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Two films shot in black and white this year have been nominated in the Oscar Best Cinematography category: Cold War and Roma. Interestingly, both take place in the past. For Cold War, Oscar-nominated cinematographer Lukasz Zal said he and director Pawel Pawlikowski thought about shooting the post-war film in color…

On Cold War, which marked his second collaboration with Pawel Pawlikowski, cinematographer Lukasz Zal built on his rapport with the Polish director to find an exciting new way of working. In his first-go round with the director, on 2013's Ida, Zal earned his first Oscar nomination, which resulted from a strange twist…

Ida, about a novitiate nun who discovers a dark family secret, by Polish-British director Pawel Pawlikowski, is up for two Oscars this year: best foreign language film and best achievement in cinematography. Lukasz Zal, one of the two cinematographers on the shoot—who stepped in when director of photography Ryszard…