# Stephen H. Burum

Stephen Henry Burum, A.S.C. (born November 25, 1939) is a retired American cinematographer, best known for his work with directors Brian De Palma and Francis Ford Coppola. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Cinematography for his work on Hoffa (1992).

## Biography

Burum was born in Dinuba, California, a small Central Valley town near Visalia. He graduated from the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television in the 1960s, and became an instructor at the same school. He began his professional filmmaking career working on the Walt Disney anthology television series, and then was drafted into the U.S. Army and assigned to the Army Pictorial Center, for whom he shot army training films. Returning to California after his service was complete, he worked on commercials, television shows, and low-budget films; he won a technical Emmy for his special-effects work on the popular public television astronomy series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage. He began working on major feature films for Francis Ford Coppola in 1976, shooting the second unit of Apocalypse Now and then The Black Stallion. His first credit as the cinematographer of a major motion picture was for The Escape Artist (1982).
In 2007, Burum returned to UCLA as the Kodak Cinematographer in Residence.

## Filmography

Short film
| Year | Title | Director | Notes |
| 1967 | The Host | Jack Hill | With Jack Hill |
| 1969 | Rodeo | Carroll Ballard | Documentary short |
| 1969 | The Perils of Priscilla | Carroll Ballard | |

### Feature film

| Year | Title | Director |
| 1969 | Wild Gypsies | Marc B. Ray |
| 1973 | Scream Bloody Murder | Marc B. Ray |
| 1973 | The Bride | Jean-Marie Pélissié |
| 1982 | Death Valley | Dick Richards |
| 1982 | The Escape Artist | Caleb Deschanel |
| 1982 | The Entity | Sidney J. Furie |
| 1983 | The Outsiders | Francis Ford Coppola |
| 1983 | Something Wicked This Way Comes | Jack Clayton |
| 1983 | Rumble Fish | Francis Ford Coppola |
| 1983 | Uncommon Valor | Ted Kotcheff |
| 1984 | Body Double | Brian De Palma |
| 1985 | St. Elmo's Fire | Joel Schumacher |
| 1985 | The Bride | Franc Roddam |
| 1986 | 8 Million Ways to Die | Hal Ashby |
| 1986 | Nutcracker: The Motion Picture | Carroll Ballard |
| 1987 | The Untouchables | Brian De Palma |
| 1988 | Arthur 2: On the Rocks | Bud Yorkin |
| 1989 | Casualties of War | Brian De Palma |
| 1989 | The War of the Roses | Danny DeVito |
| 1991 | He Said, She Said | Ken Kwapis Marisa Silver |
| 1992 | Man Trouble | Bob Rafelson |
| 1992 | Raising Cain | Brian De Palma |
| 1992 | Hoffa | Danny DeVito |
| 1993 | Carlito's Way | Brian De Palma |
| 1994 | The Shadow | Russell Mulcahy |
| 1996 | Mission: Impossible | Brian De Palma |
| 1997 | Fathers' Day | Ivan Reitman |
| 1998 | Snake Eyes | Brian De Palma |
| 1999 | Mystery Men | Kinka Usher |
| 2000 | Mission to Mars | Brian De Palma |
| 2002 | Life or Something Like It | Stephen Herek |
| 2004 | Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen | Sara Sugarman |
* ↑ Shared credit with Geoffrey Stephenson

### Television

TV specials
| Year | Title | Director |
| 1970 | Raquel! | David Winters |
| 1979 | The Bee Gees Special | Louis J. Horvitz |
| 1979 | The T.V. Show | Tom Trbovich |
Documentary film
| Year | Title | Director | Notes |
| 1971 | Once Upon a Wheel | David Winters | With Robert Isenberg, Michael Lonzo, Harmon Lougher, John M. Stephens, Craig Stewart and Mark Zavad |
TV movies
| Year | Title | Director |
| 1972 | The Special London Bridge Special | David Winters |
| 1977 | Father Knows Best: Home for Christmas | Norman Abbott |
| 1980 | The Golden Moment: An Olympic Love Story | Richard C. Sarafian |
| 1980 | Alone at Last | Hy Averback |
| 1993 | Big Al | Jerry Levine |
TV series
| Year | Title | Director | Notes |
| 1974-1977 | Land of the Lost | | 26 episodes |
| 1975 | The Lost Saucer | Jack Regas Dick Darley | 6 episodes |
| 1978-1982 | Mork & Mindy | | 77 episodes |
| 2019 | Cine Chalom | Yossi Benavraham | Episode "EXTRAIT DU FILM "L'IMPASSE" DE BRIAN DE PALMA... 1993" |

## Awards and honors

Academy Awards
| Year | Category | Title | Result | Ref. |
| 1992 | Best Cinematography | Hoffa | Nominated | |
American Society of Cinematographers
| Year | Category | Title | Result |
| 1987 | Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography | The Untouchables | Nominated |
| 1989 | Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography | The War of the Roses | Nominated |
| 1992 | Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography | Hoffa | Won |
| 2008 | Lifetime Achievement Award | Lifetime Achievement Award | Won |
Camerimage
| Year | Category | Result |
| 2022 | Lifetime Achievement Award | Won |