Allen Daviau, five-time Academy Award nominated cinematographer who worked on films like Steven Spielberg’s “E.T. The Extra Terrestrial,” “The Color Purple” and “Empire of the Sun,” died on Wednesday. He was 77.
His cousin, Christopher Rice, wrote on Facebook that Daviau died of Covid-19. “Goodbye, my sweet, brilliant cousin. You live on for us in the many frames of beautiful film you helped bring into the world. And your loss sadly makes this terrible pandemic feel all the more real,” he wrote.
Additionally, food editor and writer Colman Andrews sent his condolences on Twitter. “Rip Allen Daviau, my friend of almost 60 years, cinematographer and bon vivant, five-time Academy Award nominee, dining companion extraordinaire, pure soul, who left us last night at the Mptf Hospital, his longtime home, after contracting Covid-19. Salut, mon ami.”
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His cousin, Christopher Rice, wrote on Facebook that Daviau died of Covid-19. “Goodbye, my sweet, brilliant cousin. You live on for us in the many frames of beautiful film you helped bring into the world. And your loss sadly makes this terrible pandemic feel all the more real,” he wrote.
Additionally, food editor and writer Colman Andrews sent his condolences on Twitter. “Rip Allen Daviau, my friend of almost 60 years, cinematographer and bon vivant, five-time Academy Award nominee, dining companion extraordinaire, pure soul, who left us last night at the Mptf Hospital, his longtime home, after contracting Covid-19. Salut, mon ami.”
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- 4/16/2020
- by Beatrice Verhoeven
- The Wrap
Cinematographer Allen Daviau, a five-time Academy Award nominee for films including Steven Spielberg’s “E.T. the Extra Terrestrial” and “Empire of the Sun,” died Wednesday in Los Angeles. He was 77.
Food editor and writer Colman Andrews wrote on Twitter that Daviau had died of coronavirus at the Mptf hospital. “Rip Allen Daviau, my friend of almost 60 years, cinematographer and bon vivant, five-time Academy Award nominee, dining companion extraordinaire, pure soul, who left us last night at the Mptf Hospital, his longtime home, after contracting Covid-19. Salut, mon ami.”
Daviau, a New Orleans native, was nominated for best cinematography Oscars for Spielberg movies “The Color Purple,” “Empire of the Sun,” and “E.T. the Extraterrestrial” — along with two Barry Levinson films, “Avalon” and “Bugsy.” He also shot the Gobi desert sequence for Spielberg’s “Close Encounters of the Third Kind.”
Spielberg said in a statement, “In 1968, Allen and I started our...
Food editor and writer Colman Andrews wrote on Twitter that Daviau had died of coronavirus at the Mptf hospital. “Rip Allen Daviau, my friend of almost 60 years, cinematographer and bon vivant, five-time Academy Award nominee, dining companion extraordinaire, pure soul, who left us last night at the Mptf Hospital, his longtime home, after contracting Covid-19. Salut, mon ami.”
Daviau, a New Orleans native, was nominated for best cinematography Oscars for Spielberg movies “The Color Purple,” “Empire of the Sun,” and “E.T. the Extraterrestrial” — along with two Barry Levinson films, “Avalon” and “Bugsy.” He also shot the Gobi desert sequence for Spielberg’s “Close Encounters of the Third Kind.”
Spielberg said in a statement, “In 1968, Allen and I started our...
- 4/16/2020
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
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