American Society of Cinematographers Name their 2008 Finalists
These look pretty good...
The American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) has announced their five finalists in the feature film category of the 23rd Annual American Society of Cinematographers Outstanding Achievement Awards competition. The recipient will be named during the awards celebration here at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel on February 15.
It's a great looking list and I am surprised while they were at it they didn't toss Doubt into Deakins's list of achievements, it wasn't as beautiful as The Reader, but it certainly compared to Revolutionary Road.
- Roger Deakins, ASC, BSC (Revolutionary Road and The Reader)
- Anthony Dod Mantle, BSC (Slumdog Millionaire)
- Chris Menges, ASC, BSC (The Reader)
- Claudio Miranda (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button)
- Wally Pfister, ASC (The Dark Knight)
These are the eighth and ninth nominations for Deakins who earned top honors in 1995 for The Shawshank Redemption and in 2002 for The Man Who Wasn’t There. It's the fourth nomination for Menges, the second for Pfister, and the first for Dod Mantle and Miranda.
Stay tuned as we are expecting the Writers Guild to announce their noms in the next half hour as well as the Directors Guild tomorrow.
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A very good list, but I'm afraid to say that Roger Deakins might be going home empty handed once again.
I'm rooting for Wally Pfister or Anthony Dod Mantle. Both those movies looked beautiful.
Pfister or Miranda are my two picks. those movies were amazing
Just so you know: Roger Deakins is also a cinematographer on The Reader, not just Revolutionary Road. This is the second year in a row he's been double-nominated for this (!); I really hope he doesn't split his chances at an Oscar between two movies again.
From Brad: Are you pointing this out because we can't read what is in the article or because you didn't?
Oh, never mind; I didn't see there were both movies after his name.
Doubt? I thought that doubt's cinematography was poor, because an amazing cinematographer like Deakins was put into the hands of a first-time screen director like John Patrick Shanley. Anyways, that list is the exact one that I had, except I have Claudio Miranda as my 6th best, and Rob Hardy for Boy A is in my top 5. But I don't think the academy will notice it, unfortunately.
Doubt was my hands-down favorite. Each shot began with an extraordinarliy beautiful photgraph. In both colour and composition.