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The American Society of Cinematographers is framing it 36th annual ASC Awards tonight, and Deadline is updating the winners as they’re announced. See the list below.

Naman Ramachandran Universal’s “Jurassic World: Dominion” stayed atop the U.K. and Ireland box office for the second weekend in a row with £5.7 million ($7 million) for a total of £21.7 million, according to numbers released by Comscore.In its fourth weekend, Paramount’s Tom Cruise vehicle “Top Gun: Maverick” collected a lofty £4.2 million in second place to soar to £57.3 million.Disney’s Toy Story franchise film “Lightyear” debuted in third place with £3.7 million, while Lionsgate’s critically acclaimed “Good Luck To You, Leo Grande” debuted in fourth position with £238,640.Rounding off the top five was Disney’s “Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness” in its seventh weekend for a total of £41.8 million.

Lise Pedersen “Like an Island” (“L’îlot”), a hybrid documentary fable tinged with magical realism by Swiss director Tizian Büchi, has won the Grand Jury Prize at international documentary film festival Visions du Réel in Nyon, Switzerland. The debut feature had its world premiere at the festival, bearing testimony to the event’s reputation as a launchpad for new talent and its tradition for hybrid fiction-reality films.

**WINNER.Feature FilmBruno Delbonnel, ASC, AFC for “The Tragedy of Macbeth”** WINNER Greig Fraser, ASC, ACS for “Dune”Dan Laustsen, ASC, DFF for “Nightmare Alley”Ari Wegner, ACS for “The Power of the Dog”Haris Zambarloukos, BSC, GSC for “Belfast”SpotlightRuben Impens, SBC for “Titane”** WINNER Pat Scola for “Pig”Adolpho Veloso, ABC for “Jockey”Documentary** WINNER Jessica Beshir for “Faya Dayi”Isabel Bethencourt and Parker Hill for “Cusp”Daniel Schönauer for “The Hidden Life of Trees”Motion Picture, Limited Series, or Pilot Made for TelevisionSteve Annis for “Foundation” – Pilot Episode: “The Emperor’s Peace”Tim Ives, ASC for “Halston” – Episode: “The Party’s Over”** WINNER James Laxton, ASC for “The Underground Railroad” – Episode: “Chapter 9: Indiana Winter”Christophe Nuyens, SBC for “Lupin” – Pilot Episode: “Chapter 1”Ben Richardson, ASC for “Mare of Easttown” – Episode: “Illusions”Episode of a One-Hour Television Series – Non-CommercialStuart Biddlecombe for “The Handmaid’s Tale” – Episode: “The Wilderness”David Garbett for “Sweet Tooth” – Episode: Big ManDavid Greene, ASC, CSC for “Chapelwaite” – Episode: “The Promised”** WINNER Jon Joffin, ASC for “Titans” – Episode: “Souls”Boris Mojsovski, ASC, CSC for “Titans” – Episode:“Home”Kate Reid, BSC for “The Nevers” – Episode: “Hanged”Episode of a One-Hour Television Series – CommercialThomas Burstyn, CSC, NZSC for “Snowpiercer” – Episode: “Our Answer for Everything”** WINNER Tommy Maddox-Upshaw, ASC for “Snowfall” – Episode: “Weight”Ronald Paul Richard for “Riverdale” – Episode: “Chapter Eighty-Nine: Reservoir Dogs”Brendan Steacy, CSC for “Clarice” – Episode: “Silence is Purgatory”David Stockton, ASC for “Mayans M.C.” – Episode: “The Orneriness of Kings”Gavin Struthers,

J. Kim Murphy The Oscar-nominated “Flee” took home the top prize at the 15th annual Cinema Eye Honors on Tuesday evening at the Museum of the Moving Image in New York.Going into the evening, Neon and Participant Media’s “Flee” led the field with a total of seven nominations, while “Summer of Soul (…Or When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)” followed with six.Filmmaker Cheryl Dunye also received the organization’s legacy award during the ceremony.

Film Independent has set Alex Camilleri (Luzzu), Lizzie Shapiro (Shiva Baby) and Jessica Beshir (Faya Dayi) as the winners of its Emerging Filmmaker Awards, with each now earning an unrestricted $25,000 Spirit Awards cash grant.

Selome Hailu Film Independent has named the winners of three unrestricted $25,000 Spirit Awards cash grants for emerging filmmakers: Alex Camilleri, Lizzie Shapiro and Jessica Beshir. The announcements were made by Ekwa Msangi (“Farewell Amor”), Gerry Kim (“I’m No Longer Here”) and Elegance Bratton (“Pier Kids”), who received the grants last year.Camilleri, director of “Luzzu,” received the Someone to Watch Award. The award is in its 28th year and recognizes talented filmmakers of singular vision who have not yet received appropriate recognition.

The American Society of Cinematographers on Tuesday unveiled nominations for its 36th annual ASC Awards, honoring the year’s best in feature film, documentary and television cinematography.

Addie Morfoot ContributorIn the past decade, the inclusion of streaming services in the documentary market has made it increasingly harder for smaller docus struggling with funding to break into the nonfiction feature Oscar race. But in spite of the deep pockets they are up against, a number of cash-strapped docs inevitably make it onto the shortlist every year. This year was no exception.Jessica Beshir’s “Faya Dayi” (Janus Films, pictured above), Camilla Nielsson’s “President” (Greenwich Entertainment) and Sushmit Ghosh and Rintu Thomas’ “Writing with Fire” (Music Box Films) are three films on this year’s feature doc shortlist that are up against competitors with multi-million-dollar campaign budgets being paid by media and tech conglomerates including Apple, Netflix, ViacomCBS, the Walt Disney Co.

‘Flee,’” Ridley said. “Someone pitched it to me and they said, ‘it’s — in short — it’s a film about immigration.’ But the film is about so much more than just that and there’s some things even in this conversation, I’d love to keep just a little bit arcane because I really believe people need to see this film and they need to feel it.”Rasmussen ultimately wanted to capture his friend Amin’s story, and through “Flee” show that being an immigrant is not an identity, but a circumstance.

Addie Morfoot ContributorThe 31st annual edition of the Gotham Independent Film Awards, taking place Nov.

Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Televised) is picking up steam as awards season accelerates.

swept the Critics Choice Documentary Awards, Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson’s “Summer of Soul” led all films in nominations for the International Documentary Association’s IDA Documentary Awards, which were announced on Monday.“Summer of Love” was nominated in four categories, followed by Jessica Beshir’s “Faya Dayi” and Nicholas Bruckman’s “Not Going Quietly,” with three nods each.In the Best Feature category, those three films will be going up against Arami Ullon’s “Nothing But the Sun,” Jonas Poher Rasmussen’s “Flee,” Nanfu Wang’s “In the Same Breath,” Jessica Earnshaw’s “Jacinta,” Angelo Madsen Minax’s “North by Current,” Chris McKim’s “Wojnarowicz: F**k You F*ggot F**ker” and Rintu Thomas and Sushmit Ghosh’s “Writing With Fire.”The

Jonas Poher Rasmussen’s singular animated doc Flee and Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson’s Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) will head into the 15th annual Cinema Eye Honors as the leaders in nominations, Cinema Eye announced today.

Unless you’re familiar with Ethiopian culture, you may not understand the importance of khat in that society. However, that all changes after watching the new documentary, “Faya Dayi.” READ MORE: ‘Scenes From A Marriage’ Trailer: Oscar Isaac & Jessica Chastain Face-Off In New HBO Mini-Series Debuting Sept 12 With “Faya Dayi” making its theatrical debut soon, we’re happy to give our readers an exclusive look at the new trailer for the documentary.

Unless you’re familiar with Ethiopian culture, you may not understand the importance of khat in that society. However, that all changes after watching the new documentary, “Faya Dahi.” READ MORE: ‘Scenes From A Marriage’ Trailer: Oscar Isaac & Jessica Chastain Face-Off In New HBO Mini-Series Debuting Sept 12 With “Faya Dahi” making its theatrical debut soon, we’re happy to give our readers an exclusive look at the new trailer for the documentary.

EXCLUSIVE: Arthouse streamer and theatrical distributor MUBI has acquired all rights to Sundance documentary Faya Dayi in the UK and Ireland, Latin America, Italy, France, Germany, Turkey and India.

EXCLUSIVE: Janus Films has acquired North American rights to the documentary Faya Dayi, the feature directorial debut of Jessica Beshir, a filmmaker being hailed as a “significant new talent.”

Guy Lodge Film CriticKhat is Ethiopia’s biggest cash crop, making serious business from a spiritual high: When chewed, the leaves of the flowering green plant act as a stimulant, believed in certain corners of Sufism to aid prayer and enable transcendence.