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By Jake Coyle, Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — No name resonates in Hollywood right now quite like “Chivo.”
That’s the nickname of the famed cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki, whose acrobatic long-takes and luminous images of natural light have made him revered like few others – and may make him a three-peat Oscar winner.
Lubezki is behind some of the most dazzling film photography in recent years: the asteroid storm hurtling through the vast 3-D space of “Gravity,” the seemingly continuous backstage sweep of “Birdman,” the elemental beauty of Terrence Malick’s films. His audacious, real-time sequences have made him synonymous with a seamless magic not before seen in cinema.
“I think it was John Huston who said, ‘When I shoot a whale, I shoot the face and then I cut and I shoot the tail. And everybody understands there’s a whale,'” says Lubezki. “But sometimes when you show the entire whale and when you show the parts that seem not as important, there’s a deeper connection.”
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