Cinematography is the art of shooting and lighting a film. Award for cinematography.
It covers camera, lens and light rather than what is in front of them. Good cinematography is noticed least, which is why the award so often goes to the most obvious.
1nouncinematographyThe art of shooting and lighting a film.
“The cinematography was the only thing anybody praised.”
cinematography is an art.
From cinematograph plus -y, from Greek kinema, movement, plus graphein, to write.
From cinematograph + y. Compare French cinématographie. Possibly analysable as cinemato- + graphy.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA