No fewer than five awards season movies — including 'Oppenheimer,' 'Killers of the Flower Moon,' 'Poor Things,' 'Maestro' and 'The Color Purple' — alternate between black and white and color.

He documented the cruelties of white South African rule, and he was made to pay for it, enduring beatings and 586 consecutive days in solitary confinement. By Alan Cowell Peter Magubane, a Black ...

Photographing in black-and-white, though, required more control with lighting. Fortunately, van Hoytema relied on what he learned about the process as a student at the Łódź Film School in Poland.