‘Mank’ Takes The Top Prize At The 2021 American Society Of Cinematographers Awards
Awards season is nearly over. TheASC Awardsmarks the last guild or society to hand out their prizes before the 93rd Academy Awards holds is ceremony next week, and theAmerican Society of Cinematographersthrew in a bit of a last-minute curveball. David Fincher’sManktook the top prize at the 2021 ASC Awards, besting awards season favoriteNomadland, which has been handily taking the top honor at nearly every awards season ceremony over the past few months. Does it mean much? Probably not. But good forMank.
Erik Messerschmidt won the 2021 ASC Awards' top prize for feature film visual storytelling for his work inMank. With Messerschmidt’s win, he beats out the awards season favoriteNomadland, whose cinematographer Joshua James Richards was also nominated.
Other winners Sunday evening includedThe Crown, The Mandalorian, The Truffle Hunters, Two of Us, Motherland: Fort Salem, andThe Queen’s Gambit. During the ceremony, which was hosted by Turner Classics Movies host Ben Mankiewicz from the ASC clubhouse in Hollywood, Sofia Coppola was also presented with the Board of Governors Award.
Does this swayNomadland’s chances at the Oscars this coming Sunday? Probably not, though it does make an interesting last-minute case forMank, Fincher’s black-and-white passion project which has been somewhat ignored this awards season despite a strong campaign from Netflix. MaybeMankcould earn a few more Oscars than expected? We’ll have to find out when the Oscars air April 25.
See the full list of winners (in bold) below.
Feature FilmErik Messerschmidt, ASC
Phedon Papamichael, ASC, GSC
The Trial of the Chicago 7
Joshua James Richards
Newton Thomas Sigel, ASC
Dariusz Wolski, ASC
News of the World
Katelin Arizmendi
Aurélien Marra
Andrey Naydenov
Dear Comrades!
DocumentaryMichael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw
The Truffle Hunters
Viktor Kosakovskiy and Egil Håskjold Larsen
Gianfranco Rosi
Motion Picture, Limited Series, or Pilot Made for Television
Martin Ahlgren, ASC
The Plot Against America, “Part 6”
Anette Haellmigk
The Great, “The Great”
Pete Konczal
Fargo, “The Birthplace of Civilization”
Steven Meizler
The Queen’s Gambit, “End Game”
Gregory Middleton, ASC, CSC
Watchmen, “This Extraordinary Being”
Episode of a One-Hour Television Series – Commercial
Marshall Adams, ASC
Better Call Saul, “Bagman”
Carlos Catalán
Killing Eve, “Meetings Have Biscuits”
François Dagenais, CSC
Project Blue Book, “Area 51”
Jon Joffin, ASC
Motherland: Fort Salem, “Up is Down”
C. Kim Miles, ASC, CSC, MySC
Project Blue Book, “Operation Mainbrace”
Episode of a One-Hour Television Series – Non-Commercial
David Franco
Perry Mason, “Chapter 2”
Ken Glassing
Lucifer, “It Never Ends Well for the Chicken”
Adriano Goldman, ASC, ABC, BSC
The Crown, “Fairytale”
David Greene, ASC, CSC
Impulse, “The Moroi”
M. David Mullen, ASC
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, “It’s Comedy or Cabbage”
