If Ari Wegner wins for 'Power of the Dog,' she'll be the first woman to take home the Academy Award for cinematography. Here's a behind-the-scenes look at how she filmed the movie.
, she'll be the first woman to take the best cinematographer Oscar., Ari Wegner could make history as the first female cinematographer to win an Academy Award.
Wegner went location scouting in New Zealand with director Jane Campion and production designer Grant Major, both also nominated for Oscars. They camped out and climbed mountain ranges, looking for places that felt like the story's dusty Montana ranch."We chose one of the windiest kind of valleys in the whole of New Zealand," she recalls."It was really an extreme environment. The sun there is really another level of of brightness.
In the film, Phil reveres the shadow of a barking dog he sees in the mountains, a visual effect that was actually added later.Wegner says her favorite scenes to shoot were a cattle drive and a scene with an unguarded moment with Phil. In a willowy glade by a river, he's alone and half naked. He caresses a scarf that belonged to his mentor, the late cowboy named Bronco Henry.
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