Hal Moore’s name wasn’t even on the ballot of the 1935 Oscars. For reasons that not even a bit of casual Googling revealed, the pioneering cinematographer—he shot The Jazz Singer—managed to get enough voters of to actually write in his name and propel him to victory over some undoubtedly perturbed peers. The Academy barred write-in campaigns a few years later. He won again — this time, appearing on a ballot — for 1943’s The Phantom of the Opera. Mohr certainly had one of the longest careers in Hollywood: he shot his first film in 1912, his last in 1968.