American Cinematographer - May 2013 - 98

Clubhouse News

From top: Paul Sarossy, ASC, BSC, CSC;
Florence and Woody Omens, ASC; Seamus
McGarvey, ASC, BSC.

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May 2013

Cinematographers Enjoy
Awards Season
Several ASC members and their
collaborators were feted during awards
season.
At BAFTA’s Orange British Academy
Film Awards, the cinematography nominees
were Seamus McGarvey, ASC, BSC (Anna
Karenina); Claudio Miranda, ASC (Life of
Pi); Roger Deakins, ASC, BSC (Skyfall);
Danny Cohen, BSC (Les Misérables); and
Janusz Kaminski (Lincoln). Miranda won the
award.
At the Film Independent Spirit
Awards, Ben Richardson took home the
Best Cinematography honor for Beasts of
the Southern Wild. Also nominated were
Yoni Brook (Valley of Saints); Lol Crawley
(Here); Robert Yeoman, ASC (Moonrise
Kingdom); and Roman Vasyanov (End of
Watch).
At the Academy Awards, Miranda
took home the Oscar for Life of Pi. Also
nominated were McGarvey, Deakins,
Kaminski and Robert Richardson, ASC
(Django Unchained).
Wrapping up this year’s awards
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season, the Society of Camera Operators
honored Andrew Voegeli, SOC for Breaking
Bad (TV Camera Operator of the Year);
Mitch Dubin, SOC for Lincoln (Feature Film
Camera Operator of the Year); and Bruce
MacCallum, SOC (Lifetime Achievement
Award).
Additionally, Seamus McGarvey
presented Peter Robertson, ACO, SOC,
with The Historical Shot Award for the
Dunkirk Beach Steadicam shot in Atonement, a title they worked on together.
The SOC also honored Woody
Omens, ASC with the Distinguished
Service Award and presented Canon with a
Technical Achievement Award for its
Cinema EOS C300 and C500 camera
systems.
Silverman, Smith, Poster
Join HPA Tech Retreat
ASC associates Leon Silverman
and Garrett Smith and Steven Poster,
ASC recently participated in the Hollywood
Post Alliance’s 19th annual Tech Retreat, a
gathering of technical and creative talent
from across the industry.
Silverman, the president of the HPA,
was on hand throughout the retreat and
participated in the session “More, Bigger
but Better?” Smith and others joined Silverman as a panelist.
Poster led the breakfast roundtable
discussion “Talking Data with Camera”
with Michael Chambliss and Mark Weingartner.
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Photo of Clubhouse by Isidore Mankofsky, ASC; lighting by Donald M. Morgan, ASC.
SOC Awards photos by Craig T. Mathew, courtesy of Mathew Imaging.

Society Welcomes Sarossy
New active member Paul Sarossy,
ASC, BSC, CSC inherited his love of images
from his father, who studied fine art and
worked as a news cameraman. Growing up
in Ontario, Sarossy had no television, but
instead watched the 16mm films his father
brought home from the TV station. He
learned how to shoot, process and edit
video by working at the same station as a
teenager.
Sarossy studied film at York University in Toronto, graduating in 1987. In 1989,
he shot director Atom Egoyan’s second
feature, Speaking Parts, and the two have
since created 10 more films together,
including Exotica, The Sweet Hereafter,
Ararat, Where the Truth Lies and Chloe.
Sarossy has won five Academy of Canadian
Cinema and Television Awards.
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