CMU School of Drama


Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Guild to hold new board election after Labor Dept. says Wexler was unfairly disqualifed

Company Town | Los Angeles Times: "Haskell Wexler has won two Academy Awards and was judged by his peers as one of the 10 most influential cinematographers in movie history.
But the 89-year-old director of photography best known for his work on the 1966 film 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' and the 1966 movie 'Bound for Glory,' was nonetheless disqualified from running for a seat on his own union's national board last year because the guild determined that he had not spent enough time 'working at the trade.'

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