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Last week, the 2010 Student Academy Awards winners spent time with members of the American Society of Cinematographers. The Student Academy Awards ceremony took place at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater on Saturday, June 12. Presenters at the ceremony included Jeremy Renner, Henry Selick, and Penelope Spheeris. Seated (left to right): ASC members Jonathan Erland, Karl Walter Lindenlaub, Daryn Okada, Woody Omens, Michael Goi, Victor Kemper [...]

Mia Farrow in Roman Polanski's Rosemary's Baby William A. Fraker, the Academy Award-nominated cinematographer of Richard Brooks' Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977), Warren Beatty and Buck Henry's Heaven Can Wait (1978), and John Badham's WarGames (1983), died on May 31. Fraker was 86. Among Fraker's other credits — the best of which were usually dark psychological dramas — are Curtis Harrington's thriller Games (1967), Roman [...]

A good surprise at the American Society of Cinematographers awards ceremony held Saturday at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza in Los Angeles: Christian Berger won the ASC Award for Best Cinematography for his work on a "small" black-and-white foreign-language film, Michael Haneke's The White Ribbon. Berger's competitors were in the running for movies with a much higher profile: Barry Ackroyd for The Hurt Locker, Mauro [...]

Penelope Cruz, Marion Cotillard, Nicole Kidman, Kate Hudson, Stacy Ferguson, Sophia Loren, Daniel Day-Lewis in Nine (David James / The Weinstein Co.) (top); Michael Haneke's The White Ribbon (Films du Losange / Sony Pictures Classics) (middle); Sam Worthington, Michelle Rodriguez, Sigourney Weaver, Joel David Moore in Avatar (Mark Fellman / 20th Century Fox) (bottom) The American Society of Cinematographers has announced its list of nominees. [...]