The American Society of Cinematographers announced their 2018 nominees and “Roma,” “A Star is Born,” “Cold War,” “First Man” and “The Favourite” were the big winners on the film side. For television, “The Handmaid’s Tale” earned two nods alongside work from “Homeland,” “The Crown” and “The Man in High Castle.”
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A major bellwether for an Oscar nomination (the ASC and Oscar almost always line up), this has to be disconcerting for James Laxton‘s gorgeous work in “If Beale Street Could Talk,” Rachel Morrison’s achievements in “Black Panther” or Bruno Delbonnel’s lighting in “The Ballad of Buster Scruggs.”
It should be noted that “Roma’s” Alfonso Cuarón is now just the second director to earn an ASC nod for shooting his or her own film. Cary Joji Fukunaga was the first after earning a nod in the Spotlight Award category for “Beasts of No Nation.”
The ASC Awards will be handed out on Feb. 9.
All of this year’s nominees are as follows:
Theatrical Release
Alfonso Cuarón for “Roma”
Matthew Libatique, ASC for “A Star is Born”
Robbie Ryan, BSC, ISC for “The Favourite”
Linus Sandgren, ASC, FSF for “First Man”
Łukasz Żal, PSC for “Cold War”
Spotlight Award
Joshua James Richards for “The Rider”
Giorgi Shvelidze for “Namme”
Frank van den Eeden, NSC, SBC for “Girl”
Episode of a Series for Non-Commercial Television
Gonzalo Amat for “The Man in the High Castle” – “Jahr Null”
Adriano Goldman, ASC, ABC for “The Crown” – “Beryl”
David Klein, ASC for “Homeland” – “Paean to the People”
Colin Watkinson, ASC for “The Handmaid’s Tale” – “The Word”
Cathal Watters, ISC for “Peaky Blinders” – “The Company”
Zoë White, ACS for “The Handmaid’s Tale” – “Holly”
Episode of a Series for Commercial Television
Nathaniel Goodman, ASC for “Timeless” – “The King of the Delta Blues”
Jon Joffin, ASC for “Beyond” – “Two Zero One”
Ben Richardson for “Yellowstone” – “Daybreak”
David Stockton, ASC for “Gotham” – “A Dark Knight: Queen Takes Knight”
Thomas Yatsko, ASC for “Damnation” – “A Different Species”
Motion Picture, Miniseries, or Pilot Made for Television
James Friend, BSC for “Patrick Melrose” – “Bad News”
Mathias Herndl, AAC for “Genius: Picasso” – “Chapter 1”
Florian Hoffmeister, BSC for “The Terror” – “Go for “Broke”
M. David Mullen, ASC for “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” (pilot)
Brendan Steacy, CSC for “Alias Grace” – “Part 1”
