Leon Shamroy
Leon Shamroy was a four-time Oscar-winning cinematographer.
Shamroy entered the motion picture industry in 1920 as a film laboratory worker at Fox Film Corp.
He began his cinematography career in 1924, photographing serial and stunt pictures for director-producer Charles Hutchison at Pathe, and in 1928 became co-producer and photographer on an experimental film, "The Last Moment," which earned him his first major award, the National Board of Review's Honor Film certificate.
During a long association with 20th Century Fox, Shamroy won Academy Awards for color cinematography on "The Black Swan," 1942; "Wilson," 1944; "Leave Her to Heaven," 1945; and "Cleopatra," 1963.
Shamroy also worked on "The Robe," "South Pacific," "The King and I," "Love is A Many-Splendored Thing," "Snows of Kilimanjaro," "A Tree Grows In Brooklyn," "Prince of Foxes," "Down Argentina Way," "Stormy Weather" and "Ten Gentlemen From West Point."
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Academy Awards
| Year | Category | Work | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1938 | Best Cinematography | The Young in Heart | Nomination |
| 1940 | Best Cinematography - Color | Down Argentine Way | Nomination* |
| 1942 | Best Cinematography - Black and White | Ten Gentlemen from West Point | Nomination |
| 1942 | Best Cinematography - Color | The Black Swan | Win |
| 1944 | Best Cinematography - Color | Wilson | Win |
| 1945 | Best Cinematography - Color | Leave Her to Heaven | Win |
| 1949 | Best Cinematography - Black and White | Prince of Foxes | Nomination |
| 1951 | Best Cinematography - Color | David and Bathsheba | Nomination |
| 1952 | Best Cinematography - Color | The Snows of Kilimanjaro | Nomination |
| 1953 | Best Cinematography - Color | The Robe | Nomination |
| 1954 | Best Cinematography - Color | The Egyptian | Nomination |
| 1955 | Best Cinematography - Color | Love Is a Many Splendored Thing | Nomination |
| 1956 | Best Cinematography - Color | The King and I | Nomination |
| 1958 | Best Cinematography - Color | South Pacific | Nomination |
| 1959 | Best Cinematography - Color | Porgy and Bess | Nomination |
| 1963 | Best Cinematography - Color | Cleopatra | Win |
| 1963 | Best Cinematography - Color | The Cardinal | Nomination |
| 1965 | Best Cinematography - Color | The Agony and the Ecstasy | Nomination |
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