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Walk The Line, Geisha Win Guild Awards By Rich Drees
Taking home the Cinema Audio Society’s top award were Walk The Line’s rerecording mixers Paul Massey and Doug Hemphill and production Peter F. Kurland, beating out sound technicians from the films War Of The Worlds, King Kong, Memoirs Of A Geisha and Crash. The CAS also awarded their first Filmmaker Award to Quentin Tarantino, who attended the Saturday evening ceremony with his Kill Bill Vol.1 & Vol. 2 rerecording mixer Michael Minkler.
Colleen Atwood earned the Costume Design Guild’s award for excellence in period film on Saturday for designing the hand-painted kimonos and 1930s and `40s style Western clothing for director Rob Marshall’s Memoirs Of A Geisha. Atwood also won a Costume Design Guild Award last year for her work on the fantasy Lemony Snicket’s A Series Of Unfortunate Events. The win places Atwood as the lead contender for the Academy Award’s Best Costume Design award. Atwood has previously won an Oscar for her work on the Marshall-directed Chicago (2002).
Other film winners at Costume Design Guild Awards were The Chronicles Of Narnia’s Isis Mussenden for excellence in a fantasy film and Transamerica’s Danny Glicker for excellence in contemporary film.
The next evening, Memoirs Of A Geisha took the top honor at the 20th annual American Society of Cinematography’s awards. It was cinematographer Dion Beebe’s second ASC award, having previously won for his work on Chicago. |
February 27, 2006- The lush costumes and photography of
Memoirs Of A Geisha and the jangle of guitars in the Johnny Cash
bio-pic Walk The Line helped snare their respective films
various Hollywood guild awards this weekend in the last of the major
award presentations before the Academy Awards.