The Alumni Association of Brooks Institute and the American Society Cinematographers Honor Isidore Mankofsky
The American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) and the Alumni Association of Brooks Institute will be honoring Motion Picture graduate (1957) Isidore Mankofsky at a special reception in Pasadena on Sunday, February 22. At the reception, Film & Video Production Program Director Glynn Beard and I will be presenting Mankofsky with the Brooks Institute Award of Special Distinction.
Isidore Mankofsky will be receiving this year’s ASC President Award in recognition of his distinguished body of work in the Motion Picture industry.
Mankofsky has received numerous Emmy nominations as well as an ASC Honor for his work on the television movie, “Love, Lies, and Murder”. Mankofsky shot the first Muppet movie as well as the extremely well received, “Somewhere in Time,” with Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour, and the remake of “The Jazz Singer” starring Neil Diamond and Sir Laurence Olivier. His prolific career spans some 40 years and he remains active today as Editor-in-Chief of the ASC newsletter and serves on numerous committees for the Motion Picture and Television Academies.
