February 16, 2019

BSC 70th Anniversary Dinner and Awards Evening held on Friday 15th February 2019

 

On Friday 15th February, the BSC held its special Awards Night at the Grovesnor House Hotel in Mayfair, London.     The event was hosted by Mike Southon BSC. 

Mike welcomed Sir Michael Palin and Lady Helen Palin as our honoured guests who offered a wonderful speech and read the citation for this year's recipient of the BSC Lifetime Achievement Award which went to

Academy Award winner Peter Biziou BSC 

 

Peter Biziou BSC with Sir Michael Palin

 

The Winners and Nominations 

 

ACO/BSC/GBCT  TV Drama Operators Award 2018

Winner: James Layton - A Discovery of Witches

Daniel Bishop Ass BSC - Patrick Melrose

Iain Mackay Ass BSC - A Very English Scandal

Joe Russell - Black Mirror-Uss Callister

Tony Kay - Electric Dreams

 

ACO/BSC/GBCT Feature Operators Award 2018

Des Whelan Ass BSC - Darkest Hour

Dana Morris - I,Tonya

Julian Morson Ass BSC - Paddington 2

Peter Robertson Ass BSC - Bohemian Rhapsody

Vince McGahon Ass BSC - Fantastic Beasts : The Crimes of Grindelwald

 

BSC Best Cinematography in a TV Drama

Patrick Melrose : Bad News - James Friend BSC

A Very English Scandal - Danny Cohen BSC

Killing Eve : Eps 7 - Julian Court BSC

The Crown : Series 2 Eps 1 - Stuart Howell

The Crown : Series 2 Eps 4 - Adriano Goldman ASC BSC ABC

 

James Friend BSC 

 

BSC Best Cinematography in a Feature Film

Roma - Alfonso Cuarón

Bad Times at the El Royale - Seamus McGarvey ASC BSC

Cold War - Lukasz Zal PSC

First Man - Linus Sandgren ASC FSF

The Favourite - Robbie Ryan BSC ISC

 

Alfonso Cuarón

 

BSC Bert Easey Technical Award 2019

Frieder Hochheim

Kino Flo Lighting System

 

BSC ARRI John Alcott Memorial Award 2019

Gwyn Evans - Honorary Friend of the BSC

 

Gwyn Evans - Honorary Friend of the BSC

 

BSC Special Achievement Award

Imago 

for Uniting Cinematographers around the World

Luciano Tovoli ASC AIC and current President of Imago, Paul René Roestad FNF collected the award

Congratulations to all nominees and winners

 

It was a very memorable evening.

 

Our thanks to Phil Méheux BSC, John Daly BSC, Gwyn Evans

Thank you to Richard Blanshard for photographing the event

Direct Digital - for loaning the cameras

Filming crew:  Sean Francis, George Zádor and Foad Emrani

 

 

Thank you to 24/7 Drama for sponsorship our awards reception