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Winton C. Hoch
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Never made a black-and-white feature film despite having started shooting features in 1941.
Was the second of only three cinematographers--the first being
Leon Shamroy
and the most recent being
John Toll
--to win back-to-back Oscars. His were for
Victor Fleming
's
Joan of Arc (1948)
and
John Ford
's
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949)
.
Is also the only cinematographer to share an Oscar with a credited second unit cinematographer,
Archie Stout
, for
John Ford
's
The Quiet Man (1952)
.
Educated at the California Institute of Technology. He became a color specialist for the Technicolor Corp., working to develop its three-color system.
Member of the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC).
His father, Augustus Hoch, holds a US patent for a machine he invented to make cement blocks; up to that time, they had been made by hand.
Profiled in "American Classic Screen Interviews" (Scarecrow Press). (2010)
Last name pronounced "Hoke" or "Huke" (accounts differ), but not "Hock."
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