Society of Camera Operators Awards Film & TV Nominations Revealed

Erik Pedersen

15 January 2025 at 4:34 pm·1-min read

Society of Camera Operators announced today the film and television nominees for its 2025 SOC Awards, which honor the craft of camera operation and celebrate the vital role camera operators and crews play in storytelling.

Vying for the movie prize are the camera pros behind Challengers, Civil War, A Complete Unknown, Wicked and Wolfs. Nominees on the TV side are the operators for episodes of The Bear, Fallout, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, The Penguin and Yellowstone.

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Winners will be honored during the annual SOC Lifetime Achievement Awards weekend on February 14 & 15 at Loews Hollywood.

The lensers behind Netflix’s Society of the Snow and HBO’s The Last of Us were the big winners at the 2024 SOC Awards.

Here are the 2005 SOC Awards nominees:

Camera Operator of the Year – Film

Bianca Butti, Challengers
with Terrence Hayes, “B” Camera Operator and Patrick Quinn, “C” Camera Operator

Michael Fuchs, Wolfs
with Rebecca Rajadnya, “B” Camera Operator (NY), and Keith Dunkerley, “B” Camera Operator (LA)

Karsten Bloch Jacobsen, Wicked
with Simon Finney, “B” Camera Operator

P. Scott Sakamoto, A Complete Unknown

David J. Thompson, Civil War
with Hugh Braselton, “B” Camera Operator

Camera Operator of the Year – Television

Scott Dropkin, Yellowstone S5E14 “Life is a Promise”
With Abby Linne, “B” Camera Operator, and Jed Seus, “C” Camera Operator

Sam Ellison, The Penguin S1E4 “Cent’Anni”
with Eli Aronoff, “B” Camera Operator

Michael Fuchs, Mr. & Mrs. Smith S1E1 “First Date”
with Rebecca Rajadnya, “B” Camera Operator

Chris Haarhoff, Fallout S1E1 “The End”
with Robert Campbell, “B” Camera Operator

Gary Malouf, The Bear S3E1 “Tomorrow”
with Chris Dame, “B” Camera Operator

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