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My Take
Haskell Wexler is the kind of name I think deserves more recognition outside film circles. Two Academy Awards for cinematography, for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and Bound for Glory, plus a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, but what draws me in is that he was also a documentarian and a director with a real political conscience. A Chicago kid out of Berkeley who shaped how movies looked for decades. I respect cinematographers because their fingerprints are everywhere yet rarely credited by casual viewers. Wexler lived to 93 and clearly never stopped caring about what the camera was pointed at, which I admire.
Overview
Haskell Wexler (February 6, 1922 – December 27, 2015) was an American filmmaker, cinematographer, and documentarian. He won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography twice, in 1966 for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and 1976 for Bound for Glory, out of five total nominations.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Haskell Wexler
- Name (Japanese)
- ハスケル・ウェクスラー
- Reading
- はすける・うぇくすらー
- Born
- February 6, 1922 – December 27, 2015
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Aquarius / Dog
- Origin
- Chicago, Illinois, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- cinematographer / film director / screenwriter / camera operator / actor
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Roger C. Sullivan High School
- University
- University of California, Berkeley
Awards & achievements
- 1967 Academy Award for Best Cinematography, Black-and-White
- 1977 Academy Award for Best Cinematography
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.