Now, that we have the list of nominees, we can explore the cameras and lenses that shot Best Picture and Cinematography contenders for the 96th Academy Awards. There’s a solid presence of film cameras, and also, nice seeing IMAX film on that list.
96th Academy Awards’ nominees: Cameras & Lenses
Here’s the final list of the Oscars 2024 (96th Academy Awards) Best Picture and Cinematography nominees. Instead of a dull list, we created slides showing the movie poster and the cameras and lenses that shot the movie. Underneath the slides, there’s the description, plus the DP (Director of Photography) that shot the movie. Explore them below:
Best Picture nominees for Oscar 2024
Cinematography nominees for Oscar 2024
Oscar 2024- Camera Chart (updated)
As usual, based on that data, we built a chart showing the main cameras that shot the nominated films. Explore it below (Scorsese’s 1917 Bell and Howell was excluded from the chart):
Basically, there’s no news under the sun. It’s nice to see IMAX on that list (both for Best Picture and Cinematography). But as usual, ARRI leads and VENICE on its six. We’ll discuss this further in a dedicated article. Let us know your thoughts about it.
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Thank, these are very interesting to say the least, but there is a huge fallacy in your comparisons. That said when it comes to film cameras, some of the choices made are because of the glass that they would like to use, but also the film stocks need to be mentioned if comparing to digital cinema cameras. Albeit I am currently uniformed on what stocks are still available. So it would be ultimately more interesting to know the compete picture.
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Thank, these are very interesting to say the least, but there is a huge fallacy in your comparisons. That said when it comes to film cameras, some of the choices made are because of the glass that they would like to use, but also the film stocks need to be mentioned if comparing to digital cinema cameras. Albeit I am currently uniformed on what stocks are still available. So it would be ultimately more interesting to know the compete picture.
no arri alexa 35?
Not yet. Maybe next year.
Many panavision lenses, what are their main qualities?