Cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki makes Oscar history

Emmanuel Lubezki.
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Emmanuel Lubezki made Oscar history Sunday night when he became the first cinematographer to receive three consecutive Academy Awards.

This year, the Mexican cinematographer took home the statue for The Revenant; in 2015 he won for Birdman, and in 2014 for Gravity. This is Lubezki's second Academy Award working with director Alejandro G. Inarritu, who told the Los Angeles Times that his frequent collaborator "loves to live on the edge. If failure is not a possibility, he doesn't seem interested."

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Catherine Garcia, The Week US

Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.