Don Burgess, Cinematographer

Published Friday, December 01, 2000

By the time Don Burgess, ASC, was hired to shoot Robert Zemeckis's groundbreaking epic Forrest Gump, the cinematographer had been working in the business for 15 years. His experience shooting indie features and A-list second unit had given him a wealth of knowledge and the confidence to shoot a major motion picture, but a relatively closed union had worked against that dream. When Zemeckis, who had been impressed with Burgess's second-unit work on two of his Back to the Future films, asked the cinematographer to do first unit on Gump, a major cinematic collaboration was formed. The two ...

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