‘Maria’ Cinematographer Ed Lachman, ‘The Brutalist’ DP Lol Crawley Among Kodak Film Award Honorees

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Carolyn Giardina Filmmakers celebrated shooting celluloid at the 7th Kodak Film Awards, where respected veteran DP Ed Lachman – who won the American Society of Cinematographers top honor last weekend for “Maria” – was feted with a Career Achievement Award. “It’s a lifetime of exploring, knowing it’s in the journey and not in the final destination,” the Oscar-nominated DP of films including “Maria,” “Carol,” Far from Heaven” and “El Conde” said of cinematography. “There isn’t only one way to create images to tell our stories.

The challenges of cinematography, for me, has always been revealing or trying to evoke the psychological authenticity of the image in the story.

Images are about discovering with your camera the emotional immediacy of the moment, which you can translate and share in the documentary and narrative form which we’ve seen in everyone’s work here tonight, and maybe even to express some injustices that there are in the world.” He also reflected on working with and learning from respected cinematographers including Sven Nykvist and Vitorio Storaro.

Also Thursday at L.A.’s Kodak House, “The Brutalist” DP Lol Crawley accepted the Lumiere Award and received applause as he reminded filmmakers that the majority of this season’s cinematography Oscar nominees used film. “To tell the story correctly, it doesn’t always have to be film, but I know in my heart it can’t always be digital,” he said.