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Screen Legend Don McAlpine ACS ASC To Receive Raymond Longford Award
2011-11-23
The first award to be bestowed by the newly-established Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) is the Raymond Longford Award.
This will be awarded to cinematographer Don McAlpine ACS ASC.
McAlpine is a lauded cinematographer with is a veteran of more than 50 feature films.
Honouring the great Australian film pioneer, Raymond Longford, the award provides recognition to a person who has made a truly outstanding contribution to the enrichment of Australia's screen environment and culture.
McAlpine said, “I accept the Raymond Longford Award as a great personal honour. I am thrilled with the honour it implies to the art and craft of Australian cinematographers.”
Career highlights include The Getting of Wisdom, ‘Breaker’ Morant ,My Brilliant Career, Peter Pan, Romeo + Juliet, Moulin Rouge!, for which he was nominated for an Oscar® for Best Cinematography in 2002, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, X-Men Origins: Wolverine.