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Watch the 35th Annual ASC Awards Online

Click here to find the viewing links for the Awards Livestream, going live April 18th at 12:30pm PDT, along with a complete list of the nominees.

ASC Staff

Livestream with begin on April 18 at 12:30pm PDT 


Watch the winners announced live during the 35th Annual ASC Outstanding Achievement Awards. Youtube link here.


The virtual ceremony will also be streamed via American Cinematographer’s Facebook page.


You also can watch the Awards on HD Zoom by registering here. This will also get you a digital copy of our 112-page commemorative ASC Awards program book, featuring complete information about the nominees, honorees, new ASC members and much more. 



Cherry, Mank, News of the World, Nomadland and The Trial of the Chicago 7 selected in Feature Film category.

At top (clockwise from top, left) are images from nominated features Mank, Cherry, The Trial of the Chicago 7, News of the World and Nomadland.

The complete list of this year’s nominees are:


Feature Film Award
• Erik Messerschmidt, ASC for Mank
• Phedon Papamichael, ASC, GSC for The Trial of the Chicago 7
• Joshua James Richards for Nomadland
• Newton Thomas Sigel, ASC for Cherry
• Dariusz Wolski, ASC for News of the World


Category sponsored by Keslow Camera

From left, Feature Film category nominees Phedon Papamichael, ASC, GSC (on right, with writer-director Aaron Sorkin); Newton Thomas Sigel, ASC (on right, with actor Tom Holland); Erik Messerschmidt, ASC; Dariusz Wolski, ASC (on right, with director Paul Greengrass) and Joshua James Richards (holding camera, with writer-director Chloé Zhao and actress Francis McDormand).
From left, Feature Film category nominees Phedon Papamichael, ASC, GSC (on right, with writer-director Aaron Sorkin); Newton Thomas Sigel, ASC (on right, with actor Tom Holland); Erik Messerschmidt, ASC; Dariusz Wolski, ASC (on right, with director Paul Greengrass) and Joshua James Richards (holding camera, with writer-director Chloé Zhao and actress Francis McDormand).

Spotlight Award
• Katelin Arizmendi for Swallow

• Aurélien Marra for Two of Us

• Andrey Naidenov for Dear Comrades!


Category sponsored by Panavision


Documentary
Award
• Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw for The Truffle Hunters

• Egil Håskjold Larsen and Victor Kossakovsky for Gunda 
• Gianfranco Rosi for Notturno


Category sponsored by Canon USA


Motion Picture, Limited Series, or Pilot Made for Television
Award
• Martin Ahlgren, ASC for The Plot Against America, “Part 6”

• Anette Haellmigk for The Great, “The Great”

• Pete Konczal for Fargo, “The Birthplace of Civilization”

• Steven Meizler for The Queen’s Gambit, “End Game”

• Gregory Middleton, ASC, CSC for Watchmen, “This Extraordinary Being”


Category sponsored by RED Digital Cinema


Episode of a One-Hour Television Series – Commercial
Award
• Marshall Adams, ASC for Better Call Saul, “Bagman”

• Carlos Catalán for Killing Eve, “Meetings Have Biscuits”

• François Dagenais, CSC for Project Blue Book, “Area 51”
• Jon Joffin, ASC for Motherland: Fort Salem, “Up is Down”

• C. Kim Miles, ASC, CSC, MySC for Project Blue Book, “Operation Mainbrace”


Category sponsored by FotoKem


Episode of a One-Hour Television Series – Non-Commercial
Award
• David Franco for Perry Mason, “Chapter 2”

• Ken Glassing for Lucifer, “It Never Ends Well for the Chicken”

• Adriano Goldman, ASC, ABC, BSC for The Crown, “Fairytale”

• David Greene, ASC, CSC for Impulse, “The Moroi”

• M. David Mullen, ASC for The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, “It’s Comedy or Cabbage”

• Fabian Wagner, ASC, BSC for The Crown, “Imbroglio”


Category sponsored by Panavision


Episode of a Half-Hour Television Series
Award
• Ava Berkofsky for Insecure, “Lowkey Lost”

• Greig Fraser, ASC, ACS for The Mandalorian, “Chapter 1: The Mandalorian”

• Baz Idoine for The Mandalorian, “Chapter 13: The Jedi”

• Matthew Jensen, ASC for The Mandalorian, “Chapter 15: The Believer”

• Jas Shelton for Homecoming, “Giant”


Category sponsored by ARRI Inc.



Last year’s ASC feature film winner was Roger Deakins, CBE, ASC, BSC for 1917, who went on to win an Oscar for Best Achievement in Cinematography.            


The Spotlight Award recognizes exceptional cinematography in independent, foreign or art-house-type films. Jarin Blaschke won the ASC Award in 2020 for The Lighthouse and earned an Academy Award nomination for his work.


Inaugurated in 2020, the ASC Documentary Award went to Fejmi Daut and Samir Ljuma for Honeyland. The film received two Oscar nominations.


Also presented that evening will be Board of Governors Award honoree Sofia Coppola.







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