How's it going everybody, it is Oscar season. So many good movies came out in
2017 and the nominations have been announced. Me being such a geek I'm
always like what camera did they shoot on? So let's go look at all the
nominations and see which camera shot most the movies. Let me know what you
guys predict it's gonna be the most common answers are generally RED cameras
or traditional film or Arri Alexas or something else, like an iPhone or
something. It can happen so let's go look at all the nominations and start
counting them out. Biggest hit of the nomination night of course was the shape
of water with 13 nominations. the shape of water was filmed on the Arri
Alexa. To be more specific the Alexa Mini paired with the Alexa XT Plus.
Pretty common combination the mini and the XT Plus both share the same sensor
but come in different form factors. The mini is pretty compact and it's what
you've seen me shoot with pretty often and the XT Plus, it's the same sensor but
on a much bigger form factor which is actually better for when you have a
bigger crew because everyone's trying to get their hands on the camera and plug
things in and shut up. They also put the Zeiss master Prime's on their beautiful
lenses and Fujinon Alura for their zoom lenses. For Best Cinematography I feel
like it's got to be the shape of water or Blade Runner I mean, they're
both just mind-blowingly beautiful. Like look at this shot in the
window like look at the richness of her skin tones and just how vibrant the
Blues come through. The Arri somehow manages get this picture where everything's
super sharp and crisp, but yeah everybody looks so softly lit and just beautiful
and creamy, it's like Ahh! Next up with eight Oscar nominations is Dunkirk
Dunkirk was shot on an IMAX film camera oh that's an expensive camera to shoot a
movie on but if you're Christopher Nolan you can pretty much do whatever you want
and I think they did a really good job utilizing this IMAX camera. I saw this
one in theaters and I was like oh my god I feel like I'm at war right now. And of
course it's a timepiece so it's very common to shoot on film for these
because it gives you this super classic movie look and it was shot on Panavision
and Hasselblad lenses. Next up with seven nominations was three billboards. I
really enjoyed this movie actually it had this indie vibe which I liked a lot
of indie films and this just hit home for me. I was entertained the whole time.
it was well-made it was fun and I'm stoked to got seven nominations and it
was shot on the Arri Alexa XT plus with Panavision lenses. Another point for the
Arri Alexa. Darkest hour was filmed on the Arri
Alexa Mini and SXT plus with cooke and Angenieux lenses. Cookes are these prime
lenses that are super beautiful and soft and the Anenieuxs are very popular for
zoom lenses. It almost looks like film but you could kind of tell it shot on
Arri because it has this like smoothness to it and Phantom Thread was shot on
film so another point for old-school film shot on the Panavision millenium XL2
you can color grade the Alexa to try to make it look like film but there's
always a little something missing like it just gives it this kind of classic
film look and it works so good for timepieces. For the top five we have
three shot on Arri, two shot on film, and zero for RED. Sorry pal, your times coming
don't worry. Next up is Lady Bird with five nominations shot entirely on the
Arri Alexa mini. Arri Alexa Mini shares the same sensor as its bigger
brothers so it's pretty common for indie films with lower budgets and less crew
to run with just Arri Alexa Minis because of the smallest footprint. Blade Runner,
this might win Best Cinematography we'll see. Arri Alexa Mini and XT studio
with Zeiss master prime lenses. Again looking at some of these shots the
richness of the colors has completely give it away that it was an Arri Alexa
camera and this is Roger Deakins' go-to camera of course. Call me by your
name with four nominations shot on film I've yet to see it but I hear it's
really good and again it has this film look. Next up is get out, I'm pretty happy
to see this genre of movies starting to make entrances into the Oscar
nominations it was entirely shot on the area Alexa Mini with Angenieux Optimo
lenses which means the smallest footprint Alexa with zoom lenses the
entire time which is perfect if you're trying to move fast. And I didn't realize
this movie only had a 5 million dollar budget which is pretty small compared to
most other movies that shoot with like a hundred million or two hundred million
dollars so I'm impressed that how much they did with that five million dollars
and Alexa Mini with zoom lenses the whole time, that's way to go Star Wars
The last Jedi shot on film but also paired with the area Alexa 65. The Arri
Alexa mini and the xt+ I get the feeling they wanted to shoot
most of it on film but they have to mix in a little bit of digital for the
convenience. the Alexa 65 I've never even touched but it's like a dream for me to
shoot on one one day and they were running Arri Panavision and Hasselblad
lenses. next baby driver with three nominations for editing sound edit and
sound mix if you've seen the movie you know that these are well-deserved. shot
on film paired with Arri Alexa Mini and the xt+
it's pretty common for people to want to shoot film for aesthetic reasons but
then pair it with the convenience and low-light capabilities of like a digital
camera but many will argue that there is no replacing film. I Tanya, super fun
movie. Again another movie shot on film and Arri
Alexa 65 so half a point for Arri, half a point for film. Mudbound up for three
nominations this is exciting the first nomination for a female cinematographer
so awesome good for her. Shot on the Arri Alexa Mini with Panavision
Anamorphics. She wanted to actually shoot on film but because of budgetary reasons
they had to shoot on the Arri Alexa Mini. It's funny because like the Arri
Alexa is a super expensive camera but in Hollywood it's still the budget option.
But she paired the Alexa Mini with Panavision anamorphic lenses, she said
the cost difference was just too big and significant to justify the small
difference in look because if she were to be shooting film that would literally
shave a couple days off their shooting schedule so Beauty and the Beast for
production design and costume Arri Alexa XT plus with Leica lenses. For a lot of
these fantasy films where everything's like colorful magical like Arri Alexa
all the way. The post another film shot on film with Panavision XL2. Victoria and
Abdul with two nominations. All the UK shots shot on red dragon all the india
shots were shot on the Arri Alexa. I havn't seen this movie but if I had to guess
they were going for a certain aesthetic in UK to give it that super sharp look
and in India they probably wanted to switch it up and make all the colors
pop but again I haven't seen it so i don't know. All the money in the world nominated for an
Oscar shot on Arri Alexa XT with Panavision lenses. The
Big Sick nominated for an Oscar shot on the Arri Alexa Mini with Cooke s5
lenses. The disaster artist, definitely a fun movie shot on red weapon Dragon
with Panavision and Cooke lenses. definitely a fun movie and I think they
made a really good choice shooting red on this one because it kind of gave it
that grittier look. Fantastic woman nominated for Best Foreign Film shot on
Arri Alexa XT with Cooke anamorphic lenses. The Forida project, like i said i love
indie movies and this one just hit right on the spot. This was shot on a couple of
cameras, the Arri Alexa mini and also the xl2 film camera and there was a couple
shots in there that was shot on the iphone. In the movie when it switched to
the iPhone I think it's very obvious and I think it's intentionally done that way
if you guys have seen the movie did you notice? And I think he also partially did
that because this is from the director that shot tangerine which is the
movie that won a lot of awards for being shot entirely on iPhone. Greatest Showman
Arri Alexa 65 and the Alexa Mini with Panavision lenses. Definitely very
colorful and vibrant so makes a lot of sense
Guardians of the galaxy vol 2 shot on red weapon Dragon, yay you got another one! Kong Skull Island
Arri Alexa XT plus and Panavision lenses. Logan, shot on Arri Alexa Mini and the
XT plus but they also did a couple of specialty shots with a Blackmagic pocket
camera and the sony a7s mkii, pretty common to use all these smaller cameras
for action-packed films because you can tuck these cameras anywhere and if they
break it's like, oops whatever. Loveless nominated for Best
Foreign Film Arri Alexa XT. Marshall, Arri Alexa 65 with Arri lenses. Molly's game
Arri Alexa Mini and XT with Panavision lenses. Roman J Israel, Half on Arri Alexa
half on film, Panavision and Zeiss lenses. Square another foreign film shot on Arri
Alexa XT with master Primes. Strong Island is a documentary, I wasn't about
to find what most of the documentaries were filmed on so I'm excluding them but
this one shot on the canon c300, 5d mark iii and c300 mkii. I've only seen the
trailer but it looked awesome and I gotta say shooting on Canon Cinema
Series, I feel like they're the best documentary cameras out there they look
beautiful they're incredible in low light, they're very functional, these batteries
and memory cards last forever so you're not constantly switching out and you
have all these audio inputs, it's just super convenient, this thing kills this
giant battery in like 20 minutes. War of the Planet of the Apes shot on Arri
Alexa 65, the 65 is definitely popular for like epic, grand. Wonder was shot on
the red weapon dragon with Panavision lenses, this one actually threw me off I
wasn't exactly sure what I was looking at when I watched this movie. like I wasn't
sure if it was the arri, film or red but there you go another point for
the red weapon dragon. good touching lovely movie, I recommend watching it and
just to be clear I've excluded animated films and some
foreign films, and some short films just because I wasn't able to find all the
information on that but tallying all these up, we have Arri Alexa at number
one at 22 of the films. Next up is traditional film still kickin and alive
at 6.5. And finally red at 3.5 so there you go, and I think this is pretty
consistent Arri Alexa usually dominates the oscars, it's like a very go to camera
it can pair well with film and it can be graded in so many different ways. red is
the new kid on the block but they're definitely doing so well, more for if
you're going for a specific type of look, and film like that's just classic it
used to be that everything was shot on film but definitely digital is
completely taking over their space because of how convenient it is because
film is just so expensive. That's all I've got for you guys today, I am late
for lunch, peace, bye. turn off