The 27th Annual American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) Awards for Outstanding Achievement has nominated the candidates in the feature film category:
- Seamus McGarvey, ASC, BSC for Anna Karenina
- Danny Cohen, BSC for Les Miserables
- Claudio Miranda, ASC for Life of Pi
- Janusz Kaminski for Lincoln
- Roger Deakins, ASC, BSC for Skyfall
Deakins has been nominated 11 times and won ASC Awards for The Shawshank Redemption (1995) and The Man Who Wasn’t There (2002). His other nominations were for 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) and True Grit (2011). He also received the organisation’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2011.
Kaminski’s prior nominations were for Schindler’s List (1994), Amistad (1998), Saving Private Ryan (1999) and The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2008).
Cohen was nominated for The King’s Speech (2011), McGarvey for Atonement (2008) and Miranda for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2009).
The winner will be announced at the ASC Awards celebration on 10 February 2013.
