Two-time Academy Award-winning cinematographer Haskell Wexler was adjudged one of the ten most influential cinematographers in movie history, according to an International Cinematographers Guild survey of its membership. He won his Oscars in both black & white and color, for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) (1966) and Bound for Glory (1976) (1976). He also shot part of Days of Heaven (1978) (1978), for which credited director of photography Nestor Almendros -- won a Best Cinematography Oscar that Wexler initially felt should have been jointly shared by both. Later he admitted he was just finishing the work of Almendros and when Bert Schneider offer him more credit in the Criterion Dvd release of the film, he turned down the offer. In 1993, Wexler was awarded a Lifetime Achivement award by the cinematographer's guild, the American Society of Cinematographers. He received five Oscar nominations for his cinematography, in total, plus one Emmy Award in a career that has spanned six decades.

In addition to his masterful cinematography, Wexler directed the seminal late Sixties film Medium Cool (1969) and has directed and/or shot many documentaries that display his progressive political views. He was the subject of a 2004 documentary shot by his son Mark Wexler, Tell Them Who You Are (2004).

Haskell Wexler at an event for The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009)

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Haskell Wexler and Randall Robinson in Bound for Glory (1976)

Haskell Wexler in International Cinematographer's Guild Heritage Series (1991)

Jean-Paul Belmondo, Robert Forster, and Haskell Wexler in Medium Cool (1969)

James Cromwell, John Goodman, and Haskell Wexler in The Babe (1992)

Sidney Poitier, Haskell Wexler, and Norman Jewison in In the Heat of the Night (1967)

Haskell Wexler in The Moving Picture Co. 1914 (2014)

Haskell Wexler in Bus Rider's Union (2000)

Haskell Wexler and Emile de Antonio in Underground (1976)

Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, and Warren Oates in In the Heat of the Night (1967)

Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)

Jack Nicholson in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)

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