Joseph Ruttenberg, A.S.C. (July 4, 1889 – May 1, 1983) was a Ukrainian-born American photojournalist and cinematographer. Ruttenberg was accomplished at winning accolades. At MGM, Ruttenberg was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Cinematography 10 times, winning four. In addition, he won the 1954 Golden Globe Award for his camera work on the film Brigadoon. Career Born into a Jewish family in BerdychivZhytomyr oblast, Ukraine, Joseph Ruttenberg emigrated to the United States, arriving in Boston, Massachusetts on 7 January 1895. As a young man he went to work at the Boston Globe as a photojournalist but left in 1915 to accept a job with the Fox Film Corporation in New York City to train as a cinematographer. Two years later, he was behind the camera for The Painted Madonna (1917), which marked the start of a remarkably successful career. In the late 1920s, Ruttenberg went to work for Paramount Pictures in New York. His first assignment for a sound film was The Struggle (1931), D.W. Griffith's final film. In 1934, Ruttenberg signed with MGM, moving to Hollywood where he was invited to join the American Society of Cinematographers. Joseph Ruttenberg retired from MGM in 1968 and died in Los Angeles on May 1, 1983. Filmography The Painted Madonna (1917) The Blue Streak (1917) The Slave (1917) Wife Number Two (1917) Thou Shalt Not Steal (1917) A Heart's Revenge (1917) The Debt of Honor (1918) Peg of the Pirates (1918) Doing Their Bit (1918) The Woman Who Gave (1918) The Yellow Dog (1918) Woman, Woman! (1919) A Fallen Idol (1919) My Little Sister (1919) The Shark (1920) From Now On (1920) The Tiger's Club (1920) The Thief (1920) The Mountain Woman (1921) Know Your Men (1921) A Virgin Paradise (1921) Beyond Price (1921) Silver Wings (1922) The Town That Forgot God (1922) Who Are My Parents? (1922) My Friend the Devil (1922) If Winter Comes (1923) Does It Pay? (1923) The Fool (1925) School for Wives (1925) Summer Bachelors (1926) The Struggle (1931) The Knife of the Party (1934) Woman in the Dark (1934) The People's Enemy (1935) Frankie and Johnnie (1935) Gigolette (1935) Three Godfathers (1936) Mad Holiday (1936) Fury (1936) Man Hunt (1936) Piccadilly Jim (1936) Big City (1937) Everybody Sing (1937) A Day at the Races (1937) Dramatic School (1938) The Great Waltz (1938) Three Comrades (1938) Spring Madness (1938) The First Hundred Years (1938) The Shopworn