Albert Maysles Award for Excellence in Documentary Filmmaking
Award Winner: Haskell Wexler
Haskell Wexler, two-time Academy Award®-winning cinematographer, was named one of the ten most influential cinematographers in movie history. He won his Oscars® in both black & white and color, for Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and Bound for Glory. He has directed over fifty documentaries, rock videos and award-winning commercials, including The Bus, Bus Riders Union, Introduction to the Enemy, shot in Vietnam with Jane Fonda; Interview with My Lai Veterans, which also won an Academy Award®, No Nukes with Barbara Kopple, and Who Needs Sleep, a film about sleep deprivation and long hours in the motion picture business, which premiered at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival. In 2008 Wexler shot Sense of Wonder, an intimate and poignant reflection of the life of pioneering environmentalist Rachel Carson. Wexler received five Oscar® nominations for his cinematography, plus one Emmy award, in a career that has spanned six decades. His nominations came for his work on his first feature documentary, The Living City; a short film T for Tumbleweed; Milos Forman’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest; and John Sayles’ Matewan and Blaze. Moviegoers have had the pleasure of enjoying this icon of moviemaking for over 60 years and we are honored to welcome him to Mendocino.
Haskell Wexler, two-time Academy Award®-winning cinematographer, was named one of the ten most influential cinematographers in movie history. He won his Oscars® in both black & white and color, for Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and Bound for Glory. He has directed over fifty documentaries, rock videos and award-winning commercials, including The Bus, Bus Riders Union, Introduction to the Enemy, shot in Vietnam with Jane Fonda; Interview with My Lai Veterans, which also won an Academy Award®, No Nukes with Barbara Kopple, and Who Needs Sleep, a film about sleep deprivation and long hours in the motion picture business, which premiered at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival. In 2008 Wexler shot Sense of Wonder, an intimate and poignant reflection of the life of pioneering environmentalist Rachel Carson. Wexler received five Oscar® nominations for his cinematography, plus one Emmy award, in a career that has spanned six decades. His nominations came for his work on his first feature documentary, The Living City; a short film T for Tumbleweed; Milos Forman’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest; and John Sayles’ Matewan and Blaze. Moviegoers have had the pleasure of enjoying this icon of moviemaking for over 60 years and we are honored to welcome him to Mendocino.
This award made possible by the generous
support of the
Kanbar Charitable Trust.
Kanbar Charitable Trust.