Gordon Willis, cinematographer for "The Godfather," "The Parallax View," "All the President's Men," "Klute," and the Woody Allen movies "Annie Hall," "Manhattan," and "Zelig," died Sunday May 18, 2014, of cancer. He was 82.
For his obituary in The New York Times, access:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/20/movies/gordon-willis-godfather-cinematographer-dies-at-82.html
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That Willis did not win Oscars for The Godfather and Manhattan is unbelievable.
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It may have been an 'oversight', in hindsight, that Willis wasn't even nominated for each of the first 2 GODFATHERS or for MANHATTAN; but who would you replace him with? Vittorio Storaro, won for APOCALYPSE NOW-79', the year MANHATTAN came out, so nomination or not for Willis, I would say he may have still lost. It wasn't that 'unbelievable' and I would say he just got unlucky with Oscar for some reason.