Best Cinematography
Roger Deakins (Skyfall)
Hooray for Roger Deakins! Much as I loved Life of Pi and Claudio Miranda's fabulous work in it, I was rooting for Deakins, whose work in Skyfall was my favourite from the nominees. This is Deakins' third ASC award in 11 nominations (excluding his Lifetime Achievement Award win); he has been nominated for ten Oscars, including this year, but has famously never won.
If Academy can snub seemingly impossible Emmanuel Lubezki for Tree Of Life last year who had already been snubbed for Children Of Men in 2007 and had won almost 20 awards going into the 2012 oscars, they can snub Claudio Miranda too.
ReplyDeleteThe only thing going for Miranda is the incredible passionate support for the movie, which very well may land him his 1st oscar.
But how much longer does Deakins has to wait?
And if he do win now or in future, he would be winning for digital cinematography which he has grown fond of, after initially dismissing it.
Peter O'Toole of cinematography with 2 additional nominations.
It's all Digital Cinematography.
That's the future. Arri Alexa is here to stay.
Even Chivo's work on Cuaron's upcoming Gravity is entirely digital.
Necessary evil.
It's not evil, just better suited to certain films than film. But if I had to choose one over the other, I'd stay true to film. It's richer.
DeleteGuillermo Navarro had two things in his favour when he beat Emmanuel Lubezki five years ago:
- His film was more popular within the Academy, overall.
- His style of cinematography was more traditional, and featured rich colour grading and lots of exterior shots of natural landscapes. Lubezki worked with a bleak, grey aesthetic, which was less conventionally pretty to Oscar voters. Remember when they gave The Fellowship of the Ring the Cinematography Oscar 11 years ago, and then neither The Two Towers nor The Return of the King were even nominated? A clear case of the cinematography branch showing mild support for a DP's work, but the Academy on the whole, less well informed than that individual branch, regarding it as the finest of the year.
As regards last year, it was simple: voters saw and mostly liked Hugo, voters didn't see or didn't much like The Tree of Life.
Very true. Thanking you for clearing the thought.
ReplyDeleteMy bad and shall take back the word evil.
Better suited to certain film, gotta keep that in mind.
Agreed on Lubezki's case.
Your Lesnie's point is genuinely valid.
Hoping DP-turned-director Pfister continues shooting on film if he ever returns behind the camera.
You don't have to take it back! If you think it's evil, then you think it's evil. Keep it! :D
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