Academy Award Winners for Best Cinematography:
1999 — Janusz Kamiński, ASC
Saving Private Ryan (1998)
Directed by Steven Spielberg
Aspect Ratio: 1.85 : 1
“Steven and I really didn't want to shoot Private Ryan in black-and-white, and I think it would have been a little pretentious to do another World War II film that way. [...] We also wanted to shoot this picture in color because there is some blood in the film and we wanted to play with the reds, even though we did desaturate the colors. [...] I knew the movie would have more of a bluish tone to it, and the color of the blood on the uniforms and the ground was a primary concern. Because we were dealing with a World War II drama, the wardrobe was already muted, and since we were shooting in England and Ireland, we had day after day of foggy, rainy climate, which automatically made the light more diffused and the colors more pastel. We therefore compared various levels of ENR, and based on those tests, the special effects department mixed a certain amount of blue into the blood to make it a bit darker than they normally use.”
— Janusz Kamiński for American Cinematographer, August 1998
If I had a nickel when Matt Damon's character is being shaped by a much older figure who guided him, I had 2 nickels, which isn't much but its weird it happened twice