Society of Camera Operators Awards Film & TV Nominations Revealed

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.

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

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