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BEAUTY IS BEST
W inner of the Oscar and BAFTA last year, Conrad
Remi Adefarasin and Dick Pope who had been variously honoured through- out the year.
The icing on the cake was the tra- ditional raffle in aid of Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children and the CTBF which raised £4,392. ■
Hall ASC has now added the BSC Best Cinematography Award
for American Beauty.
Hall – who edged out fellow nomi-
nees John Mathieson (Gladiator), Roger Pratt (The End Of The Affair), Robert Richardson (Snow Falling On Cedars), Emmanuel Lubezki (Sleepy Hollow) and Oliver Stapleton (The Cider House Rules ) - was unable to be present at the BSC’s annual Operators’ Night held at Pinewood in December.
The BSC’s Bert Easey Award went posthumously to Charles D Staffell, a giant in visual effects, who died last year. It was received from guest-of- honour, director Chris Columbus, by Staffell’s long time aide and friend, Carole Kenyon.
The first of the GBCT Awards, The David Lenham Award, was anoth- er posthumous presentation collected by his long-time grip Colin Manning on behalf of operator Mike Roberts who died suddenly last year aged 60. The Focus Puller’s Award went to Mike Evans, long-time collaborator of GBCT chairman Harvey Harrison, while Peter Taylor picked up the Operator’s Award.
A popular winner of Arri’s John Alcott Memorial Award was the BSC’s hardworking secretary Frances Russell.
The evening enjoyed a record turnout of 220 and also paid tribute to various home-grown cinematogra- phers like Billy Williams, Freddie Francis, John De Borman, Gavin Finney, Fred Tammes, John Mathieson,
Photos from top: Peter Taylor (centre) with GBCT Camera Operators Award flanked by guest of honour Chris Columbus and GBCT President, Harvey Harrison; John Seale ACS, ASC with Jack Cardiff BSC and Chris Columbus; Mike Evans and Harvey Harrison; Renos Louka of Arri presents the Arri John Alcott Memorial Award to Frances Russell;
Colin Manning accepts the GBCT David Lenham
Award from Chris Columbus, presented in memoriam
to Mike Roberts; Mike Evans accepts the GBCT Focus
Pullers Award; Chris Columbus presents the BSC
Bert Easey Technical Award (in memoriam to Charles Staffell BSC)
to Carol Kenyon, long time aide of Charles; Ron Pearce with Frances and John Seale drawing the Raffle; Chris Columbus, Phil Meheux BSC VP and John Seale ACS, ASC.
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