Ben Nott was crowned Australian cinematographer of the year for his work on
director Stuart Beattie’s local hit Tomorrow When The War Began at the annual
national awards of the Australian Cinematographers Society (ACS).
Among the 15 other cinematographers also presented with Golden Tripods at the
presentation at Sydney’s Manly Pacific Hotel were Mark Wareham for Cloudstreet in
the television drama section, Nick Matthews for The Palace in the section for
fictional drama shorts and Brad Dillon for episode 13 of the dramatized documentary
series Fatal Attractions.
The other winners were Iain Mackenzie and Aron Leong (commercials), Mark
Lamble (wildlife/nature), Campbell Munro (non-fiction television), Peter Barta,
Daniel Soekov and Tarryn Southcombe (news and current affairs), Callan Green
(music clips), Andrew Deubel (promos), Daniel Graetz (experimental) and Boris
Vymenets (student).
Television personality Ray Martin was master of ceremonies at the awards, held at
Sydney’s Manly Pacific Hotel, and actor Rebecca Gibney was a special guest.
One Golden Tripod is given out in each category and all these winners were then
considered for the Milli Award, the honour this year granted to Nott, who did not
attend. The only way to be considered for an ACS national award is to first win gold
at a state or territory level; Nott won in Queensland.
Several ACS members were inducted into the ACS hall of fame being David Eggby,
David Muir and Barry Woodhouse.
As already announced, Emmanuel Lubezki won the international award for his
efforts on Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life and Jimmy Ennett was selected as the
emerging cinematographer deserving of an award – he will now do an internship on
the set of The Railway Man. Heidi Tobin, Craig Pickersgill, Martha Ansara and
David Lewis were all acknowledged with awards for special contribution to the
society.
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Sandy George – INSIDEFILM – Mon 07/05/2012