Dennis McLellan and Jack Dolan at the Los Angeles Times report that the cinematographer Haskell Weller died yesterday. He won Academy Awards for his photography work on Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?and Bound for Glory, and was also the writer and director of 1969’sMedium Cool.

Wexler received Oscar nominations for best cinematography for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), which he shared with Bill Butler,Matewan (1987), and Blaze (1989). Other notable films Wexler worked on as a cinematographer are The Thomas Crown Affair, In the Heat of the Night, Coming Home, Colors, and The Babe. He also received an additional photography credit from Terrence Malick’s 1978 Days of Heaven, which won cinematographer Nestor Almendros an Oscar.

His feature directorial debut, Medium Cool, following a TV news cameraman, was partly shot in Chicago during the infamous 1968 Democratic National Convention. The film was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry in 2003. Wexler also became the first cameraman still working to receive the American Society of Cinematographer’s Lifetime Achievement Award, in 1993.

On his life’s work, he said it came down to “[being] able to have a camera and an idea and an urge that gives me pleasure.”