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Guy Green Will Receive ASC Presidentís Award
Guy Green, BSC will receive the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) Presidentís Award. The award will be presented to Green at the 14th Annual ASC Outstanding Achievement Awards dinner on February 20, 2000, at the Century Plaza Hotel. ""We reserve this recognition for individuals who have made make unique and exceptional contributions to advancing the art of filmmaking,"" says ASC President Victor J. Kemper. ""Guy Green earned the respect and admiration of peers for his artistry as a cinematographer, and for his long unrelenting dedication to advancing this important art form. Guy was also a successful director, and he was one of the founders of the British Society of Cinematographers."" Former recipients of the ASC Presidentís Award include Linwood G. Dunn, ASC Hans Koenekamp, ASC, Kemp Niver, ASC, William Clothier, ASC, Douglas Trumbull, Robert Duvall, Albert Maysles, Albert Mayer, Sr. and Tak Miyagishima. In 1949, together with Freddie Young, BSC, ASC Green founded the British Society of Cinematographers (BSC). Together they drew up the original constitution, which formed the basis of the BSC that was later ratified by the first committee of seven. They were influenced by the already-established ASC and hoped to advance the craft and art of filmmaking for British cinematographers. Green was the first vice president and the second president from 1952 to 1954. Born in Somerset, England, in 1913, Green entered the film industry at the age of 16 as a projectionist on ocean liners and saw America for the first time. He became a still photographer, assistant cameraman and then a camera operator. By the early 1940ís he worked with cinematographer Ronald Neame on such classic films as ""One Of Our Aircraft Is Missing,"" ""In Which We Serve"" and ""The Happy Breed."" His first cinematography credit came in 1944 for ""The Way Ahead,"" directed by Carol Read. In 1946, he won an OscarÆ for cinematography for ""Great Expectations."" Film critic Leonard Maltin calls it ""one of the greatest films ever made."" Based on the classic novel by Charles Dickens, the film was directed by David Lean with whom Green frequently collaborated. Green subsequently acquired some 20 credits as a director of photography for such notable films as ""Oliver Twist,"" ""Blanche Fury,"" ""Passionate Fiends,"" ""Captain Horatio Hornblower,"" ""The Beggarís Opera,"" ""Rob Roy"" and ""I Am A Camera."" In the mid-fifties, Greenís focus shifted to directing. After the acclaimed war film ""Desert Patrol,"" he earned rave critical reviews both in England and America for ""The Angry Silence"" and ""The Mark."" Both films won awards at the Berlin Film Festival and at Cannes, and ""The Mark"" also received awards from the Foreign Press Association. As a result of these successes, Green was asked to direct ""Light In The Piazza,"" and so began his American career and eventual move to Los Angeles. In 1965 he directed, wrote and co-produced ""A Patch Of Blue,"" which received five Oscar nominations and an Oscar for Shelley Winters. Green also has received nominations as a writer and director from the Writers Guild and the Foreign Press Associations. Altogether, Green has directed some 25 motion pictures for the cinema and television. About ASC ASC traces its roots to 1913, when cinematographers formed the Cinema Camera Club in New York City and The Static Club in Los Angeles. Members of the two organizations met to discuss technical problems and to share artistic visions. Kemper notes they were the pioneers on the frontier of a new form of art and were making their own rules. By 1918, many members of the New York club had moved to Los Angles. Cinematographers belonging to the tow clubs met in December of that year, and the American Society of Cinematographers was chartered in Los Angeles in January 1919. From the beginning, membership has been by invitation based upon the individual cinematographerís body of narrative film work. Kemper says that throughout the 80-year history of the organization, there has been a consistent goal of advancing the art of filmmaking. There are some 210 active members in ADC today in many countries around the worked and approximately 110 associate members from allied disciplines, which support cinematography.