| Stephen H. Burum | |
| Birth Name: | Stephen Henry Burum |
| Birth Date: | 25 November 1939 |
| Birth Place: | Dinuba, California, U.S. |
Stephen Henry Burum, A.S.C. (born November 25, 1939) is an American cinematographer.
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 . 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).[1] [2] [3]
In 2007, Burum returned to UCLA as the Kodak Cinematographer in Residence.[4]
Short film
| Year | Title | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1967 | The Host | Jack Hill | With Jack Hill |
| 1969 | Rodeo | Carroll Ballard | Documentary short |
| The Perils of Priscilla |
TV specials
| Year | Title | Director |
|---|---|---|
| 1970 | Raquel! | David Winters |
| 1979 | The Bee Gees Special | Louis J. Horvitz |
Documentary film
TV movies
| Year | Title | Director |
|---|---|---|
| 1972 | The Special London Bridge Special | David Winters |
| 1977 | Father Knows Best Home for Christmas | Norman Abbott |
| 1980 | The Golden Moment: An Olympic Love Story | Richard C. Sarafian |
| Alone at Last | Hy Averback | |
| 1993 | Big Al | Jerry Levine |
TV series
| Year | Title | Director | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1974 | Land of the Lost | |||
| 1975 | The Lost Saucer | Jack Regas Dick Darley | 6 episodes | |
| 1978 | Mork & Mindy | |||
| 1979 | The T.V. Show | Tom Trbovich | ||
| 2019 | Cine Chalom | Yossi Benavraham | Episode "EXTRAIT DU FILM "L'IMPASSE" DE BRIAN DE PALMA... 1993" |
Academy Awards
American Society of Cinematographers
| Year | Category | Title | Result | Ref. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1987 | Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography | The Untouchables | [5] | ||
| 1989 | The War of the Roses | ||||
| 1992 | Hoffa | [6] | |||
| 2008 | Lifetime Achievement Award | [7] | |||
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