Charles Lang

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Charles Bryant Lang, Jr., A.S.C. (July 4, 1901[1] – April 3, 1998) was an Oscar-winning American film cinematographer.

Early in his career he worked with the Akeley camera, a gyroscope-mounted "pancake" camera designed by Carl Akeley for outdoor action shots.[1] Lang's first credits were as co-cinematographer on the silent films The Night Patrol (1926) and The Loves of Ricardo (1927).[1]

After working on the 1932 adaptation of A Farewell to Arms for Paramount Pictures, he ended up working for that studio for twenty years. The style of lighting he introduced in A Farewell to Arms became heavily identified with all of Paramount's films during the 1930s and 1940s.[1]

In 1951 he began the second phase of his career, this time as a free-lance cinematographer.[1] His credits include The Big Heat, Sabrina, The Matchmaker, Some Like It Hot, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, The Magnificent Seven, How the West Was Won, Charade, Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, and Butterflies Are Free.

Lang received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society of Cinematographers in 1991, for a career which included at least 114 feature films.[1]

[edit] Academy Awards

Lang won an Academy Award the second time he was nominated, early in his career; he received a total of 18 nominations, tying with Leon Shamroy for the most cinematography Oscars nominations ever.

[edit] Wins

[edit] Nominations

According to IMDb, Lang received Oscar nominations for the following films:[3]

[edit] Personal life

Lang was born in Bluff, Utah.[1] One of his granddaughters is actress Katherine Kelly Lang.[5]

[edit] References and footnotes

  1. ^ a b c d e f g In Memoriam from the American Society of Cinematographers website
  2. ^ Received award at the 6th Academy Awards in 1934
  3. ^ Charles Lang at the Internet Movie Database
  4. ^ Nominated at the 36th Academy Awards in 1964
  5. ^ Katherine Kelly Lang's biography from the CBS website
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