‘Tragedy of Macbeth,’ ‘The Power of the Dog’ Among ASC Awards Nominees for Cinematography

The cinematography of “Belfast,” “Dune,” “The Energy of the Canine,” “The Tragedy of Macbeth” and “Nightmare Alley” has been chosen as the very best movie work of 2021 by the American Society of Cinematographers, which introduced its nominations on Tuesday.

Together with her work on “The Energy of the Canine,” Ari Wegner turns into solely the second girl to be nominated for feature-film cinematography within the 36-year historical past of the ASC Awards. The primary was Rachel Morrison, who was nominated in 2018 for “Mudbound.”

Along with Wegner, this yr’s different nominees are Haris Zamberloukos for “Belfast,” Greig Fraser for “Dune,” Bruno Delbonnel for “The Tragedy of Macbeth” and Dan Laustsen for “Nightmare Alley.” It marked the primary ASC nominations for Zamberloukos, the second for Fraser and Laustsen and the fifth for Delbonnel.

Probably the most stunning omission from the slate of nominees might be six-time nominee Janusz Kaminski for Steven Spielberg’s “West Aspect Story.”

Whereas Wegner is just the second ASC nominee within the function class, a number of girls have been nominated within the ASC’s Highlight part, which fits to worldwide movies and ones that obtained restricted or film-festival releases.

This yr’s Highlight nominees are “Titane,” “Pig” and “Jockey.”

Tv nominees embrace “Titans,” which obtained two nominations, in addition to “Basis,” “Lupin,” “Mare of Easttown,” “Snowpiercer,” “Mayans M.C.” and “Hacks.”

Sometimes, an ASC movie nomination is a really dependable predictor of Oscar success. The ASC has nominated at the very least 4 of the eventual Oscar nominees for cinematography yearly since 2006, and the 2 slates have matched all 5 nominees 5 instances in that stretch. Over the previous decade, 85% of ASC movie nominees went on to obtain Oscar nominations.

Within the 34-year historical past of the ASC Awards, solely two movies have received the cinematography Oscar with out first being nominated by the ASC: 1989’s “Glory” and 2006’s “Pan’s Labyrinth.”

The nominees:

Function Movie

• Bruno Delbonnel, ASC, AFC for THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH
• Greig Fraser, ASC, ACS for DUNE
• Dan Laustsen, ASC, DFF for NIGHTMARE ALLEY
• Ari Wegner, ACS for THE POWER OF THE DOG
• Haris Zambarloukos, BSC, GSC for BELFAST

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Highlight

• Ruben Impens, SBC for TITANE
• Pat Scola for PIG
• Adolpho Veloso, ABC for JOCKEY

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Documentary

• Jessica Beshir for FAYA DAYI
• Isabel Bethencourt and Parker Hill for CUSP
• Daniel Schönauer for THE HIDDEN LIFE OF TREES

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Movement Image, Restricted Collection, or Pilot Made for Tv

• Steve Annis for FOUNDATION – Pilot Episode: The Emperor’s Peace
• Tim Ives, ASC for HALSTON – Episode: The Occasion’s Over
• James Laxton, ASC for THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD – Episode: Chapter 9: Indiana Winter
• Christophe Nuyens, SBC for LUPIN – Pilot Episode: Chapter 1
• Ben Richardson, ASC for MARE OF EASTTOWN – Episode: Illusions

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Episode of a One-Hour Tv Collection – Non-Business

• Stuart Biddlecombe for THE HANDMAID’S TALE – Episode: The Wilderness
• David Garbett for SWEET TOOTH – Episode: Large Man
• David Greene, ASC, CSC for CHAPLEWAITE – Episode: The Promised
• Jon Joffin, ASC for TITANS – Episode: Souls
• Boris Mojsovski, ASC, CSC for TITANS – Episode: Dwelling
• Kate Reid, BSC for THE NEVERS – Episode: Hanged

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Episode of a One-Hour Tv Collection – Business

• Thomas Burstyn, CSC, NZSC for SNOWPIERCER – Episode: Our Reply for All the pieces
• Tommy Maddox-Upshaw, ASC for SNOWFALL – Episode: Weight
• Ronald Paul Richard for RIVERDALE – Episode: Chapter Eighty-9: Reservoir Canines
• Brendan Steacy, CSC for CLARICE – Episode: Silence is Purgatory
• David Stockton, ASC for MAYANS M.C. – Episode: The Orneriness of Kings
• Gavin Struthers, ASC, BSC for SUPERMAN & LOIS – Episode: Heritage

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Episode of a Half-Hour Tv Collection

• Marshall Adams, ASC for SERVANT – Episode: 2:00
• Michael Berlucchi for MYTHIC QUEST – Episode: Backstory!
• Adam Bricker for HACKS – Episode: There may be No Line
• Paula Huidobro for PHYSICAL – Episode: Let’s Get Collectively
• Jaime Reynoso, AMC for THE KOMINSKY METHOD – Episode: And it’s Getting Extra and Extra Absurd

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