Awards & Winners

Jack Hildyard

Date of Birth 17-March-1908
Place of Birth London
(England, United Kingdom, Great Britain)
Nationality United Kingdom
Also know as J. Hildyard, Jack Hildyard B.S.C.
Profession Cinematographer
Jack Hildyard, B.S.C. was a British cinematographer who worked on more than 80 films during his career. He made several films with David Lean including The Sound Barrier and Hobson's Choice, as well as Bridge on the River Kwai, for which he won an Academy Award for Best Cinematography and the British Society of Cinematographers Award. His first film was Freedom of the Seas in 1934, as a focus-puller, before working as camera operator on films for Leslie Howard and others, including Pygmalion, The Divorce of Lady X and Pimpernel Smith. His first film as cinematographer was Laurence Olivier's 1944 film Henry V, an adaptation of the Shakespearean history. This gave him invaluable experience of colour cinematography and his subsequent films made him one of the most sought after cameramen in England. His other films included Caesar and Cleopatra, Anastasia, The Sundowners, 55 Days at Peking, Battle of the Bulge, Casino Royale and The Wild Geese. He photographed both of producer-director Moustapha Akkad's films on Islamic history, The Message and Lion of the Desert and in 1983, director Mohamed Shukri Jameel's film, produced by Saddam Hussain, Al-Mas' Ala Al-Kubra, which was nominated for the Golden Prize at the 1983 Moscow International Film Festival.

Awards by Jack Hildyard

Check all the awards nominated and won by Jack Hildyard.

1967


Nominations 1967 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
BAFTA Award for Best Cinematography (Colour) Modesty Blaise

1965


Nominations 1965 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
BAFTA Award for Best Cinematography (Colour) The Yellow Rolls-Royce

1964


Nominations 1964 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
BAFTA Award for Best Cinematography (Colour) The V.I.P.s

1957


Academy Award for Best Cinematography
Honored for : The Bridge on the River Kwai

Nominations 1957 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Cinematography The Bridge on the River Kwai