Boris Kaufman (Russian: Борис Абрамович Кауфман; August 24, 1897-June 24, 1980) was an Oscar-winning (1954) cinematographer. He was the younger brother of famous filmmakers Dziga Vertov (Denis Kaufman) and Mikhail Kaufman. August 24 is the 236th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (237th in leap years), with 129 days remaining. ... 1897 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... June 24 is the 175th day of the year (176th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 190 days remaining. ... 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday. ... Although he never won an Oscar for any of his movie performances, the comedian Bob Hope received two honorary Oscars for his contributions to cinema. ... Cinematographer Bruno Delbonnel, AFC, meters Audrey Tautou on the set of A Very Long Engagement. ... Dziga Vertov (Russian: , January 2, 1896–February 12, 1954) was a Russian documentary film and newsreel director. ...

Boris Kaufman was born into a family of Jewish intellectuals living in Bialystok at the time when the Congress Poland was a part of the Russian Empire. The word Jew (Hebrew: יהודי transliterated: Yehudi) is used in many ways, but generally refers to a follower of Judaism, a child of a Jewish mother, or someone of Jewish descent with a connection to Jewish culture or ethnicity; and often a combination of these attributes. ... Białystok (pronounce: [bȋa:wistɔk]) (Belarusian: Беласток, Lithuanian: Balstogė) is the largest city (pop. ... The term Congress Poland is an unofficial name of the Kingdom of Poland (1815-1831), a political entity that was created out of the Duchy of Warsaw at the Congress of Vienna in 1815, when European powers reorganised Europe following the Napoleonic wars. ... Imperial Russia is the term used to cover the period of Russian history from the expansion of Russia under Peter the Great, through the expansion of the Russian Empire from the Baltic to the Pacific Ocean, to the deposal of Nicholas II of Russia, the last tsar, at the start...

After the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, Poland regained its independence, and Boris together with his parents moved to Poland. Mikhail and Denis stayed in the Soviet Union and become notable Soviet filmmakers producing avant garde and agitprop films. The three brothers have never met again and stayed in touch only by way of letters. The October Revolution, also known as the Bolshevik Revolution, was the second phase of the Russian Revolution, the first having been instigated by the events around the February Revolution. ... 1917 was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar. ... Second Polish Republic 1921-1939 The Second Polish Republic is an unofficial name applied to the Republic of Poland between World War I and World War II. When the borders of the state were fixed in 1921, it had an area of 388. ... Fountain by R. Mutt. ... Agitprop poster by Mayakovsky Agitprop is short for отдел агитации и пропаганды (otdel agitatsii i propagandy), i. ...

After graduating from Sorbonne University, Boris turned to cinematography. He collaborated with Jean Vigo and later Dmitri Kirsanoff. ... Jean Vigo (April 26, 1905 – October 5, 1934) was a short-lived French film director, who helped in the establishment of poetic realism in film in the 1930s and went on to be a posthumous influence on the French nouvelle vague of the late 1950s and early 1960s. ...

During World War II, he served in the French Army against the Nazis and when France lost he managed to escape to Canada. After short work with John Grierson for the National Film Board of Canada, in 1942 Kaufman moved to the United States. World War II was a truly global conflict with many facets: immense human suffering, fierce indoctrinations, and the use of new, extremely devastating weapons such as the atom bomb. ... French soldiers of the IFOR in Mostar, 1995. ... The Nazi party used a right-facing swastika as their symbol and the red and black colors were said to represent Blut und Boden (blood and soil). ... John Grierson (April 26, 1898 - February 19, 1972) is often considered the father of modern documentary film. ... The National Film Board of Canada (usually National Film Board or NFB) is a Canadian public filmmaking organization established to produce and distribute films that inform Canadians and promote Canada around the world. ... This article is about the year. ...

He supported himself shooting short subjects and documentaries until Elia Kazan chose him to shoot his first American feature film, On the Waterfront (1954), for which Kaufman won an Academy Award for Best Cinematography and Golden Globe Award (1955). For the film Baby Doll (1956), Kaufman received a second Oscar nomination. Elia Kazan Elia Kazan (September 7, 1909 – September 28, 2003) was an American film and theatre director and producer. ... On the Waterfront is an American 1954 film about mob violence and corruption among longshoremen, and became a standard of its kind. ... The Academy Award for Best Cinematography is awarded each year to a cinematographer for his work in one particular motion picture. ... The Golden Globe Awards are American awards for motion pictures and television programs, given out each year during a formal dinner. ... Baby Doll is a 1956 film which tells the story of the childlike bride of a Mississippi cotton gin owner, who becomes the pawn in a battle between her husband and his enemy. ... 1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

He was the director of photography on Sidney Lumet's first film, 12 Angry Men (1957), and The Pawnbroker (1964), among other notable films. Portrait of Sidney Lumet, May 7, 1939. ... 12 Angry Men is a Black-and-white film produced in 1957, and tells the story of twelve jurors bound by the acceptance of their civic duty and thrust together into a hot, humid room to determine the guilt or innocence of a boy accused of killing his father in... 1957 (MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Pawnbroker is a novel by Edward Lewis Wallant which tells the story of a concentration camp survivor who suffers flashbacks of his past Nazi imprisonment as he tries to cope with his daily life. ... For the Nintendo 64 emulator, see 1964 (Emulator). ...

Boris Kaufman retired in 1970 and died in New York City in 1984. New York City, officially named the City of New York, is the most populous city in the United States, the most densely populated major city in North America, and is the largest financial center in the world. ... This page is about the year 1984. ...

Filmography

• 1927 Les Halles centrales
• 1928 Champs-Élysées
• 1928 La marche des machines
• 1928 24 heures en 30 minutes
• 1929 À propos de Nice/Nizza/On the Subject of Nice
• 1929 Les Halles
• 1931 La natation par Jean Taris, champion de France/Taris, champion de natation/Taris, roi de l'eau
• 1931 La vie d'un fleuve: La Seine
• 1932 Le mile de Jules Ladoumègue
• 1932 Travaux du tunnel sous l'Escaut (film is lost)
• 1933 Zéro de conduite/Zero for Conduct
• 1933 Le chemin du bonheur
• 1933 L'Atalante/Le chaland qui passe
• 1934 Le Père Lampion
• 1934 Zouzou
• 1935 Lucrèce Borgia/Lucrezia Borgia
• 1935 Les berceaux
• 1935 Jeune fille au jardin
• 1935 Quand minuit sonnera
• 1936 Klokslag twaalf
• 1936 L'homme sans coeur
• 1936 Oeil-de-Lynx, détective
• 1936 On ne roule pas Antoinette/You Can't Fool Antoinette
• 1937 De man zonder hart
• 1937 Cinderella
• 1937 Êtes-vous jalouse?
• 1937 Les hommes sans nom
• 1938 Fort Dolorès
• 1938 Les gaietés de l'exposition
• 1938 A l'ombre d'une femme
• 1938 Le veau gras
• 1939 Sérénade/Schubert's Serenade
• 1943 Why We Fight
• 1943 Hymn of the Nations
• 1944 A Better Tomorrow
• 1945 Capital Story
• 1945 The Southwest/Land of Enchantment. Southwest U.S.A.
• 1946 Journey Into Medicine
• 1947 The Lambertville Story
• 1948 Terribly Talented
• 1948 Osmosis
• 1950 Preface to a Life
• 1950 The Tanglewood Story/Tanglewood, Music School and Music Festival
• 1951 The Gentleman in Room 6
• 1952 Leonardo da Vinci
• 1952 And the Earth Shall Give Back Life
• 1953 On the Waterfront
• 1954 Garden of Eden
• 1954 Within Man's Power
• 1954 Amazing What Color Can Do
• 1955 Singing in the Dark
• 1955 A Family Affair
• 1955 Patterns/Patterns of Power
• 1955 Baby Doll
• 1956 Crowded Paradise
• 1956 12 Angry Men
• 1958 Home Again
• 1959 That Kind of Woman
• 1959 The Fugitive Kind
• 1960 Splendor in the Grass
• 1962 Long Day's Journey Into Night
• 1963 Gone Are the Days!/Purlie Victorious/The Man from C.O.T.T.O.N.
• 1963 All the Way Home
• 1963 The World of Henry Orient
• 1963 The Pawnbroker
• 1965 The Group
• 1967 Bye Bye Braverman
• 1968 The Brotherhood
• 1968 Up Tight!
• 1969 Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon

References

• Boris Kaufman at cinematographers.nl

External links

• Boris Kaufman at NYT