Stephen H. Burum

Stephen Henry Burum, A.S.C. (born November 25, 1939) 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 (1982).

In 2007, Burum returned to UCLA as the Kodak Cinematographer in Residence.

Filmography

Feature film

Television TV specials Year Title Director 1970 Raquel! David Winters1979 The Bee Gees Special Louis J. Horvitz The T.V. Show Tom Trbovich

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

Awards and honors Academy Awards Year Category Title Result 1992 Best Cinematography Hoffa

American Society of Cinematographers Year Category Title Result Ref. 1987 Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography The Untouchables 1989 The War of the Roses 1992 Hoffa 2008Lifetime Achievement Award

Camerimage Year Category Result 2022 Lifetime Achievement Award