Michael Bauman wins ASC Award for One Battle After Another

The 40^th ASC Outstanding Achievement Awards, held at the Beverly Hilton, also recognised Mátyás Erdély, ASC, HSC, for Orphan in the Spotlight Award category, and Mstyslav Chernov and Alex Babenko for the Ukraine war documentary 2000 Meters from Andriivka.

Winners in the television categories included: Adam Newport-Berra for The Studio; Pete Konczal, ASC, for Black Rabbit; Alex Disenhof, ASC, for Task; and Christophe Nuyens, SBC, for Andor. In the music video category, Rodrigo Prieto, ASC, AMC, won for Taylor Swift’s The Fate of Ophelia.

This is Bauman’s first ASC Award and nomination for a Theatrical Feature Film. He was also nominated this year for Monster: The Ed Gein Story in the Limited/ Anthology Series/ Motion Picture Made for TV category.

The ceremony, hosted by Kerri Kenney-Silver, also honoured Guillermo del Toro with the ASC Board of Governors Award; Robert Yeoman, ASC, with the Lifetime Achievement Award; M. David Mullen, ASC, with the Career Achievement in Television Award; Cynthia Pusheck, ASC, with the Presidents Award; Stephen Pizzello, Editor-In-Chief of American Cinematographer, with the ASC Award of Distinction; and Tom Fletcher with the Bud Stone Award.

ASC 2026 winners (starred) and nominees

Theatrical Feature Film

Autumn Durald Arkapaw, ASC for Sinners

*Michael Bauman for One Battle After Another

Darius Khondji, ASC, AFC, for Marty Supreme

Dan Laustsen, ASC, DFF, for Frankenstein

Adolpho Veloso, ABC, AIP, for Train Dreams

Spotlight Award

Steven Breckon for The Plague

*Mátyás Erdély, ASC, HSC, for Orphan

Karl Walter Lindenlaub, ASC, BVK, for Amrum

Documentary Award

*Mstyslav Chernov and Alex Babenko for 2000 Meters from Andriivka

Brandon Somerhalder for Come See Me in the Good Light

Lars Erlend Tubaas Øymo and Tor Edvin Eliassen for Folktales

Episode of a Half-Hour Series

Adam Bricker, ASC, for Hacks (“I Love LA”)

Fraser Brown, CSC, for Twisted Metal (“NUY3ARZ”)

Paul Daley for The Righteous Gemstones (“Prelude”)

Daniel Grant for Murderbot (“Escape Velocity Protocol”)

Matthew J. Lloyd, ASC, for Government Cheese (“Trial and Error”)

*Adam Newport-Berra for The Studio (“The Oner”)

Limited/ Anthology Series/ Motion Picture Made for TV

Michael Bauman for Monster: The Ed Gein Story (“Buxum Bird”)

Sam Chiplin for The Narrow Road to the Deep North (“Episode One”)

*Pete Konczal, ASC, for Black Rabbit (“Isle of Joy”)

Matthew Lewis for Adolescence (“Episode Two”)

Igor Martinović for Black Rabbit (“Attaf**kinboy”)

Episode of a One-Hour Regular Series

*Alex Disenhof, ASC, for Task (“Crossings”)

Jessica Lee Gagne for Severance (“Hello, Ms. Cobel”)

Dana Gonzales, ASC, for Alien: Earth (“Neverland”)

Ben Kutchins, ASC for The White Lotus (“Killer Instincts”)

*Christophe Nuyens, SBC, for Andor (“I Have Friends Everywhere”)

(TIE)

ASC Music Video Award

Jeff Cronenweth, ASC, for “Supernatural” (Performed by Ariana Grande)

Jon Joffin, ASC, and Mitchell Baxter for “False Prophet” (Performed by Pillars of a Twisted City)

Jon Joffin, ASC for “Visiting Hours” (Performed by Jon Bryant)

Juliette Lossky for “Altamaha-ha” (Performed by Stacy Subero)

*Rodrigo Prieto, ASC, AMC for “The Fate of Ophelia” (Performed by Taylor Swift)

One Battle After Another was also the biggest winner at the 2026 Bafta Film Awards, picking up six prizes, including best film, best director, and best adapted screenplay for Anderson. Discover more here.