The 24th American Society of Cinematographers Awards were held on February 27, 2010, honoring the best

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s of

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and

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in 2009.

Winners and nominees

Film

Christian Berger Christian Berger (born 13 January 1945) is an Austrian cinematographer. His 1985 film '' Raffl'' was entered into the 14th Moscow International Film Festival. He is mostly known for his work with Michael Haneke. In February 2010, Berger was nomi ...

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The White Ribbon ''The White Ribbon'' (german: Das weiße Band) is a 2009 German-language drama film, written and directed by Michael Haneke. Released in black-and-white, the film offers a dark depiction of society and family in a northern German village just be ...

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Barry Ackroyd Barry Ackroyd, BSC (born 12 May 1954) is an English cinematographer and director. Ackroyd has frequently worked with directors Ken Loach and Paul Greengrass. He worked on Kathryn Bigelow's 2008 war film ''The Hurt Locker'' as well as the critic ...

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The Hurt Locker ''The Hurt Locker'' is a 2008 American war thriller film directed by Kathryn Bigelow and written by Mark Boal. It stars Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Brian Geraghty, Christian Camargo, Ralph Fiennes, David Morse, and Guy Pearce. The film follo ...

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Dion Beebe Dion Beebe A.C.S. A.S.C. ( ; born 18 May 1968) is an Australian-South African cinematographer. Originally from Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, his family moved to Cape Town, South Africa in 1972. Dion studied cinematography at the Australian ...

– '' Nine'' ** Mauro Fiore – ''

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'' ** Robert Richardson – '' Inglourious Basterds''

Television

Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography in Regular Series or Pilot

Eagle Egilsson Egill Örn Egilsson ASC (born 31 August 1966), known as Eagle Egilsson ( ), is an Icelandic television director and cinematographer. Life and career Egill was born in Reykjavík, Iceland, and studied filmmaking at Columbia College Hollywood, ...

– '' Dark Blue'' (Episode: "Venice Kings") ** Jeffrey Jur, ASC – ''

FlashForward A flashforward (also spelled flash-forward, and more formally known as prolepsis) is a scene that temporarily takes the narrative forward in time from the current point of the story in literature, film, television and other media. Flashforwards a ...

'' (Episode: "The Gift") ** Michael Price – ''

Ugly Betty ''Ugly Betty'' is an American comedy-drama television series developed by Silvio Horta, which was originally broadcast on ABC. It premiered on September 28, 2006, and ended on April 14, 2010. The series is based on Fernando Gaitán's Colombian t ...

'' (Episode: "There's No Place Like Mode") ** Christian Sebaldt, ASC – ''

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation ''CSI: Crime Scene Investigation'', also referred to as ''CSI'' and ''CSI: Las Vegas'', is an American procedural forensics crime drama television series that ran on CBS from October 6, 2000, to September 27, 2015, spanning 15 seasons. This wa ...

'' (Episode: "Family Affair") **

Glen Winter Glen Winter is a Canadian television director, cinematographer, and producer who is well known for his work on The WB/The CW's '' Smallville'' and for his significant contributions to the Arrowverse. Career Winter began his career as a filmlo ...

, CSC – ''

Smallville ''Smallville'' is an American superhero television series developed by writer-producers Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, based on the DC Comics character Superman created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. The series was produced by Millar Gough ...

'' (Episode: "Savior")

Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography in Miniseries or Television Movie

*Alar Kivilo, ASC, CSC – ''

Taking Chance ''Taking Chance'' is a 2009 American historical drama television film directed by Ross Katz, from a screenplay by Michael Strobl and Katz, based on the journal of the same name by Strobl, who also serves as military consultant. Kevin Bacon's po ...

'' ** Rene Ohashi, ASC, CSC – '' Jesse Stone: Thin Ice'' ** Jerzy Zieliński, ASC – ''

The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler ''The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler'' is a 2009 television film directed by John Kent Harrison. The teleplay by Harrison and Lawrence John Spagnola, based on the 2007 biography ''Die Mutter der Holocaust-Kinder: Irena Sendler und die geretteten ...

References

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