Walter Lassally
Walter Lassally ( born December 18, 1926 in Berlin) is a native of Germany British cinematographer who won an Oscar for Best Cinematography, among others, and was honored with the ASC International Lifetime Achievement Award.
Life
Is Lassally, a member of the British Society of Cinematographers (BSC ), began his career as a camera assistant in 1947 in the film Things Happen at Night and worked until 2001 in the creation of some 120 films.
At the Academy Awards in 1965 he won the Oscar for Best Cinematography in a black and white film, and indeed for Alexis Zorbas ( 1964) by Michael Cacoyannis, starring Anthony Quinn, Alan Bates and Irene Papas in the lead roles.
For the camera in Heat and Dust (1983 ) by James Ivory with Julie Christie, Greta Scacchi and Christopher Cazenove, he was nominated in 1984 for the British Academy Film Awards ( BAFTA Film Award ). 1984 nominated in the BSC in addition to the prize for the best camera in The Bostonians ( The Bostonians ), which was also directed by James Ivory in 1984 with Christopher Reeve, Vanessa Redgrave and Jessica Tandy.
For his services as a cameraman in the film industry, he was honored with the Marburger Camera Award and in 2008 with the International Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC ) 2005.
Lassally has now settled in Stavros in Akrotiri on Crete. The Oscar, which he received in 1965 for Zorba, he had bequeathed a restaurant on the beach of Stavros, before this was lost by fire.