American Society of Cinematographers Spotlight Award

Annual award

The American Society of Cinematographers Spotlight Award is an annual award given by the American Society of Cinematographers to cinematographers working in features and documentaries that are typically screened at film festivals, in limited theatrical release, or outside the United States. It was first awarded in 2014.

Winners and nominees

2010s

Year	Film	Cinematographer(s)
2013 ^[1]^[2]^[3]
	Ida	Łukasz Żal and Ryszard Lenczewski
	Renoir	Mark Lee Ping Bin
	Winter Nomads	Camille Cottagnoud
2014 ^[1]^[4]^[5]
	Concrete Night (Betoniyö)	Peter Flinckenberg
	The Immigrant	Darius Khondji
	Under the Skin	Daniel Landin
2015 ^[1]^[6]
	Macbeth	Adam Arkapaw
	Son of Saul	Mátyás Erdély
	Beasts of No Nation	Cary Joji Fukunaga
2016 ^[7]
	House of Others	Gorka Gómez Andreu
	The Childhood of a Leader	Lol Crawley
	My Angel	Juliette Van Dormael
	Tempestad	Ernesto Pardo
2017 ^[8]^[9]
	November	Mart Taniel
	Loveless	Mikhail Krichman
	On Body and Soul	Máté Herbai
2018 ^[10]^[11]
	Namme	Giorgi Shvelidze
	Girl	Frank van den Eeden
	The Rider	Joshua James Richards
2019 ^[12]^[13]
	The Lighthouse	Jarin Blaschke
	Honey	Natasha Braier
	Monos	Jasper Wolf

2020s

Year	Film	Cinematographer(s)
2020 ^[14]^[15]
	Two of Us	Aurélien Marra
	Dear Comrades!	Andrey Naydenov
	Swallow	Katelin Arizmendi
2021^[16]^[17]
	Pig	Pat Scola
	Titane	Ruben Impens
	Jockey	Adolpho Veloso
2022^[18]^[19]
	War Sailor	Sturla Brandth Grøvlen
	The Quiet Girl	Kate McCullough
	God's Country	Andrew Wheeler
2023^[20]
	The New Boy	Warwick Thornton
	Story Ave	Eric Branco
	Citizen Saint	Krum Rodriguez

References

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