In the 1968 film Romeo and Juliet, who won the Oscar for Best Cinematography?

In the 1968 film Romeo and Juliet, Pasqualino De Santis won the Oscar for Best Cinematography.

Franco Zeffirelli directed the film, which presents Shakespeare’s tragedy as a youthful period romance filmed in Italian locations. De Santis’s cinematography helped create the film’s visual identity through naturalistic settings, warm colors, and carefully composed views of medieval Verona and its surrounding environments.

The film received four Academy Award nominations and won two Oscars. De Santis won for cinematography, while Danilo Donati won for costume design. These awards are sometimes confused with the film’s direction, acting, or musical score, none of which received the two winning Oscars.

The movie starred Leonard Whiting as Romeo and Olivia Hussey as Juliet. Its use of actors close to the characters’ stated ages and its visual realism made it especially influential among screen adaptations of the play.