Tony Gaudio

Gaetano Antonio "Tony" Gaudio ( born November 20, 1883 in Rome, † August 9, 1951 in Burlingame ) was an American cinematographer Italian descent, the total of six times Best in the 1930s and 1940s for an Oscar in the category Camera was nominated and received the award in 1937 Anthony Adverse for the film.

Biography

Gaudio attended an art school in Rome. After graduating, he worked as an assistant for his father and brother, both as a portrait photographer working. 1903 began working as a cameraman, where he first participated in the creation of hundreds of short films for various Italian companies.

Emigration

1906 emigrated Gaudio in the United States and worked from 1908 at Vitagraph, a film production and distribution company, and changed in 1910 in the same function to the Independent Motion Picture Company, founded by Carl Laemmle in 1909. There he took the camera work in various films directed by Thomas Harper Ince. In the early 1920s he made a name for himself as an inventor and developers of camera devices and was 1924-1925 president of the American Society of Cinematographers, which was, inter alia, by his brother Eugene Gaudio, who had also worked as a cinematographer, founded in 1919. He also worked with directors such as Marshall Neilan, Allan Dwan and Frank Borzage.

Career

In Lewis Milestone film on the Western Front, he assisted Arthur Edeson as a camera operator and was nominated in the same year for the camera work at Howard Hughes ' ​​Hell's Angels film for an Oscar. In the same year he was hired by Warner Brothers. Together with Sid Hickox, Sol Polito, Barney McGill and Arthur Edeson he coined the style of Warner Brothers movies that made borrowings from the German Expressionism, and was typical for the movies of the studio in the 1930s and 1940s. Mervyn LeRoy's film for Anthony Adverse Gaudio was awarded at the Oscars in 1937 with the Oscar for Best Cinematography. In the following years there has been an increase to collaborate with William Dieterle, for whose film Juarez, he was nominated again for an Oscar, as well as with other well-known directors such as William Wyler, Charles Vidor, Lloyd Bacon, Raoul Walsh, who brought him another Oscar nominations.

In the movie The Red Pony from 1949 Gaudio was the last time worked as a cameraman. In his 40 - year career, he has participated in over 140 film productions.

Filmography (selection)

Awards

Oscar

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