Clockwise from top-left: ASC LifetimeAchievement Award recipient Dante Spinotti,ASC, AIC; Presidents Award recipient FrancisKenny, ASC; ASC associate Fred Godfrey, recipientof the Bud Stone Award of Distinction; andCareer Achievement in Television Award recipientWilliam Wages, ASC.IASC to Honor Spinotti,Wages, Kenny, GodfreyThe ASC will recognize three of itsmembers and one associate memberwith honorary awards at the 26thAnnual ASC Awards for OutstandingAchievement in Cinematography, whichwill take place Feb. 12 in the Grand Ballroomat Hollywood & Highland in LosAngeles.Dante Spinotti, ASC, AIC, willreceive the Lifetime Achievement Award;William Wages, ASC, will receive theCareer Achievement in Television Award;Francis Kenny, ASC, will receive the PresidentsAward; and ASC associate FredGodfrey will receive the Bud StoneAward of Distinction, an honor that isnew this year.Spinotti began his cinematographycareer working in the televisionindustry in his native Italy. His first U.S.feature was Michael Mann’s Manhunter(1986), and his numerous stateside creditsinclude The Last of the Mohicans(ACDec. ’92), Beaches, Heat (AC Jan. ’96),L.A. Confidential (AC Oct. ’97), WonderBoys, The Insider (AC June ’00), FamilyMan, Red Dragon (AC Oct. ’02) and therecent release Tower Heist.Spinotti earned ASC Award nominationsfor The Last of the Mohicans,L.A. Confidential and The Insider, and healso earned Oscar nominations for thelatter two pictures.Wages counts more than 50 televisionprojects, commercials and documentariesamong his credits. He has wonASC Awards twice, for Riders of thePurple Sage (AC May ’97) and BuffaloSoldiers (AC May ’98), and earned sixmore nominations from the Society forGore Vidal’s Lincoln (AC April ’89); Caroline?(AC May ’91); Voices Within: TheLives of Truddi Chase, Part 2 (AC May’91); I’ll Fly Away (pilot, AC May ’92);The Moving of Sophia Myles (AC May’01);and Miss Lettie and Me.Wages has also earned two Emmynominations, for Buffalo Soldiers andInto the West (AC June ’05). His recentcredits include the series Burn Notice,episodes of Big Love and the pilot forSaving Grace. He is also renowned incinematography circles for the tools hehas devised on sets over the years,including Wag Bags and Wag Flags.Kenny began his career volunteeringon documentary crews. His featurecredits include Heathers, Scary Movie,New Jack City, She’s All That and ClassAct, and he is currently shooting the FXseries Justified (AC March ’11).He hasbeen the chairman of the ASC MembershipCommittee for 10 years, and he iscurrently serving his second term on theSociety’s Board of Governors.Godfrey is the first recipient of theASC Bud Stone Award of Distinction,named for the late Burton “Bud” Stone,who was president of Deluxe Laboratoriesin Hollywood from 1976-1994 andserved as chairman of the ASC AwardsCommittee for 17 years. Godfrey’scareer in the industry began in a Hollywoodwarehouse that stored Kodakmotion-picture film, and it wasn’t longbefore he became a customer-servicerepresentative at Kodak’s local office. Heserved as a liaison between the companyand cinematographers until he retired in1986.ASC honorees and all ASC Awardnominees in competitive categories(Feature Release, TV Series and Telefilm/Pilot)will be invited to meet thepublic at the ASC Open House Feb. 11 atthe Clubhouse, 1782 N. Orange Dr., LosAngeles. Admission is free.For more information on the ASCAwards and the Open House, visitwww.theasc.com or call 323-969-4333.➣Spinotti photo by Frank Connor. Kenny photo by Owen Roizman, ASC. Godfrey photo by Douglas Kirkland. Wages photo courtesy of Wages.26 January 2012 American Cinematographer
F O R Y O U R C O N S I D E R A T I O NBEST CINEMATOGRAPHYEMMANUEL LUBEZKI ASC, AMCLisa Kennedy,“Cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki relies on hand-held camerawork.It gets at the intimacy within a family, a household. But it is also remarkably fluid,capturing the flow of existence – this family’s, our universe’s.”RELEASED BY TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX. COPYRIGHT © 2011 TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX.foxsearchlight.com/fyc
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