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An interview from the 30th ASC Awards for Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography Ceremony in Los Angeles, California with Lowell Peterson, ASC. Mike Valinsky was there to talk with winner Lowell Peterson Lowell Peterson, ASC — whose credits include Jane the Virgin, Desperate Housewives, Six Feet Under and Knots Landing — was honored with the ASC Career Achievement in Television Award.
Accepting the honor from Jane the Virgin star Gina Rodriguez, Peterson reminisced how his love of films was ignited when his older sister took him to the movies and he first saw Douglas Sirk’s Written on the Wind. Thanking his mentors — particularly Robert F. Liu, ASC and Edward R. Brown, ASC — Peterson noted that he’s worked with four of the previous ASC Career Achievement honorees: Society members Liu, George Spiro Dibie, Michael D. O’Shea and John C. Flinn III.
“It’s probably no coincidence that so many of us started at MTM, which set a new standard for television in the 1970s and 1980s,” he said. “My dream job would have been as a contract-DP at Warner Bros. in the 1940s. … The closest thing today is probably a television-series cameraman, where you can work for 10 years or longer with the family that creates a show.” He thanked his “on-set family” of operators, assistants, key grip and longtime gaffer. He also noted that learning to light actresses well can lead to a long, fruitful career. “There’s a reason I survived eight seasons on Desperate Housewives,” he joked.
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