Oscars 2020: A closer look at the Cinematography award nominees

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Nostalgia dominates the race for the Cinematography Oscar, with the Irishman, Joker, 1917, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and The Lighthouse all nominated. Adrian Pennington takes a closer look at the nominees.

Period movies dominate the race. Joker and The Irishman repaint New York as a gritty early 1980’s Gotham and 1960/70s era Little Italy; Roger Deakins takes us back to the trenches of 1917 in Sam Mendes’ unblinking take on World War I; Robert Richardson’s 35mm film flashbacks to 1969 in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, and the black-and-white 35mm film rendering of 1890s Gothic horror The Lighthouse is a tour de force for DP Jarin Blaschke…

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