And they are, as follows:
- Roger Deakins, ASC, BSC for Unbroken
- Óscar Faura for The Imitation Game
- Emmanuel Lubezki ASC, AMC for Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
- Dick Pope, BSC for Mr. Turner
- Robert D. Yeoman, ASC for The Grand Budapest Hotel
I believe that with this list we have only three films that have hit all of the guilds so far: The Imitation Game, The Grand Budapest Hotel and Birdman. That does not mean instant slam dunk for Best Picture but it’s worth noting, for the record. The big surprise for me on this list is The Imitation Game, which shows how popular it is – considering the cinematography isn’t the thing that stands out about it.
This is Deakins’ 13th ASC nomination. He previously won for Skyfall (2013), The Shawshank Redemption (1995) and The Man Who Wasn’t There (2002). His other nominations include Fargo (1997), Kundun (1998), O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2001), No Country for Old Men(2008), The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2008), Revolutionary Road (2009), The Reader (2009), True Grit (2011) and Prisoners (2014). He was also the recipient of the organization’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2011.
Lubezki won the ASC Award last year for Gravity. He also took home top honors for The Tree of Life (2012) and Children of Men (2007), and was nominated in 2000 for Sleepy Hollow.
Pope previously earned a nomination for The Illusionist (2007).
These are the first ASC nominations for Faura and Yeoman.
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Krist = Kris.
No need to give Kris a Christ complex!
@ STEVE50:
Krist Tapley (Hitfix – In Contention) is the guy who does the greatest shots of the year piece annually.
ASC members need to have their cataracts, glaucomas, myopias & overgrown styes checked! Why no Hoyte?
remember, The Imitation Game won the TIFF Audience Award, which has quite (though not always) consistently and forcefully injected numerous films (American Beauty, The King’s Speech, Slumdog, 12 Years, Chariots of Fire, among many others) into the awards mix. I don’t think it will take the top prize, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it received a surprising number of nods
The Imitation Game. I mean plz. I’d been counting like 15-odd films in for these awards, and then it shot up on the inside and stole the nomination of fuck knows how many other superior films.
This group gave their award to The White Ribbon five years ago. I thought they were better than this.
The Imitation Game?!
@LCBaseball22
If that does happen, it will be one of those Oscar editions that everybody looks back on and wonders “How the f**k did that happen?” You know, like the Braveheart win or the Dances With Wolves win. The Imitation Game is so “meh” that I don’t think even Harvey could push it over any frontrunner, let alone Boyhood.
No Hoytema? Are you kidding me?
it’s looking more and more like that son of a bitch Harvey is gonna do it again with Imitation Game. Recall that King’s Speech had a surprising cinematography nomination as well. If Imitation Game goes all the way to a Best PIc win though it would Harvey’s crowning acheivement by far considering that it’s not even in the Top 20 on CriticsTop10; at least The King’s Speech was #7 for its year. Have to agree now with what others have said in the past, if Tyldum make the director’s list it’s all over…
Harvey may be working it but this time he has a damn good film to work!
Birdman continues to be somewhat of a dark horse for this overall race. it seems to be ticking boxes across all the major areas of award categories; so it gives Boyhood its most potent competition. Great to see Dick Pope’s work recognised here, and Yeoman’s exquisite photography.
“How the frick does Interstellar hit with the costume design guild but not cinematography? Now I’ve seen everything…”
Because the costume guild has three different categories to fill, or fifteen slots. The cinematography guild only has one category with five slots available.
Unbroken, HAHAHA. Way to make everybody resent Roger Deakins, guild.
Can’t argue with any of those 5 they nominated. Of those, only one I haven’t seen yet is Mr. Turner.
I think the best of the year in cinematography in my opinion is:
Birdman
Gone Girl
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Interstellar
Into the Woods
Unbroken
Wild
The Imitation Game and even Unbroken could be swapped out by Gone Girl and Interstellar for cinematography. Unbroken is not Deakins’ best-shot film (In my opinion, Prisoners, True Grit, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford are all better, just to name a few). Fincher’s past three films have nabbed cinematography nods, and Interstellar is, in the eyes of many, perhaps second to Birdman in terms of best cinematography this year. (In addition, of Nolan’s past five movies, four of them have been nominated for best cinematography and his DP won for Inception.)
The production and costume designs were the real technical standouts for me when I watched “The Grand Budapest Hotel”.
But the cinematography? Nyah. Nothing special.
I was hoping Dion Beebe would have been recognized for “Into the Woods”; it contains some very creative cinematography (interesting shots with wild camera movements throughout).
Can’t remember the guy’s name, but every year he always compiled a series of the most memorable shots of the year.
Anybody remember who that was and has he done one for this year?
DANEM, while it is true that the most nominated film isn’t always the winner, I think that having the most nominations does make you a de facto contender for the win. In those years where the one with the most didn’t win, I think it’s safe to say that American Hustle & Gravity and Lincoln & Life of Pi and Hugo were the closest contenders to win had the eventual winner not won.
This year it’s looking like Boyhood will be the winner, but The Imitation Game & Birdman and now possibly The Grand Budapest Hotel could become the most-nominated films.
Let’s not forget that “most nominations” doesn’t necessarily mean a film is the favorite to win BP. Some recent history:
American Hustle, Gravity – 10 apiece
12 Years a Slave (winner) – 9
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Lincoln – 12
Life of Pi – 11
Les Mis, Silver Linings Playbook – 8
Argo (winner) – 7
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Hugo, The Artist (winner) – 11
Just in the past 3 years, the BP was either not the nominations or not the standalone nominations leader. How many of these awards do you think The Imitation Game is actually the favorite to WIN? In my mind, Score and Actor are the best things about it — and Actor is so crowded that it just isn’t gonna be Cumberbatch’s year (and he’s not overdue).
Boyhood is out of most of the techs. It hit the guild award that it needed to get today — the WGA — and it got unexpected support from the Costume Designers Guild, which shows there’s a lot of love for it.
Bradford Young and Robert Elswit were screwed, but screwing is the name of the game at this point.
Prefer Pope or Yeoman for the win, but safe money is on Deakins.
That Imitation Game made it in here, where it is really outclassed, as well as every other guild thus far, you can plan on it being the frontrunner for BP, critics be damned. Harvey’s workin’ the ropes in fine and stealthy fashion. The exception – unless Cumberbatch takes the SAG or GG, Redmayne will take BA for Theory. That’s my theory, anyway.
How the frick does Interstellar hit with the costume design guild but not cinematography? Now I’ve seen everything…
I would’ve preferred to see Robert Elswit get an ASC nomination for his dazzling work in ”Nightcrawler,” especially over ”The Imitation Game.” As for being the ”most unrecognzied cinematographer working in Hollywood at this point,” Elswit did win an Oscar (”There Will Be Blood”) on his second try. On the other hand, after 11 Academy Award nominations, Roger Deakins is still waiting to grab the golden statue.
I also want to give a shoutout to Lee Daniel and Shane F. Kelly, the cinematographers of ”Boyhood,” who deserved an ASC nod. Besides their visual storytelling and scrapbook of memorable images, they managed to keep the look of the movie consistent, even though it was shot over 12 years.
“Awww, Robert A., you’re literally referring to me :(((((((((((((”
Ha, Benutty! I do remember you were one of the Interstellar advocates because we responded back and forth in posts about it. But I’m pretty sure you weren’t the only one. I seem to remember several people on the Interstellar train at that time.
I think BUDAPEST is a real threat. It has stayed alive since its initial theatrical release early in the year. Like SILENCE OF THE LAMBS before it, it has made an impression on moviegoers who have seen it. It was well-reviewed and it was a box office success that is very well-regarded by many who have seen it. And like BOYHOOD’s Richard Linklater, it has a previously unrewarded director in Wes Anderson.
It was a pipe dream, but I admit a part of me hoped that Ida might get a nod here. To me, it was the most visually exquisite film of the year.
While Deakins is one of the all-time greats and severely overdue an Oscar, I don’t know that I think he deserves the recognition this time around. And yes–The Imitation Game was very handsome but perhaps not great. Just riding a wave…
Birdman remains the one to beat in this category at least!
Awww, Robert A., you’re literally referring to me :(((((((((((((
I’m SHOCKED by how poorly Interstellar is performing and while I admittedly was a huge advocate for the prospects of the film prior to its release (and even now that I’ve seen it) it is deeply troubling how its being shut out. The only way I can understand its lack of support is due to the very loud anti-Interstellar sentiment that spread quickly over the internet upon its release. It would seem that the extreme support for the film has been cancelled out by an equally strong extreme dissenting opinion.
Costume Design Guild nominees:
Excellence in Contemporary Film
Birdman – Albert Wolsky
Boyhood – Kari Perkins
Gone Girl – Trish Summerville
Interstellar – Mary Zophres
Wild – Melissa Bruning
Excellence in Period Film
The Grand Budapest Hotel – Milena Canonero
The Imitation Game – Sammy Sheldon Differ
Inherent Vice – Mark Bridges
Selma – Ruth E. Carter
The Theory of Everything – Steven Noble
Excellence in Fantasy Film
Guardians of the Galaxy – Alexandra Byrne
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies – Bob Buck, Lesley Burkes-Harding, Ann Maskrey
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1 – Kurt and Bart
Into the Woods – Colleen Atwood
Maleficent – Anna B. Sheppard, Jane Clive
Selma gets a guild nom, Boyhood is back, Interstellar is in contemporary rather than fantasy, and snubs include Big Eyes (Colleen Atwood’s other film) and Mr. Turner (just one guild nomination so far?).
Gregoire, I’m wondering if all this guild support means it’s going to become the most nominated film at the Oscars and compete for the win (it could beat Boyhood probably).
Theoretically, TGBH has a shot at the following TEN Oscar fields (in order of likelihood imo):
Original Screenplay
Makeup & Hairstyling
Production Design
Costume Design
Picture
Cinematography
Director
Score
Film Editing
Actor
The Imitation Game comes out on top with this list of nominations. Very few people were really expecting TIG to show up here. I’m starting to wonder if The Imitation Game is now in the runner-up position for BP after Boyhood.
And if Interstellar can’t make it here, it can’t make it anywhere (okay, except visual effects). Remember in mid-October when people were falling all over themselves in announcing Interstellar and Nolan as slam dunk winners for BP and director, before the movie was even released, based on a few fawning tweets? What a difference three months makes. I never bought into the Interstellar hype machine for a second, but even I’m a little surprised by how it’s getting ignored pretty much everywhere. I was predicting it would at least get an ASC nomination. Interstellar has gone from people trumpeting it would be a double digit Oscar nominee with a potential three nominations in acting alone, to possibly having three or less total nominations from AMPAS. Weird.
My list of unrecognized cinematographers disappeared. Help!
Given the strength of Grand Budapest Hotel in the precursors, could this mean that Ralph Fiennes is more of a lock than he seems for Best Actor? I can see him now squeezing in over Oyelowo and Carell.
Now I understand why films like 2001: A Space Odissey and Blade Runner where not nominated for Best Cinematography at the Oscars (look at the nominees and feel embarrassment). ASC is ahead of its time.
True, Corvo. And for now all three (TIG, TGBH and Birdman) all hit the Costume Design Guild as well.
Given Birdman is ineligible for WGA, the only films hitting all the guilds will be The Imitation Game and The Grand Budapest Hotel.
Looking at recent years, there is generally 4 DPs overlapping between the ASC and Oscar nominees. I’d expect that if anyone drops here it’s going to be Faura, making room for a 5th nominee that rides in on a groundswell of Academy support for that film. I’d say it’s possible that American Sniper, Nightcrawler, Interstellar, The Theory of Everything or Selma fill this spot with AMPAS. It would REALLY suck if Pope is the nominee that is left off Oscar’s list 🙁
This is the most depressing set of nominees that has come to pass. While Lubezki does cool and neat stuff in Birdman, he’s done much better work elsewhere. Deakins probably at his worst in Unbroken (if it’s even really him). I guess you could say that Yeoman’s work is fantastic, but if that’s the case then it’s always been fantastic yet somehow went unnoticed in Anderson films for the last 15+ years. While I personally think there is a lot to love about The Imitation Game, Faura’s work is the least memorable, least laudable and most generic.
Pope is deserving of the nomination and in this group of the win, too.
I suppose we can be relieved that they didn’t nominate Delhomme’s atrocious work in The Theory of Everything, but that pales in comparison to the *actually* impressive work that isn’t nominated from Ida, Inherent Vice, A Most Violent Year, Under the Skin, Selma, Nightcrawler, Interstellar, Force Majeure, and Gone Girl.
Imitation Game gonna win BP?!
Replace The Imitation Game with Selma and I think we have our Oscar nominees.
Robert Elswit (NIGHTCRAWLER, INHERENT VICE) must be the most unrecognized cinematographer working in Hollywood at this point. SELMA looks amazing, but since (supposedly) guilds didn’t get any screeners, the the highly clique-y ASC were never going to recognize a “newbie” like Young sight unseen. They need to step up their game if they want to stand a chance with the even more reclusive Cinematographers’ branch. Robert D. Yeoman has been, in my opinion, snubbed a good number of times already for his collaborations with Wes Anderson so it’s a pleasant surprised to see him up there for the first time, is it? IMITATION GAME’s lensing is highly competent and highly complimentary to the storytelling, which is as much as one can ask really, but never did I anticipated (or wished) that it would be nominated here — must be riding on the film’s overall appeal as Sasha already stated.
Am I the only one that think’s “Birdman” is a serious threat to win Best Picture? Many say it’s “Boyhood” vs. “The Imitation Game” now…
I really liked The Imitation Game. It certainly is a handsome, well-shot motion picture. But yeah, thats the surprise for me.
Thinking that Vice and Nightcrawler cancelled each other out (both by Elswit).
Ditto Selma and AMVY (both by Bradford Young).
No Theory of Everything is surprising.
And thinking more and more that Interstellar becomes a Visual Effects and/or Sound contender … And thats it.
Hard to argue much with the nominations, but, it was a shame Elswit didn’t make the cut. The work nominated was fine, but NIGHTCRAWLER was a stunning combined use of film (Day scenes, interiors) and digital (the “nightcrawler” material).
And, INHERENT VICE had a great hazy 70s film look.
It would have been a pleasant surprise, but ultimately a pipe dream, to see some love for these DPs:
Darius Khondji, THE IMMIGRANT
Robert Elswit, INHERENT VICE and NIGHTCRAWLER
Hoyte Van Hoytema, INTERSTELLAR
Jeff Cronenweth, GONE GIRL
Greig Fraser, FOXCATCHER
Bradford Young, SELMA and A MOST VIOLENT YEAR
Fredrik Wenzel, FORCE MAJEURE
Matthew Libatique, NOAH
Tom Stern, AMERICAN SNIPER
Roman Vasyanov, FURY
Natasha Braier, THE ROVER
Mihai Malaimare Jr, A WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES
Seamus McGarvey, GODZILLA
Erik Wilson, THE DOUBLE & 20,000 DAYS ON EARTH
Kirsten Johnson, Katy Scoggin, Laura Poitras & Trevor Paglen, CITIZENFOUR
^^^Ugh. Please don’t bring that up, Joseph.
Could we have a King Speech’s (imitation Game) triumphing over the critical favourite Social Network (Boyhood) again?
And the three have also just hit with the Costumes Designers
Dick Pope gets some love. Awesoooome! Real pity The Immigrant did not make it. That last shot is probably one of the best of the year!
I think The Grand Budapest has also hit all the guilds so far (Actors, Editors, Producers, Art Directors and Cinematographers)
Selma, bang on.
And nothing about this is a surprise unless Imitation Game actually won, which it absolutely fucking won’t because this has been Birdman’s award to lose since the very first time that film ever screened.
You mean how strong its campaign is.