The American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) has announced its nominees for feature film, documentary and television cinematography, representing the organization’s picks for the most compelling visual filmmaking over the past 14 months. Winners will be named during the 35th ASC Outstanding Achievement Awards on April 18. The virtual ceremony will be live streamed via American Cinematographer’s Facebook at 12:30pm PDT from the historic ASC Clubhouse in Hollywood.
The nominees in the marquee feature category are: 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, and Dariusz Wolski, ASC for News of the World.
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
Spotlight
- Katelin Arizmendi for Swallow
- Aurรฉlien Marra for Two of Us
- Andrey Naydenov for Dear Comrades!
Documentary
- Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw for The Truffle Hunters
- Viktor Kosakovskiy and Egil Hรฅskjold 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 Catalรกn for Killing Eve, “Meetings Have Biscuits”
- Franรงois 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”
Last year’s ASC feature film winner was Roger Deakins, CBE, ASC, BSC for 1917, who went on to win an Oscar® for Best Achievement in Cinematography.
The Spotlight Award recognizes exceptional cinematography in independent, foreign or art-house-type films. Jarin Blaschke won the ASC Spotlight Award in 2020 for The Lighthouse and earned an Academy Award® nomination for his work.
Inaugurated in 2020, the ASC Documentary Award went to Fejmi Daut and Samir Ljuma for Honeyland. The film received two Oscar nominations.
Google Opens Its Defense In Antitrust Case Alleging Monopoly Over Online Ad Technology
Google opened its defense against allegations that it holds an illegal monopoly on online advertising technology Friday with witness testimony saying the industry is vastly more complex and competitive than portrayed by the federal government.
"The industry has been exceptionally fluid over the last 18 years," said Scott Sheffer, a vice president for global partnerships at Google, the company's first witness at its antitrust trial in federal court in Alexandria.
The Justice Department and a coalition of states contend that Google built and maintained an illegal monopoly over the technology that facilitates the buying and selling of online ads seen by consumers.
Google counters that the government's case improperly focuses on a narrow type of online ads โ essentially the rectangular ones that appear on the top and on the right-hand side of a webpage. In its opening statement, Google's lawyers said the Supreme Court has warned judges against taking action when dealing with rapidly emerging technology like what Sheffer described because of the risk of error or unintended consequences.
Google says defining the market so narrowly ignores the competition it faces from social media companies, Amazon, streaming TV providers and others who offer advertisers the means to reach online consumers.
Justice Department lawyers called witnesses to testify for two weeks before resting their case Friday afternoon, detailing the ways that automated ad exchanges conduct auctions in a matter of milliseconds to determine which ads are placed in front of which consumers and how much they cost.
The department contends the auctions are finessed in subtle ways that benefit Google to the exclusion of would-be competitors and in ways that prevent... Read More