Lifetime Achievement Award to June Randall

June Randall with Sir Roger at Elstree on October 2006 - Photo: Marie-France Vienne

June Randal was presented with the Eon/GBCT Lifetime Achievement Award
for Script Supervisors on 2nd June 2007. The chosen venue was the Nine Kings Suite at the Royal Lancaster Hotel in London.

The Guild of British Camera Technicians (GBCT) was created in 1977 during
the filming of the movie Superman. From a very small and humble meeting of
four camera technicians, seated inside Christopher Reeve's caravan at
Pinewood Studios, today the GBCT has a membership of close to five hundred
camera technicians of all grades, and the number continues to rise.

Currently the GBCT has the honour of including Lord Richard Attenborough
CBE, Sir Sydney Samuelson CBE and film director Richard Lester as its
Trustees. The two charities chosen to benefit from the occasion (the Cinema and Television Benevolent Fund and UNICEF) are both organisations that enjoy the close
support of Sir Roger.

Up until recently the GBCT Awards had usually been presented at the annual
Operators' Night dinner of the British Society of Cinematographers, but as this year is the Guild's thirtieth anniversary it was decided that this time they would be presented at the first of what, they hope, will be many independent functions.

In all eight awards were presented:

• The CTV-OB/GBCT Award for Best Live Event Operator (won by Alf Tramontin)
• The GBCT Award for Best Gaffer: (won by Peter Bloor)
• The Chapman-Leonard/GBCT Award for Best Grip (won by David Appleby)
  The Panavision/GBCT Focus Puller's Knob (won by Rawdon Hayne)
• The Arri/GBCT Award for Best Camera Operator (won by Roger Pearce for Casino Royale)
• The Camera Revolution/GBCT Award for Best Cinematography (won by Dick Pope BSC for The Illusionist)
• The AFM/David Lenham Award for Excellence (won by Dennis Fraser MBE)

The final award of the evening was the Eon/GBCT Lifetime Achievement Award
for Script Supervisors, and with the generous support and assistance of
Barbara Broccoli and Eon Productions, Sir Roger kindly agreed to fly to
London to attend the celebrations and to present this award to script
supervisor June Randall.

June first started working in the British Film Industry in the 1940s, and
she has worked with Sir Roger over many years, from episodes on the
television series The Saint (1962) through to such feature films as The Spy
Who Loved Me (1977), The Wild Geese (1978) and A View to a Kill (1985).
Because of their close working relationship, Sir Roger's presence at the
event was kept secret in order to make it as big a surprise as possible for
June. She clearly enjoyed the evening because not only did she receive her
Lifetime Achievement Award, but she also won a case of champagne in the
charity raffle.

Many thanks to Simon Mills

Link: The Guild of British Camera Technicians