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National Magazine Winners Announced. VF Vindication?

Posted by: Rachel Hulin Date: May 2, 2008 | 12 Comments

The National Magazine Award winners were announced last night, with National Geographic coming away the big winner, with three nods, including the photojournalism award for John Stanmeyer’s work on Malaria in the third world. Gourmet won the in the photography category, beating out bigwigs W and New York Magazine, among others. See our original coverage of the nominees here.

In the night’s most ironic twist, Vanity Fair won the photo portfolio category for a story shot by Annie Leibowitz. This comes after a week of serious sniper fire aimed at the magazine and photographer for the controversial Miley Cyrus image in the latest issue.

The story VF and Annie won for was produced in March 2007, and was awfully ambitious; the piece is entitled Killers Kill, Dead Men Die and is an outrageously over-the-top star-studded noir-y confection, even for Vanity Fair. Still, it’s lots of fun. I imagine it took a small army to make this shoot happen, in addition to style director Michael Robert and cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond; the thought of calling all of those stars’ publicists makes me a little nauseous. But that could be my fever talking.

Check out the star power below, and see more images here.

THE GUMSHOES. INT. WEST L.A., OSCAR SLADE DETECTIVE AGENCY,
INC.–NIGHT

THE CRIME SCENE. EXT. SUNSET & VERDUGO–NIGHT–RAIN

THE DRESSING ROOM. INT. EL HAVANA, BACKSTAGE–NIGHT

LAST RITES. EXT. HOLLYWOOD MEMORIAL PARK CEMETERY–DAY

THE INTERROGATION. INT. HOLLYWOOD PRECINCT HOUSE–NIGHT

THE LADIES OF L.A. INT. POWDER ROOM, SNYDER’S RESTAURANT–NIGHT

THE RING.INT. THE FORUM–NIGHT

THE SNOOP INT. O’HANLON STABLES, SAN FERNANDO VALLEY–NIGHT

THE GETAWAY.INT. EXT. MULHOLLAND DRIVE–NIGHT

LOBBY OF THE DAMNED. INT. HOTEL LA BREA–NIGHT

THE SHOOT-OUT. EXT. HOTEL LA BREA, FIRE ESCAPE–NIGHT

THE BIG REVEAL. EXT. SOMEWHERE IN L.A.–DUSK

Int. and Ext. are movie terms, eh? Interior and Exterior? I am naive to the filmic lingo.

Update: Just found some great behind-the-scenes shots. Here are my two faves:

Annie Leibovitz, with, clockwise from center, Pedro Almodóvar, Penélope
Cruz, Bárbara Peiró, Fernando Iglesias, and Vilmos Zsigmond. Photograph by Nick Rogers.

Robert Downey Jr. gets champ instruction from Sylvester Stallone at Universal. Photograph by Kathryn MacLeod.

I want to be a starlet and hang out with Annie. And Robert Downey Jr.

12 Comments

Ma 5-2-2008

That. Rocks. So. Hard. Now, if you’ll pardon me, I have to go sell my cameras for scrap.

Anthony 5-2-2008

Holy crap. How did I miss this? I’d KILL for a budget and casting like that. Noir with jealousy.

Ian 5-2-2008

would this be less boring if I recognized half the people?

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