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NYWIFT
Cites Ellen Kuras for 2003 MUSE Award
Actor/producer Whoopi Goldberg, actor/producer Emma Thompson and president of the Sci-Fi Channel Bonnie Hammer round out the list of this year’s honorees who will each be recognized for her commitment to the advancement of women in the entertainment industry. Kuras is an unprecedented three-time recipient of the Sundance Film Festival’s Best Dramatic Cinematography Award. The first was for her black and white cinematography on Tom Kalin’s critically acclaimed independent feature Swoon, about the Leopold and Loeb murder case. Her work on the film also earned an Independent Spirit Award nomination. Kuras’ photography on the feature film Angela, directed by Rebecca Miller, brought her the second Sundance Best Dramatic Cinematography Award honor in 1995 and marked the first and only time a director of photography has won that award twice. The cinematographer would re-team with Rebecca Miller for Personal Velocity, which earned 2002 Sundance honors for Best Dramatic Cinematography as well as the Grand Jury Award – carving a very unique place for Kuras in the history of Sundance. Kuras began her career in 1987, shooting Ellen Bruno’s Samsara, which received over 25 international awards, including the Sundance Jury Award. Her photography on the film also earned her the 1990 Eastman Kodak Best Cinematography Focus Award. Sundance and NYWIFT are not the only recognition heaped upon Kuras’ work. She has earned Emmy nominations for her work on Century of Women and Spike Lee’s Academy Award-nominated documentary Four Little Girls. Her other credits include three other feature films with Spike Lee (Summer of Sam, Bamboozled and Jim Brown: All American) Tom Demme’s Blow, the HBO special If These Walls Could Talk, Part 1, directed by Nancy Savoca and starring Demi Moore; The Mod Squad with director Scott Silver and director Richard Wenk’s Just the Ticket. More recently, she has finished shooting Charlie Kaufman’s next script: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind with Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet to be released in December 2003 and has just finished production on another film with Rebecca Miller, Rose and the Snake, starring Daniel Day Lewis and Catherine Keener For more information about the MUSE Awards, visit the NYWIFT web site
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Cinematographer Ellen Kuras, ASC will be honored by the New York Women
in Film and Television (NYWIFT) when the organization presents its 2003
MUSE Awards on Dec. 10 at the New York Hilton.