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Haskell Wexler receives A Lifetime Achievement Award from Festival
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| | | |  | | | | | | | | | Oscar- winning cinematographer Haskell Wexler was presented with A Lifetime Acheivement Award from Belfast Film Festival. Wexler introduced a special screening of his seminal 60s film MEDIUM COOL and took part in an inspirational public interview in Culturlann Falls Road on Monday 19th April.
Haskell Wexler is one of Hollywood’s most influential and revered cinematographers and a man not afraid to rock the boat and speak out about injustices. Over the years he has chronicled America's radical underbelly in documentaries that display his progressive political views. He has won two Oscars for Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) and Bound for Glory (1976), as well as an Oscar for Best Documentary for his interviews with veterans of the My Lai Massacre - He is renowned for working on some of the most radical styles of film-making to come out of the US, such as on John Cassavettes Faces.
Wexler’s career spans almost 6 decades - shooting, writing and directing over 60 features and more than 100 documentaries, he is without doubt one of the greatest craftsmen in his field.
Also listed on his immense filmography is One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Amercian Graffeti, Days of Heaven to name a few.
Wexler was presented with a ' Belfast Sink 'Award for Life Achievement by Laurence McKeown, filmmaker, writer and founder of Belfast Film Festival.
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