The 2021 ASC Award Nominees Are...

It's awards season, so hold onto your butts. The ASC has gathered together to search for greatness within their ranks. It was a strange year, but over the last 14 months (of eligibility) we have seen some compelling and interesting projects. 

Now, we have a full list of the nominees. 

Winners will be named during the 35th Annual ASC Outstanding Achievement Awards on April 18. The virtual ceremony will be livestreamed via American Cinematographer’s Facebook at 12:30 p.m. PDT from the historic ASC Clubhouse in Hollywood.  

The complete list of this year’s nominees are:

Feature Film

• Erik Messerschmidt, ASC for Mank
• Phedon Papamichael, ASC, GSC for The Trial of the Chicago 7
• Joshua James Richards for Nomadland
• Newton Thomas Sigel, ASC for Cherry
• Dariusz Wolski, ASC for News of the World

• Katelin Arizmendi for Swallow
• Aurélien Marra for Two of Us
• Andrey Naydenov for Dear Comrades!

Documentary

• Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw for The Truffle Hunters
• Viktor Kosakovskiy and Egil Håskjold Larsen for Gunda
• Gianfranco Rosi for Notturno

Motion Picture, Limited Series, or Pilot Made for Television

• Martin Ahlgren, ASC for The Plot Against America, “Part 6”
• Anette Haellmigk for The Great, “The Great”
• Pete Konczal for Fargo, “The Birthplace of Civilization”
• Steven Meizler for The Queen’s Gambit, “End Game”
• Gregory Middleton, ASC, CSC for Watchmen, “This Extraordinary Being”

Episode of a One-Hour Television Series – Commercial

• Marshall Adams, ASC for Better Call Saul, “Bagman”
• Carlos Catalán for Killing Eve, “Meetings Have Biscuits”
• François Dagenais, CSC for Project Blue Book, “Area 51”
• Jon Joffin, ASC for Motherland: Fort Salem, “Up is Down”
• C. Kim Miles, ASC, CSC, MySC for Project Blue Book, “Operation Mainbrace”

Episode of a One-Hour Television Series – Non-Commercial

• David Franco for Perry Mason, “Chapter 2”
• Ken Glassing for Lucifer, “It Never Ends Well for the Chicken”
• Adriano Goldman, ASC, ABC, BSC for The Crown, “Fairytale”
• David Greene, ASC, CSC for Impulse, “The Moroi”
• M. David Mullen, ASC for The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, “It’s Comedy or Cabbage”
• Fabian Wagner, ASC, BSC for The Crown, “Imbroglio”

Episode of a Half-Hour Television Series

• Ava Berkofsky for Insecure, “Lowkey Lost”
• Greig Fraser, ASC, ACS for The Mandalorian, “Chapter 1: The Mandalorian”
• Baz Idoine for The Mandalorian, “Chapter 13: The Jedi”
• Matthew Jensen, ASC for The Mandalorian, “Chapter 15: The Believer”
• Jas Shelton for Homecoming, “Giant”

On April 18, you can watch the 35th Annual ASC Awards as it is streamed here via Facebook Live. Also presented that evening will be Board of Governors Award honoree Sofia Coppola.