ASC Awards 2022: celebrating the winners and nominees

Mar 21, 2022

*Dune* won the feature film award (Credit: Chiabella James)

The American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) presented its annual awards, with Greig Fraser ASC ACS winning the feature film award for Dune. The 36th ASC Outstanding Achievement Awards also celebrated Pat Scola for Pig in the Spotlight Award category, and Jessica Beshir for the documentary Faya Dayi.

Winners in the episodic categories included James Laxton ASC for The Underground Railroad; Jon Joffin ASC for Titan; Tommy Maddox-Upshaw ASC for Snowfall; and Michael Berlucchi and Marc Carter for Mythic Quest. Debbie Allen hosted the awards show, which was held at the historic ASC Clubhouse in Hollywood.

Congratulations to all the winners and nominees below…

Feature Film (presented by Erik Messerschmidt ASC)

• Greig Fraser ASC ACS for DUNE – WINNER
• Bruno Delbonnel ASC AFC for THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH
• Dan Laustsen ASC DFF for NIGHTMARE ALLEY
• Ari Wegner ACS for THE POWER OF THE DOG
• Haris Zambarloukos BSC GSC for BELFAST
-category sponsored by KESLOW CAMERA

*Dune* – lensed by Greig Fraser ASC ACS – won the feature film award (Credit: Chiabella James)

Spotlight (presented by Sosie Bacon)

• Pat Scola for PIG – WINNER
• Ruben Impens SBC for TITANE
• Adolpho Veloso ABC for JOCKEY
-category sponsored by PANAVISION

Sosie Bacon and Pat Scola. Scola won the Spotlight Award for his lensing of *Pig* (Credit: Hrector Sandoval)

Documentary (presented by Denis Villeneuve)
• Jessica Beshir for FAYA DAYI – WINNER
• Isabel Bethencourt and Parker Hill for CUSP
• Jan Haft and Daniel Schönauer for THE HIDDEN LIFE OF TREES
-category sponsored SONY

Motion Picture, Limited Series, or Pilot Made for Television (presented by Katherine McNamara)
• James Laxton ASC for THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD – Chapter 9: Indiana Winter – WINNER

• Steve Annis for FOUNDATION – The Emperor’s Peace
• Tim Ives ASC for HALSTON – The Party’s Over
• Christophe Nuyens SBC for LUPIN – Chapter 1
• Ben Richardson ASC for MARE OF EASTTOWN – Illusions
-category sponsored by ARRI

James Laxton ASC (left) and director Barry Jenkins during filming *The Underground Railroad*

*The Underground Railroad* (Credit: Kyle Kaplan)

Episode of a One-Hour Television Series: Non-Commercial (presented by Morgan Cooper)
• Jon Joffin ASC for TITANS – Souls – WINNER

• Stuart Biddlecombe for THE HANDMAID’S TALE – The Wilderness
• David Garbett for SWEET TOOTH – Big Man
• David Greene ASC CSC for CHAPLEWAITE – The Promised
• Boris Mojsovski ASC CSC for TITANS – Home
• Kate Reid BSC for THE NEVERS – Hanged
-category sponsored by PANAVISION

ASC Award nominee Kate Reid BSC (middle); with Florian Hoffmeister BSC (left) and Greg Middleton ASC CSC (right)

Episode of a One-Hour Television Series: Commercial (presented by LaMonica Garrett)

• Tommy Maddox-Upshaw ASC for SNOWFALL – Weight – WINNER
• Thomas Burstyn CSC NZSC for SNOWPIERCER – Our Answer for Everything
• Ronald Paul Richard for RIVERDALE – Chapter Eighty-Nine: Reservoir Dogs
• Brendan Steacy CSC for CLARICE – Silence is Purgatory
• David Stockton ASC for MAYANS M.C. – The Orneriness of Kings
• Gavin Struthers ASC BSC for SUPERMAN & LOIS – Heritage
-category sponsored by RED DIGITAL CINEMA

Tommy Maddox-Upshaw ASC on the set of *Snowfall*

Tommy Maddox-Upshaw ASC and LaMonica Garrett. Maddox-Upshaw ASC scooped the Episode of a One-Hour Television Series: Commercial award for *Snowfall*– *Weight (Credit: Hrector Sandoval)*

Episode of a Half-Hour Television Series (presented by Tamlyn Tomita)

• Michael Berlucchi and Marc Carter for MYTHIC QUEST – Backstory! – WINNER
• Marshall Adams ASC for SERVANT – 2:00
• Adam Bricker for HACKS – There is No Line
• Paula Huidobro for PHYSICAL – Let’s Get Together
• Jaime Reynoso AMC for THE KOMINSKY METHOD – And it’s Getting More and More Absurd
-category sponsored by PICTURE SHOP

Tamlyn Tomita, Marc Carter and Michael Berlucchi. Berlucchi and Carter won in the Episode of a Half-Hour Television Series category for *Mythic Quest* – *Backstory!*

This is the second ASC feature award for Fraser, who won in 2017 for Lion. Fraser was also nominated in 2021 for The Mandalorian. Joffin won last year for Motherland: Fort Salem and in 2019 for Beyond. He has also earned nominations for Alice (2011) and The Andromeda Strain (2009). Laxton was previously nominated in 2017 in the feature category for Moonlight.

Last year’s ASC feature film winner was Erik Messerschmidt ASC, who went on to win the Oscar® for Best Achievement in Cinematography for Mank.

Honourary awards were also presented at the ceremony, with Ellen Kuras ASC becoming the first woman to receive the ASC Lifetime Achievement Award. The award was presented to Kuras by Rachel Morrison ASC who was Oscar® nominated for Mudbound in the Cinematography category.

Ellen Kuras ASC is the first female recipient of the ASC Lifetime Achievement Award (Credit: Hector Sandoval)

Ellen Kuras ASC (right) is the first female recipient of the ASC Lifetime Achievement Award, presented by Rachel Morrison ASC (Credit: Hector Sandoval)

Peter Levy ASC ACS (Predator 2, Californication) received the Career Achievement in Television Award from his longtime collaborator director Stephen Hopkins.

Rebecca Rhine and Amy Vincent ASC presented John Lindley ASC (Field of Dreams, St. Vincent) with the ASC Presidents Award.

The inaugural Curtis Clark Technical Achievement Award was given to Panavision’s Vice President of Optical Engineering and Lens Strategy Dan Sasaki by ASC associate member Jay Holben, who is also a technical editorial for American Cinematographer.