98 years is wild that ceiling wasn’t glass, it was concrete.
emslo on
And it took a Black-Filipino woman to do it
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ItsNotACoop on
What do you call the thing she’s looking through?
Gayfetus on
Not so fun fact: The first woman to be nominated for Best Cinematography at the Oscars was Rachel Morrison for *Mudbound* in 2017. That’s not even 10 years ago!
Actual fun fact: Rachel Morrison was the one who introduced Autumn Durald Arkapaw to Ryan Coogler, the director of *Sinners*!
Rachel and Ryan are longtime collaborators, having made the films *Fruitvale Station* and *Black Panther* together. When she wasn’t available to help him make *Black Panther: Wakanda Forever*, she recommended Autumn, her friend and colleague, to him instead.
Autumn and Ryan very successfully collaborated on *Wakanda Forever*, which was beautifully shot. That led to their collaboration on *Sinners*, which led to this ground-breaking win!
So when Autumn thanked Rachel in her acceptance speech, it was both because Rachel broke the nomination barrier AND because Rachel personally helped her land this project!
dailybirdfeeding on
History in the making. What a legendary shot! 🔥 #Cinematography #Oscars
Impressive_Tea_8767 on
Mind you she also shot the whole thing in IMAX which is a much larger and harder rig than what is usually used. She’s a legend.
menuau on
And someone in her family tree is gonna look at her picture, adjust their glasses and/or the distance of the phone, and be crestfallen to realize she’s not, in fact, an eye doctor (as if being a cinematographer, and an Oscar-winning one no less, isn’t a “good job” because you might not be endlessly working and views breaks between movies you’re filming as “having been fired”).
SwaggiiP on
She looks like inspector gadget
Impressive-Wish6648 on
train dreams got robbed. good for her tho.
MattTheHoopla on
Huge part of gatekeeping happens at the earliest levels of acquiring decent gear and getting strong as fuck at the basics outside traditional environments. That’s been less and less of a problem with cheaper higher quality gear. Since hard work and intelligence has never actually been the issue, expect to see more and more people of colour coming up.
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98 years is wild that ceiling wasn’t glass, it was concrete.
And it took a Black-Filipino woman to do it
What do you call the thing she’s looking through?
Not so fun fact: The first woman to be nominated for Best Cinematography at the Oscars was Rachel Morrison for *Mudbound* in 2017. That’s not even 10 years ago!
Actual fun fact: Rachel Morrison was the one who introduced Autumn Durald Arkapaw to Ryan Coogler, the director of *Sinners*!
Rachel and Ryan are longtime collaborators, having made the films *Fruitvale Station* and *Black Panther* together. When she wasn’t available to help him make *Black Panther: Wakanda Forever*, she recommended Autumn, her friend and colleague, to him instead.
Autumn and Ryan very successfully collaborated on *Wakanda Forever*, which was beautifully shot. That led to their collaboration on *Sinners*, which led to this ground-breaking win!
So when Autumn thanked Rachel in her acceptance speech, it was both because Rachel broke the nomination barrier AND because Rachel personally helped her land this project!
History in the making. What a legendary shot! 🔥 #Cinematography #Oscars
Mind you she also shot the whole thing in IMAX which is a much larger and harder rig than what is usually used. She’s a legend.
And someone in her family tree is gonna look at her picture, adjust their glasses and/or the distance of the phone, and be crestfallen to realize she’s not, in fact, an eye doctor (as if being a cinematographer, and an Oscar-winning one no less, isn’t a “good job” because you might not be endlessly working and views breaks between movies you’re filming as “having been fired”).
She looks like inspector gadget
train dreams got robbed. good for her tho.
Huge part of gatekeeping happens at the earliest levels of acquiring decent gear and getting strong as fuck at the basics outside traditional environments. That’s been less and less of a problem with cheaper higher quality gear. Since hard work and intelligence has never actually been the issue, expect to see more and more people of colour coming up.
One eye covered club.