Tony Gaudio

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Gaetano Antonio "Tony" Gaudio (born November 20, 1883 in Rome , † August 9, 1951 in Burlingame ) was an American cameraman of Italian descent who won an Oscar six times in the best camera category in the 1930s and 1940s was nominated and received the award in 1937 for the film A Restless Life .

biography

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

emigration

In 1906 Gaudio emigrated to the United States and from 1908 worked at Vitagraph , a film production and sales company, and in 1910 switched to the Independent Motion Picture Company founded by Carl Laemmle in 1909 . There he took over camera work on various films directed by Thomas Harper Ince . In the early 1920s he made a name for himself as the inventor and further developer of camera technology devices and was president of the American Society of Cinematographers from 1924 to 1925 . a. was founded by his brother Eugene Gaudio , who also worked as a cameraman. He has also worked with directors such as Marshall Neilan , Allan Dwan and Frank Borzage .

Career

In Lewis Milestone's film Nothing New in the West, he assisted Arthur Edeson as camera operator and was nominated for an Oscar that same year for camera work in Howard Hughes ' film Hell's Flier . In the same year he was hired by Warner Brothers . Together with Sid Hickox , Sol Polito , Barney McGill and Arthur Edeson, he shaped the style of the Warner Brothers films, which borrowed from German Expressionism and became typical of the studio's films in the 1930s and 1940s. For Mervyn LeRoy's film A Restless Life , Gaudio was awarded the Oscar for Best Cinematography at the 1937 Academy Awards . In the following years he worked more and more with William Dieterle , for whose film Juarez he was again nominated for an Oscar, as well as with other well-known directors such as William Wyler , Charles Vidor Lloyd Bacon and Raoul Walsh , who earned him further Oscar nominations.

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

Filmography (selection)

Awards

Oscar

Nominations:

  • 1930 : Best camera for hell fliers
  • 1940 : Best camera (B / W) for Juarez
  • 1941 : Best camera (B / W) for The Secret of Malampur
  • 1944 : Best camera (B / W) for the Korvette K 225
  • 1946 : Best camera (color film) for Triumph des Herzens

literature

  • Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 3: F - H. Barry Fitzgerald - Ernst Hofbauer. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , pp. 205 f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ ASC Past Presidents ; Retrieved April 23, 2010
  2. ^ Gaudio, Tony ; Retrieved April 23, 2010
personal data
SURNAME Gaudio, Tony
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gaudio, Gaetano Antonio (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American cameraman of Italian descent
DATE OF BIRTH November 20, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Rome , Italy
DATE OF DEATH August 9, 1951
Place of death Burlingame , California , United States