Life of Pi wins Oscar for cinematography, visual effects
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oi-Prakash
By Ramchander
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
on
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.