For the longest time, cinematographers have referenced paintings and still photography, whether recreating those images or riffing on them to create the moving images in films.
It was no different for Chloé Zhao’s “Nomadland,” which captured the beauty of America, and Regina King’s “One Night in Miami,” which was influenced by historical events.
Even more impressive is the fact that some of the lensers behind this year’s top films are somewhat new to the circuit.For his fourth feature film, “Nomadland” cinematographer Joshua James Richards traveled across the Badlands of South Dakota; Empire, Nev.; and western Nebraska, venturing into real-life nomad territory to tell the story of Fern (Frances McDormand), who lives on the road in her van.The main visual reference, he says, was Andrew Wyeth’s Miss Olson.
That painting served as the “texture and palette of the interior of Fern’s van.”It wasn
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