One on One
A Conversation with Caleb Deschanel, ASC
Submitted by Nick Dager on Fri, 11/20/2009 - 13:20.
By Bob Fisher
Caleb Deschanel will receive the American Society of Cinematographers Lifetime Achievement Award. When the ASC holds its 24th Annual Outstanding Achievement Awards celebration in Hollywood on February 27. He recently sat down for a conversation with Bob Fisher for Digital Cinema Report.
Dante Spinotti, ASC, AIC
Submitted by Nick Dager on Thu, 06/11/2009 - 13:15.
Dante Spinotti, ASC, AIC was born in Italy and raised in a rustic environment near Venice. He began taking still photographs and making enlargements in a homemade darkroom when he was about 11 years old. When he was 17, Spinotti went to Kenya where he worked with an uncle who was a documentary and news film director/cinematographer. He shot his first documentary footage with a handheld, spring-loaded Eyemo camera. After about a year, Spinotti returned to Italy, where he worked on commercials, documentaries and dramas for RAI, the state television network. That led to opportunities to shoot his first features during the early 1980s. Dino De Laurentiis discovered Spinotti and brought him to the United States to shoot Manhunter in 1986. He subsequently earned Oscar nominations for L.A. Confidential in 1997 and for The Insider in 1999. His body of work also includes Beaches, True Colors, Bandits, The Mirror has Two Faces, The Last of the Mohicans, Blink, Nell, Heat, Wonder Boys and Red Dragon. His most recent project is Public Enemies, which will be released in July. What follows is an edited text of a conversation that took place in 2003.
A Conversation with Christopher Nolan
Submitted by Nick Dager on Wed, 01/28/2009 - 11:33.
Award-winning writer-producer-director Christopher Nolan, whose most recent film was The Dark Knight, will receive the American Society of Cinematographers Board of Governors Award, which is presented annually to an individual who has made significant contributions to advancing the art of filmmaking. Nolan will be feted during the 23rd Annual ASC Outstanding Achievement Awards celebration on February 15, at the Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles.
A Conversation with Robert “Bobby” Liu
Submitted by Nick Dager on Tue, 12/09/2008 - 16:53.
Winner of the ASC Career Achievement in Television Award
Robert F. “Bobby” Liu has been named the recipient of the American Society of Cinematographers Career Achievement in Television Award. Liu was born in Shanghai in 1926. He began his career working with Chinese filmmaking pioneer Chuang Kuo Chuen.
A Conversation with Don McAlpine
Submitted by Nick Dager on Thu, 11/20/2008 - 17:26.
Winner of the American Society of Cinematographers International Achievement Award
Donald McAlpine will receive the 2009 American Society of Cinematographers International Achievement Award. The tribute is presented annually to a cinematographer who has made significant and enduring contributions to the global art of filmmaking. He will be feted during the 23rd Annual ASC Outstanding Achievement Awards in Los Angeles on February 15, at the Century Plaza Hotel. McAlpine has compiled an eclectic range of some 50 narrative credits during the past 35 years, including such memorable films as Molin Rouge!, which earned an Oscar nomination in 2002, Breaker Morant, Predator, Down and Out in Beverly Hills, Patriot Games, Peter Pan, The Time Machine, Clear and Present Danger, Mrs. Doubtfire, and The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. X-Men Origins: Wolverine is slated for release by 20th Century-Fox next April. We spoke with McAlpine recently.