“The Last Showgirl” director Gia Coppola is set to be honored with the Auteur Award at the 7th annual Kodak Awards.
“Maria” cinematographer Ed Lachman will receive Kodak’s Career Achievement Award for his contributions to film. Lachman has collaborated with directors such as Todd Haynes, Robert Altman, Steven Soderbergh, Ulrich Seidl, Werner Herzog, Wim Wenders, Bernardo Bertolucci, Jean-Luc Godard, and Pablo Larraín. His latest “Maria” earned him his fourth Oscar nomination. Lachman is also nominated at the ASC.
The 7th Annual Kodak Film Awards will take place at the Kodak House in Hollywood on Feb. 27 at an invitation-only event.
Other honorees include Lol Crawley, Greg Kwedar, and Ramez Silyan.
Vanessa Bendetti, head of Motion Picture and Entertainment at Kodak said, “It’s another great awards season for film and independent cinema with twenty-nine Oscar nominations for shot on film productions, including Best Picture consideration for ‘Anora,’ ‘The Brutalist,’ and ‘I’m Still Here.’ Kodak is excited to recognize some of this year’s most celebrated films and artists atour intimate awards reception.”
Other films that shot on Kodak this awards season include, “A Different Man,” “Anora, “The Brutalist,” “Challengers,” “I’m Not a Robot,” “I’m Still Here,” “Nosferatu, “Queer” and “Sing Sing.”
Crawley, who won the best cinematography in a feature film award at the British Society of Cinematographers, famously used VistaVision. Speaking about “The Brutalist” and using that format. He said, “You end up with a bigger format, and that means that you’re not forced to shoot on wider angle lenses for a wider field of view.”
