Academy Award for Best Cinematography

Academy Award for Best Cinematography
Country	United States
Presented by	Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS)
First awarded	1929
Most recent winner	Erik Messerschmidt Mank (2020)
Website	oscars.org

The Academy Award for Best Cinematography is an Academy Award. It is given each year to a cinematographer for work in one particular movie.

Winners and nominees

1920s

Year	Cinematographer	Film
1927/28 (1st)
	Charles Rosher Karl Struss	Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
	George Barnes	The Devil Dancer
	George Barnes	The Magic Flame
	George Barnes	Sadie Thompson
1928/29 (2nd)
	Clyde De Vinna	White Shadows in the South Seas
	John F. Seitz	The Divine Lady
	Ernest Palmer	4 Devils
	Arthur Edeson	In Old Arizona
	George Barnes	Our Dancing Daughters
	Ernest Palmer	Street Angel

1930s

Year	Cinematographer	Film
1929/30 (3rd)
	Joseph T. Rucker Willard Van der Veer	With Byrd at the South Pole
	Arthur Edeson	All Quiet on the Western Front
	William H. Daniels	Anna Christie
	Tony Gaudio Harry Perry	Hell's Angels
	Victor Milner	The Love Parade
1930/31 (4th)
	Floyd Crosby	Tabu: A Story of the South Seas
	Edward Cronjager	Cimarron
	Lee Garmes	Morocco
	Charles Lang	The Right to Love
	Barney McGill	Svengali
1931/32 (5th)
	Lee Garmes	Shanghai Express
	Ray June	Arrowsmith
	Karl Struss	Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
1932/33 (6th)
	Charles Lang	A Farewell to Arms
	George J. Folsey	Reunion in Vienna
	Karl Struss	The Sign of the Cross
1934 (7th)
	Victor Milner	Cleopatra
	Charles Rosher	The Affairs of Cellini
	George J. Folsey	Operator 13
1935 (8th)
	Hal Mohr (write-in)	A Midsummer Night's Dream
	Ray June	Barbary Coast
	Victor Milner	The Crusades
	Gregg Toland	Les Misérables
1936 (9th)
	Black-and-white
	Tony Gaudio	Anthony Adverse
	Victor Milner	The General Died at Dawn
	George J. Folsey	The Gorgeous Hussy
	Color (Special Achievement)
	W. Howard Greene Harold Rosson	The Garden of Allah
1937 (10th)
	Black-and-white
	Karl Freund	The Good Earth
	Gregg Toland	Dead End
	Joseph A. Valentine	Wings Over Honolulu
	Color (Special Achievement)
	W. Howard Greene	A Star is Born
1938 (11th)
	Black-and-white
	Joseph Ruttenberg	The Great Waltz
	James Wong Howe	Algiers
	Ernest Miller Harry J. Wild	Army Girl
	Victor Milner	The Buccaneer
	Ernest Haller	Jezebel
	Joseph A. Valentine	Mad About Music
	Norbert Brodine	Merrily We Live
	J. Peverell Marley	Suez
	Robert De Grasse	Vivacious Lady
	Joseph Walker	You Can't Take It With You
	Leon Shamroy	The Young in Heart
	Color (Special Achievement)
	Oliver Marsh Allen Davey	Sweethearts
1939 (12th)
	Black-and-white
	Gregg Toland	Wuthering Heights
	Joseph A. Valentine	First Love
	Victor Milner	The Great Victor Herbert
	Joseph H. August	Gunga Din
	Gregg Toland	Intermezzo: A Love Story
	Tony Gaudio	Juarez
	Norbert Brodine	Lady of the Tropics
	Joseph Walker	Only Angels Have Wings
	Bert Glennon	Stagecoach
	Arthur C. Miller	The Rains Came
	Color
	Ernest Haller Ray Rennahan	Gone with the Wind
	Ray Rennahan Bert Glennon	Drums Along the Mohawk
	Georges Périnal Osmond Borradaile	The Four Feathers
	William V. Skall	The Mikado
	Sol Polito W. Howard Greene	The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
	Harold Rosson	The Wizard of Oz

1940s

Year	Cinematographer	Film
1940 (13th)
	Black-and-white
	George Barnes	Rebecca
	James Wong Howe	Abe Lincoln in Illinois
	Ernest Haller	All This, and Heaven Too
	Charles Lang	Arise, My Love
	Harold Rosson	Boom Town
	Rudolph Maté	Foreign Correspondent
	Tony Gaudio	The Letter
	Gregg Toland	The Long Voyage Home
	Joseph A. Valentine	Spring Parade
	Tony Gaudio	Waterloo Bridge
	Color
	Georges Périnal	The Thief of Bagdad
	Oliver T. Marsh Allen M. Davey	Bitter Sweet
	Arthur C. Miller Ray Rennahan	The Blue Bird
	Leon Shamroy Ray Rennahan	Down Argentine Way
	Victor Milner W. Howard Greene	North West Mounted Police
	Sidney Wagner William V. Skall	Northwest Passage
1941 (14th)
	Black-and-white
	Arthur C. Miller	How Green Was My Valley
	Karl Freund	The Chocolate Soldier
	Gregg Toland	Citizen Kane
	Joseph Ruttenberg	Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
	Joseph Walker	Here Comes Mr. Jordan
	Leo Tover	Hold Back the Dawn
	Sol Polito	Sergeant York
	Edward Cronjager	Sun Valley Serenade
	Charles Lang	Sundown
	Rudolph Maté	That Hamilton Woman
	Color
	Ernest Palmer Ray Rennahan	Blood and Sand
	Wilfred M. Cline Karl Struss William E. Snyder	Aloma of the South Seas
	William V. Skall Leonard Smith	Billy the Kid
	Karl Freund W. Howard Greene	Blossoms in the Dust
	Bert Glennon	Dive Bomber
	Harry Hallenberger Ray Rennahan	Louisiana Purchase
1942 (15th)
	Black-and-white
	Joseph Ruttenberg	Mrs. Miniver
	James Wong Howe	Kings Row
	Stanley Cortez	The Magnificent Ambersons
	Charles G. Clarke	Moontide
	Edward Cronjager	The Pied Piper
	Rudolph Maté	The Pride of the Yankees
	John J. Mescall	Take a Letter, Darling
	Ted Tetzlaff	The Talk of the Town
	Leon Shamroy	Ten Gentlemen from West Point
	Arthur C. Miller	This Above All
	Color
	Leon Shamroy	The Black Swan
	Milton R. Krasner William V. Skall W. Howard Greene	Arabian Nights
	Sol Polito	Captains of the Clouds
	W. Howard Greene	Jungle Book
	Victor Milner William V. Skall	Reap the Wild Wind
	Edward Cronjager William V. Skall	To the Shores of Tripoli
1943 (16th)
	Black-and-white
	Arthur C. Miller	The Song of Bernadette
	James Wong Howe Elmer Dyer Charles A. Marshall	Air Force
	Arthur Edeson	Casablanca
	Tony Gaudio	Corvette K-225
	John F. Seitz	Five Graves to Cairo
	Harry Stradling	The Human Comedy
	Joseph Ruttenberg	Madame Curie
	James Wong Howe	The North Star
	Rudolph Maté	Sahara
	Charles Lang	So Proudly We Hail!
	Color
	Hal Mohr W. Howard Greene	Phantom of the Opera
	Ray Rennahan	For Whom the Bell Tolls
	Edward Cronjager	Heaven Can Wait
	Charles G. Clarke Allen M. Davey	Hello, Frisco, Hello
	Leonard Smith	Lassie Come Home
	George J. Folsey	Thousands Cheer
1944 (17th)
	Black-and-white
	Joseph LaShelle	Laura
	John F. Seitz	Double Indemnity
	Sidney Wagner	Dragon Seed
	Joseph Ruttenberg	Gaslight
	Lionel Lindon	Going My Way
	Glen MacWilliams	Lifeboat
	Stanley Cortez Lee Garmes	Since You Went Away
	Robert Surtees Harold Rosson	Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
	Charles Lang	The Uninvited
	George J. Folsey	The White Cliffs of Dover
	Color
	Leon Shamroy	Wilson
	Rudolph Maté Allen M. Davey	Cover Girl
	Edward Cronjager	Home in Indiana
	Charles Rosher	Kismet
	Ray Rennahan	Lady in the Dark
	George J. Folsey	Meet Me in St. Louis
1945 (18th)
	Black-and-white
	Harry Stradling	The Picture of Dorian Gray
	Arthur C. Miller	The Keys of the Kingdom
	John F. Seitz	The Lost Weekend
	Ernest Haller	Mildred Pierce
	George Barnes	Spellbound
	Color
	Leon Shamroy	Leave Her to Heaven
	Robert H. Planck Charles P. Boyle	Anchors Aweigh
	Leonard Smith	National Velvet
	Tony Gaudio Allen M. Davey	Kismet
	George Barnes	The Spanish Main
1946 (19th)
	Black-and-white
	Arthur C. Miller	Anna and the King of Siam
	George J. Folsey	The Green Years
	Color
	Charles Rosher Leonard Smith Arthur E. Arling	The Yearling
	Joseph Walker	The Jolson Story
1947 (20th)
	Black-and-white
	Guy Green	Great Expectations
	George J. Folsey	Green Dolphin Street
	Charles Lang	The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
	Color
	Jack Cardiff	Black Narcissus
	J. Peverell Marley William V. Skall	Life with Father
	Harry Jackson	Mother Wore Tights
1948 (21st)
	Black-and-white
	William H. Daniels	The Naked City
	Charles Lang	A Foreign Affair
	Nicholas Musuraca	I Remember Mama
	Ted D. McCord	Johnny Belinda
	Joseph H. August (posthumous nomination)	Portrait of Jennie
	Color
	Joseph A. Valentine William V. Skall Winton Hoch	Joan of Arc
	Charles G. Clarke	Green Grass of Wyoming
	William E. Snyder	The Loves of Carmen
	Robert H. Planck	The Three Musketeers
1949 (22nd)
	Black-and-white
	Paul C. Vogel	Battleground
	Franz Planer	Champion
	Joseph LaShelle	Come to the Stable
	Leo Tover	The Heiress
	Leon Shamroy	Prince of Foxes
	Color
	Winton Hoch	She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
	Harry Stradling	The Barkleys of Broadway
	William E. Snyder	Jolson Sings Again
	Robert H. Planck Charles Schoenbaum	Little Women
	Charles G. Clarke	Sand

1950s

Year	Cinematographer	Film
1950 (23rd)
	Black-and-white
	Robert Krasker	The Third Man
	Milton R. Krasner	All About Eve
	Harold Rosson	The Asphalt Jungle
	Victor Milner	The Furies
	John F. Seitz	Sunset Boulevard
	Color
	Robert Surtees	King Solomon's Mines
	Charles Rosher	Annie Get Your Gun
	Ernest Palmer	Broken Arrow
	Ernest Haller	The Flame and the Arrow
	George Barnes	Samson and Delilah
1951 (24th)
	Black-and-white
	William C. Mellor	A Place in the Sun
	Franz Planer	Death of a Salesman
	Norbert Brodine	The Frogmen
	Robert Burks	Strangers on a Train
	Harry Stradling	A Streetcar Named Desire
	Color
	Alfred Gilks John Alton	An American in Paris
	Leon Shamroy	David and Bathsheba
	Robert Surtees William V. Skall	Quo Vadis
	Charles Rosher	Show Boat
	John F. Seitz W. Howard Greene	When Worlds Collide
1952 (25th)
	Black-and-white
	Robert Surtees	The Bad and the Beautiful
	Russell Harlan	The Big Sky
	Joseph LaShelle	My Cousin Rachel
	Virgil Miller	Navajo
	Charles Lang	Sudden Fear
	Color
	Winton Hoch Archie Stout	The Quiet Man
	Harry Stradling	Hans Christian Andersen
	Freddie Young	Ivanhoe
	George J. Folsey	Million Dollar Mermaid
	Leon Shamroy	The Snows of Kilimanjaro
1953 (26th)
	Black-and-white
	Burnett Guffey	From Here to Eternity
	Hal Mohr	The Four Poster
	Joseph Ruttenberg	Julius Caesar
	Joseph C. Brun	Martin Luther
	Franz Planer Henri Alekan	Roman Holiday
	Color
	Loyal Griggs	Shane
	George J. Folsey	All the Brothers Were Valiant
	Edward Cronjager	Beneath the 12-Mile Reef
	Robert H. Planck	Lili
	Leon Shamroy	The Robe
1954 (27th)
	Black-and-white
	Boris Kaufman	On the Waterfront
	John F. Warren	The Country Girl
	George J. Folsey	Executive Suite
	John F. Seitz	Rogue Cop
	Charles Lang	Sabrina
	Color
	Milton R. Krasner	Three Coins in the Fountain
	Leon Shamroy	The Egyptian
	Robert Burks	Rear Window
	George J. Folsey	Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
	William V. Skall	The Silver Chalice
1955 (28th)
	Black-and-white
	James Wong Howe	The Rose Tattoo
	Russell Harlan	Blackboard Jungle
	Arthur E. Arling	I'll Cry Tomorrow
	Joseph LaShelle	Marty
	Charles Lang	Queen Bee
	Color
	Robert Burks	To Catch a Thief
	Harry Stradling	Guys and Dolls
	Leon Shamroy	Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
	Harold Lipstein	A Man Called Peter
	Robert Surtees	Oklahoma!
1956 (29th)
	Black-and-white
	Joseph Ruttenberg	Somebody Up There Likes Me
	Boris Kaufman	Baby Doll
	Harold Rosson	The Bad Seed
	Burnett Guffey	The Harder They Fall
	Walter Strenge	Stagecoach to Fury
	Color
	Lionel Lindon	Around the World in 80 Days
	Harry Stradling	The Eddy Duchin Story
	Leon Shamroy	The King and I
	Loyal Griggs	The Ten Commandments
	Jack Cardiff	War and Peace
1957 (30th)
	Jack Hildyard	The Bridge on the River Kwai
	Milton R. Krasner	An Affair to Remember
	Ray June	Funny Face
	William C. Mellor	Peyton Place
	Ellsworth Fredericks	Sayonara
1958 (31st)
	Black-and-white
	Sam Leavitt	The Defiant Ones
	Daniel L. Fapp	Desire Under the Elms
	Lionel Lindon	I Want to Live!
	Charles Lang	Separate Tables
	Joseph MacDonald	The Young Lions
	Color
	Joseph Ruttenberg	Gigi
	Harry Stradling	Auntie Mame
	William H. Daniels	Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
	James Wong Howe	The Old Man and the Sea
	Leon Shamroy	South Pacific
1959 (32nd)
	Black-and-white
	William C. Mellor	The Diary of Anne Frank
	Sam Leavitt	Anatomy of a Murder
	Joseph LaShelle	Career
	Charles Lang	Some Like It Hot
	Harry Stradling	The Young Philadelphians
	Color
	Robert Surtees	Ben-Hur
	Lee Garmes	The Big Fisherman
	Daniel L. Fapp	The Five Pennies
	Franz Planer	The Nun's Story
	Leon Shamroy	Porgy and Bess

1960s

Year	Cinematographer	Film
1960 (33rd)
	Black-and-white
	Freddie Francis	Sons and Lovers
	Joseph LaShelle	The Apartment
	Charles Lang	The Facts of Life
	Ernest Laszlo	Inherit the Wind
	John L. Russell	Psycho
	Color
	Russell Metty	Spartacus
	William H. Clothier	The Alamo
	Joseph Ruttenberg Charles Harten	BUtterfield 8
	Sam Leavitt	Exodus
	Joseph MacDonald	Pepe
1961 (34th)
	Black-and-white
	Eugen Schüfftan	The Hustler
	Edward Colman	The Absent-Minded Professor
	Franz Planer	The Children's Hour
	Ernest Laszlo	Judgment at Nuremberg
	Daniel L. Fapp	One, Two, Three
	Color
	Daniel L. Fapp	West Side Story
	Jack Cardiff	Fanny
	Russell Metty	Flower Drum Song
	Harry Stradling	A Majority of One
	Charles Lang	One-Eyed Jacks
1962 (35th)
	Black-and-white
	Jean Bourgoin Walter Wottitz	The Longest Day
	Burnett Guffey	Birdman of Alcatraz
	Russell Harlan	To Kill a Mockingbird
	Ted D. McCord	Two for the Seesaw
	Ernest Haller	What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
	Color
	Freddie Young	Lawrence of Arabia
	Harry Stradling	Gypsy
	Russell Harlan	Hatari!
	Robert Surtees	Mutiny on the Bounty
	Paul Vogel	The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
1963 (36th)
	Black-and-white
	James Wong Howe	Hud
	George J. Folsey	The Balcony
	Lucien Ballard	The Caretakers
	Ernest Haller	Lilies of the Field
	Milton R. Krasner	Love with the Proper Stranger
	Color
	Leon Shamroy	Cleopatra
	Leon Shamroy	The Cardinal
	William H. Daniels Milton R. Krasner Charles Lang Joseph LaShelle	How the West Was Won
	Joseph LaShelle	Irma la Douce
	Ernest Laszlo	It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
1964 (37th)
	Black-and-white
	Walter Lassally	Zorba the Greek
	Philip H. Lathrop	The Americanization of Emily
	Milton R. Krasner	Fate Is the Hunter
	Joseph F. Biroc	Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte
	Gabriel Figueroa	The Night of the Iguana
	Color
	Harry Stradling	My Fair Lady
	Geoffrey Unsworth	Becket
	William H. Clothier	Cheyenne Autumn
	Edward Colman	Mary Poppins
	Daniel L. Fapp	The Unsinkable Molly Brown
1965 (38th)
	Black-and-white
	Ernest Laszlo	Ship of Fools
	Loyal Griggs	In Harm's Way
	Burnett Guffey	King Rat
	Conrad Hall	Morituri
	Robert Burks	A Patch of Blue
	Color
	Freddie Young	Doctor Zhivago
	Leon Shamroy	The Agony and the Ecstasy
	Russell Harlan	The Great Race
	William C. Mellor Loyal Griggs	The Greatest Story Ever Told
	Ted D. McCord	The Sound of Music
1966 (39th)
	Black-and-white
	Haskell Wexler	Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
	Joseph LaShelle	The Fortune Cookie
	Kenneth Higgins	Georgy Girl
	Marcel Grignon	Is Paris Burning?
	James Wong Howe	Seconds
	Color
	Ted Moore	A Man for All Seasons
	Ernest Laszlo	Fantastic Voyage
	Russell Harlan	Hawaii
	Conrad Hall	The Professionals
	Joseph MacDonald	The Sand Pebbles
1967 (40th)
	Burnett Guffey	Bonnie and Clyde
	Richard H. Kline	Camelot
	Robert Surtees	Doctor Dolittle
	Robert Surtees	The Graduate
	Conrad Hall	In Cold Blood
1968 (41st)
	Pasqualino De Santis	Romeo and Juliet
	Harry Stradling	Funny Girl
	Daniel L. Fapp	Ice Station Zebra
	Oswald Morris	Oliver!
	Ernest Laszlo	Star!
1969 (42nd)
	Conrad Hall	Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
	Arthur Ibbetson	Anne of the Thousand Days
	Charles Lang	Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
	Harry Stradling (posthumous nomination)	Hello, Dolly!
	Daniel L. Fapp	Marooned

1970s

Year	Cinematographer	Film
1970 (43rd)
	Freddie Young	Ryan's Daughter
	Fred J. Koenekamp	Patton
	Ernest Laszlo	Airport
	Osami Furuya Sinsaku Himeda Masamichi Satoh Charles F. Wheeler	Tora! Tora! Tora!
	Billy Williams	Women in Love
1971 (44th)
	Oswald Morris	Fiddler on the Roof
	Owen Roizman	The French Connection
	Robert Surtees	The Last Picture Show
	Freddie Young	Nicholas and Alexandra
	Robert Surtees	Summer of '42
1972 (45th)
	Geoffrey Unsworth	Cabaret
	Harry Stradling, Jr.	1776
	Charles Lang	Butterflies Are Free
	Harold E. Stine	The Poseidon Adventure
	Douglas Slocombe	Travels with My Aunt
1973 (46th)
	Sven Nykvist	Cries and Whispers
	Owen Roizman	The Exorcist
	Jack Couffer	Jonathan Livingston Seagull
	Robert Surtees	The Sting
	Harry Stradling, Jr.	The Way We Were
1974 (47th)
	Fred J. Koenekamp Joseph F. Biroc	The Towering Inferno
	John A. Alonzo	Chinatown
	Philip H. Lathrop	Earthquake
	Bruce Surtees	Lenny
	Geoffrey Unsworth	Murder on the Orient Express
1975 (48th)
	John Alcott	Barry Lyndon
	Conrad Hall	The Day of the Locust
	James Wong Howe	Funny Lady
	Robert Surtees	The Hindenburg
	Haskell Wexler Bill Butler	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
1976 (49th)
	Haskell Wexler	Bound for Glory
	Richard H. Kline	King Kong
	Ernest Laszlo	Logan's Run
	Owen Roizman	Network
	Robert Surtees	A Star Is Born
1977 (50th)
	Vilmos Zsigmond	Close Encounters of the Third Kind
	Fred J. Koenekamp	Islands in the Stream
	Douglas Slocombe	Julia
	William A. Fraker	Looking for Mr. Goodbar
	Robert Surtees	The Turning Point
1978 (51st)
	Néstor Almendros	Days of Heaven
	Vilmos Zsigmond	The Deer Hunter
	William A. Fraker	Heaven Can Wait
	Robert Surtees	Same Time, Next Year
	Oswald Morris	The Wiz
1979 (52nd)
	Vittorio Storaro	Apocalypse Now
	William A. Fraker	1941
	Giuseppe Rotunno	All That Jazz
	Frank Phillips	The Black Hole
	Néstor Almendros	Kramer vs. Kramer

1980s

Year	Cinematographer	Film
1980 (53rd)
	Geoffrey Unsworth (posthumous award) Ghislain Cloquet	Tess
	Néstor Almendros	The Blue Lagoon
	Ralf D. Bode	Coal Miner's Daughter
	James Crabe	The Formula
	Michael Chapman	Raging Bull
1981 (54th)
	Vittorio Storaro	Reds
	Alex Thomsons	Excalibur
	Billy Williams	On Golden Pond
	Miroslav Ondříček	Ragtime
	Douglas Slocombe	Raiders of the Lost Ark
1982 (55th)
	Billy Williams Ronnie Taylor	Gandhi
	Jost Vacano	Das Boot
	Allen Daviau	E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
	Néstor Almendros	Sophie's Choice
	Owen Roizman	Tootsie
1983 (56th)
	Sven Nykvist	Fanny and Alexander
	Don Peterman	Flashdance
	Caleb Deschanel	The Right Stuff
	William A. Fraker	WarGames
	Gordon Willis	Zelig
1984 (57th)
	Chris Menges	The Killing Fields
	Miroslav Ondříček	Amadeus
	Caleb Deschanel	The Natural
	Ernest Day	A Passage to India
	Vilmos Zsigmond	The River
1985 (58th)
	David Watkin	Out of Africa
	Allen Daviau	The Color Purple
	William A. Fraker	Murphy's Romance
	Takao Saito Masaharu Ueda Asakazu Nakai	Ran
	John Seale	Witness
1986 (59th)
	Chris Menges	The Mission
	Jordan Cronenweth	Peggy Sue Got Married
	Robert Richardson	Platoon
	Tony Pierce-Roberts	A Room with a View
	Don Peterman	Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
1987 (60th)
	Vittorio Storaro	The Last Emperor
	Michael Ballhaus	Broadcast News
	Allen Daviau	Empire of the Sun
	Philippe Rousselot	Hope and Glory
	Haskell Wexler	Matewan
1988 (61st)
	Peter Biziou	Mississippi Burning
	John Seale	Rain Man
	Conrad Hall	Tequila Sunrise
	Sven Nykvist	The Unbearable Lightness of Being
	Dean Cundey	Who Framed Roger Rabbit
1989 (62nd)
	Freddie Francis	Glory
	Mikael Salomon	The Abyss
	Haskell Wexler	Blaze
	Robert Richardson	Born on the Fourth of July
	Michael Ballhaus	The Fabulous Baker Boys

1990s

Year	Cinematographer	Film
1990 (63rd)
	Dean Semler	Dances with Wolves
	Allen Daviau	Avalon
	Vittorio Storaro	Dick Tracy
	Gordon Willis	The Godfather Part III
	Philippe Rousselot	Henry & June
1991 (64th)
	Robert Richardson	JFK
	Allen Daviau	Bugsy
	Stephen Goldblatt	The Prince of Tides
	Adam Greenberg	Terminator 2: Judgment Day
	Adrian Biddle	Thelma & Louise
1992 (65th)
	Philippe Rousselot	A River Runs Through It
	Stephen H. Burum	Hoffa
	Tony Pierce-Roberts	Howards End
	Robert Fraisse	The Lover
	Jack N. Green	Unforgiven
1993 (66th)
	Janusz Kamiński	Schindler's List
	Gu Changwei	Farewell My Concubine
	Michael Chapman	The Fugitive
	Stuart Dryburgh	The Piano
	Conrad Hall	Searching for Bobby Fischer
1994 (67th)
	John Toll	Legends of the Fall
	Don Burgess	Forrest Gump
	Roger Deakins	The Shawshank Redemption
	Piotr Sobociński	Three Colors: Red
	Owen Roizman	Wyatt Earp
1995 (68th)
	John Toll	Braveheart
	Stephen Goldblatt	Batman Forever
	Emmanuel Lubezki	A Little Princess
	Michael Coulter	Sense and Sensibility
	Lü Yue	Shanghai Triad
1996 (69th)
	John Seale	The English Patient
	Darius Khondji	Evita
	Roger Deakins	Fargo
	Caleb Deschanel	Fly Away Home
	Chris Menges	Michael Collins
1997 (70th)
	Russell Carpenter	Titanic
	Janusz Kamiński	Amistad
	Roger Deakins	Kundun
	Dante Spinotti	L.A. Confidential
	Eduardo Serra	The Wings of the Dove
1998 (71st)
	Janusz Kamiński	Saving Private Ryan
	Conrad Hall	A Civil Action
	Remi Adefarasin	Elizabeth
	Richard Greatrex	Shakespeare in Love
	John Toll	The Thin Red Line
1999 (72nd)
	Conrad Hall	American Beauty
	Roger Pratt	The End of the Affair
	Dante Spinotti	The Insider
	Emmanuel Lubezki	Sleepy Hollow
	Robert Richardson	Snow Falling on Cedars

2000s

Year	Cinematographer	Film
2000 (73rd)
	Peter Pau	Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
	John Mathieson	Gladiator
	Lajos Koltai	Malèna
	Roger Deakins	O Brother, Where Art Thou?
	Caleb Deschanel	The Patriot
2001 (74th)
	Andrew Lesnie	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
	Bruno Delbonnel	Amélie
	Sławomir Idziak	Black Hawk Down
	Roger Deakins	The Man Who Wasn't There
	Donald McAlpine	Moulin Rouge!
2002 (75th)
	Conrad Hall (posthumous award)	Road to Perdition
	Dion Beebe	Chicago
	Edward Lachman	Far from Heaven
	Michael Ballhaus	Gangs of New York
	Paweł Edelman	The Pianist
2003 (76th)
	Russell Boyd	Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
	César Charlone	City of God
	John Seale	Cold Mountain
	Eduardo Serra	Girl with a Pearl Earring
	John Schwartzman	Seabiscuit
2004 (77th)
	Robert Richardson	The Aviator
	Zhao Xiaoding	House of Flying Daggers
	Caleb Deschanel	The Passion of the Christ
	John Mathieson	The Phantom of the Opera
	Bruno Delbonnel	A Very Long Engagement
2005 (78th)
	Dion Beebe	Memoirs of a Geisha
	Wally Pfister	Batman Begins
	Rodrigo Prieto	Brokeback Mountain
	Robert Elswit	Good Night, and Good Luck
	Emmanuel Lubezki	The New World
2006 (79th)
	Guillermo Navarro	Pan's Labyrinth
	Vilmos Zsigmond	The Black Dahlia
	Emmanuel Lubezki	Children of Men
	Dick Pope	The Illusionist
	Wally Pfister	The Prestige
2007 (80th)
	Robert Elswit	There Will Be Blood
	Roger Deakins	The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
	Seamus McGarvey	Atonement
	Janusz Kamiński	The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
	Roger Deakins	No Country for Old Men
2008 (81st)
	Anthony Dod Mantle	Slumdog Millionaire
	Tom Stern	Changeling
	Claudio Miranda	The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
	Wally Pfister	The Dark Knight
	Roger Deakins Chris Menges	The Reader
2009 (82nd)
	Mauro Fiore	Avatar
	Bruno Delbonnel	Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
	Barry Ackroyd	The Hurt Locker
	Robert Richardson	Inglourious Basterds
	Christian Berger	The White Ribbon

2010s

Year	Cinematographer	Film
2010 (83rd)
	Wally Pfister	Inception
	Matthew Libatique	Black Swan
	Danny Cohen	The King's Speech
	Jeff Cronenweth	The Social Network
	Roger Deakins	True Grit
2011 (84th)
	Robert Richardson	Hugo
	Guillaume Schiffman	The Artist
	Jeff Cronenweth	The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
	Emmanuel Lubezki	The Tree of Life
	Janusz Kaminski	War Horse

Related pages

• BAFTA Award for Best Cinematography

Other websites

• Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences official site