American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) Awards: ‘One Battle After Another,’ ‘The Studio’ and ‘Black Rabbit’
The 40th annual American Society of Cinematographers awards were held Sunday evening where One Battle After Another won the theatrical feature film award for Michael Bauman.
The ASC’s Theatrical Feature Film winner has gone on to win the Oscar for Best Cinematography 18 times in the last 39 years. Last year, Maria‘s Edward Lachman at won the ASC with Lol Crawley taking the Academy Award for The Brutalist.
This is another industry notch in Bauman’s belt, having won BAFTA and British Society of Cinematographers leading into tonight. He was double-nominated this evening, in both feature film and limited series, for One Battle After Another and Monster: The Ed Gein Story, respectively.
There was a tie for one hour series, with the cinematographers for Task and Andor both winning.
As expected, The Studio‘s single-take episode “The Oner” took home the award for half hour television but on the other side, in one of the biggest surprise wins of the evening, Adolescence, and its single shot approach to its cinematography (and for which it won the Emmy), lost its only major guild of its run when Black Rabbit cinematographer Pete Konczal won for limited series.
Four-time Oscar nominee and seven-time ASC Award nominee Rodrigo Prieto won the music video category for shooting Taylor Swift’s “The Fate of Ophelia.” This is his first win.
Two-time Oscar winner Guillermo del Toro received the ASC’s Board of Governors Award tonight. The honor is given to collaborators who champion directors of photography and elevate the visual craft at the heart of cinema.
Robert Yeoman was the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award; M. David Mullen with the Career Achievement in Television Award; Cynthia Pusheck with the Presidents Award; and Stephen Pizzello, editor-in-chief of American Cinematographer, with the ASC Award of Distinction. The Bud Stone Award, which is a surprise for the honoree, went to Tom Fletcher.
Kerri Kenney-Silver hosted the event at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills. Here is the complete list of winners of the 40th ASC awards.
Theatrical Feature Film (Sponsored by Keslow Camera)
Autumn Durald Arkapaw, ASC for Sinners
Michael Bauman for One Battle After Another – WINNER
Darius Khondji, ASC, AFC for Marty Supreme
Dan Laustsen, ASC, DFF for Frankenstein
Adolpho Veloso, ABC, AIP for Train Dreams
Spotlight Award (Sponsored by Panavision)
Steven Breckon for The Plague
Mátyás Erdély, ASC, HSC for Orphan – WINNER
Karl Walter Lindenlaub, ASC, BVK for Amrum
Documentary Award (Sponsored by Canon U.S.A.)
Mstyslav Chernov and Alex Babenko for 2000 Meters from Andriivka – WINNER
Brandon Somerhalder for Come See Me in the Good Light
Lars Erlend Tubaas Øymo and Tor Edvin Eliassen for Folktales
Episode of a Half-Hour Series (Sponsored by RED Digital Cinema)
Adam Bricker, ASC for Hacks (“I Love LA”)
Fraser Brown, CSC for Twisted Metal (“NUY3ARZ”)
Paul Daley for The Righteous Gemstones (“Prelude”)
Daniel Grant for Murderbot (“Escape Velocity Protocol”)
Matthew J. Lloyd, ASC for Government Cheese (“Trial and Error”)
Adam Newport-Berra for The Studio (“The Oner”) – WINNER
Limited or Anthology Series or Motion Picture Made for Television (Sponsored by ARRI)
Michael Bauman for Monster: The Ed Gein Story (“Buxum Bird”)
Sam Chiplin for The Narrow Road to the Deep North (“Episode One”)
Pete Konczal, ASC for Black Rabbit (“Isle of Joy”) – WINNER
Matthew Lewis for Adolescence (“Episode Two”)
Igor Martinović for Black Rabbit (“Attaf**kinboy”)
Episode of a One-Hour Regular Series (Sponsored by Panavision) – TIE
Alex Disenhof, ASC for Task (“Crossings”) – WINNER
Jessica Lee Gagne for Severance (“Hello, Ms. Cobel”)
Dana Gonzalez, ASC for Alien: Earth (“Neverland”)
Ben Kutchins, ASC for The White Lotus (“Killer Instincts”)
Christophe Nuyens, SBC for Andor (“I Have Friends Everywhere”) – WINNER
ASC Music Video Award (Sponsored by Nanlux)
Jeff Cronenweth, ASC for “Supernatural” (Performed by Ariana Grande)
Jon Joffin, ASC for “False Prophet” (Performed by Pillars of a Twisted City)
Jon Joffin, ASC for “Visiting Hours” (Performed by Jon Bryant)
Juliette Lossky for “Altamaha-ha” (Performed by Stacy Subero)
Rodrigo Prieto, ASC, AMC for “The Fate of Ophelia” (Performed by Taylor Swift) – WINNER
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