Miklós Lente was a Canadian cinematographer and filmmaker. He was most noted for his work on the 1978 film '' In Praise of Older Women'', for which he won the

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for Best Cinematography at the 29th Canadian Film Awards and the

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award for Best Cinematography in a Feature. After the Canadian Film Awards were renamed to the

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, he was again nominated in the Best Cinematography category for '' Agency'' at the

1st Genie Awards The 1st Genie Awards were presented on March 20, 1980, and honoured films released in 1979.Jay Scott, "Changeling wins Genie as year's best movie". ''The Globe and Mail'', March 21, 1980. They were given out at a gala event at the Royal Alexandra ...

in 1980, and for '' Suzanne'' at the

2nd Genie Awards The 2nd Genie Awards were held March 12, 1981, honouring Canadian films released the previous year.Jay Scott, "Genie nominations released". ''The Globe and Mail'', February 10, 1981. The ceremony was held at the Royal Alexandra Theatre and was hos ...

in 1981. He was also a four-time Gemini Award nominee for Best Photography in a Dramatic Program or Series, receiving two nods for the drama series ''

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'', one for the television film '' The Little Kidnappers'' and one for the television film ''

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''. His other cinematography credits included the theatrical films '' The Girl in Blue'', '' Happy Birthday to Me'', '' Your Ticket Is No Longer Valid'', '' Screwballs'' and '' Bedroom Eyes'', and the television films ''

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'' and ''

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''. As a filmmaker he directed the 1984 comedy film ''Oddballs'' and episodes of ''Night Heat'', ''

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'' and '' Counterstrike'', as well as having photography credits on all three series. Lente was one of the developers of the

3-perf pulldown Negative pulldown is the manner in which an image is exposed on a film stock, described in the number of film perforations spanned by an individual frame. It can also describe the orientation of the image on the negative, whether it is captured h ...

process in cinematography.Bernstein, N.D.; Wysotsky, M.Z.; and Konoplev, B.N. "A Universal Format for Film Production." ''Journal of the SMPTE.'' September 1973; Lente, Miklos. "The Proposed Trilent-35 System." ''American Cinematographer.'' June 1976; Ericson, Rune. "Three-Perf in the Future." ''American Cinematographer.'' July 1986.

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* Canadian cinematographers Canadian television directors Best Cinematography Genie and Canadian Screen Award winners Film directors from Ontario Canadian people of Hungarian descent {{Canada-cinematographer-stub