American Society of Cinematographers Awards 2007
2007 American Society of Cinematographers Awards
American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) award 2007 feature-film nominations: January 11, 2007
2007 ASC award winners: Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles on February 18, 2007
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
Children of Men
Feature Films
* Emmanuel Lubezki, ASC, AMC, (Children of Men)
Dick Pope, BSC (The Illusionist)
Robert Richardson, ASC (The Good Shepherd)
Dean Semler, ASC, ACS (Apocalypto)
Vilmos Zsigmond, ASC (The Black Dahlia)
Motion Picture, Miniseries or Pilot Made for Television
Thomas A. Del Ruth, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip (Pilot)
Adam Kane, Heroes (Pilot)
Walt Lloyd, The Librarian, "Return to King Solomon’s Mines"
Bill Roe, Day Break (Pilot)
* John Stokes, Nightmares and Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King, "Umney’s Last Case"
Regular Television Series (one episode)
Eagle [...]
by Andre Soares | February 18, 2007
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Tags: American Society of Cinematographers Awards, Apocalypto, Children of Men, Dean Semler, Dick Pope, Emmanuel Lubezki, Film Awards, Robert Richardson, The Black Dahlia, The Good Shepherd, The Illusionist, Vilmos Zsigmond
American Society of Cinematographers Awards 2007 Nominations
Children of Men (top); Edward Norton, Jessica Biel in The Illusionist (middle); Matt Damon, Alec Baldwin in The Good Shepherd (bottom)
The feature-film nominees for the 2007 American Society of Cinematographers Award are critics’ fave Emmanuel Lubezki (Children of Men), plus Dick Pope (The Illusionist), Robert Richardson, (The Good Shepherd), Dean Semler (Apocalypto), and veteran Vilmos Zsigmond (The Black Dahlia), who has been shooting films — among them Close Encounters of the Third Kind and The Deer Hunter — since the early 1960s.
The above list include the eighth ASC nomination for Richardson; the third for Zsigmond, who won in 1993 for the telefilm Stalin; the second for Lubezki and Semler; and the first for Pope.
Dean Semler’s nod marks [...]
by Andre Soares | January 11, 2007
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Tags: Children of Men, Emmanuel Lubezki, Film Awards, Guillermo Navarro, José Luis Alcaine, Pan's Labyrinth, Robert Richardson, The Good Shepherd, The Illusionist, Volver
National Society of Film Critics Awards 2007
2007 National Society of Film Critics Awards
2007 National Society of Film Critics award winners: New York City on January 6, 2007
There was no "Best Foreign-Language Film" award this year because the NSFC’s top choice was a non-English-language film — and so were the two runners-up in that category.
Ivana Baquero in Pan’s Labyrinth
BEST FILM
Pan’s Labyrinth directed by Guillermo del Toro (34)
Runners-up: The Death of Mr. Lazarescu directed by Cristi Puiu (31); Letters from Iwo Jima directed by Clint Eastwood (29); also, The Queen and Army of Shadows
BEST DIRECTOR
Paul Greengrass, United 93 (21)
Runners-up (tie): Martin Scorsese, The Departed (15) and Guillermo del Toro, Pan’s Labyrinth (15)
BEST NONFICTION FILM
An Inconvenient Truth directed by Davis Guggenheim (26)
Runners-up: Deliver Us from [...]
by Andre Soares | January 6, 2007
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Tags: An Inconvenient Truth, Emmanuel Lubezki, Film Awards, Forest Whitaker, Helen Mirren, Mark Wahlberg, Meryl Streep, Pan's Labyrinth, Paul Greengrass, Peter Morgan
LEMONY SNICKET’S A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS – Jim Carrey
Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004)
Direction: Brad Silberling
Screenplay: Robert Gordon, from Daniel Handler’s books The Bad Beginning, The Reptile Room, and The Wide Window
Cast: Jim Carrey, Meryl Streep, Liam Aiken, Emily Browning, Jude Law, Timothy Spall, Catherine O’Hara, Billy Connolly, Dustin Hoffman, Craig Ferguson, Luis Guzmán, Jennifer Coolidge, Jaimie Harris
Three of Daniel Handler’s Gothic tales about three siblings on the run from a ruthless and greedy relative are given the Hollywood treatment in Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events. Not surprisingly, the US$100,000,000+ film boasts first-rate production values, with cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki’s lenses perfectly capturing (and enhancing) the eerie Gothic-ness of production designer Rick Heinrichs‘ preternatural creations.
On the other hand, as befits most Hollywood fare, both [...]
by Andre Soares | December 30, 2004
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Tags: Brad Silberling, Daniel Handler, Emily Browning, Emmanuel Lubezki, Fantasy Movies, Film Reviews, Jim Carrey, Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, Meryl Streep, Oscar 2004, Oscar Movies
THE ASSASSINATION OF RICHARD NIXON – Sean Penn
The Assassination of Richard Nixon (2004)
Direction: Niels Mueller
Screenplay: Niels Mueller and Kevin Kennedy
Cast: Sean Penn, Naomi Watts, Don Cheadle, Jack Thompson, Michael Wincott, Brad William Henke
Although technically a psychosocial drama about those for whom the American Dream is nothing more than a pathological delusion, Niels Mueller’s The Assassination of Richard Nixon actually works as a suspenseful horror movie. From the very start, we know that something dreadful is about to happen. As the fact-based story inexorably progresses toward its bloody climax, the suspense keeps increasing until the violence, depicted in brutal detail, explodes on screen. That’s the stuff that nightmares are made of.
As depicted by Emmanuel Lubezki’s appropriately gritty, washed-out cinematography, it all begins in the winter of 1974, as [...]
by Andre Soares | December 13, 2004
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Tags: Don Cheadle, Emmanuel Lubezki, Film Reviews, Jack Thompson, Naomi Watts, Niels Mueller, Political Movies, Sean Penn, The Assassination of Richard Nixon, Three-Star Movies, Thrillers
