Joseph Ruttenberg
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Joseph Ruttenberg (July 4, 1889 - May 1, 1983) was a photojournalist and Academy Award-winning cinematographer.
Born into a Jewish family in St. Petersburg, Russia, Joseph Ruttenberg was ten years old when his family emigrated to the United States, settling in Boston, Massachusetts. As a young man he went to work at the Boston Globe newspaper as a photojournalist but left in 1915 to accept a job with the Fox Film Corporation in New York City to train as a cinematographer. Two years later he was behind the camera for his first silent film in what would be a remarkably successful career.
In the late 1920s Joseph Ruttenberg went to work for Paramount Pictures in New York then in 1934 signed on with MGM, moving to Hollywood where he was invited to join the American Society of Cinematographers. With MGM, Ruttenberg was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Cinematography ten times, winning four. In addition, he won the 1954 Golden Globe Award for his camera work on the film Brigadoon.
Joseph Ruttenberg retired from MGM in 1968 and died in Los Angeles in 1983.
Academy Award wins:
- The Great Waltz (1938)
- Mrs. Miniver (1942)
- Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956)
- Gigi (1958)
Academy Award nominations:
- Waterloo Bridge 1940
- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941)
- Madame Curie (1943)
- Gaslight (1944)
- Julius Caesar (1953)
- BUtterfield 8 (1960)
Golden Globe Award win:
- Brigadoon (1954)
