Gordon Willis, the cinematographer responsible for stirring camera work in such film classics as the “Godfather” trilogy and several of Woody Allen’s best-known films, has died at age 82.

    Willis died on Sunday in Falmouth, Massachusetts, funeral home Chapman Cole & Gleason confirmed.

    “This is a momentous loss,” American Society of Cinematographers President Richard Crudo said. “He was one of the giants who absolutely changed the way movies looked.”

    Willis received an honorary lifetime achievement Oscar in 2010 and was nominated for best cinematography Academy Awards for Allen’s “Zelig” and “The Godfather: Part III.”

    “He was a brilliant, irascible* man, a one of a kind,” “Godfather” director Francis Ford Coppola said in a statement. “A cinematic genius with a precise aesthetic.”

    Willis’ work was credited with lending unique, often stunning imagery to a roster of films ranging from the romance “Manhattan” and lavish musical “Pennies From Heaven” to the Watergate thriller “All the President’s Men.”

    In thrillers such as Alan Pakula’s “The Parallax View” and “Klute,” for which Jane Fonda won her first Oscar, Willis’s camera work evoked a dream-like, fugue state that critics credited with elevating the films to the status of classics.

    The Queens, New York-born Willis worked often with Coppola, Pakula and especially Allen, with whom he made eight films.

    Willis’s films with Allen included the black-and-white “Manhattan,” “Annie Hall,” “The Purple Rose of Cairo,” “Interiors,” “Stardust Memories” and “Broadway Danny Rose.”(SD-Agencies)