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Early life

Wexler was born in Chicago, Illinois to Simon and Lottie Wexler, who also had Jerrold, Joyce (Isaacs), and Yale. After a year of college at the University of California, Berkeley and a tour in the United States Merchant Marine during World War II, he decided to become a filmmaker despite having no experience in the industry. Sather tower (the Campanile) looking out over the San Francisco Bay and Mount Tamalpais. ... “USMM” redirects here. ... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000...

Film career

He briefly made industrial films in Chicago, then became an assistant cameraman. Wexler worked on documentary features and shorts; low-budget docu-dramas such as 1959's The Savage Eye; television's The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet; and television commercials. (He would later found Wexler-Hall, a television commercial production company, with Conrad Hall.) In 1963, he served as the cinematographer on his first big-budget film, Elia Kazan's America, America. The film had a stunning look, and Kazan was nominated for a Best Director Academy Award, and Wexler worked steadily in Hollywood thereafter. In 1965, Wexler was cinematographer of Mike Nichols' screen version of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? . Wexler won an Academy Award for the film's acclaimed black-and-white cinematography in 1967. He won a second Oscar in 1976 for Bound for Glory, a biography of Woody Guthrie (whom Wexler had met during his time in the Merchant Marine). 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Wexler has also directed movies. Medium Cool, a film written by Wexler and shot in the cinéma vérité style is studied by film students all over the world for its breakthrough form. Medium Cool was the subject of a BBC documentary Look Out Haskell It's Real. His film LATINO was chosen for the Cannes Film Festival in 1984 and produced by Lucas Film.The film was written and directed by Wexler. Another directing project was From Wharf Rats to Lords of the Docks, an intimate exploration of the life and times of Harry Bridges an extraordinary labor leader and social visionary – “a hero or the devil incarnate, it all depends on your point of view”. [1] Medium Cool is a 1969 film directed by Haskell Wexler and starring Robert Forster. ... This article is about filmmaking. ... Harry Bridges (July 28, 1901 – March 30, 1990) was an influential American labor leader in the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU), a union of longshore and warehouse workers on the West Coast and in Hawaii and Alaska which he helped form and led for over forty years. ...

In 1988, he won an Independent Spirit Award for his cinematography on John Sayles' Matewan (for which he was also nominated for an Academy Award), and in 1993, he won a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society of Cinematographers. He was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, the first cinematographer in 35 years to be honored, 1996. His work with Billy Crystal in the 2001 HBO film "61" was nominated for an Emmy. // Michael Jacksons first film was Moonwalker Rain Man, starring Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise Who Framed Roger Rabbit, starring Bob Hoskins Coming to America, starring Eddie Murphy Big, starring Tom Hanks Twins, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito Crocodile Dundee II Die Hard, starring Bruce Willis The Naked Gun... Photo of John Sayles by Robert Birnbaum John Thomas Sayles (born September 28, 1950) is an independent American film director and writer who frequently takes a small part in his own and other indie films. ... Matewan is a 1987 drama by John Sayles, illustrating the events of a coal mine-workers strike and attempt to unionize in 1920 in Matewan, a small town in the hills of West Virginia. ... The year 1993 in film involved many significant films. ... The American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) is not a labor union or guild, but rather an educational, cultural and professional organization. ...

In 2007 he received a Lifetime achievement award from the Independent Documentary Association and the same from the Society of Operating Cameramen.

Selected filmography

• The Secret of Roan Inish, 1994
• Blaze, 1989
• Matewan, 1987
• Days of Heaven,1978
• Bound for Glory, 1976
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, 1975
• Medium Cool, 1969 (also director and screenwriter)
• The Thomas Crown Affair, 1968
• In the Heat of the Night, 1967
• Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, 1966
• The Best Man, 1964
• America, America, 1963
• Face in the Rain, 1963
• Angel Baby, 1961
• Hoodlum Priest, 1961
• The Savage Eye, 1960
• Stakeout on Dope Street, 1958 (credited as Mark Jeffrey due to problems with his guild membership)

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Frequent collaborators

• John Sayles
• Hal Ashby
• Norman Jewison

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External links

• Haskell Wexler at the Internet Movie Database'
• Article about Haskell Wexler's film Medium Cool
• Hasell Wexler, ASC, Focuses on the Making of Matewan
• Through a lens darkly, The Guardian Interview, June 2006