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Fourteen cinematographers are vying for top honors in the three television categories of the 18th Annual American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) Outstanding Achievement Awards competition. Winners will be named at the ASC Awards gala on February 8, at the Century Plaza Hotel.
Nominees for the episodic television category are John Aronson for “Dead Wives Club”/Crossing Jordan (NBC), Thomas A. Del Ruth, ASC for “7AWF83429”/The West Wing (NBC), Jeffrey Jur, ASC for “Pick A Number”/Carnivale (HBO), Chris Manley for “Dr. Germ”/Threat Matrix (ABC), and Eric Schmidt for “Time to Hate”/Cold Case (CBS).
Nominations in the TV movie/miniseries/pilot category in the basic cable or pay television competition are Stephen Goldblatt, ASC, BSC for Angels in America (HBO), Michael Mayers for The Pentagon Papers (FX), Donald M. Morgan, ASC for Out of the Ashes (Showtime), Tami Reiker for the Carnivale pilot (HBO), and Ashley Rowe, BSC for Tennessee Williams’ The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (Showtime).
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Nominees in the TV movie/miniseries/pilot category for network television are Pierre Gill, CSC for Hitler: The Rise of Evil (CBS), Ernest Holzman, ASC for “The Calling/Miracles pilot (ABC), Michael Mayers for The Lyon’s Den pilot (NBC), Bill Roe, ASC for the Las Vegas pilot (NBC), and Eric Van Haren Noman, ASC for Brush With Fate (CBS).
“Our juries saw a lot of very special work in all categories,” says ASC Awards Committee Chairman Owen Roizman, ASC. “It isn’t easy selecting nominees because the decisions are subjective. We are judging how effectively images convey stories. The votes were so close that there could have been seven or eight nominees in each category.”
Mayers’ two nominations mark only the fourth time a cinematographer has been double-nominated in the 18-year history of the awards. It is the eighth nomination for Del Ruth who has four wins, the sixth for Roe who has two wins, the fifth for Morgan who has four wins, the fourth for Van Haren Noman, the third for Goldblatt and Holzman who has one win, and the second each for Gill and Jur who took top prize. There are five first-time nominees.
NBC programs lead the pack with four nominations, HBO and CBS each have three, both Showtime and ABC have two, and the FX Network earned one.
ASC President Richard Crudo notes that this is one of the few competitions for television cinematography where judging is done solely by peers.
“Great cinematography is generally designed to be transparent to the audience,” he explains. “It’s meant to evoke emotions appropriate for the story and to create a sense of time and place that are important sub-texts. This requires a combination of artistic talent and technical skill and the ability to collaborate and get the work done on schedule, usually within restrictive budgets. It generally takes a cinematographer to recognize those attributes.”
The American Society of Cinematographers is the oldest organization of its type in the motion picture industry. It was founded in Hollywood in 1919 by 15 cinematographers who were dedicated to advancing the art and craft of a new art form. There are currently 215 members and another 135 associate members who work in ancillary businesses. For additional information about the 18th Annual ASC Outstanding Achievement Awards visit the ASC website (www.theASC.com) or call 323-969-4333.
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