#john seale

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Academy Award Winners for Best Cinematography: 1997 — John Seale, ACS, ASC The English Patient (1996) Directed by Anthony Minghella Aspect Ratio: 1.85 : 1

"We mulled it for a long time and finally the edict we came out with was 1 : 85 because it’s a movie about people in the desert, not a desert with people in it. A lot of people have argued because the desert is a flat format, which anamorphic [2.39 : 1] fits perfectly and we knew that, but we also argued against David Lean’s Lawrence of Arabia. It’s fantastic, unbelievable, but we didn’t want to do that. Anthony said, I will never want to start on a beautiful mountain range and come down and find the movie; we’ll always cut to the movie, and I had to remind him a few times about that when he’d ask, ‘could we start there and come down?’ … ‘No, we can’t, Anthony, the camera is not programmed to do that,’ I’d say. Because you end up cutting those shots out in the end anyway, so we worked very hard to set up a shot that had the desert in the background so then the cars or whatever would bring you right into the movie. I think it helps to keep the pace up, but the majesty of it is still there. I like that because it’s making the movie first and the cinematography comes second." — John Seale for Student Filmmakers Magazine, April 2008

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There's so many good frames in Dead Poets Society ✨

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Witness (1985)

Dir. Peter Weir

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... memory lane ...

" She had always wanted words, she loved them; grew up on them. Words gave her clarity, brought reason, shape. "

- Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient

... the gift of beauty ...

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— Mad Max: Fury Road (2015), co-written, co-produced and directed by George Miller.

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My name is Max. My world is fire and blood. Once, I was a cop, a road warrior searching for a righteous cause. As the world fell, each of us, in our own way, was broken. It was hard to know who was more crazy… me or everyone else.

Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)

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Witness premiered in Lancaster, PA on 7 February 1985.

The screenplay had been circulating for years before Earl W. Wallace recalled a similar plot for an episode of Gunsmoke written by William Kelley. Kelley and Wallace then reworked the script together.

Harrison Ford was sent the script and quickly accepted. Director Peter Weir was approached, but declined, as he was beginning preproduction work on The Mosquito Coast. When funding fell through on that project (which Weir would return to with Harrison Ford), Weir accepted.

Witness was a commercial and critical success. It was nominated for 8 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Cinematography (John Seale), Best Original Score (Maurice Jarre), and Best Art Direction. It received Oscars for Best Original Screenplay and Best Film Editing (Thom Noble).