Academy Award Winners for Best Cinematography: 1991 — Dean Semler, ACS, ASC Dances with Wolves (1990) Directed by Kevin Costner Aspect Ratio: 2.39 : 1
"Kevin [Costner] initially wanted to shoot in 1.85 because it was a very personal story, and I said maybe we ought to do some tests. So we went up to South Dakota and shot 1.85 vs 2.40, and it was obvious that it had to be a widescreen because it was about the land and the sky." — Dean Semler for Global Cinematography Institute, April 2016










