Ed Lachman To Receive Lifetime Achievement Award At Camerimage

American Cinematographer Ed Lachman will be the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award at this year’s Camerimage Film Festival.

Lachman was born on March 31, 1946. His grandfather owned several vaudeville theatres in the 1920s, which were later converted into movie houses, co-managed with Lachman’s father, a film theatre distributor who later acquired a small cinema in Boonton, New Jersey.

Lachman’s extensive filmography includes numerous collaborations with directors such as Todd Haynes (Far from Heaven, I’m Not There, Carol, Wonderstruck, Dark Waters), Ulrich Seidl (Import/Export), Steven Soderbergh (The Limey and Erin Brockovich), Gregory Nava (Selena, Why Do Fools Fall in Love, My Family) and Paul Schrader (Light Sleeper, Touch). He served as the cinematographer on Sofia Coppola’s debut feature, The Virgin Suicides, and lensed A Prairie Home Companion, Robert Altman’s last film. 

He is a three-time Oscar nominee for Far from Heaven, Carol, and Pablo Larrain’s El Conde. Additionally, he is the sole American cinematographer to have received the Marburg Camera Award in Germany in recognition of his body of work. 

Lachman’s films have often played in competition at Camerimage. He holds the distinction of being the only cinematographer in the festival’s history to have received four main awards: the Bronze Frog for I’m Not There, two Silver Frogs for Far from Heaven and El Conde, and then finally, the Golden Frog for his work on Carol. In 2011, he was also honored with the EnergaCAMERIMAGE Cinematographer-Director Duo Award, which he shared with Todd Haynes.

This year’s Camerimage film festival runs from 16 – 23 November.