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Fri 06 Jun 2008Quite a big shot
He has captured Hollywood's and pop music's biggest stars on film, and was a nominee at this year's Oscars for Atonement, but cinematographer Seamus McGarvey recently enjoyed the finest accolade of his career when he was given a civic reception in his home town of Armagh, he tells Michael Dwyer
EARLY one morning last January, Seamus McGarvey was asleep in Los Angeles when he got the wake-up call most people in the film industry dream of. His wife, Phoebe, was on the phone from their home in Edinburgh with the news that he had just been nominated for an Academy Award.
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