{"id":2330734,"date":"2026-03-16T06:02:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T06:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2330734"},"modified":"2026-03-16T06:02:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T06:02:12","slug":"sinners-cinematographer-autumn-durald-arkapaw-makes-history-as-first-woman-to-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/sinners-cinematographer-autumn-durald-arkapaw-makes-history-as-first-woman-to-win\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Sinners\u2019 Cinematographer Autumn Durald Arkapaw Makes History as First Woman to Win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co1036868\/\">Sinners<\/a> cinematographer <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm2557161\/\">Autumn Durald Arkapaw<\/a> became the first Black woman, and first woman of any race, to win the Oscar for best cinematography.<\/p>\n<p>Arkapaw, who is of Filipino and African American Creole descent, won best cinematography at the 2026 Oscars. She triumphed over fellow nominees <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0491565\/\">Dan Laustsen<\/a> (<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1312221\/\">Frankenstein<\/a>), <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0451787\/\">Darius Khondji<\/a> (Marty Supreme), <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0062177\/\">Michael Bauman<\/a> (<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt30144839\/\">One Battle After Another<\/a>) and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm4110224\/\">Adolpho Veloso<\/a> (<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt29768334\/\">Train Dreams<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>During her speech, Arkapaw thanked <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1121126\/\">Rachel Morrison<\/a>, one of a number of female cinematographers who\u2019d been nominated for Oscars but failed to win. Morrison was nominated in 2018 for <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt2396589\/\">Mudbound<\/a>. The other two women nominated were <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1645832\/\">Ari Wegner<\/a> for <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt10293406\/\">The Power of the Dog<\/a> in 2021 and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0907999\/\">Mandy Walker<\/a> in 2022 for Elvis.<\/p>\n<p>She began by thanking Sinners director Coogler, recalling, \u201cWhenever I say thank you to Ryan, he replies and says, \u2018no, thank you, thank you for believing in me and thank you for trusting me,\u2019 and that\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sinners cinematographer Autumn Durald Arkapaw became the first Black woman, and first woman of any race, to win the Oscar for best cinematography. Arkapaw, who is of Filipino and African American Creole descent, won best cinematography at the 2026 Oscars. She triumphed over fellow nominees Dan Laustsen (Frankenstein), Darius Khondji (Marty Supreme), Michael Bauman (One [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2330735,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2330734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/\u2018Sinners-Cinematographer-Autumn-Durald-Arkapaw-Makes-History-as-First-Woman.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2330734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2330734"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2330734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2330736,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2330734\/revisions\/2330736"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2330735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2330734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2330734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2330734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}