The Oscars are now just a week away and Sunday provided three guild award ceremonies to provide hints at who may take away Hollywood’s most prestigious prizes. The Daniels’ “Everything Everywhere All At Once” continued its winning streak at the ACE Eddie Awards for editing and the WGA Award for screenplay, but they didn’t complete the trifecta at the ASC Awards. That’s because they never made the cut with the American Society of Cinematographers in the first place (and Larkin Seiple didn’t earn an Oscar nomination either). Instead, the top prize at the ASC Awards, for Theatrical Feature Film, went to Mandy Walker for “Elvis.”
Walker made history as the first woman in the 37-year history of the ASC Awards to take the film honor. Yes, that’s not a misprint, the first female winner in thirty-seven years. Let that sink in.
In other honors, the increasingly prestigious Spotlight Award went to Sturla Brandth Grøvlen for “War Soldier.” The Half-Hour Series award went to Carl Herse for “Barry.” It was a rare double win for FX’s “The Old Man” as Jules O’Loughlin took the One-Hour Commercial Television Series honor and Sean Porter also took the Pilot, Limited Series or Motion Picture Made For Television award. The One-Hour Non-Commercial Television Series went to M. David Mullen for “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.”
In absolutely no surprise, Ben Bernhard and Riju Das took the Documentary Award for “All That Breathes.”
The full list of this year’s ASC nominees and winners are as follows:
THEATRICAL FEATURE FILM NOMINEES
Roger Deakins, ASC, BSC for Empire of Light (Searchlight Pictures)
Greig Fraser, ASC, ACS for The Batman (Warner Bros.)
Darius Khondji, ASC, AFC for Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths (Netflix)
Claudio Miranda, ASC for Top Gun: Maverick (Paramount Pictures)
Mandy Walker, ASC, ACS for Elvis (Warner Bros.)
SPOTLIGHT AWARD
Sturla Brandth Grøvlen, DFF for War Sailor (DCM Film) – ***WINNER***
Kate McCullough, ISC for The Quiet Girl (Super)
Andrew Wheeler for God’s Country (IFC Films)
EPISODE OF A ONE-HOUR NON-COMMERCIAL TELEVISION SERIES
John Conroy, ASC, ISC for Westworld — “Années Folles” (HBO/HBO MAX)
Catherine Goldschmidt for House of the Dragon — “The Lord of the Tides” (HBO/HBO MAX)
Alejandro Martinez for House of the Dragon — “The Green Council” (HBO/HBO MAX)
M. David Mullen, ASC for The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel — “How Do You Get to Carnegie Hall?” (Prime Video) – ***WINNER***
Alex Nepomniaschy, ASC for The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel — “Everything is Bellmore” (Prime Video)
Nikolaus Summerer for 1899 — “The Calling” (Netflix)
PILOT, LIMITED SERIES, OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION
Todd Banhazl, ASC for Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty — “The Swan” (HBO/HBO Max)
Jeremy Benning, CSC for Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities — “The Outside” (Netflix)
Anastas Michos, ASC, GSC for Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities — “The Autopsy” (Netflix)
C. Kim Miles, ASC, CSC, MySC for Lost Ollie — “Bali Hai” (Netflix)
Sean Porter for The Old Man – “I” (FX) – ***WINNER***
EPISODE OF A HALF-HOUR SERIES
Adam Bricker for Hacks — “The Click” (HBO/HBO MAX)
Carl Herse for Barry — “Starting Now” (HB0/HBO MAX) – ***WINNER***
Stephen Murphy BSC, ISC for Atlanta — “New Jazz” (FX)
Ula Pontikos, BSC for Russian Doll — “Matryoshka” (Netflix)
Christian Sprenger, ASC for Atlanta — “Andrew Wyeth. Alfred’s World.” (FX)
EPISODE OF A ONE-HOUR COMMERCIAL TELEVISION SERIES
Marshall Adams, ASC for Better Call Saul — “Saul Gone” (AMC)
Jesse M. Feldman for Interview with the Vampire — “Is My Very Nature That of the Devil” (AMC)
Christian “Tico” Herrera, CCR for Snowfall — “Departures” (FX)
Jules O’Loughlin, ASC, ACS for The Old Man — “IV” (FX) – ***WINNER***
Jaime Reynoso, AMC for Snowpiercer — “Bound by One Track” (TNT)
DOCUMENTARY AWARD
Ben Bernhard and Riju Das for All That Breathes (HBO/HBO Max) – ***WINNER***
Adam Bricker for Chef’s Table: Pizza — “Franco Pepe” (Netflix)
Wolfgang Held, ASC for This Stolen Country of Mine
