{"id":475105,"date":"2023-01-07T23:43:30","date_gmt":"2023-01-07T23:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=475105"},"modified":"2023-01-17T23:04:54","modified_gmt":"2023-01-17T23:04:54","slug":"owen-roizman-french-connection-and-exorcist-cinematographer-dies-at-86","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/owen-roizman-french-connection-and-exorcist-cinematographer-dies-at-86","title":{"rendered":"Owen Roizman, &#8216;French Connection&#8217; and &#8216;Exorcist&#8217; cinematographer, dies at 86"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Five-time Oscar nominated cinematographer Owen Roizman, who shot landmark films including &#8220;The French Connection,&#8221; &#8220;The Exorcist,&#8221; &#8220;Network&#8221; and &#8220;Tootsie,&#8221; has died. He was 86. The American Society of Cinematographers confirmed Saturday that Roizman had died after a long illness. New York-born Roizman, who died at his home in Los Angeles, was given an honorary Oscar for his career achievements in 2017, having retired from the film business in the 1990s without yet taking home one of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences gold statuettes, despite the multiple nominations. Roizman was known for his collaborations with Sydney Pollack and William Friedkin. His film work included &#8220;Play It Again, Sam,&#8221; &#8220;The Heartbreak Kid,&#8221; &#8220;Three Days of the Condor&#8221; and &#8220;Wyatt Earp.&#8221; He received his first Oscar nomination for 1971&#8217;s &#8220;The French Connection&#8221; &#8212; his second film &#8212; which starred Gene Hackman as a violent police detective. After filming the influential Friedkin-directed neo-noir crime thriller, including its famed car chase sequence,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roizman was a five-time Oscar nominee who also shot &#8216;Network&#8217; and &#8216;The Taking of Pelham One Two Three.&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-475105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}