Category: Academy Awards History

Born April 19, 1858 in Melbourne, Australia, the fourth child of a British Naval Captain and his wife, Mary Jeanette Robison would move to her parents’ native England after the death of her father, and would be educated in London, Paris and Brussels. After emigrating to the U.S. as a young woman, she married a…

Born August 2, 1894, Hal Mohr was one of Hollywood’s most distinguished pioneering cinematographers. Fascinated with photography from an early age, Mohr built his own camera as a teenager, took and printed photographs which he sent to the New York Herald Tribune, which published many of them. Producer-exhibiter Sol Lesser took notice and hired him…