Haskell Wexler

Haskell Wexler was born on Feb 06, 1922 in USA. Haskell Wexler's big-screen debut came with Picnic directed by Joshua Logan in 1955. Haskell Wexler is known for Four Days in Chicago directed by Haskell Wexler, Medea Benjamin stars as Self and Graham Clumpner as Self. Haskell Wexler has got 17 awards and 12 nominations so far. The most recent award Haskell Wexler achieved is Location Managers Guild International Awards (LMGI). The upcoming new movie Haskell Wexler plays is Four Days in Chicago which will be released on Sep 21, 2013.

Two-time Academy Award-winning cinematographer Haskell Wexler was adjudged one of the ten most influential cinematographers in movie history, according to an International Cinematographers Guild survey of its membership. He won his Oscars in both black & white and color, for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) (1966) and Bound for Glory (1976) (1976). He also shot part of Days of Heaven (1978) (1978), for which credited director of photography Nestor Almendros -- won a Best Cinematography Oscar that Wexler initially felt should have been jointly shared by both. Later he admitted he was just finishing the work of Almendros and when Bert Schneider offer him more credit in the Criterion Dvd release of the film, he turned down the offer. In 1993, Wexler was awarded a Lifetime Achivement award by the cinematographer's guild, the American Society of Cinematographers. He received five Oscar nominations for his cinematography, in total, plus one Emmy Award in a career that has spanned six decades.In addition to his masterful cinematography, Wexler directed the seminal late Sixties film Medium Cool (1969) and has directed and/or shot many documentaries that display his progressive political views. He was the subject of a 2004 documentary shot by his son Mark Wexler, Tell Them Who You Are (2004).