Stephen H. Burum

Stephen Henry Burum, American [Society of Cinematographers|A.S.C.] is a retired American cinematographer, best known for his work with directors Brian De Palma and Francis Ford Coppola. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Cinematography for his work on Hoffa.

Biography

Burum was born in Dinuba, California, a small Central Valley town near Visalia. He graduated from the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television in the 1960s, and became an instructor at the same school. He began his professional filmmaking career working on the Walt Disney anthology television series, and then was drafted into the U.S. Army and assigned to the Army Pictorial Center, for whom he shot army training films. Returning to California after his service was complete, he worked on commercials, television shows, and low-budget films; he won a technical Emmy for his special-effects work on the popular public television astronomy series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage. He began working on major feature films for Francis Ford Coppola in 1976, shooting the second unit of Apocalypse Now and then The Black Stallion. His first credit as the cinematographer of a major motion picture was for The Escape Artist.
In 2007, Burum returned to UCLA as the Kodak Cinematographer in Residence.

TV specials

Documentary film

Year	Title	Director	Notes
1971	Once Upon a Wheel	David Winters	With Robert Isenberg, Michael Lonzo, Harmon Lougher, John M. Stephens, Craig Stewart and Mark Zavad

Academy Awards

Year	Category	Title	Result	Ref.
1992	Best Cinematography	Hoffa	Nomitated

American Society of Cinematographers
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