![]() ![]() I will tell you that animated films are not my first love but Puss in Boots: The Last Wish seemed to be talking to me. The movie began and within about five minutes I was hooked. But I made it from the East End into Central London. There was a public transport strike on that particular day too, so the roads were bonkers. I could have stayed warm and dry at home but I always feel a sense of accomplishment if I get to where I’m going on a hellishly rainy day. Appropriately, it was raining cats and dogs, really chucking it down, on the night I saw Joel Crawford’s Puss in Boots: The Last Wish in London a while back. ‘ PUSS IN BOOTS: THE LAST WISH’ SAVED ME FROM RAINĪs is well known, we Brits obsess over the weather. The rain made honorary Brits of all those in attendance. We, all of us, felt very much at home not just because of the sausage roll canapés, and the Union Jack flags scattered around and about, but because of the weather. ![]() The annual event at the consul general’s private residence celebrated all the Brit Oscar nominees. Isn’t it about time a woman won the Oscar for best cinematography? “It’s about the work, not the gender,” was his response, though he didn’t deny that such an outcome would be welcome, “but it has to be backed up by the work.”Įmily Cloke, the UK consul general, heaped praise on Deakins’ remarkable, innovative achievements behind the camera. He observed that James Friend won at BAFTA for All Quiet on the Western Front and that Mandy Walker took the American Society of Cinematographers’ ASC Award for her visual storytelling on Elvis. Though he has won twice before - for Blade Runner 2049 and 1917 - he’s not expecting to take home the trophy Sunday. “The snobbery remains,” he says.ĭeakins himself is on his 16th Oscar nomination for his exquisite work on Sam Mendes’ Empire of Light. It’s worth pointing out that Fraser prevailed at last year’s Academy Awards for Dune: Part One while Miranda took home an Oscar for Life of Pi in 2012. Good work is good work whatever the genre,” he adds. There’s this unfair tendency to avoid the Marvel universe and the other popular universes,” he says.Ĭlaudio Miranda, the director of photography of Paramount’s Top Gun: Maverick, “is another one that was shut out,” Deakins notes. “The reason it wasn’t is pure and simple: snobbery. ![]()
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