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nthony Dod Mantle’s remark- Aable Academy Awards’ double
- the Hollywood Oscar and a BAFTA - for Slumdog Million- aire rounded off a remarkable
year for Fujifilm, which had begun way back at Cannes ’08 with Hunger earning the Camera D’Or for director Steve McQueen.
On an icy night in early February, Slumdog Millionaire became the most decorated British film at the BAFTAs for nearly a quarter of a cen- tury - since The Killing Fields in 1984 - when it scooped no fewer than seven British Academy Film Awards, including Film, Director (Danny Boyle) and Cinematography.
Later in the month, the £8m film went one better in Hollywood with no fewer than eight Oscars, repeat- ing the 1982 achievement of Gandhi. As well as Dod Mantle - the first British cinematography winner since the late Freddie Francis BSC in 1990 (with Glory) - the roll call of success also included Film, Director, Editing, Sound, Music, Song and Adapted Screenplay (Simon Beaufoy).
Dod Mantle BSC DFF, later named winner of this year’s ASC award, had been part of a filmmaking team which earlier made its considerable mark at, among many other global prizegivings, the British Independent Film Awards, the Golden Globes, Evening Standard Awards, Critics Cir- cle Awards, US National Board of Re- view and CamerImage, where the Denmark-based DP also scooped a Golden Frog.
Two other Fujifilm titles, Hunger and Mike Leigh’s Happy-Go-Lucky, also enjoyed worldwide awards success. Following its bow at Cannes, Hunger would go on to earn seven Irish Film & Television Academy awards, three BIFAs, including Technical Achieve- ment for Cinematography for Sean Bobbitt BSC, as well as recognition by the Evening Standard (Best Pic- ture), Critics Circle (Breakthrough British filmmaker), European Film
Awards (European Discovery 2008) and BAFTAs (Carl Foreman Award).
As for Happy-Go-Lucky, its lead actress Sally Hawkins, EXPOSURE’s cover girl a year ago, was the main focus of the film’s success, winning a Golden Globe, Berlin Silver Bear, The Peter Sellers’ Comedy Award from the Evening Standard and Best Ac- tress from critics in four of the US’s biggest cities. To Supporting Actor Eddie Marsan went the BIFA and Critics’ Circle Awards.
No survey of this kind should be complete without mention of Kenny Glenaan’s Summer, co-starring Robert Carlyle and Steve Evets. Pho- tographed on Fujifilm by Tony Slater-Ling, it won two awards from BAFTA Scotland - Best Feature and BestDirector. QUENTINFALK
In this year’s British Academy Television Awards, Hancock And Joan, for BBC4, photographed by James Welland on 16mm Fujicolor ETERNA 250D 8663, ETERNA 250T 8653, ETERNA 500T 8673 and Super 64-D 8622, was nominated for Single Drama, Actor (Ken Stott) and Actress (Maxine Peake)
Photos from top (left to right):
A very proud Anthony Dod Mantle DFF BSC with his Oscar for Best Cinematography; Dev Patel and Anish Kapoor in Slumdog Millionaire; Director Danny Boyle with his Oscar; Michael Fassbender in Hunger; Director Steve McQueen; Sally Hawkins in Mike Leigh’s Happy-Go-Lucky; DP Sean Bobbitt BSC; Ken Stott and Maxine Peake in Hancock and Joan (Photo BBC); Robert Carlyle in Kenny Glenaan’s Summer
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