Buddy Squires is a cinematographer known for his work with Ken Burns as a founding member of Florentine Films. His accolades include one Academy Award nomination, one Primetime Emmy Award win of eleven nominations, and the 2007 International Documentary Association’s Outstanding Documentary Cinematography Award.
Style and approach Describing his work on The Civil War, Squires noted "our job in the field is really to build the visual vocabulary that can then be handed off to the editors to weave into the story that’s being guided by the script.” "I think any visual artist is essentially reorganizing the world in front of them in a way that makes the most sense to the individual artist," Squires reflected in an interview with ProVideo Coalition. "When I’m shooting a scene I’m breaking down the scene into the elements I find the most interesting and figuring out how can I communicate what I see to others. It’s really just a process of translation and it doesn’t really matter if one is a painter or still photographer or cinematographer, one is always really rebuilding the world in a way that makes sense to oneself. That is what I do all the time."
Filmography Release yearTitleCredit(s)Awards and nominations1981Brooklyn BridgeAssociate Producer1985The Statue of LibertyProducer58th Academy Awards: Best Documentary Feature, nominated38th Primetime Emmy Awards: Outstanding Informational Special, nominated1986Huey LongCinematographer1988The Children's StorefrontCinematographer1988Sentimental Women Need Not Apply: A History of the American NurseCinematographer1988Thomas Hart BentonCinematographer1989The CongressCinematographer1989No Applause, Just Throw MoneyCinematographer1989Adam Clayton PowellCinematographer1989The Other Side of the MoonCinematographer1990Chimps: So Like UsCinematographer1990The Civil WarCinematographer1991American Experience: Coney IslandProducer1992Compassion in Exile: The Life of the 14th Dalai LamaCinematographer1992High Lonesome: The Story of Bluegrass MusicCinematographer1994-2010BaseballCinematographer47th Primetime Emmy Awards: Outstanding Individual Achievement - Informational Programming, nominated1995Listening to Children: A Moral Journey with Robert ColesDirector, Cinematographer1995One Survivor RemembersCinematographer47th Primetime Emmy Awards: Outstanding Individual Achievement - Informational Programming, nominated1995The Way WestCinematographer1996The WestCinematographer1997Hasten Slowly: The Journey of Sir Laurens van der PostCinematographer1997Lewis & Clark: The Journey of the Corps of DiscoveryCinematographer1997Heart of a ChildCinematographer1997Thomas JeffersonCinematographer1998Out of the PastCinematographer1998Frank Lloyd WrightCinematographer1998America's Endangered Species: Don't Say Good-byeCinematographer50th Primetime Emmy Awards: Outstanding Achievement In Non-Fiction Programming - Cinematography, won1999The Last Days of Kennedy and KingCinematographer1999-2003New York: A Documentary FilmCinematographer52nd Primetime Emmy Awards: Outstanding Cinematography in Non-Fiction Programming, nominated2001JazzCinematographer53rd Primetime Emmy Awards: Outstanding Cinematography for Non-Fiction Programming, nominated2002Ansel Adams: A Documentary FilmCinematographer54th Primetime Emmy Awards: Outstanding Cinematography for Non-Fiction Programming (Single or Multi-Camera), nominated
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