The First Woman to Win the Cinematography Oscar: Top Photos

Autumn Durald Arkapaw breaks a 97-year barrier and asks every woman in the room to stand with her.

Offices of Delta and Pine Land Company of Mississippi, located in Scott, Mississippi. In the 1930s, Delta & Pine operated one of the largest cotton plantations in the Mississippi Delta.
A cotton plantation office in 1930s Mississippi. Sinners unfolds in this world — 1932 Mississippi — where Coogler and Arkapaw used IMAX 65mm to capture the era, with Kodak creating a custom Ektachrome stock for the flashback sequences. © Marion Post Wolcott, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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