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7.0 / 10(22 votes)IMDb201315mChina, France

Butter Lamp

La Lampe au beurre de yak

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A young itinerant photographer and his assistant suggest to Tibetan nomads to photograph them in front of various background.

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Key Information & Fast Facts

Director
Hu Wei
Screenplay & Story
Hu Wei
Original Title
La Lampe au beurre de yak
Country of Origin
China, France
Spoken Languages
Tibetan
Runtime
15m
Production Studios
AMA Productions

Creative Leadership & Key Crew

Director

Hu Wei

Screenplay & Story

Hu Wei

Producers

Julien Féret

Department Leadership Roster

Hu Wei

Hu Wei

Director

Julien Féret

Producer

Hu Wei

Hu Wei

Writer

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<br/>Awards <br/>Winners are listed first <br/> <br/>* 1. Best Picture <br/>Birdman – Alejandro G. Inarritu, John Lesher, James W. Skotchdopole <br/>American Sniper – Clint Eastwood, Robert Lorenz, Andrew Lazar, Bradley Cooper, Peter Morgan <br/>Boyhood – Richard Linklater, Cathleen Sutherland <br/>The Grand Budapest Hotel – Wes Anderson, Scott Rudin, Steven Rales, Jeremy Dawson <br/>The Imitation Game – Nora Grossman, Ido Ostrowsky, Teddy Schwarzman <br/>Selma – Christian Colson, Oprah Winfrey, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner <br/>The Theory of Everything – Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Lisa Bruce, Anthony McCarten <br/>Whiplash – Jason Blum, Helen Estabrook, David Lancaster <br/> <br/>* 2. Best Directing <br/>Alejandro G. Inarritu – Birdman <br/>Wes Anderson – The Grand Budapest Hotel <br/>Richard Linklater – Boyhood <br/>Bennett Miller – Foxcatcher <br/>Morten Tyldum – The Imitation Game <br/> <br/>* 3. Best Actor <br/>Eddie Redmayne – The Theory of Everything as Stephen Hawking <br/>Steve Carell – Foxcatcher as John Eleuthere du Pont <br/>Bradley Cooper – American Sniper as Chris Kyle <br/>Benedict Cumberbatch – The Imitation Game as Alan Turing <br/>Michael Keaton – Birdman as Riggan Thomson / Birdman <br/> <br/>* 4. Best Actress <br/>Julianne Moore – Still Alice as Dr. Alice Howland <br/>Marion Cotillard – Two Days, One Night as Sandra Bya <br/>Felicity Jones – The Theory of Everything as Jane Wilde Hawking <br/>Rosamund Pike – Gone Girl as Amy Elliott-Dunne <br/>Reese Witherspoon – Wild as Cheryl Strayed <br/> <br/>* 5. Best Supporting Actor <br/>J. K. Simmons – Whiplash as Terence Fletcher <br/>Robert Duvall – The Judge as Judge Joseph Palmer <br/>Ethan Hawke – Boyhood as Mason Evans, Sr. <br/>Edward Norton – Birdman as Mike Shiner <br/>Mark Ruffalo – Foxcatcher as Dave Schultz <br/> <br/>* 6. Best Supporting Actress <br/>Patricia Arquette – Boyhood as Olivia Evans <br/>Laura Dern – Wild as Barbara "Bobbi" Grey <br/>Keira Knightley – The Imitation Game as Joan Clarke <br/>Emma Stone – Birdman as Sam Thomson <br/>Meryl Streep – Into the Woods as The Witch <br/> <br/>* 7. Best Original Screenplay <br/>Birdman – Alejandro G. Inarritu, Nicolas Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris, Jr. and Armando Bo <br/>Boyhood – Richard Linklater <br/>Foxcatcher – E. Max Frye and Dan Futterman <br/>The Grand Budapest Hotel – Wes Anderson and Hugo Guinness <br/>Nightcrawler – Dan Gilroy <br/> <br/>* 8. Best Adapted Screenplay <br/>The Imitation Game – Graham Moore from Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges <br/>American Sniper – Jason Hall from American Sniper by Chris Kyle, Scott McEwen and Jim DeFelice <br/>Inherent Vice – Paul Thomas Anderson from Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon <br/>The Theory of Everything – Anthony McCarten from Travelling to Infinity: My Life with Stephen by Jane Wilde Hawking <br/>Whiplash – Damien Chazelle from his short film of the same name <br/> <br/>* 9. Best Animated Feature Film <br/>Big Hero 6 – Don Hall, Chris Williams and Roy Conli <br/>The Boxtrolls – Anthony Stacchi, Graham Annable and Travis Knight <br/>How to Train Your Dragon 2 – Dean DeBlois and Bonnie Arnold <br/>Song of the Sea – Tomm Moore and Paul Young <br/>The Tale of the Princess Kaguya – Isao Takahata and Yoshiaki Nishimura <br/> <br/>* 10. Best Foreign Language Film <br/>Ida (Poland) in Polish – Pawel Pawlikowski <br/>Leviathan (Russia) in Russian – Andrey Zvyagintsev <br/>Tangerines (Estonia) in Estonian and Russian – Zaza Urushadze <br/>Timbuktu (Mauritania) in French – Abderrahmane Sissako <br/>Wild Tales (Argentina) in Spanish – Damian Szifron <br/> <br/>* 11. Best Documentary – Feature <br/>Citizenfour – Laura Poitras, Mathilde Bonnefoy and Dirk Wilutzky <br/>Finding Vivian Maier – John Maloof and Charlie Siskel <br/>Last Days in Vietnam – Rory Kennedy and Keven McAlester <br/>The Salt of the Earth – Wim Wenders, Lelia Wanick Salgado and David Rosier <br/>Virunga – Orlando von Einsiedel and Joanna Natasegara <br/> <br/>* 12. Best Documentary – Short Subject <br/>Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1 – Ellen Goosenberg Kent and Dana Perry <br/>Joanna – Aneta Kopacz <br/>Our Curse – Tomasz Sliwinski and Maciej Slesicki <br/>The Reaper – Gabriel Serra Arguello <br/>White Earth – J. Christian Jensen <br/> <br/>* 13. Best Live Action Short Film <br/>The Phone Call – Mat Kirkby and James Lucas <br/>Aya – Oded Binnun and Mihal Brezis <br/>Boogaloo and Graham – Michael Lennox and Ronan Blaney <br/>Butter Lamp – Hu Wei and Julien Feret <br/>Parvaneh – Talkhon Hamzavi and Stefan Eichenberger <br/> <br/>* 14. Best Animated Short Film <br/>Feast – Patrick Osborne and Kristina Reed <br/>The Bigger Picture – Daisy Jacobs and Christopher Hees <br/>The Dam Keeper – Robert Kondo and Daisuke Tsutsumi <br/>Me and My Moulton – Torill Kove <br/>A Single Life – Joris Oprins <br/> <br/>* 15. Best Original Score <br/>The Grand Budapest Hotel – Alexandre Desplat <br/>The Imitation Game – Alexandre Desplat <br/>Interstellar – Hans Zimmer <br/>Mr. Turner – Gary Yershon <br/>The Theory of Everything – Johann Johannsson <br/> <br/>* 16. Best Original Song <br/>"Glory" from Selma – Music and Lyric by John Stephens (John Legend) and Lonnie Lynn (Common) <br/>"Everything Is Awesome" from The Lego Movie – Music and Lyric by Shawn Patterson <br/>"Grateful" from Beyond the Lights – Music and Lyric by Diane Warren <br/>"I'm Not Gonna Miss You" from Glen Campbell: I'll Be Me – Music and Lyric by Glen Campbell and Julian Raymond <br/>"Lost Stars" from Begin Again – Music and Lyric by Gregg Alexander and Danielle Brisebois <br/> <br/>* 17. Best Sound Editing <br/>American Sniper – Alan Robert Murray and Bub Asman <br/>Birdman – Martin Hernandez and Aaron Glascock <br/>The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies – Brent Burge and Jason Canovas <br/>Interstellar – Richard King <br/>Unbroken – Becky Sullivan and Andrew DeCristofaro <br/> <br/>* 18. Best Sound Mixing <br/>Whiplash – Craig Mann, Ben Wilkins and Thomas Curley <br/>American Sniper – John Reitz, Gregg Rudloff and Walt Martin <br/>Birdman – Jon Taylor, Frank A. Montano and Thomas Varga <br/>Interstellar – Gary A. Rizzo, Gregg Landaker and Mark Weingarten <br/>Unbroken – Jon Taylor, Frank A. Montano and David Lee <br/> <br/>* 19. Best Production Design <br/>The Grand Budapest Hotel – Adam Stockhausen (Production Design); Anna Pinnock (Set Decoration) <br/>The Imitation Game – Maria Djurkovic (Production Design); Tatiana Macdonald (Set Decoration) <br/>Interstellar – Nathan Crowley (Production Design); Gary Fettis (Set Decoration) <br/>Into the Woods – Dennis Gassner (Production Design); Anna Pinnock (Set Decoration) <br/>Mr. Turner – Suzie Davies (Production Design); Charlotte Watts (Set Decoration) <br/> <br/>* 20. Best Cinematography <br/>Birdman – Emmanuel Lubezki <br/>The Grand Budapest Hotel – Robert Yeoman <br/>Ida – Lukasz Zal and Ryszard Lenczewski <br/>Mr. Turner – Dick Pope <br/>Unbroken – Roger Deakins <br/> <br/>* 21. Best Makeup And Hairstyling <br/>The Grand Budapest Hotel – Frances Hannon and Mark Coulier <br/>Foxcatcher – Bill Corso and Dennis Liddiard <br/>Guardians of the Galaxy – Elizabeth Yianni-Georgiou and David White <br/> <br/>* 22. Best Costume Design <br/>The Grand Budapest Hotel – Milena Canonero <br/>Inherent Vice – Mark Bridges <br/>Into the Woods – Colleen Atwood <br/>Maleficent – Anna B. Sheppard <br/>Mr. Turner – Jacqueline Durran <br/> <br/>* 23. Best Film Editing <br/>Whiplash – Tom Cross <br/>American Sniper – Joel Cox and Gary D. Roach <br/>Boyhood – Sandra Adair <br/>The Grand Budapest Hotel – Barney Pilling <br/>The Imitation Game – William Goldenberg <br/> <br/>* 24. Best Visual Effects <br/>Interstellar – Paul Franklin, Andrew Lockley, Ian Hunter and Scott Fisher <br/>Captain America: The Winter Soldier – Dan DeLeeuw, Russell Earl, Bryan Grill and Dan Sudick <br/>Dawn of the Planet of the Apes – Joe Letteri, Dan Lemmon, Daniel Barrett and Erik Winquist <br/>Guardians of the Galaxy – Stephane Ceretti, Nicolas Aithadi, Jonathan Fawkner and Paul Corbould <br/>X-Men: Days of Future Past – Richard Stammers, Lou Pecora, Tim Crosbie and Cameron Waldbauer <br/>

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Frequently Asked Questions About Butter Lamp

Quick factual answers about cast, synopsis, director, box office, and release information.

What is Butter Lamp about?

A young itinerant photographer and his assistant suggest to Tibetan nomads to photograph them in front of various background.

Who directed Butter Lamp?

Butter Lamp was directed by Hu Wei.

Who stars in Butter Lamp?

The principal cast of Butter Lamp includes Genden Phuntsok, Soepha, Sonam Gonpo, Wangmo Tso, Kalsang Dolma.

When was Butter Lamp released and how long is it?

Butter Lamp was released in 2013 with a total runtime of 15m.