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.

Ellen Kuras at the Mill Valley Film Festival in 2008
Ellen Kuras, the veteran cinematographer behind Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, whose name Arkapaw discovered as a student — proof that women could do this work. Arkapaw thanked her by name from the Oscar stage. © Frank Chan, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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