38th American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) Awards: ‘Oppenheimer’ Wins Feature Film Prize

The American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) revealed its 38th Outstanding Achievement Award winners in feature film, documentary, television and music video categories where Hoyte Van Hoytema won theatrical feature film prize for Oppenheimer.

For the first time ever, the ASC and Oscars’ cinematography branch aligned 5/5 with their nominations with El Conde, Killers of the Flower Moon, Maestro, Oppenheimer and Poor Things all up for the cinematography Oscar. Seven of the past 11 ASC winners went on to win the Oscar for best cinematography.

In television, which splits between Half Hour and One Hour programming, the winners included Barry, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and The Boston Strangler.

Academy Award-winning director Spike Lee received the Board of Governors Award where he revealed that Maestro DP Matthew Libatique would be the cinematographer on his next film, High and Low, a remake of the 1963 Akira Kurosawa film, and will star Denzel Washington. The film will be produced by A24, Escape Artists and Mandalay Pictures, and be distributed by A24 before a global launch on AppleTV+.

The ASC Lifetime Achievement Award was presented to Don Burgess, ASC, the ASC Presidents Award was presented to Amy Vincent, ASC, and the ASC Career Achievement in Television Award was presented to Steven Fierberg, ASC.

The 38^th Annual ASC Awards ceremony was held at The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills and live streamed worldwide on theasc.com.

See the full list of winners below.

THEATRICAL FEATURE FILM NOMINEES

Edward Lachman, ASC – El Conde (Netflix)
Matthew Libatique, ASC, LPS – Maestro (Netflix)
Rodrigo Prieto, ASC, AMC – Killers of the Flower Moon (Apple Original Films)
Robbie Ryan, ISC – Poor Things (Searchlight Pictures)
Hoyte van Hoytema, ASC, FSF, NSC – Oppenheimer (Universal Pictures) – WINNER

SPOTLIGHT AWARD
Eric Branco – Story Ave. (Kino Lorber)
Krum Rodriguez – Citizen Saint
Warwick Thornton – The New Boy – WINNER

EPISODE OF A ONE-HOUR REGULAR SERIES
Ricardo Diaz – Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty, “The Second Coming” (Max)
Rob C. Givens – Gotham Knights, “Daddy Issues” (CW)
M. David Mullen, ASC – The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, “Four Minutes” (Prime Video) – WINNER
Cathal Watters, ASC, ISC – Foundation, “In Seldon’s Shadow” (Apple TV+)
Glen Keenan – Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, “Hegemony” (Paramount+)

LIMITED OR ANTHOLOGY SERIES OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TV

Dan Atherton – Great Expectations, “The Three Keys” (FX)
Sam Chiplin – The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart, “Part 1: Black Fire Orchid” (Prime Video)
Ben Kutchins, ASC – Boston Strangler (Hulu) – WINNER
Igor Martinovic – George and Tammy, “Stand by Your Man” (Showtime)
Jason Oldak – Lessons in Chemistry, “Book of Calvin” (Apple TV+)
Tobias Schliessler, ASC – All the Light We Cannot See, “Episode 2” (Netflix)

EPISODE OF A HALF-HOUR SERIES

Julian Court, BSC – The Diplomat, “The James Bond Clause” (Netflix)
Carl Herse – Barry, “Tricky Legacies” (HBO) – WINNER
Jon Joffin, ASC – Schmigadoon!, “Something Real” (Apple TV+)
Blake McClure, ASC – Minx, “I Thought the Bed was Gonna Fly” (Starz)
Andrew Wehde – The Bear, “The Bear” (Hulu)

DOCUMENTARY AWARD

Jeff Hutchens – Murder in Big Horn -Episode 1 (Showtime)
Curren Sheldon – King Coal – WINNER
D. Smith – Kokomo City (Magnolia Pictures)

MUSIC VIDEO AWARD

Scott Cunningham, ASC – Gorilla (Performed by Little Simz)
Jon Joffin, ASC – At Home (Performed by Jon Bryant) – WINNER
Andrey Nikoleav – Tanto (Performed by Cassie Marin)