Rethinking Best Cinematography

[Feinberg]

My choice would be Conrad Hall's In Cold Blood.

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Here are the academy's choices for 1968:

Romeo and Juliet
Funny Girl
Ice Station Zebra
Oliver!
Star!

And here are my choices:

2001: A Space Odyssey
The Battle of Algiers

Clearly these are the first two choices. The first is one of the most stunning visually of all films. The second gives an image of unprecedented realism.

Here are the other three choices:

Once upon a time in the West
The Valley of the Bees
Oliver!

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Now it's 1969. Here are the Academy's choices:


Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Anne of the Thousand Days
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
Hello, Dolly!
Marooned

I have not seen the last two. Here are my choices:

Andrei Rublev
The Red Tent
The Color of Pomegranates
Walden/Diaries, Notes and Sketches
Z

[Feinberg]

Guiseppe Rotunno, FELLINI SATYRICON would be my choice for 1969.

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Now it's 1970. Here are the Academy's choices:

Ryan's Daughter
Airport
Patton
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Women in Love

And here are my choices:

The Conformist
Le Petit Theatre de Jean Renoir
Tora, Tora, Tora
The Confession
One of Deep End, The Wild Child, Woodstock and Zabriskie Point

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Now it's 1971. Here are the Academy's choices:

Fiddler on the Roof
The French Connection
The Last Picture Show
Nicholas and Alexandra
Summer of '42

And here are my choices:

Death in Venice
McCabe and Mrs. Miller
The Last Picture Show
A Clockwork Orange
Walkabout

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Now it's 1972. Here are the Academy's choices:

Cabaret
1776
Butterflies Are Free
The Poseidon Adventure
Travels with My Aunt

And here are my choices:

The Godfather
Solaris
Aguirre, the Wrath of God
Red Psalm
Cabaret or The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie

[Feinberg]

As much as I admire Gordon Willis' work on The Godfather, my choice would be Vittorio Storaro's Last Tango In Paris.

[LostHorizons]

For 72, an underrated one for cinematography I would go with is the Soviet western “Seventh Bullet.”