The Humanitarian Award was presented to two-time Academy Award®-winning Director of Photography Haskell Wexler by Billy Crystal. Haskell continues his efforts and the efforts of 12on12off to end the chronic and abusive threat to our health and safety in the workplace.
Wexler, who was judged one of the ten most influential cinematographers in movie history by an International Cinematographers Guild survey of its members, has won Oscars® for Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf? and Bound for Glory, in addition to Oscar® nominations for One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (with Bill Butler,1976), Blaze and Matewan, along with many other awards for these films.
Wexler, who was judged one of the ten most influential cinematographers in movie history by an International Cinematographers Guild survey of its members, has won Oscars® for Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf? and Bound for Glory, in addition to Oscar® nominations for One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (with Bill Butler,1976), Blaze and Matewan, along with many other awards for these films.