Best Cinematography, 1927-28

Awards presented May 16, 1929
(Films released from August 1, 1927 through August 1, 1928 were eligible.)

The nominees were ...

• George Barnes, The Devil Dancer, The Magic Flame, and Sadie Thompson
• Charles Rosher and Karl Struss, Sunrise

And the Oscar went to ...

Charles Rosher

 Born in England, Rosher was a Hollywood pioneer, beginning his career in 1911. He was cameraman on many of the most successful films of Mary Pickford. He spent a year in Germany working with F.W. Murnau before filming Sunrise. His later career was spent at MGM, shooting many of the Technicolor musicals of the late '40s and early '50s, and won a second Oscar for The Yearling (1946).

Karl Struss in 1976

Struss had been a still photographer in New York City, working with Alfred Stieglitz, before he was hired in 1919 by Cecil B. DeMille. He spent most of his career at Paramount, and worked with Charles Chaplin on The Great Dictator (1940) and Limelight (1952). 

Sunrise