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Clubhouse News

Left: Emmanuel Lubezki, ASC, AMC.
Above: Ed Lachman, ASC.

Sheridan Named Associate
New associate member Ryan Sheridan currently serves as the vice president of
digital cinema at Otto Nemenz International, Inc., in Hollywood. His enchantment
with light and shadow began when he was
a child actor working on a commercial
photographed by Robert Primes, ASC;
Sheridan now works alongside Primes
teaching digital-cinematography workshops. Sheridan previously worked as a
video engineer, digital-imaging technician,
post-workflow specialist, video-systems
engineer, mechanical engineer, software
programmer, digital-cinema educator and
colorist before fellow associate member
Otto Nemenz offered him his current position.
Lubezki Wins Oscar, BAFTA
Emmanuel Lubezki, ASC, AMC
recently won his third consecutive Academy
Award for Best Cinematography for his
work on The Revenant (AC Jan. '16). The
award makes Lubezki the first cinematographer to win three consecutive Oscars; he
had won previously for Gravity (AC Nov.
'13) and Birdman (AC Dec. '14). Also nominated for the cinematography Oscar were
Ed Lachman, ASC, for Carol; Roger
Deakins, ASC, BSC, for Sicario (AC Oct.
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'15); Robert Richardson, ASC, for The
Hateful Eight (AC Dec. '15); and John
Seale, ASC, ACS, for Mad Max: Fury Road
(AC June '15).
For The Revenant, Lubezki also took
home this year's BAFTA Award for Best
Cinematography. Also nominated in the
category were Lachman, for Carol; Deakins,
for Sicario; Seale, for Mad Max: Fury Road;
and Janusz Kaminski, for Bridge of Spies.
Lachman Wins Spirit Award
Ed Lachman, ASC recently won the
2016 Film Independent Spirit Award for Best
Cinematography for his work on the feature
Carol (AC Dec. '15). Lachman received a
standing ovation from the crowd when he
accepted his award during the ceremony,
which was held in Santa Monica, Calif. Also
nominated in the cinematography category
were Reed Morano, ASC, for Meadowland; Cary Joji Fukunaga, for Beasts of No
Nation; Michael Gioulakis, for It Follows;
and Joshua James Richards, for Songs My
Brothers Taught Me.
Society Honors Zsigmond
The Society recently held a memorial
for Vilmos Zsigmond, ASC, HSC at the
Clubhouse in Hollywood. ASC President
Richard Crudo served as master of cereAmerican Cinematographer

Simmons Shares Photos
John Simmons, ASC recently
presented the photography exhibit "It
Started in the '60s" at The Perfect Exposure
Gallery in Los Angeles. Simmons scanned
negatives of images he had taken over the
years, made prints and framed them for
others to see for the first time. "It was a
revelation to see the trajectory of my life
through these photographs," he explained
in the exhibit's notes. "It is interesting how
each photograph is its own present
moment, a moment that is preserved and
becomes the past. The image becomes like
a myth, something that now expands its
reality and creates its own mystery and set
of questions. Questions about the time, the
life beyond the frame, and me, the first
person to see it at the only moment it
existed. The fact that it was an important
moment worth being preserved, and it has
the magic to transcend logical thought and
enter a realm of the symbolic."
Iltsopoulos-Borys Joins PRG
Associate member Zoë IltsopoulosBorys recently joined Production Resource
Group as the company's senior account
executive for business development. Her
responsibilities include developing opportunities for the wide spectrum of PRG entertainment solutions in the feature-film, television and commercial-market segments in
Canada and the eastern United States.
Iltsopoulos-Borys previously served as
general manager at Fletcher Camera and
Lenses.
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Photo of Clubhouse by Isidore Mankofsky, ASC; lighting by Donald M. Morgan, ASC.
Lubezki photo by Aaron Poole, courtesy of AMPAS. Lachman photo by Tommaso Boddi, courtesy of WireImage.

monies for the event, which celebrated Zsigmond's incredible life, stunning body of
work and monumental legacy. After the
screening of a tribute reel that filmmaker
Alex Beatty prepared for the occasion, a
number of Zsigmond's friends, colleagues
and collaborators - including ASC
members James A. Chressanthis and
Woody Omens - shared memories of
their adventures with the cinematographer.

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