Refresh for updates… The American Society of Cinematographers presents its 40th anniversary ASC awards tonight at the Beverly Hilton, and Deadline updates the winners as they’re announced. Check out the list below.
The ASCs celebrate the year’s best in cinematography in seven categories including feature films, TV, documentaries and music videos. Theatrical Feature Film Award nominees are the Autumn Durald Arkapaw (They are sinners), Michael Bauman (One Battle After Another), Darius Khondji (Marty Supreme), Dan Laustsen (Frankenstein) and Adolfo Veloso (Train for Dreams). The same quintet is nominated for the Best Cinematography Oscar next weekend.
The ASC’s Theatrical Feature Film winner has claimed the Best Cinematography Oscar nearly half the time — 18 times in its 39 years — but not last year. MariaEdward Lachman won the ASC last March, but Lol Crawley took the Academy Award The Brutalist.
So far tonight, the One-Hour Regular Series class has ended up being sparse, with Christophe Nuyens (of the Andor episode “I Have Friends Everywhere”) and Alex Disenhof (of the band Work episode “Crossing”) both win.
Also in the TV categories, Adam Newport-Berra won an Episode for a Half-Hour Series Emmy winner. Studio (for the episode “The Oner”), and Pete Konczal won the award for limited film/anthology/TV Black Rabbit episode “Isle of Joy.”
Mstyslav Chernov and Alex Babenko won the Documentary Award 2000 meters from Andriivkawhen Chernov accepted the honor and said that Babenko lives in Kyiv and works. Four-time Oscar nominee and seven-time ASC Award nominee Rodrigo Prieto won the music video category for his portrayal of Taylor Swift’s “The Fate of Ophelia.”
Among the honors, Frankenstein filmmaker and two-time Oscar winner Guillermo del Toro received an ASC Board of Governors Award. Del Toro, who won an award at the Saturn Awards earlier in the night at Universal City, accepted the honor, which is given to those who champion cinematographers and elevate the visual arts at the heart of cinema.
Additional honorees tonight included Robert Yeoman receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award; M. David Mullen Award for Career Achievement in Television; Cynthia Pusheck President’s Award; and Stephen Pizzello, editor-in-chief of American Cinematographer, ASC Award of Distinction.
Here are the 2026 ASC Awards winners revealed so far, followed by the remaining nominees:
The winners
One hour regular series episode (tie)
Christophe Nuyens, Andor (“I Have Friends Everywhere”)
Alex Disenhof, Work (“Crossing”)
Limited or Anthology Series or Motion Picture made for television
Pete Konczal, Black Rabbit (“Isle of Joy”)
ASC Music Video Award
Rodrigo Prieto, “The Fate of Ophelia” (Played by Taylor Swift)
Spotlight Award
Mátyás Erdély, Orphan
Documentary Award
Mstyslav Chernov and Alex Babenko, 2000 meters from Andriivka
Half Hour Series Episode
Adam Newport-Berra, The Studio (“The Oner”)
Nominees
Theatrical Feature Film
Autumn Durald Arkapaw, Sinners
Michael Bauman One War After Another
Darius Khondji, Marty Supreme
Dan Laustsen, Frankenstein
Adolpho Veloso, Train Dreams
Half Hour Series Episode
Adam Bricker, Hacks (“I love LA”)
Fraser Brown, Twisted Metal (“NUY3ARZ”)
Paul Daley, Fair Gems (“Foreword”)
Daniel Grant, Murderbot (“Escape Velocity Protocol”)
Matthew J. Lloyd, Government Cheese (“Trial and Error”)
Adam Newport-Berra, The Studio (“The Oner”)
Limited or Anthology Series or Motion Picture made for television
Michael Bauman, Monster: The Ed Gein Story (“Buxum Bird”)
Sam Chiplin, Little Road to the Deep North (“Episode 1”)
Pete Konczal, Black Rabbit (“Isle of Joy”)
Matthew Lewis, Youth (“Episode Two”)
Igor Martinović, Black Rabbit (“Attaf**kinboy”)
A regular one-hour series episode
Alex Disenhof, Work (“Crossing”)
Jessica Lee Gagne, Severance (“Hello, Ms. Cobel”)
Dana Gonzalez, Alien: World (“Neverland”)
Ben Kutchins, The White Lotus (“Killer Instincts”)
Spotlight Award
Steven Breckon, The Plague
Mátyás Erdély, Orphan
Karl Walter Lindenlaub, Amrum
Documentary Award
Mstyslav Chernov and Alex Babenko, 2000 meters from Andriivka
Brandon Somerhalder, Come See Me in a Good Light
Lars Erlend Tubaas Øymo and Tor Edvin Eliassen, Folktales
ASC Music Video Award
Jeff Cronenweth, “Supernatural” (Performed by Ariana Grande)
Jon Joffin, “False Prophet” (By Twisted City Pillars)
Jon Joffin, “Touring Hours” (Performed by Jon Bryant)
Juliette Lossky, “Altamaha-ha” (Played by Stacy Subero)
Rodrigo Prieto, “The Fate of Ophelia” (Played by Taylor Swift)
