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Sayonara (1957)

Ceremony Year: 1958Category: Best CinematographyReleased: 1957
Nominated Talent & Credits
Ellsworth Fredericks— Ellsworth Fredricks
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Air Force Major Lloyd Gruver is reassigned to a Japanese air base and is confronted with US racial prejudice against the Japanese people. The issue is compounded because a number of the soldiers become romantically involved with Japanese women, in defiance of US military policy. Ordinarily, a by-the-book officer, Gruver must take a position when a buddy of his, an enlisted man, Joe Kelly, falls in love with a Japanese woman, Katsumi, and marries her. Gruver risks his position by serving as best man at the wedding ceremony.

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CINEMATOGRAPHY — 30th Academy Awards (1958)

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