By Staff, September 24, 2006
Haskell Wexler, ASC will receive the 2006 International Documentary Association (IDA) Career Achievement Award. The award is presented annually to an individual who has an extraordinary record of achievements in the nonfiction film genre. The presentation will be made during the IDA Distinguished Documentary Achievement Awards on December 8, 2006 at the Directors Guild of America in Los Angeles.
Wexler's credits as a documentary filmmaker include "The Bus," "Interviews With My Lai Veterans," "Brazil: A Report on Torture," "Interview with President Allende," "Introduction to the Enemy," "CIA Case Officer," "The Swine Flu Caper," "Paul Jacobs and the Nuclear Gang," "The Trial of the Catonsville Nine," "The Sixth Sun: Mayan Uprising in Chiapas," "Target Nicaragua - Inside a Secret War," "At the Max," an IMAX depiction of a Rolling Stones tour, and "Bus Riders Union," an in-depth probe of the neglect of public transportation relied on by the Los Angeles working class.
Wexler's recent project, "Who Needs Sleep?," is a documentary about film and
television crews routinely working sweat shop hours, clocking 15- to 18-hour
days at the expense of their families, their health, their well-being and even
their lives.
Wexler is also a celebrated narrative film cinematographer who has earned
Oscars for "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" and "Bound for Glory," and
additional nominations for "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," "Blaze" and "Matewan."
A short list of his other credits include such classics as "The Thomas Crown
Affair," "In the Heat of the Night" and "Coming Home."
Wexler has received lifetime achievement awards from the American Society
of Cinematographers (1993) and the Camerimage International Festival of the
Art of Cinematography (1996)
. In 1996, he received a star on the Hollywood
Walk of Fame.
Previous recipients of the IDA Career Achievement Award include such legendary filmmakers as Pare Lorentz, Richard Leacock, Jacques Yves Cousteau, Albert Maysles, Michael Apted, Charles Guggenheim, Ken Burns, and Sir Richard Attenborough. IDA has also presented the award to Fred Friendly, Walter Cronkite, Bill Moyers, Ted Turner, and Sheila Nevins.
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