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Independent Spirit Award For Best Cinematography
The Independent Spirit Award for Best Cinematography is one of the annual awards given out by Film Independent, a non-profit organization dedicated to independent film and independent filmmakers. It was first given in 1985, with Japanese cinematographer Toyomichi Kurita being the first recipient of the award for his work in '' Trouble in Mind''. Winners and nominees 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s See also * BAFTA Award for Best Cinematography * Academy Award for Best Cinematography * Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Cinematography The Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Cinematography is one of the awards given to people working in the motion picture industry by the Broadcast Film Critics Association at their annual Critics' Choice Movie Awards. It was first presented in 2 ... * American Society of Cinematographers Award for Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography in Theatrical Releases References {{Independent Spirit Award for Best Cinematography C Awa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Independent Spirit Awards
The Independent Spirit Awards, originally known as the FINDIE or Friends of Independents Awards, and later as the Film Independent Spirit Awards, are awards presented annually in Santa Monica, California, to independent filmmakers. Founded in 1984, the event was renamed the Independent Spirit Awards in 1986. The ceremony is produced by Film Independent, a not-for-profit arts organization that used to produce the LA Film Festival. Film Independent members vote to determine the winners of the Spirit Awards. The awards show is held in a tent on a beach in Santa Monica, California, historically on the Saturday before the Academy Awards. In 2023, the ceremony was moved to the week before the Oscars, with the expectation that its winners could influence the final days of Oscar voting. The show was previously broadcast live on the IFC (American TV channel), IFC network in the US until 2023, when it was moved to YouTube, as well as Hollywood Suite in Canada and A&E Networks#A+E Network ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Down By Law (film)
''Down by Law'' (Italian: ''Daunbailò'') is a 1986 American independent neo-beat noir comedy film. It was written and directed by Jim Jarmusch, and stars Tom Waits, John Lurie, and Roberto Benigni (in his first American film role). The film centers on the arrest, incarceration, and escape from jail of three men. It discards jailbreak film conventions by focusing on the interaction between the convicts rather than on the mechanics of the escape. A key element in the film is Robby Müller's slow-moving camerawork, which captures the architecture of New Orleans and the Louisiana bayou to which the cellmates escape. Plot summary Three men, previously unknown to each other, are arrested in New Orleans and placed in the same cell. Both Zack (Waits), a disc jockey, and Jack (Lurie), a pimp, have been set up, neither having committed the crime for which they have been arrested. Their cellmate Bob (Benigni, in his first international role), an Italian tourist who understands minimal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tough Guys Don't Dance (film)
''Tough Guys Don't Dance'' is a 1987 crime mystery drama film written and directed by Norman Mailer based on his novel of the same name. It is a murder mystery/film noir piece. It was screened out of competition at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival. The film received a mixed reaction from critics and was a box office bomb. It was also nominated for four 1988 Independent Spirit Awards. Plot A month after his party-obsessed wife Patty Lareine ( Debra Sandlund) left him, Tim Madden (Ryan O'Neal) is visited by his father Dougy (Lawrence Tierney), who tells Tim that he has stopped chemotherapy because "tough guys don't dance". Tim reveals to his father that there are parts of two murdered bodies in his cellar, and that while he doesn't think that he murdered them, he has been suffering from blackouts and hallucinations. He recalls to his father how he had awoken five days earlier, after spending the night doing cocaine and having sex with pornographic film actress Jessica Pond in fron ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amir Mokri
Amir M. Mokri (; born June 11, 1956) is an Iranian-American cinematographer, known for his work on blockbuster action films like ''Bad Boys II'', ''Fast & Furious'', '' Transformers: Dark of the Moon'', '' Man of Steel'' and '' Transformers: Age of Extinction''. Early life Mokri was born in Iran and emigrated to the United States in 1977. Filmography Short film Feature film Television Accolades See also *Iranian cinema *Iranian cinematographers List of Iranian cinematographers () * Ovanes Ohanian * Mirza Ebrahim Khan Akkas Bashi * Hossein Jafarian *Amin Jafari *Mehdi Jafari *Peyman Shademanfar *Masud Salami * Mahmoud Kalari * Darius Khondji * Mahmoud Koushan * Firooz Malekzadeh * Amir Mok ... References External links * * 1956 births AFI Conservatory alumni Emerson College alumni Iranian cinematographers Living people Iranian emigrants to the United States Iranian diaspora film people {{Cinematographer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Slam Dance (film)
''Slam Dance'' is a 1987 neo-noir thriller directed by Wayne Wang and starring Tom Hulce, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Virginia Madsen and Harry Dean Stanton. It was screened out of competition at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival. Plot A married cartoonist named C. C. Drood becomes involved in the cover up of a political sex scandal after his lover, Yolanda Caldwell, a call girl, is found murdered. Drood has betrayed his wife Helen with the exotic Yolanda, whom he meets at a club where the patrons slam dance, violently crashing into one another on the dance floor. Bobby Nye, a former lesbian lover of Yolanda's, hires a hit man named Buddy to do away with Drood, who is also hotly pursued by the police. Drood ultimately comes to believe that Bobby and Buddy are the ones responsible for Yolanda's death. A corrupt cop, Gilbert, is doing everything in his power to pin the whole thing on Drood, but a police colleague, Smiley, intervenes on the wanted man's behalf. Buddy is eventually ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fred Murphy (cinematographer)
Fred V. Murphy II A.S.C. (born December 16, 1942) is an American cinematographer. He has worked on over 50 movies, including '' Hoosiers'', ''The Dead'', ''Secret Window'', ''Auto Focus'' and '' The Mothman Prophecies''. In 2006 he shot the US boxoffice hit '' RV'', starring Robin Williams, and in 2007 the indie thriller ''Anamorph'' with Willem Dafoe. He worked as a gaffer for commercials before becoming a cinematographer. He is a five-time Emmy Award nominee. Filmography *1969 – ''Submission'' *1976 – '' Not a Pretty Picture'' *1977 – ''Local Color'' *1978 – ''The Scenic Route''; '' Girlfriends'' *1979 – '' Heartland'' *1980 – ''Imposters''; '' The Ghost Dance''; ''Tell Me a Riddle'' *1982 – '' Q''; ''Der Stand der Dinge'' *1983 – ''Eddie and the Cruisers''; ''Touched'' *1985 – ''Death of an Angel''; ''Key Exchange''; ''The Trip to Bountiful'' *1985 – ''A Time to Live'' *1986 – '' Hoosiers'' *1987 – ''Winners Take All''; '' Five Corners''; ''Best Seller''; ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Dead (1987 Film)
''The Dead'' is a 1987 period drama film directed by John Huston, written by his son Tony Huston, and starring his daughter Anjelica Huston. It is an adaptation of the short story of the same name by James Joyce, which was first published in 1914 as the last story in ''Dubliners''. An international co-production between the United Kingdom, the United States, and West Germany, the film was Huston's last as director, and it was released several months after his death. The film takes place in Dublin in 1904 at an Epiphany party hosted by two sisters and their niece. The story focuses on the academic Gabriel Conroy (Donal McCann) and his discovery of his wife Gretta's (Anjelica Huston) memories of a deceased lover. The ensemble cast also includes Helena Carroll, Cathleen Delany, Dan O'Herlihy, Marie Kean, Donal Donnelly, Seán McClory, Frank Patterson, and Colm Meaney. At the 60th Academy Awards, Tony Huston was nominated for the award for Best Adapted Screenplay and Dorothy Jea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barfly (film)
''Barfly'' is a 1987 American black comedy film directed by Barbet Schroeder and starring Mickey Rourke and Faye Dunaway. The film is a semi-autobiography of poet/author Charles Bukowski during the time he spent drinking heavily in Los Angeles, and it presents Bukowski's alter ego Henry Chinaski. The screenplay, written by Bukowski, was commissioned by the Iranian-born Swiss film director Barbet Schroeder, and it was published (with illustrations by the author) in 1984, when film production was still pending. The Kino Flo light, now a ubiquitous tool in the film industry, was specially created by Robby Müller's electrical crew for the bathroom scene with Henry and Wanda, which would have been difficult to light using the conventional lampheads available at the time. The film was "presented by" Francis Ford Coppola and features a cameo by Bukowski. It was entered into the 1987 Cannes Film Festival, where it competed for the Palme d'Or. Plot Destitute alcoholic Henry ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haskell Wexler
Haskell Wexler (February 6, 1922 – December 27, 2015) was an American filmmaker, cinematographer, and documentarian. He won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography twice, in 1966 for ''Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?'' and 1976 for ''Bound for Glory'', out of five total nominations. As a director, he was known for his socio-politically provocative documentary and docufiction works, emerging from the civil rights movement and counterculture of the 1960s. His 1969 film, ''Medium Cool'', fused scripted scenes with ''cinéma vérité''-style documentary footage of the 1968 Democratic National Convention. He also directed, co-directed and/or shot conventional documentaries like '' Introduction to the Enemy'' (1974), on opposition to the Vietnam War; and '' Underground'' (1976), on the Weather Underground. Wexler was judged to be one of film history's ten most influential cinematographers in a survey of the members of the International Cinematographers Guild in 2003. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matewan
''Matewan'' () is a 1987 American independent drama film written and directed by John Sayles, and starring Chris Cooper (in his film debut), James Earl Jones, Mary McDonnell and Will Oldham, with David Strathairn, Kevin Tighe and Gordon Clapp in supporting roles. The film dramatizes the events of the Battle of Matewan, a coal miners' strike in 1920 in Matewan, a small town in the hills of West Virginia. ''Matewan'' was a critical success but a box office flop, grossing under $2 million on an estimated $4 million budget. The film received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Cinematography, and received a Criterion Collection re-release in 2019. Plot Joe Kenehan is an ex- Wobbly organizer for the United Mine Workers. He arrives in Matewan, West Virginia in 1920 to organize miners against the Stone Mountain Coal Company. His introduction to the town is his witnessing of a mob of miners angry at wage cuts beating up black miners who intended to cross the picket ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
3rd Independent Spirit Awards ...
The 3rd Independent Spirit Awards, honoring the best in independent filmmaking for 1987, were announced on February 11, 1988. The ceremony was hosted by Buck Henry and was held at 385 North, a restaurant in Los Angeles. Winners and nominees Films with multiple nominations and awards References External links 1987 Spirit Awardsat IMDb Official ceremonyon YouTube {{IS Awards Chron 1987 Independent Spirit Awards The Independent Spirit Awards, originally known as the FINDIE or Friends of Independents Awards, and later as the Film Independent Spirit Awards, are awards presented annually in Santa Monica, California, to independent filmmakers. Founded in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Lachman
Edward Lachman (born March 31, 1948) is an American cinematographer and director. He has primarily worked in independent film, and has served as director of photography on films by Todd Haynes, Pablo Larrain, Ulrich Seidl, Wim Wenders, Steven Soderbergh and Paul Schrader. Lachman has received four Academy Award for Best Cinematography nominations for his work on ''Far from Heaven'' (2002), '' Carol'' (2015), ''El Conde'' (2023), and '' Maria'' (2024). His other work includes ''La Soufrière'' (1977), ''Desperately Seeking Susan'' (1985), '' Mississippi Masala'' (1991), ''The Virgin Suicides'' (1999), ''Erin Brockovich'' (2000), ''A Prairie Home Companion'' (2006), and '' Life During Wartime'' (2009). For his work on television, he was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Cinematography for a Limited Series or Movie for the HBO miniseries '' Mildred Pierce'' (2011). He is a member of the American Society of Cinematographers. Early life Lachman was born to a J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
