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Shot Craft By Jay Holben
Academy Spotlights Cinematography's Secret Hero
Cinematographers around the world
are indebted to ASC associate
member Iain A. Neil for crafting so
many of the tools we use to tell
stories. Shot Craft will deviate from
the norm this month to celebrate
this true cinematographic icon.
The recipient of 12 Academy
Scientific and Technical Achievement
Awards for his optical designs,
Neil was recently honored with the
Academy's highest Scientific and
Technical honor - the Gordon E.
Sawyer Award, an Oscar statuette
- " for his substantial, extensive
and innovative lens designs which
have had lasting impact in motion
picture cinematography. " His optical
designs include Panavision Primo
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Primes, Zooms and Macro Zooms;
Leitz Summilux-C and Summicron-C
primes; and Anamorphic/i and S8/i
prime lenses.
The Sawyer Award was presented
to Neil at the 95th Annual
Academy Scientific and Technical
Awards, held Feb. 24 at the Museum
of Motion Pictures' David Geffen
Theater. Actor and ceremony host
Simu Liu recognized 19 individual
award recipients, culminating with
Neil's honor.
Sharpening His Focus
Neil's career could have gone in
a very different direction. He was
born into a family that owned a baking
business in Glasgow, Scotland.
His father, a master baker and confectioner,
and his mother had several
retail shops in Scotland, supplied
many of the large hotel chains in the
U.K., and shipped wedding cakes
all over the world. Neil was just 13
when his father died, but he was
old enough to know he didn't want
to pursue the family business. With
the help of a university professor
who lived nearby, he enrolled in
Strathclyde University after leaving
secondary high school at age 16.
" I hadn't done much thinking
about what I wanted to do, and I
hadn't really thought much about
college because I didn't have the
marks in school, " he recalls. " My
father's passing was an incentive
to focus on something different, to
make something of myself, and I
was lucky that I had support from
others, especially my mother, to
help me get into school. "
While earning a bachelor's
honors degree in applied physics,
he worked on a summer astronomy
project at the Royal Observatory in
Edinburgh, testing and calibrating
optical equipment later used for a
telescope on Hawaii's Mauna Kea.
" That was my thesis project for my
applied physics degree, " he notes.
" I also studied logic and semantics,
which really came in handy
later in writing patents! In addition,
I had a focus on geophysics and
psychology. I thought I'd get into
PHOTO COURTESY OF THE ACADEMY OF MOTION PICTURE ARTS AND SCIENCES.

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