18e Prix ASC - meilleurs Directeurs Photo 2003
Les vainqueurs et les nominés en
cinéma et TV.
LOS ANGELES, February 8, 2004 – John
Schwartzman, ASC rode
Seabiscuit
to victory in the feature film competition at the 18th Annual American Society
of Cinematographers (ASC) Outstanding Achievement Awards gala tonight at the
Century Plaza Hotel. The award was presented to Schwartzman by Jim Sheridan,
the Oscar-nominated writer-producer-director of In America. It was the first
victory for Schwartzman in the ASC competition. He was nominated for Pearl
Harbor in 2002.
“I suspect this is
what the founders of ASC had in mind 85 years ago when they envisioned a quest
for artistic excellence in visual storytelling,” Sheridan said.
“Each of the nominated films was a singular artistic triumph. They ranged
from fantasy to reality with strong characters who made intimate connections
with the audience.”
The other
nominees in the feature film competition were Russell Boyd, ACS for
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the
World, Andrew Lesnie, ACS for
The Lord of the Rings: Return of the
King, John Seale, ASC, ACS for
Cold
Mountain, and John Toll, ASC for
The Last
Samurai.
Tami
Reiker, Jeff Jur, ASC and Pierre Gill, CSC claimed ASC Outstanding Achievement
Awards in the television
competitions. Reiker won the cable award for the
Carnivale
pilot, which aired on Home Box Office. Jur took top honors for “Pick a
Number,” an episode of Carnivale. Gill won the competition for the best
telefilm on a network channel for Hitler:
The Rise of Evil, which aired on CBS. Carla
Gugino, James Caan, and Kiefer Sutherland presented the awards,
respectively.
It was the second ASC
Outstanding Achievement Award for Jur, who won last year for the telefilm Last
Call. Gill was nominated for the telefilm Joan of Arc in 2000. It was
Reiker’s first nomination.
This was
the first time in the history of the ASC Awards that a single program took top
honors in both the television movie/miniseries/pilot and episodic categories.
Carnivale is a classic good versus evil drama set against the backdrop of the
Dust Bowl and Great Depression that wracked the United States during the
1930s.
Michael Chapman, ASC
received the coveted Lifetime Achievement Award.
Chapman was honored for his body of work, including such classics as
Raging Bull, The Fugitive, Taxi Driver, The
Wanderers and Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
His upcoming releases include Eulogy, Suspect Zero and House of D. The award
was presented by David Duchovny, who lauded the cinematographer for his artful
visual storytelling, and also predicted that Chapman’s best work is still
ahead of him. “Someday we’ll be back for part two of the Michael
Chapman Lifetime Achievement Award,” he
said.
Miroslav Ondricek, ASC
claimed the International Achievement Award for his extraordinary body of work,
which includes Amadeus, Ragtime, Hair, Silkwood, Slaughter-House Five and
Awakenings. Ondricek is a native of Prague,
Czechoslovakia, where he is currently teaching at the national film school. He
received the award from actress-director Penny Marshall, who has collaborated
with Ondricek on four feature films – A League of Their Own, The
Preacher’s Wife and Riding in Cars With Boys.
Posted: Jeu. - Février 19, 2004 at 02:00 PM