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FILM STOCK FOR AWARD WINNERS
AND THE WINNERS ARE...
or the second year running at the Kodak Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard, a movie, originated on Fujifilm and lit by a British Director
of Photography, has won Best Picture at the Academy Awards.
The 82nd edition of the Oscars voted The Hurt Locker, the Iraq War drama about a tough American bomb disposal team, six Oscars following its similar haul at the British Academy Film Awards a fortnight earlier, which had seen the Cinematography prize going to Barry Ackroyd BSC.
“Barry Ackroyd’s contribution was some of the most precise, galvanising camerawork in any film of the past 12 months... He is one of the great vérité artists in filmmaking, adept at clammy close-ups, fly-on-the-wall observation and widescreen vistas charged with a hazy, peripheral menace. Each set piece in The Hurt Locker works because exactly the right shots establish the situation and pull us in; every actor benefits from the rigorous naturalism of Ackroyd’s lens. Simply put, director Kathryn Bigelow could not have done it without him.”
Jury member TIM ROBEY The Evening Standard Film Awards
Twelve months after the triumph of Slumdog Millionaire, it was truly the culmination of a remarkable year not just for The Hurt Locker but also for a host of other films shot on Fujifilm, which, serendipitously, won its own Oscar in the Scientific and Engineering category.
Precious – Based On The Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire, to give it its full title, added two Oscars to a clutch of other awards, which had started way back at Sundance more than 12 months earlier.
Like The Hurt Locker, it was also a winner at the BAFTAs, where Fujifilm recorded a notable Best Picture haul, with Andrea Arnold’s Fish Tank and Jacques Audiard’s A Prophet, respectively, Outstanding British Film and Best Foreign Language Film, completing a clean sweep.
Among the major BAFTA nominees were Shifty, Exam, noting their debutant writer-directors Eran Creevy and Stuart Hazeldine, and the Swedish vampire drama Let The Right One In, which also proved a winner with the London Film Critics Circle and at the British Independent Film Awards. Many congratulations to Joe Dunton for his well deserved BAFTA.
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