Michael Bauman won the marquee feature film honor at the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) Awards on Sunday evening (3/8) for his lensing of “One Battle After Another.” This is Bauman’s first ASC Award and nomination for a theatrical feature film. He was also nominated this year for “Monster: The Ed Gein Story” in the Limited/ Anthology Series/Motion Picture Made for TV category.
Bauman topped a field of feature nominees which also consisted of Autumn Durald Arkapaw, ASC for “Sinners,” Darius Khondji, ASC, AFC for “Marty Supreme,” Dan Laustsen, ASC, DFF for “Frankenstein,” and Adolpho Veloso, ABC, AIP for “Train Dreams.”
Meanwhile winning the ASC Awards’ Spotlight honor–which recognizes exceptional cinematography in independent, foreign or art-house-type films–was cinematographer Mátyás Erdély, ASC, HSC for “Orphan.”
Mstyslav Chernov and Alex Babenko took the documentary category for their work on “2000 Meters from Andriivka.”
Winners in the television categories included Adam Newport-Berra for “The Studio,” Pete Konczal, ASC for “Black Rabbit,” Alex Disenhof, ASC for “Task” and Christophe Nuyens, SBC for “Andor.” The latter two tied for best cinematography of a one-hour regular series episode.
In the music video category, Rodrigo Prieto, ASC, AMC won for Taylor Swift’s “The Fate of Ophelia.”
Here is a full rundown of winners in the 40th ASC Outstanding Achievement Awards competition:
Theatrical Feature Film
Michael Bauman for “One Battle After Another”
Spotlight Award
Mátyás Erdély, ASC, HSC for “Orphan”
Documentary Award
Mstyslav Chernov and Alex Babenko for “2000 Meters from Andriivka”
Episode of a Half-Hour Series
Adam Newport-Berra for “The Studio” (“The Oner”)
Limited/ Anthology Series/ Motion Picture Made for TV
Pete Konczal, ASC for “Black Rabbit” (“Isle of Joy”)
Episode of a One-Hour Regular Series
A TIE BETWEEN:
Alex Disenhof, ASC for “Task” (“Crossings”)
AND
Christophe Nuyens, SBC for “Andor” (“I Have Friends Everywhere”)(TIE)
ASC Music Video Award
Rodrigo Prieto, ASC, AMC for “The Fate of Ophelia” (Performed by Taylor Swift)
Special honors
The ceremony, hosted by Kerri Kenney-Silver, also honored Guillermo del Toro with the ASC Board of Governors Award; Robert Yeoman, ASC, with the Lifetime Achievement Award; M. David Mullen, ASC, with the Career Achievement in Television Award; Cynthia Pusheck, ASC, with the Presidents Award; Stephen Pizzello, editor-in-chief of American Cinematographer, with the ASC Award of Distinction; and Tom Fletcher with the Bud Stone Award.
