Joseph Ruttenberg

Joseph Ruttenberg, A.S.C. was a Ukrainian-born American photojournalist and cinematographer.
Ruttenberg was accomplished at winning accolades. At MGM, Ruttenberg was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Cinematography 10 times, winning four. In addition, he won the 1954 Golden Globe Award for his camera work on the film Brigadoon.

Career

Born into a Jewish family in Berdychiv, in Kiev Governorate of the Russian Empire, Joseph Ruttenberg emigrated to the United States, arriving in Boston, Massachusetts on 7 January 1895. As a young man he went to work at the Boston Globe as a photojournalist but left in 1915 to accept a job with the Fox Film Corporation in New York City to train as a cinematographer. Two years later, he was behind the camera for The Painted Madonna, which marked the start of a remarkably successful career.
In the late 1920s, Ruttenberg went to work for Paramount Pictures in New York. His first assignment for a sound film was The Struggle, D.W. Griffith's final film. In 1934, Ruttenberg signed with MGM, moving to Hollywood where he was invited to join the American Society of Cinematographers.
Joseph Ruttenberg retired from MGM in 1968 and died in Los Angeles on May 1, 1983.

Filmography

The Painted Madonna

The Blue Streak The Slave Wife Number Two Thou Shalt Not Steal A Heart's Revenge The Debt of Honor Peg of the Pirates Doing Their Bit The Woman Who Gave The Yellow Dog Woman, Woman! A Fallen Idol My Little Sister The Shark From Now On The Tiger's Club The Thief The Mountain Woman Know Your Men A Virgin Paradise Beyond Price Silver Wings The Town That Forgot God Who Are My Parents? My Friend the Devil If Winter Comes Does It Pay? The Fool School for Wives Summer Bachelors The Struggle The Knife of the Party Woman in the Dark The People's Enemy Frankie and Johnnie Gigolette Three Godfathers Mad Holiday Fury Man Hunt Piccadilly Jim Big City Everybody Sing A Day at the Races Dramatic School The Great Waltz Three Comrades Spring Madness The First Hundred Years The Shopworn Angel On Borrowed Time Balalaika The Women The Ice Follies of 1939 Tell No Tales Comrade X Broadway Melody of 1940 The Philadelphia Story Waterloo Bridge Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Ziegfeld Girl Two-Faced Woman Woman of the Year Crossroads Random Harvest Mrs. Miniver Presenting Lily Mars Madame Curie Mrs. Parkington Gaslight The Valley of Decision Adventure My Brother Talks to Horses Killer McCoy Beloved Stranger Julia Misbehaves B.F.'s Daughter That Forsyte Woman The Bribe Side Street The Miniver Story The Magnificent Yankee The Big Hangover Cause for Alarm! Kind Lady It's a Big Country Too Young to Kiss The Great Caruso The Prisoner of Zenda Young Man With Ideas Because You're Mine Small Town Girl Julius Caesar The Great Diamond Robbery Latin Lovers Invitation to the Dance Her Twelve Men The Last Time I Saw Paris Brigadoon Interrupted Melody The Prodigal Kismet Somebody Up There Likes Me The Swan Until They Sail Man On Fire The Vintage Gigi The Reluctant Debutante Green Mansions The Wreck of the Mary Deare BUtterfield 8 The Subterraneans Two Loves Bachelor in Paradise Ada Who's Got the Action? The Hook A Global Affair It Happened at the World's Fair Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed? Harlow Sylvia Love Has Many Faces The Oscar Speedway

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Accolades

Academy Awards wins:The Great Waltz Mrs. Miniver Somebody Up There Likes Me Gigi
Golden Globe Award win:Brigadoon
Academy Award nominations:Waterloo Bridge Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Madame Curie Gaslight Julius Caesar

''BUtterfield 8''

Publications

"Photographing Pre-Production Tests," in American Cinematographer, January 1956.
"Sound-Stage Sea Saga," in American Cinematographer, April 1960.Positif, September 1972.
Seminar in American Cinematographer, July 1975.Focus on Film, Spring 1976.
In Dance in the Hollywood Musical, by Jerome Delamater, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1981.Film History, vol. 1, no. 1, 1987.