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- Related Stories LISTEN: Why NBC is Reviving Pilot Season; 'Love Island USA' Tops Luminate's Year-End Streaming Originals Report Why NBC Is Reviving Pilot Season: The 'Process Worked So Well for a Long Time,' Execs Admit When Bauman joined Variety for Inside the Frame, he said Anderson wanted something in the “vein of ‘70s cinema,” pointing to films like “The French Connection” and “The Last Detail.” He explained, “A lot of the movies in that period that had a certain stylistic roughness to it that he really felt was essential in telling this story.
- He also really wanted to shoot the movie in VistaVision.” Popular on Variety In the Television Drama (UK Terrestrial) category, Ollie Downey won for his work on the BBC drama “Reunion,” and in the Television Drama (International/Streaming) category, Suzie Lavelle won her second award for her photography of the Apple TV series “Severance.” In the Music Video category, cinematographer Jake Gabbay followed on his victory at Camerimage by taking home the Cinematography in a Music Video Award for “Chains and Whips” from Kendrick Lamar, Pusha T and Malice.
- The Operators Award, presented by the British Society of Cinematographers, Association of Camera Operators and Guild of British Camera Technicians named Danny Bishop Assoc the winner for his operating on the Netflix film “Ballad of a Small Player” and in the Television category Peter Robertson Assoc and Emiliano Topai were victorious for their work on the series “Mussolini: Son of the Century.” The BSC Short Film Awards were presented to Linda Wu, Christopher Hudson and Theo Hughes for their respective films.
- The evening was filled with emotional and humorous moments as the BSC presented its highest honor, the BSC Lifetime Achievement Award, to Remi Adefarasin.
- Adefarasin’s career began at the BBC, where he worked his way up through the ranks until reaching the role of Cinematographer – shooting while he was there some of the most iconic TV movies, including work by Mike Leigh, Adrian Shergold and Anthony Minghella.
