By Dyana Carmella

The 23rd Annual American Society of Cinematographers Outstanding Achievement Awards will he held on February 15, 2009 at the beautiful Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel.

I was thrilled to hear that Robert “Bobby” F. Liu, ASC (Lou Grant and Family Ties) and Isidore Mankofsky, ASC (The Muppet Movie, Somewhere in Time, The Jazz Singer and The Burning Bed) are both being recognized for their incredible achievements as cinematographers. Liu will receive the ASC Career Achievement in Television Award and Mankofsky will receive the ASC Presidents Award. Jack Green, ASC (Bird, Unforgiven, Bridges of Madison County, Twister, Girl, Interrupted and The 40-Year-Old Virgin) is this year’s recipient of the Society’s Lifetime Achievement Award.

I find it interesting that in 1982, Green turned down an offer from Clint Eastwood to move from camera operator to cinematographer because he felt he wasn’t ready.  According to the ASC website, Green stresses, “I’ll retire when they pry the light meter out of my cold dead hands!”

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