Get Off My Set!
Photographing Director Sidney Lumet and “The Wiz”
8 min readMay 15, 2019
Oh what a Wiz he was! Four-time Oscar-nominated director and recipient of the Academy’s Lifetime Achievement Award, Sidney Lumet never allowed his mastery of both dramatic storytelling and cinematic technique to eclipse the great performances he inspired from his actors. Think of Twelve Angry Men, The Pawnbroker, Fail Safe, Dog Day Afternoon, Serpico…
