American Society of Cinematographers honors “Gravity”

PanARMENIAN.Net - Emmanuel "Chivo" Lubezki's rendering of Gravity won the feature competition at the 28th annual American Society of Cinematographers Outstanding Achievement Awards, The Hollywood Reported.

He topped a field of nominees that included Sean Bobbitt for 12 Years a Slave, Barry Ackroyd for Captain Phillips, Philippe Le Sourd for The Grandmaster, Bruno Delbonnel for Inside Llewyn Davis, Phedon Papamichael for Nebraska and Roger Deakins for Prisoners.

This is the third ASC feature award for Lubezki, who previously won for Children of Men and The Tree of Life. This puts him in some select company. In the event’s 28-year history, only one cinematographer, the late Conrad Hall, won the feature category four times. And, Lubezki now joins fellow nominee Deakins as the only cinematographers with three wins in the category.

Also this year, Lubezki received his sixth Oscar nomination, and is vying for his first Academy Award.

This year, the organization also presented an inaugural ASC Spotlight Award "to recognize outstanding cinematography in features and documentaries typically screened at film festivals, internationally or in limited theatrical release."