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'Life of Pi' gets Oscar for cinematography,
visual effects
Monday February 25, 2013 08:39:38 AM,
IANS
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Los
Angeles: Ang Lee's
"Life of Pi", a fantasy adventure drama widely shot in India, won
the 85th Academy Award for best cinematography and best visual
effects here Sunday night.
Claudio Miranda received the cinematography award. It is his first
Oscar award, but he had received his first nomination for the 2008
film "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button".
For the visual effects trophy, Bill Westenhofer, Guillaume
Rocheron, Erik-Jan De Boer and Donald R. Elliott collected the
trophy.
An adaptation of Canadian author Yann Martel's Man Booker
Prize-winning eponymous novel, it narrates the journey of an
Indian boy who survives a storm.
In the best cinematography category, the film was competing
alongside "Anna Karenina" (Seamus McGarvey), "Django Unchained"
(Robert Richardson), "Lincoln" (Janusz Kaminski) and "Skyfall"
(Roger Deakins).
The films which were in competition with "Life of Pi" in the best
visual effects category included "The Hobbit: An Unexpected
Journey", "Marvel's The Avengers", "Prometheus" and "Snow White
and the Huntsman".
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