In 2001 Jack Cardiff (1914-2009) became the first director of photography in the history of the Academy Awards to win an Honorary Oscar. But the first time he clasped the famous statuette in his hand was a half-century earlier when his Technicolor camerawork was awarded for Powell and Pressburger's Black Narcissus. Beyond John Huston's The African Queen and King Vidor's War and Peace, the films of the British-Hungarian creative duo (The Red Shoes and A Matter of Life and Death too) guaranteed immortality for the renowned cameraman whose career spanned seventy years.
Release: 2010
Rating: 6.6
Genre: Documentary
Duration: 86 min
Country: United Kingdom
Production: Modus Operandi Films, UK Film Council
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Jack Cardiff
as Self
Martin Scorsese
as Self – Interviewee
Kirk Douglas
as Self – Interviewee
Lauren Bacall
as Self – Interviewee
Charlton Heston
as Self – Interviewee
Kim Hunter
as Self – Interviewee