About Robert Richardson (cinematographer)
Robert Bridge Richardson, ASC is an American cinematographer. He is one of three living people who has won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography three times, along with Vittorio Storaro and Emmanuel Lubezki. Oliver Stone's major motion picture debut was also Richardson's first film as director of photography. Platoon would earn Richardson his first Oscar nomination for Best Cinematography. In 1991, Richardson won the first of his Best Cinematography Academy Awards for his work on Stone's JFK; he also shot Stone's The Doors that same year.
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