Oscars 2018: Here Are the Cameras Used to Shoot The Films Nominated for Best Cinematography

Every cinematographer knows that picking the right camera and lens doesn’t create the look of a movie.

Yet understanding how these Oscar-nominated cinematographers determined the right tools for these five distinctive films reveals not only their intention, but also their approach and process.While shooting on film stock continues to make a comeback, with “prestige” period films in particular, what’s interesting is among this year’s Best Cinematography nominees — four of which are period films, three set against the backdrop of World War II — only “Dunkirk” was shot on film, as director Christopher Nolan and Dp Hoyte van Hoytema continue to pioneer the use of IMAX film cameras in traditional Hollywood filmmaking.

The other four nominees relied on Arri’s Alexa cameras to capture looks as varied as the hot summer landscape of 1940s Mississippi to the wintery silver of Los Angeles 100 years afterward.Here are the cinematographers

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