The Casting Society of America and the Lady Filmmakers Film Festival announced Sharon Stone as the recipient of its 2013 Humanitarian and Career Achievement Spotlight Award today. The fifth annual festival takes place this weekend, September 28-29, at the Aidikoff Theater in Beverly Hills. Stone joins fellow honoree Bryce Dallas Howard, who was recently announced as the recipient of the Spotlight Award for acting and directing. For more information on the festival and its schedule, click here.
Category Archives: Awards
Ryan Seacrest Gets “Ash Bombed” on Oscar Red Carpet
Kudos to Sacha Baron Cohen for his in-character Oscar red carpet ash-bombing of Ryan Seacrest last night. And nice souvenir snag by the dude with the flowers at the 1:37 mark. I will now tuck head between pillows.
In Regards to the 2011 Oscar Nominations
Nominations for the 84th annual Academy Awards are out today, and apart from being thrilled at the lack of recognition for the dreadful Hoodwinked Too!, I’m heartened by the deserved love for Moneyball. A few other quick thoughts — it’s nice recognition for A Better Life‘s Best Actor nominee Demián Bichir, Best Documentary nominee Hell and Back Again, and particularly Best Original Screenplay nominee A Separation. Massively bummed about the lack of kudos for Drive and Martha Marcy May Marlene, though. Interviews with A Separation‘s writer-director Asghar Farhadi and Pina director Wim Wenders, also a Best Documentary nominee, coming later today. Hosted by Billy Crystal, the Oscars will be broadcast on February 26, live from the Kodak Theatre, on ABC.
International Press Academy Hands Out Satellite Awards
The International Press Academy handed out its 16th annual Satellite Awards Sunday night, in a ceremony at the Beverly Hills Hotel, and while its slate of TV and film nominees tips toward the too expansive, any showering of love for Nicolas Winding Refn’s Drive is certainly not a bad thing.
Adrian Grenier Makes Shft Happen
SHFT.com, a website founded by actor Adrian Grenier and film producer Peter Glatzer, has been nominated for two 2011 Webby Awards, in the categories of “Green” for best website, and Online Film & Video / Documentary Individual Episode for Gardens NYC: Patrick’s Place. Grenier’s site is billed as a new media platform offering original video series, curated shopping, and a host of resources that speak to a modern, inspirational, eco-conscious lifestyle. The Webby Awards, of course, is the leading international awards recognition for excellence on the Internet — including websites, interactive advertising and online film and video. To vote, click here.
Jean-Luc Godard Will Skip Oscars’ Governors Awards
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced today via press release that, following a two-month-long cordial exchange of correspondence with Academy president Tom Sherak, French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard has regretfully notified Sherak that he will not be able to attend the November 13 Governors Awards and receive his Honorary Oscar in person.
“He reiterated his thanks for the award,” reported Sherak, “and also sent his good wishes to the other individuals being honored the same night — Kevin Brownlow, Francis Ford Coppola and Eli Wallach — who he refers to as ‘the three other musketeers.'” The November 13 dinner ceremony, which is being produced by Sid Ganis and Don Mischer, will pay tribute to Godard through film clips and commentary by his admirers. The award will be accepted on Godard’s behalf by the Academy and, following the event, the Academy will arrange for the Oscar statuette to be delivered to him in Switzerland.
Shakeup of Oscar Pundits Changes Awards Season Coverage
Over at The Wrap, Steve Pond ably sums up the shake-ups, movings, comings and goings of various awards season prognosticators and their outlets, including the thinking behind a kinder, gentler Deadline Daily, and that site’s play for seasonal print ad dollars.
A FishbowlLA Chat: LAFCA Voting and Awards in General
I recently did an e-interview with FishbowlLA’s Richard Horgan regarding both the forthcoming LAFCA Career Achievement honoree vote as well as the state of the awards season in general, and now it’s an item at Media Bistro’s FishbowlLA site. Check it out, if interested.
A Few Random 2010 Oscar Thoughts
Whether it was the general lack of suspense and sense of preordained coronation in the air — with really only Sandra Bullock’s Best Actress victory being the only category of the four main acting awards still a bit up in the air — or just my own bloated seasonal malaise, I couldn’t really get that amped leading up to the Academy Awards this year, and neither could I be counted on (obviously) to tap out exhaustive analysis after the fact. I’m not an awards blogger; it’s just not in my bones.
In addition to that crazy bitch producer going all Kanye West on the short film documentary winner (they have beef, don’t you know: history here), I thought the telecast was its usual mix of orchestrated, well-oiled tedium and enjoyable, sometimes emotionally piercing acceptance speeches (which are always the highlights of Oscar evenings). One thing I do love, though. It is a mortal lock, the morning after every single Academy Awards ceremony, that there will be competing qualitative-judgment narratives, with some camp proclaiming them the most boring/awful ceremony ever, and others calling them the best ceremony of all time.
Oscar Voters Casting Best Picture Bullet Ballots? Not So Fast…
Over at The Wrap, Steve Pond explains why those trying to cast Best Picture bullet-ballots for the Oscars are just wasting their time.
A Quartet of Crazy Heart Oscar Reactions
Straight from Fox Searchlight, the reactions from Jeff Bridges, Maggie Gyllenhaal, T Bone Burnett and Ryan Bingham to their Oscar nominations today:
Jeff Bridges, Best Performance by an Actor in a Lead Role: “I’m so grateful to have the honor of a fifth Oscar nomination, but to share this with my Crazy Heart colleagues T Bone and Ryan and my amazing co-star Maggie is truly special — this film is near and dear to my heart and theirs. I want to thank the Academy for being so kind to me for the past 40 years. And I want to thank my director Scott Cooper for helping bring Bad Blake to life, and to my wonderful wife Sue for being there for me the past 33 years. Today is filled with blessings.”
Maggie Gyllenhaal, Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role: “I am thrilled… beyond thrilled. I was completely surprised, overwhelmed and overjoyed this morning when I heard about the nomination. I am so proud of this movie. Working with Jeff was amazing. He opened me up and pushed me so far. I’d love to keep making movies with him over and over again. Scott Cooper wrote such a beautiful script, and was so full of love and strength as a director. I am honored and overjoyed!”
T Bone Burnett, Music/Original Song — “The Weary Kind (Theme from Crazy Heart)”: “All of us who worked on Crazy Heart are so proud of this film, and are incredibly thankful that audiences are embracing it, and that reaction from critics and the film industry has been so overwhelmingly positive. To receive an Academy Award nomination, along with Ryan Bingham, Jeff Bridges and Maggie Gyllenhaal, is a great honor and further validates our belief in this film. I am personally very grateful to the Academy for this recognition of our work.”
Ryan Bingham, Music/Original Song — “The Weary Kind (Theme from Crazy Heart)”: “Being a part of Crazy Heart has been the experience of a lifetime, and I never could have imagined when I first started writing ‘The Weary Kind’ that it would have led to such an honor from the Academy. I couldn’t have asked to work with a more amazing and talented group of people on my first film. I feel both privileged and excited to share this Oscar nomination today along with T Bone Burnett, Jeff Bridges and Maggie Gyllenhaal.”
More from a recent interview with director Scott Cooper later in the week.
LAFCA Names David Lynch’s Mulholland Dr. Film of Decade
Old-ish news by just a couple days, but the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, in a poll of its members, has tabbed David Lynch’s Mulholland Dr. as the Film of the Decade. Carving out a Top 10 list in any given year is tough, but picking from a decade’s worth of cinematic masterpieces is an especially brutalexercise. It’s always interesting to see how past favorites rise andfall in favor, and the personal unit of measurement in undertaking suchan endeavor is invariably subjective: Are they the films whose craftyou most admire, or those you most revisit? Are they films withpowerfully moving closed-circuit narratives, or need they leave youwith much to ponder?
I think the breadth of LAFCA‘s polling reflects the catholic tastes andintellectual engagement of our membership, but in so many ways Lynch’s Mulholland Dr. is an especially appropriate choice as Film ofthe Decade, and not only because it captures in elliptical fashion the polarizing extremes of life in Los Angeles. A beautiful, woozy mystery for the id, portions of itsmeaning are readily apparent, while others dance along its edges,deliciously up for substantive argument and debate — which is part ofwhat we as film critics love, after all. For some interesting reading/skimming, the full list of all 190 films receiving votes on 41 member ballots, as well as individual critic lists, is available by clicking here. Happy perusing!
A Look at 61 Years of Foreign Language Oscar Winners
Interesting thoughts on 61 years of Foreign Language Oscar winners from Variety‘s Peter Debruge, who made it his 2009 mission to comb through the full slate of honorees.
Marisa Tomei, Kate Winslet and Oscar Nudity
For a piece in today’s Calendar section about actresses and nudity in Oscar-winning roles, the Los Angeles Times‘ Rachel Abramowitz talks to Marisa Tomei about her on-screen nudity in both Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead and The Wrestler, and the well-toned actress pooh-poohs talk about a new direction for her career: “I happened to get offered The Wrestler after I did that movie,” she says. “It’s not like I’m in my nude phase now.”
Standard stuff that, somewhat refreshingly, mostly rises above knee-jerk claims of sexism, except for the factually incorrect assertion that, “Every day, actresses such as Jessica Alba, Scarlett Johansson and Eliza Dushku seem to be swearing off nudity like teenagers joining abstinence clubs.” Dushku in fact appears briefly nude in The Alphabet Killer, a recent DVD release.
Oscar Nominations Announced, Irking Disney and Warner Bros.
After cleaning up with various critics groups and other film-honoring bodies, and going 1-2 at the Los Angeles Film Critics Association awards, commercial juggernauts Wall▪E and The Dark Knight both got relegated to somewhat unfortunately expected, consolation-type booby prizes: a Best Animated Feature nod for the former, and a Best Supporting Actor nomination for Heath Ledger for the latter, among a mess of other, lesser nods. And that sucks, for different reasons. The rejection of Wall▪E shows the stranglehold that the actors’ branch has on voting (the thinking: “no actors = we’re not voting for it for Best Picture, since it didn’t employ as many of us”), while the stiff-arming of The Dark Knight, especially in light of the embrace of past commercial hits, underscores ingrained genre snobbery, pure and simple. Below are the top-shelf domestic narrative nominations:
Best Picture
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Frost/Nixon
Milk
The Reader
Slumdog Millionaire
Best Director
Danny Boyle, Slumdog Millionaire
Stephen Daldry, The Reader
David Fincher, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Ron Howard, Frost/Nixon
Gus Van Sant, Milk
Best Actor
Richard Jenkins, The Visitor
Frank Langella, Frost/Nixon
Sean Penn, Milk
Brad Pitt, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler
Best Actress
Anne Hathaway, Rachel Getting Married
Angelina Jolie, Changeling
Melissa Leo, Frozen River
Meryl Streep, Doubt
Kate Winslet, The Reader
Best Supporting Actor
Josh Brolin, Milk
Robert Downey Jr., Tropic Thunder
Philip Seymour Hoffman, Doubt
Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight
Michael Shannon, Revolutionary Road
Best Supporting Actress
Amy Adams, Doubt
Penelope Cruz, Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Viola Davis, Doubt
Taraji P Henson, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Marisa Tomei, The Wrestler
Best Original Screenplay
Frozen River
In Bruges
Happy-Go-Lucky
Milk
Wall▪E
Best Adapted Screenplay
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Doubt
Frost/Nixon
The Reader
Slumdog Millionaire
Best Animated Feature
Bolt
Kung Fu Panda
Wall▪E
More thoughts later, and in the coming weeks, certainly, but the Best Supporting Actress nominations clearly offer mostly confirmatory love on the part of AMPAS voters — Cruz and Adams are recent nominees, and Tomei a past Oscar winner. Taraji P Henson’s nomination for a solid but unexceptional performance in a very Mammy-ish role in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is depressing, but indicative of the weird love that film is getting.
The Other Awards Derby: Some Thoughts on Editing
For the second year in a row, Michael Kunkes and Editors Guild Magazine polled recent Oscar-winning and -nominated guild members, along with a sampling of film critics, to gauge the prevailing award-winds in the three catagories of guild achievement recognized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences: Best Achievement in Film Editing, Sound Editing and Sound Mixing. My free-form thoughts:
“The Academy Awards for Sound and Sound Editing are seemingly frequently linked to brawny and/or fantastic movies — adventures that unfold in clamorous fashion, or at least require a handful of discrete tracks — while Film Editing Oscars are inextricably linked to Best Picture nominees. And there’s usually laudable work found therein; after all, the editing is a big part of the success of those films, commercially and critically. So while I think The Dark Knight can be justly lauded for its evocation of urban terror and lingering menace, other films, like Gus Van Sant’s Milk and Zhang Ke Jia’s gorgeously pieced together Still Life, also located telling visual rhythms and quieter aural palettes that no less summoned specific time and place.For the full, fully worthwhile read, including the thoughts of the estimable Myron Meisel and Wade Major, click here.
To me, Slumdog Millionaire was mad and invigorating, on all levels of editing and mixing, down to the creative use of subtitles. A bit off the beaten path, though, Jonathan Demme’s Rachel Getting Married made a big impression on me. With its source music and at once casual and unnervingly intimate style, the movie conjures up — in refreshing ways — the tension and jocularity, joy and anxiety of large-scale familial gatherings. Similarly affecting was the sound and picture editing in Charlie Kaufman‘s Synecdoche, New York, which was integral in the creation of a world in which Philip Seymour Hoffman’s character manufactures an entire cityscape in an abandoned hangar, even as he ages and finds himself plagued by an undisclosed health crisis. Both of these films were, if you’ll excuse the invention of a word, grand tapestral efforts, which is to say thoughtful, carefully plotted affairs serving perhaps more esoteric masters.”
2008 LAFCA Awards Honor Sean Penn, Others
I should’ve posted this long ago, but the Los Angeles Film Critics Association awards dinner was earlier this week, Monday evening at the InterContinental Hotel in Los Angeles, and it went swimmingly — smoothly produced, briskly paced and engaging all the way around. Special commendation on this front goes to Lael Loewenstein, group president. The full list of winners can be accessed here, but Wall▪E was the Best Picture winner, a first for an animated film.
I’ll perhaps sprinkle in a few more items from the event this week, but it’s worth sharing that Best Actor winner Sean Penn — who was a no-show at the Golden Globes the night prior to the LAFCA event — gave a very funny, warm acceptance speech, and told an anecdote about his Mystic River director Clint Eastwood. Penn said he was sitting two feet away from the filmmaker at the recently concluded Palm Springs International Film Festival when it was remarked upon that Slumdog Millionaire‘s Freida Pinto — also present at both events — was very beautiful. Penn observed that she looked like Eastwood’s wife’s younger sister, at which point the 78-year-old screen legend leaned over and whispered mischievously, “That’s what I’m trying to put together!” Swears Penn: “True story, that’s what he said!”
SAG Doles Out 2008 Awards Nominations
The Screen Actors Guild announced its award nominations this morning, ass-crack early, and while there was some spread in the nods, there was also no doubt as to the biggest winner. The headlining nominations, for Outstanding Performance by an Entire Cast, are The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Doubt, Frost/Nixon, Milk and Slumdog Millionaire. In the Male Actor in a Leading Role category, the nominees are Richard Jenkins for The Visitor; Frank Langella for Frost/Nixon; Sean Penn for Milk; Brad Pitt for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button; and Mickey Rourke for The Wrestler. In the Female Actor in a Leading Role category, the nominees are Anne Hathaway for Rachel Getting Married; Angelina Jolie for Changeling; Melissa Leo for Frozen River; Meryl Streep for Doubt; and Kate Winslet for Revolutionary Road.
For the Male Actor in a Supporting Role category, the nominees are Josh Brolin for Milk; Robert Downey, Jr. for Tropic Thunder; Philip Seymour Hoffman for Doubt; Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy… err, sorry, Heath Ledger for The Dark Knight; and Dev Patel for Slumdog Millionaire. For the Female Actor in a Supporting Role category, the nominees are Amy Adams for Doubt; Penelope Cruz for Woody Allen’s otherwise long ago disregarded Vicky Cristina Barcelona; Viola Davis for Doubt; Taraji P. Henson for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button; and Kate Winslet for The Reader.
To my mind, the only real surprise is Patel, who’s been lambasted in some reviews of Slumdog; a nominal surprise is Brolin, whose been getting plenty of critical love, but hadn’t really broken through with a top-shelf prize yet to more firmly establish himself as an Oscar contender. There was as much love for Che as for The Love Guru, it turns out — which is to say none. Which doesn’t bother me, I confess. The SAG Awards will be simulcast live on Sunday, January 25, on TBS and TNT, at 8 p.m. Eastern and Pacific times.
AFI Bestows 2008 Awards
Today, the American Film Institute announced their official selections for the year’s most outstanding achievements in film, which will be honored at an invitation-only luncheon on Friday, January 9, 2009 at the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills. “AFI Awards honors the community of artists who come together each year to create films and television programs of excellence,” said Bob Gazzale, AFI’s President and CEO in a press release. “They are not competitors at an event, but colleagues, in a world that needs art and entertainment more than ever.” In alphabetical order, AFI’s honorees are: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Dark Knight, Frost/Nixon, Frozen River, Gran Torino, Iron Man, Milk, Wall▪E, Wendy and Lucy and The Wrestler. Needless to say, as someone who has seen all 10 films listed above, this slate has both sins of omission and sins of commission, in my opinion, but we’ll be getting into that more in the coming weeks.
Oscar Winners: Juno, Michael Clayton, There Will Be Blood
So the Oscar nominations are in, and Juno is undeniably one of the big winners, its hearty commercial embrace having pushed the movie over the hill. I pointed out yesterday that Fox Searchlight is operating on a different plane when it comes to turning out the vote for its movies, and alongside the aforementioned surprise little hit of the final quarter of 2007 ($85 million and counting), further evidence arrives in the form of Tamara Jenkins’ The Savages, which, despite not (yet) having connected at the box office (it’s made only $3.6 million in a month and a half of release), garnered an expected Best Original Screenplay nomination, but also a Best Actress nod for Laura Linney, probably coming at the expense of Angelina Jolie and A Mighty Heart.
Writer-director Tony Gilroy’s end-around on studio financing worked out well, with Michael Clayton racking up nods for George Clooney’s lead performance, Tilda Swinton and Tom Wilkinson’s supporting turns, Best Original Screenplay and, somewhat surprisingly, Best Director, in Gilroy’s debut. Joe Wright’s Atonement, meanwhile, used its “BAFTA bounce” to secure Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Supporting Actress (Saoirse Ronan) and Best Film nominations, despite neither of its leads (James McAvoy or Keira Knightley) being selected for the final winnowing.
Finally, with eight nominations — tied for the most, with Joel and Ethan Coen’s No Country for Old Men — critics can for the moment stop bellyaching about Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will Be Blood being a snubbed masterpiece. They’ll get a chance to continue if the film is shut out in top categories, but for now, it’s a “made film,” a legit contender with the other big boys and probably an early front-runner, alongside the aforementioned Coen brothers flick and Michael Clayton. Oh, one other thing… what happened to the brilliant prognostications of The Envelope’s human noisemaker, Tom O’Neil, who I thought called for a Sweeney Todd sweep long ago?
Unlike the cancelled Golden Globes, the 80th annual Academy Awards will (allegedly) proceed writers’ strike or not, on Sunday, February 24 on ABC. More on the nominations throughout the day, as events and sobriety permit. For a full list of nominees, click here.
On Amy Ryan, LAFCA’s Awards Dinner
I hadn’t posted this earlier due to some photo glitches with the old blogcast software recently, but I presented the Best Supporting Actress Award to Amy Ryan this past weekend at the annual Los Angeles Film Critics Association awards dinner. Well, to her friend and fellow actor Tate Donovan, actually (below). Ryan couldn’t attend, and not just because she heard I was “grabby.” (Donovan doesn’t mind, he gives as good as he gets.) No, Ryan was in Spain filming Imperial Life in the Emerald City, Paul Greengrass‘ follow-up to The Bourne Ultimatum, opposite costars Matt Damon and Greg Kinnear.
There was a little speech, which I did not deliver in song, alas, but the text of my introductory essay, from the awards booklet, reads as follows:
“It’s been a breakthrough and haphazardly maternal sort of year on the big screen for Tony-nominated stage actress Amy Ryan, with a slate of film roles in which she memorably portrays caregivers both attentive and criminally negligent.
In real life, Martha (as well as many others, rightly) would be appalled by Helene’s actions. Yet Ryan’s searing performance neither panders nor tips over into gaudy caricature. However bawdy the character, she plays Helene chiefly with an unapologetic self-involvement — the unblinking, under-educated victim of her own shattered childhood, who now knows no choices other than poor, self-indulgent or some combination thereof — and in doing so shines a light on the cyclical distress of America’s underclass, heartbreakingly chalking an evidentiary mark for the latter grouping in the age-old nature-nurture debate.”
Fox’s LAFCA Awards Coverage
The video footage hasn’t worked for me — all I get is emcee Leonard Maltin, frozen in time and space — but maybe others will have more luck. At any rate, here’s Fox LA’s coverage of Saturday night’s 33rd annual Los Angeles Film Critics Association awards, apparently anchored by reporter Suzanne Marques.
A corrective note, though: while Daniel Day-Lewis was indeed feted as Best Actor for his work in There Will Be Blood, Sissy Spacek was simply in attendance with husband Jack Fisk, honored for his production design work on the same film. Other attendees included Patton Oswalt, Maya Rudolph and Tate Donovan, as well as winners Paul Thomas Anderson, Marion Cotillard and more.
LAFCA Announces 2007 Awards
Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will Be Blood was the big winner at the Los Angeles Film Critics Awards voting today, taking Best Picture, Best Director and Best Production Design honors, in addition to star Daniel Day-Lewis picking up the prize for Best Actor.The Diving Bell and the Butterfly was runner-up in the Best Picture, Best Foreign Language Film and Best Director categories, but Janusz Kaminski’s cinematography for the movie was honored. Other winners include Marion Cotillard for Best Actress for her work in La Vie En Rose; Amy Ryan for Best Supporting Actress for her work in Gone Baby Gone and Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead; Vlad Ivanov for Best Supporting Actor for his work in 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days; Tamara Jenkins for Best Screenplay for The Savages; Cristian Mungiu’s 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days for Best Foreign Language Film; and No End in Sight, directed by Charles Ferguson, for Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film. Sicko, directed by Michael Moore, was the runner-up in the latter category.
For Best Animated Film, Ratatouille and Persepolis tied, while Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova’s work in Once was honored with Best Music. Actress Sarah Polley will be presented with the New Generation Award, for her directorial debut, Away From Her; meanwhile, Colossal Youth, directed by Pedro Costa, will be awarded the Independent/Experimental Film Award.
This year’s awards ceremony, to be held January 12, 2008, will be dedicated to the memory of the late Robert Altman, Michelangelo Antonioni, Ingmar Bergman, Ousmane Sembene and Edward Yang. It was previously announced that Sidney Lumet was the organization’s Career Achievement Award winner. More on all these films — and what if anything this and other critics groups’ votes mean for Oscar chances — in the coming days.
LAFCA Honors Sidney Lumet With Career Achievement
The Los Angeles Film Critics Association announced yesterday that director Sidney Lumet will be honored with the group’s 2007 Career Achievement Award at their annual awards dinner, to be held January 12, 2008. Previous winners include Jerry Lewis, Andre de Toth, Arthur Penn, Billy Wilder and Conrad Hall, among others; in 2005, Richard Widmark was spotlighted for his work, while Robert Mulligan was honored last year. Lumet’s long and distinguished career spans more than five decades, and includes Fail-Safe, Serpico, Dog Day Afternoon, Prince of the City and The Verdict, as well as this fall’s buzz-heavy Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead, starring Ethan Hawke, Albert Finney, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Marisa Tomei.
Cinematographers Honor Lubezki, Children of Men
On the heels of his recent Best Cinematography feting from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association for his work in Children of Men, Emmanuel Lubezki took top honors in the feature film competition last night at the 21st annual American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) Outstanding Achievement Awards at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel.
Charlize Theron, meanwhile, presented Allen Daviau — an Oscar nominee for films like E.T., The Color Purple, The Empire of the Sun and Bugsy — with the Lifetime Achievement Award, while t