Oscar Volley: Will there be any surprises in Best Cinematography?
Team Experience is discussing each Oscar category before the nominations are announced. Here's Eric Blume and Lynn Lee to talk Best Cinematography...
ERIC: We have the pleasure of discussing the insanely talented cinematography candidates this year. It seems like this year's two big awards players, Oppenheimer and Killers of the Flower Moon, will certainly make the slate here...so, can I say, why I am not particularly excited about the work of either Hoyte van Hoytema and Rodrigo Prieto for these two films? Don't get me wrong, both are beautifully lensed films and these men are brilliantly talented, but their work seemed more standard than inspired.
Neither world, neither Oppenheimer's labs and offices nor Moon's flat plains, are the most visually exciting terrains, and while both men work with their respective directors to build a few lovely frames, I was definitely more knocked out by the imagery in some other films this year...