The American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) has announced their five finalists in the feature film category of the 23rd Annual American Society of Cinematographers Outstanding Achievement Awards competition. The recipient will be named during the awards celebration here at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel on February 15.
It’s a great looking list and I am surprised while they were at it they didn’t toss Doubt into Deakins’s list of achievements, it wasn’t as beautiful as The Reader, but it certainly compared to Revolutionary Road.
- Roger Deakins, ASC, BSC (Revolutionary Road and The Reader)
- Anthony Dod Mantle, BSC (Slumdog Millionaire)
- Chris Menges, ASC, BSC (The Reader)
- Claudio Miranda (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button)
- Wally Pfister, ASC (The Dark Knight)
These are the eighth and ninth nominations for Deakins who earned top honors in 1995 for The Shawshank Redemption and in 2002 for The Man Who Wasn’t There. It’s the fourth nomination for Menges, the second for Pfister, and the first for Dod Mantle and Miranda.
Stay tuned as we are expecting the Writers Guild to announce their noms in the next half hour as well as the Directors Guild tomorrow.
