At Oscars, the name on lips and envelopes is “Chivo”
*El Chivo Lubeski was the eye behind the lens for the Oscar winning films Gravity and Birdman, he’s nominated once again for The Revenant. VL
By Jake Coyle, Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — No name resonates in Hollywood right now quite like “Chivo.”
That’s the nickname of the famed cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki, whose acrobatic long-takes and luminous images of natural light have made him revered like few others – and may make him a three-peat Oscar winner.
Lubezki is behind some of the most dazzling film photography in recent years: the asteroid storm hurtling through the vast 3-D space of “Gravity,” the seemingly continuous backstage sweep of “Birdman,” the elemental beauty of Terrence Malick’s films. His audacious, real-time sequences have made him synonymous with a seamless magic not before seen in cinema.
“I think it was John Huston who said, ‘When I shoot a whale, I shoot the face and then I cut and I shoot the tail. And everybody understands there’s a whale,'” says Lubezki. “But sometimes when you show the entire whale and when you show the parts that seem not as important, there’s a deeper connection.”
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