Autumn Durald Arkapaw
American cinematographer
Autumn Cheyenne Durald Arkapaw (née Durald; born December 14, 1979) is an American cinematographer. For her work on the film Sinners (2025), she became the first woman of color to be nominated, and the first woman and first Black person to win, an Academy Award for Best Cinematography. On television, she received a nomination at the Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards for Outstanding Cinematography for her work on the Loki episode "Lamentis" (2021).
Early life and education
Arkapaw was born Autumn Cheyenne Durald in Oxnard, California, grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, and is of Filipino descent on her mother's side and Black Creole on her father's side. The Filipino side of her family is Catholic. She has described her maternal grandfather, Guillermo Pagan Bautista of Pampanga, who was a resistance fighter during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines and a survivor of the Bataan Death March, "the most important man in my life" and "one of the biggest influences on my childhood and my family". She has a tattoo of her grandfather’s initials, in Baybayin script, on her wrist.
Arkapaw graduated from San Ramon Valley High School in Danville, California in 1996. She graduated in 2002 from Loyola Marymount University where she studied art history. She graduated from the AFI Conservatory's cinematography program in 2009.
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