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Alex Thomson
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Alexander Thomson BSC (12 January 1929 – 14 June 2007) was an English cinematographer, active from the late-1960s through the early-2000s. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Cinematography for his work on John Boorman's Excalibur (1981). Thomson also won British Society of Cinematographers Awards for Legend (1985) and Hamlet (1996), and received the Society's Lifetime Achievement Award in 2002. He served as President of the Society from 1980 to 1982. The BSC posthumously described him as "a cinematographer's cinematographer."
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Der letzte Flug- LIListening
A Shot at Glory
Love's Labour's Lost
Hamlet
Executive Decision
The Scarlet Letter
Black Beauty
Demolition Man
Cliffhanger
Alien³
Mr. Destiny
The Krays
The Rachel Papers
Leviathan
High Spirits
Date with an Angel
The Sicilian
Labyrinth
Raw Deal
Legend
Year of the Dragon
Electric Dreams
The Keep
Bullshot
Eureka
Skokie
Excalibur
The Gold Bug
The Class Of Miss MacMichael
The Cat and the Canary
Fear Is the Key
Death Line
Dr. Phibes Rises Again
The Road Builder
The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer
The Strange Affair
Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush