The groups from Netflix’s Oscar-nominated Society of the Snow and HBO’s The Final of Us gained Digicam Operator of the 12 months honors on the Society of Digicam Operators‘ 2024 SOC Lifetime Achievement Awards.
The awards had been bestowed Saturday night time on the DGA Theater in Los Angeles.
Juanjo Sánchez, SOC, with Manuel Branáa, Operator de Cámara “B”, gained the movie award for Society of the Snow, which is up for Finest Worldwide Characteristic and Finest Make-up and Hair Styling at subsequent month’s Oscars. The J.A. Bayona-directed movie tells the true story of the aftermath of a 1972 crash deep within the Andes Mountains of a airplane carrying a Uruguayan rugby workforce and the way 16 of them managed to outlive.
Sánchez and Branáa gained in a class that included operators from the films Go away the World Behind, Chevalier, Boston Strangler and Carmen.
On the TV aspect, Neal Bryant, SOC, with Carey Toner, Digicam Operator, gained for The Final of Us Season 1 episode “Lengthy, Lengthy Time,” the critically acclaimed phase that includes the heart-wrenching backstory of Invoice and his companion Frank, performed by Nick Offerman and Murray Bartlett, respectively. The roles landed each actors Emmy nominations, and earned Offerman the win final month).
The duo topped fellow TV nominees from Profitable Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty, Barry, Fargo and The Bear.
The SOC Lifetime Achievement Awards, given in recognition of excellent achievement by a longtime individual throughout the discipline of movie and video manufacturing, had been additionally handed out tonight to this yr’s honorees Larry McConkey, SOC (Digicam Operator), Dave Hilmer (Digicam Operator, Broadcast & Reside), Mande Whitaker, SOC (Digicam Operator, Unscripted), Patrick McArdle (Digicam Technician), Rick Marroquin (Cellular Digicam Platform Operator) and Claudette Barius (Nonetheless Photographer).
Beneath are this yr’s winners:
Digicam Operator of the 12 months – Movie
Juanjo Sánchez, SOC, with Manuel Branáa, Operator de Cámara B
Society of the Snow
Digicam Operator of the 12 months – Tv
Neal Bryant, SOC, with Carey Toner, Digicam Operator
The Final of Us, S1E3 “Lengthy, Lengthy Time”
