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UPDATED with latest: The Oscars, strike-delayed Writers Guild Awards and the 2023-24 awards season are history, and it’s time to look at what’s ahead trophy show-wise. Here is a list of awards shows, events and the like ahead as we cruise into Emmy season and look ahead to Cannes, the fall film…

"An interesting thing about this limited series is that it chronicles this woman's life," says cinematographer Jason Oldak. "Even the episodes that Zack and I did… they're in different places in her life and substantial things happen, and I think it gave us the freedom to give our own voice while keeping…

Writing and directing a short is a potential passageway to creating a full-length feature film. Aspiring directors use this medium to create a proof of concept on a small budget that can go on to win on the short film festival circuit and be picked up by investors, leading to larger projects and…

Sporting events captivate viewers everywhere, whether they are showing a competition or an athlete doing the impossible, but enticing an audience through a sports film in the same way can be a difficult task. It's up to the cinematographers to bring a unique point of view that will highlight the tension…

After the production team at Studio Ghibli disbanded, cinematographer Atsushi Okui worked as a freelance artist for a while. But when director Hayao Miyazaki began working on The Boy and the Heron, Okui was excited to be called back to the team. In his most personal work to date, Miyazaki's The Boy an…

In the late 1960s, Gram Parsons, fresh from leaving The Byrds and becoming close pals with the Rolling Stones, signed on to star in a sci-fi film, Saturation 70. Directed by Anthony Foutz, who worked with the likes of Orson Welles and Richard Lyford and was the son of a very early Walt Disney exec…

The American Society of Cinematographers has framed the timeline for its 2023-24 ASC Awards. The 38th annual ceremony is set for Friday, March 3, at The Beverly Hilton and will be livestreamed worldwide. The nominees will be revealed on Wednesday, January 11. See the full timeline below. ASC…

“There’s a lot of very tense, heavy scenes with a lot of dialogue,” says cinematographer Natalie Kingston. “A lot of the times, it was about restraint. It was about not moving the camera and just letting the audience sit uncomfortably in this tense, awkward, creepy conversation… Sometimes when you don’t…

“The exciting thing about a mystery is that you do a lot of withholding, and in the withholding of information you’re actually drawing the audience closer,” says Only Murders in the Building cinematographer Chris Teague. “It’s that feeling of peering around a corner and seeing something for the first…

The International Cinematographers Guild, IATSE Local 600, has created a Work Slowdown Hardship Fund for members in need of financial assistance because of the ongoing Writers Guild strike, which is now in its 59th day. Money will also be distributed from the fund if SAG-AFTRA goes on strike. Local 600…

It’s that time of year again — the break between Cannes and the fall festivals, when the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences makes its membership invitations. The Oscars group said today that it has extended offers to 398 artists and execs — one more than last year — who have distinguished…

Even as an expert in what he calls “cinematic hidden camera” who is well versed with all the tricks of this highly specific subgenre of storytelling, cinematographer Chris Darnell found the ambition and the challenge of Jury Duty to be far greater than anything he’d experienced. As with past projects…