfather 2.

Tommen_Saperstein Legend Posts: 17,206 Likes: 11,450	Cinematographer's Best #20: Gordon Willis Jun 29, 2020 17:56:40 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Jun 29, 2020 17:56:40 GMT If I sat down and really thought about it this would be torture because Willis is one of the best DPs ever, but I'll default to Godfather II like everyone else.

TheAlwaysClassy Based Posts: 4,379 Likes: 2,072	Cinematographer's Best #20: Gordon Willis Jul 1, 2020 5:48:22 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by TheAlwaysClassy on Jul 1, 2020 5:48:22 GMT Seriously though, how does Manhattan get ONE FUCKING VOTE??
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