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    Birthday: February 06, 2004

    An apprentice and assistant cameraman in the silent days, Sam Leavitt became a camera operator in the 1930s. Among his credits were such splashy MGM Technicolor musicals as Bathing Beauty (1944) and Anchors Aweigh (1946). Leavitt found himself harking back to his silent-movie career for his first director of photography assignment: The Thief (1952), a dialogue-less experiment ...more
    • 1960
    • Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie
    • Best Color Cinematography
    • Exodus
    • nom
    • 1959
    • Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie
    • Best Black and White Cinematography
    • Anatomy of a Murder
    • nom
    • 1958
    • Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie
    • Best Black and White Cinematography
    • The Defiant Ones
    • nom
    • 1952
    • Hollywood Foreign Press Association
    • Best Cinematography - Black and White
    • The Thief
    • nom


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