Career
His understanding of the colour process quickly led to him being hailed as one of Hollywood"s premier colour cinematographers. Hoch never made a film in black and white.
His understanding of the colour process quickly led to him being hailed as one of Hollywood"s premier colour cinematographers. Hoch never made a film in black and white.
He won a Technical Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 1940 for his contributions to the development of new improved Process Projection Equipment. This was followed with back-to-back Academy Awards for the expensive religious epic Joan of Arc in 1948, and then the elegiac John Ford Western She Wore a Yellow Ribbon in 1949 (an achievement that went unmatched until John Toll picked up Oscars for Legends of the Fall in 1994 and Braveheart in 1995). In 1959 Hoch began his collaboration with Irwin Allen, photographing The Big Circus, The Lost World, Five Weeks in a Balloon and both Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea and Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (television series) where Hoch was awarded an Emmy award.
