Cinematographer Extraordinaire

Cinematographer Owen Roizman has passed at 86. You may not know his name, but you know the films he shot. They were among the best of the 1970s and 1980s including The French Connection, The Exorcist, Three Days of the Condor, Network, and Tootsie. He lensed Taps, Absence of Malice, and the original films of The Stepford Wives and The Heartbreak Kid. He was nominated for five Oscars and was respected among his peers with a lifetime award with the ASC (American Society of Cinematographers).