Roger Deakins Surprises No One By Winning the 2020 ASC Award

In a result that was preordained, Roger Deakins took his fifth competitive ASC Award for a Theatrical Release. It turned out to be the second big win of the night for “1917” after director Sam Mendes won the DGA Award. This was Deakins’ second win in the past three years from the American Society of Cinematographers after he won in 2018 for “Blade Runner: 2049,” the film he also won his first Oscar for. He’s expected to take his second Academy Award for the almost one-shot period piece on Feb. 9.

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Other winners included Fejmi Daut and Samir Ljuma in the Documentary category for “Honeyland,” Jarin Blaschke in the Spotlight Award category for “The Lighthouse” and Colin Watkinson in the Non-Commercial field for “The Handmaid’s Tale.”

A full list of this year’s nominees and winners are as follows:

Theatrical Release

Roger Deakins, ASC, BSC for “1917” – WINNER
Phedon Papamichael, ASC, GSC for “Ford v Ferrari”
Rodrigo Prieto, ASC, AMC for “The Irishman”
Robert Richardson, ASC for “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood”
Lawrence Sher, ASC for “Joker”

Documentary

Fejmi Daut and Samir Ljuma for “Honeyland” – WINNER
Evangelia Kranioti for “Obscuro Barroco”
Nicholas de Pencier for “Anthropocene: The Human Epoch”

Spotlight Award

Jarin Blaschke for “The Lighthouse” – WINNER
Natasha Braier, ASC, ADF for “Honey Boy”
Jasper Wolf, NSC for “Monos”

Motion Picture, Miniseries, or Pilot Made for Television

John Conroy, ISC for The Terror: Infamy (“A Sparrow in a Swallow’s Nest”) – WINNER
P.J. Dillon, ISC for The Rook (“Chapter 1”)
Chris Manley, ASC for Doom Patrol (“Pilot”)
Martin Ruhe, ASC for Catch-22 (“Episode 5”)
Craig Wrobleski, CSC for The Twilight Zone (“Blurryman”)

Episode of a Series for Non-Commercial Television

David Luther for Das Boot (“Gegen die Zeit”)
M. David Mullen, ASC for The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (“Simone”)
Chris Seager, BSC for Carnival Row (“Grieve No More”)
Brendan Steacy, CSC for Titans (“Dick Grayson”)
Colin Watkinson, ASC, BSC for The Handmaid’s Tale (“Night”) – WINNER

Episode of a Series for Commercial Television

Dana Gonzales, ASC for Legion (“Chapter 20”)
C. Kim Miles, CSC, MySC for Project Blue Book (“The Flatwoods Monster”) – WINNER
Polly Morgan, ASC, BSC for Legion (“Chapter 23”)
Peter Robertson, ISC for Vikings (“Hell”)
David Stockton, ASC for Gotham (“Ace Chemicals”)