BSC Award Nominations

On its 54 th edition, the British Society of Cinematographers has announced the nominations for their Best Cinematography Award for films released in the UK during the year 2006. The Award will be announced at presented on Sunday 15th July 2007 at the BSC Summer Luncheon at Pinewood Studios. This year's nominated are as follows:

JOSÉ LUIS ALCAINE, AEC

Volver by Pedro Almodóvar

ALCAINE (Marrocco, 1938) started his career in 1965 having since then done more than 130 films. He has been awarded in Europe and South America several times and is widely nominated. For Volver he has been a Goya Awards (2007) and Cinema Writers Circle Awards (2007) nominated in Spain , having won Best Cinematography award by European Film Awards (2006). This is his forth collaboration with Almodóvar since 1987.

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DION BEEBE, ASC/ ACS

Memoirs of a Geisha by Rob Marshall

BEEBE ( Australia , 1968) after graduating from film school he started working in Australia in 1991/ 1992. In 1997 he decides to move to the USA . For Memoirs of a Geisha he has won the Academy Oscar ( USA , 2006), the American Society of Cinematographers award ( USA , 2006) and the BAFTA award ( UK , 2006). BEEBE has worked previously with Marshall in Chicago (2002) which has granted him his first nominations for an Oscar and for a BAFTA Award.

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EMMANUEL LUBEZKI, ASC

Children of Men by Alfonso Cuarón

LUBEZKI ( Mexico , 1964) started his career in 1990. Having done more than 20 films he has been nominated and awarded in festivals across South America , North America , Europe and Japan . For Children of Men he got his fourth Oscar nomination (USA, 2007), and was awarded by: American Society of Cinematographers (USA, 2007), BAFTA Awards (UK, 2007), National Society of Film Critics Awards (USA, 2007), Online Film Critics Society Awards (USA, 2007), Chicago Film Critics Association Awards (USA, 2006), Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards (USA, 2006), Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards (USA, 2006) and Venice Film Festival (Italy, 2006) He has worked previously with Alfonso Cuarón in film, four times, since 1990.

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PHIL MEHEUX, BSC

Casino Royale by Martin Campbell

MEHEUX ( UK , 1941) started working as cinematographer in 1968. He got his first BAFTA (2007) film nomination for Casino Royale . Since 1988 he worked previously with Campbell six times. In 1995 they have done together their first Bond movie Golden Eye and currently MEHEUX his already assigned to collaborate in the next Bond project, Bond 22 .

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GUILLERMO NAVARRO, ASC/ AMC

Pan's Labyrinth by Guillermo del Toro

NAVARRO ( Mexico , 1955) has started his career in 1973 having moved to the USA in 1994. Having done more than 30 films, all his awards and nominations are due to Pan's Labyrinth : 8 wins and 2 nominations. Awards include: an Oscar ( USA , 2007), a Ariel ( Mexico , 2007), a Golden Frog ( Camerimage , Poland 2006) and a Goya ( Spain , 2007). He has worked previously with del Toro four times since 1992.

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WALLY PFISTER, ASC

The Prestige by Christopher Nolan

PFISTER ( USA ) was an American Film Institute graduate in 1988. He started working both in television and film that same year, having focused on film from 2000 on. His career took off since his first collaboration with Nolan in Memento (1999). The filmed boomed having an unusually high number of awards (39) and nominations (27) making PFISTER's work, indirectly, get a lot of attention. Several other collaborations followed: Insomnia (2001) and Batman Begins (2004) (also widely recognised, including with an Oscar nomination in 2006) and recently The Dark Knight (2007). For The Prestige he got his second Oscar nomination ( USA , 2007).

by Diana Soeiro