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conclusion that while he still has many

received

great films in his future," says Kemper,

scores

a

1994 Emmy

nomination, and

Reed, and mobile-camera-platform oper¬

Gaylin Schultz. The Governor's
was presented to Robert Wise,
director, producer, editor and recipient of
seven Academy Award nominations.

of television commercials.

ator

Award

recognition for his
accomplishments, which are universal
rather than national. There was no point
in waiting, because there is no doubt
that he is a great artist who satisfies all
"Vittorio deserves this

The SOC Awards

were

founded in

of recognizing and
inspiring the pursuit of excellence in the
art and craft of operating film and video
cameras. A portion of the proceeds from
the banquet were presented to The Chil¬
dren's Eye Care Clinic, of which the SOC
is a longtime supporter.
1981 for the purpose

of the criteria for this award."

responds, "I didn't expect
to receive this recognition, but I consider
it the highest honor to have my work
recognized by my colleagues."
Storaro

Opposite

page:

ASC Lifetime

Achievement
Award honoree
Vittorio Storaro,

ASC, AIC is
flanked by
awards
committee
chairman Bud
Stone

(left) and

Owen Roizman,
ASC. This page,
far left: New
ASC member

Guillermo

Navarro, ASC.

Stephen
Lighthill, ASC

Center:

the SOC's
President's
Award recipient.

was

SOC Honors

Lighthill
Stephen Lighthill, ASC was
honored by the Society of Operating

Far right, top
photo: William
A. Fraker, ASC

honors David M.
Walsh for

Cameramen with the SOC President's
Award at the 12th Annual SOC Lifetime

helping to
the

compose

Achievement Awards October 1 at the

Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Marina Del

memorable car
chase in the

Rey.

1968 film Bullitt.
Middle: Victor J.

Lighthill, who began his career as a news
cameraman

in San Francisco, was recog¬

Kemper, ASC

body of work, which
includes award-winning and Oscar-nomi¬
nated documentaries such as Seeing
Red, Berkeley in the Sixties and Gimme
Shelter, and narrative work such as Earth
2, Nash Bridges, Shimmer and Break of
Dawn. He is currently shooting the tele¬

nized for his
New Member

Guillermo Navarro has been
inducted into the ASC

membership ranks.

Navarro grew up in Mexico City and
found advancement in the filmmaking

ranks to be difficult because of Mexico's
union power structure. He subsequently
moved to Europe and worked as an

vision series The Huntress.

apprentice and assistant to director of
photography Ricardo Aronovich, AFC in

William A. Fraker, ASC

France.

After moving from Mexico to the
Angeles area, his career really began
to take off. He has frequently collabo¬
rated with directors Robert Rodriguez
Los

and Quentin Tarantino

on

such films

as

Desperado, Four Rooms, From Dusk Till
Dawn and Jackie Brown (AC Jan. '98).
He has also filmed the large action and
effects movies The Long Kiss Goodnight,
Spawn and Stuart Little. His other credits
include Cronos, Mambo, Amor A La
Vuelte De La Esquina, National
Geographic's Mayas, for which he

with Cammy
Award-winner

Gaylin Schultz.
Bottom: Sol

Negrin, ASC
presents a
Cammy Award
to film camera

operator Lou
Barlia.

Also at the awards

banquet,
presented an
achievement award to cinematographer
David M. Walsh for helping to compose
the memorable car-chase sequence for
Bullitt when he was working as a camera
operator. Fraker was the director of
photography on the 1968 film.
ASC President Victor J. Kemper
and members Sol Negrin and Jack N.
Green

were

awards.

also

on

Lifetime

hand to present
Achievement

(or

given to filmcamera operator Lou Barlia, video¬
camera operator Susan A. Campbell,
assistant camera operator Kenneth
Nishino, still photographer Marcia A.
Cammy) Awards

were

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