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ANNUAL OPERATORS’ NIGHT
This year’s BSC Best Cinematography Award, announced at the Annual Operators’ Night, went to Roger Deakins BSC, ASC for The Coens’ O Brother, Where Art Thou?
The other nominees were Roger Pratt BSC (Chocolat), Peter Pau (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon), Robert Fraisse (Enemy At The Gates) and Steven Soderbergh (Traffic)
Deakins, unable to be present at the Pinewood event on December 7 attended by over 234 members and guests, sent a message: “The BSC award, coming as it does from my friends and colleagues in Britain, means a great deal to me and I am extremely grateful to the Society – and a little surprised too! Although I have been living in the US for
over 10 years now, I am still very much a Brit.”
Guest of honour was British direc- tor Richard Loncraine and the recipi- ent of a Lifetime Achievement Award was 87-year old Gilbert Taylor BSC (The Omen, Star Wars, Dr. Strangelove).
The new Charles Staffell Award, which has been donated by Kevin Francis, was won by BSC Board mem- ber Roy Field for exemplary work in the field of Optical Effects.
The John Alcott Memorial (Arri) Award went to Mick Mason and was presented by Tommy Moran of Arri.
A MANHATTAN SHORT FILM FESTIVAL
s reported in the last issue of www.msfilmfest.com for info and entry EXPOSURE, The Manhattan forms. There’s also the chance to win Short Film Festival is this a Fujifilm Digital FinePix 40i camera. So year holding a UK Public Vote what are you waiting for! ■
Tour between April 1 and April 14. The tour will travel from Edinburgh to Brighton screening the top eight entries from Britain.
The winner, voted for by the audience, will win 10,000ft of 35mm film courtesy of Fujifilm. Deadline for entries is March 16, so log on now to
WEDDING BELLS
Because of his ill health, the Bert Easey Technical Award had been awarded earlier in the year to Harry Baker for the continuous development of fluid heads. Baker died recently.
The GBCT Operator’s Award went to Martin Hume and Martin Kenzie for their work on the TV series Band of Brothers while the Focus Award went to Danny Shelmerdine.
The raffle and auction helped raise £4,000 for the Great Ormond Street Hospital and Cinema and Television Benevolent Fund. ■
Photos from top left to right:
Robin Vidgeon BSC & Harvey Harrison BSC (co hosts) introducing Nigel Willoughby, a new Associate BSC member, to the audience and presenting him with his BSC Associate Membership Certificate;
Roy Field BSC, first recipient of the BSC Charles D. Staffell Award for Visual Effects donated by Kevin Francis and Danny Shelmerdine, winner of the GBCT Focus Pullers Award;
Danny Shelmerdine receives the GBCT Focus Pullers Award from Guest of Honour Richard Loncraine;
Richard Loncraine and Martin Hume, co- recipient with Martin Kenzie of the GBCT Operators Award for Band Of Brothers;
Roy Field BSC (BSC Charles Staffell Award),
Gil Taylor BSC, (BSC Lifetime Achievement Award), Martin Hume - co winner of the
GBCT Operators Award with Martin Kenzie who was absent and Danny Shelmerdine, winner of the GBCT Focus Pullers Award;
Gil Taylor BSC with Operators Colin Corby and Peter Taylor (Gil’s son);
New Full Member Paul Sarossy BSC is welcomed by the audience and receives
his certificate;
Harvey Harrison BSC welcomes Gary Spratling, new Associate member of the Society;
Tommy Moran of Arri presents Mick Mason with the BSC Arri John Alcott Memorial Award; Mike Southon BSC reads the citation for the Charles Staffell Award.
Congratulations to Fujifilm’s Roger Sapsford and his lovely wife Jean on their recent wedding. We wish them a long and very happy marriage!
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