The teams from Netflix’s Oscar-nominated Society of the Snow and HBO’s The Last of Us won Camera Operator of the Year honors at the Society of Camera Operators‘ 2024 SOC Lifetime Achievement Awards.
The awards were bestowed Saturday night at the DGA Theater in Los Angeles. Juanjo Sánchez, SOC, with Manuel Branáa, Operator de Cámara “B”, won the film award for Society of the Snow, which is up for Best International Feature and Best Makeup and Hair Styling at next month’s Oscars.
The J.A. Bayona-directed film tells the true story of the aftermath of a 1972 crash deep in the Andes Mountains of a plane carrying a Uruguayan rugby team and how 16 of them managed to survive.
Sánchez and Branáa won in a category that included operators from the movies Leave the World Behind, Chevalier, Boston Strangler and Carmen.
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