The icon, who lensed famed films such as Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Bound for Glory andOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, passed away in his sleep at Providence Saint John’s Health Center in Santa Monica, California, his son Jeff Wexler announced on his website.
“It is with great sadness that I have to report that my father, Haskell Wexler, has died,” Jeff wrote. “Pop died peacefully in his sleep, Sunday, December 27th, 2015. Accepting the Academy Award in 1967, Pop said: ‘I hope we can use our art for peace and for love.’ An amazing life has ended but his lifelong commitment to fight the good fight, for peace, for all humanity, will carry on.”
The five-time Academy Award nominee won his first Oscar for the 1966 filmWho’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, which was directed by Mike Nichols and starred Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton.
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