{"id":33673,"date":"2014-05-19T10:46:16","date_gmt":"2014-05-19T14:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=33673"},"modified":"2014-05-19T10:53:28","modified_gmt":"2014-05-19T14:53:28","slug":"godfather-cinematographer-gordon-willis-82","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2014\/05\/19\/godfather-cinematographer-gordon-willis-82\/","title":{"rendered":"GODFATHER Cinematographer Gordon Willis, 82"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Gordon<\/a>Gordon Willis, the cinematographer who worked with a number of New York City-based directors, most notably Francis Ford Coppola and Woody Allen, died yesterday. He was 82.<\/p>\n

Willis’ film career spun out of his Korean War service, where he served in the Air Force as a Photographic and Charting Serviceman. After years as first an assistant camerman, he made his debut as a cinematographer with four features in 1970 – the comedy End of the Road<\/strong>, Irvin Kershner\u2019s Loving<\/strong>, the drama The People Next Door<\/strong> and Hal Ashby\u2019s The Landlord<\/strong>. <\/p>\n

But Willis’s most last contribution was his work for Coppola’s Godfather<\/strong> trilogy. His use of shadows as much as his use of light, marked a sea change in how films would be shot. Willis, and some of his fellow cinematographers, talk about his Godfather<\/strong> trilogy work in the video clip below.<\/p>\n

Although he received Academy Award nominations for his collaborations with Woody Allen on Zelig<\/strong> and Coppola on The Godfather Part III<\/strong>, he would only receive one Oscar when he was awarded n Honorary Academy Award in 2010 “for unsurpassed mastery of light, shadow, color and motion.”<\/p>\n