Academy Award for Best Cinematography

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The Academy Award for Best Cinematography is an Academy Award awarded each year to a cinematographer for work on one particular motion picture.

History

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Charles Rosher, the first recipient in 1928

In its first film season, 1927–28, this award (like others such as the acting awards) was not tied to a specific film; all of the work by the nominated cinematographers during the qualifying period was listed after their names. The problem with this system became obvious the first year, since Karl Struss and Charles Rosher were nominated for their work together on Sunrise. Still, three other films shot individually by either Rosher or Struss were also listed as part of the nomination. In the second year, 1929, there were no nominations at all, although the Academy has a list of unofficial titles that were under consideration by the Board of Judges. In the third year, 1930, films, not cinematographers, were nominated, and the final award did not show the cinematographer's name.

Finally, for the 1931 awards, the modern system in which individuals are nominated for a single film was adopted in all profession-related categories. From 1939 to 1966 with the exception of 1957, there were also separate awards for color and black-and-white cinematography. After Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966), the most recent black-and-white films to win since then are Schindler's List (1993), Roma (2018) and Mank (2020).

Floyd Crosby won the award for Tabu in 1931, which was the last silent film to win in this category. Hal Mohr won the only write-in Academy Award ever, in 1935 for A Midsummer Night's Dream. Mohr was also the first person to win for both black-and-white and color cinematography.

No winners are lost, although some of the earliest nominees (and of the unofficial nominees of 1928–29) are lost, including The Devil Dancer (1927), The Magic Flame (1927), and 4 Devils (1928). The Right to Love (1930) is incomplete, and Sadie Thompson (1927) is incomplete and partially reconstructed with stills.

David Lean holds the record for the director with the most films that won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography at the Oscars with five wins out of six nominations for Great Expectations, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago, and Ryan's Daughter.

The first nominees shot primarily on digital video were The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Slumdog Millionaire in 2009, with Slumdog Millionaire being the first winner.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> The following year, Avatar was the first nominee and winner to be shot entirely on digital video.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

In January 2017, Bradford Young became the first African-American cinematographer to be nominated for an Academy Award, for his work on Arrival.

In 2018, Rachel Morrison became the first woman to receive a nomination.<ref>2018|Oscars.org</ref> Prior to that, it had been the last non-acting Academy Award category to never nominate a woman.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

In 2019, Alfonso Cuarón became the first winner of this category to have also served as director on the film, for Roma.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> This followed a public dispute between Cuarón and the Academy over the Academy's plan to shorten the Oscars broadcast by relegating four awards, including cinematography, to the commercial breaks in the show. Cuarón objected by saying, "In the history of cinema, masterpieces have existed without sound, without color, without a story, without actors and without music. No single film has ever existed without cinematography ..."<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Superlatives

Category	Name	Superlative	Year	Notes
Most awards	Leon Shamroy	4 awards	1942	Awards resulted from 18 nominations.
Most awards	Joseph Ruttenberg	4 awards	1958	Awards resulted from 10 nominations.
Most nominations	Leon Shamroy	18 nominations	1965	Nominations resulted in 4 awards.
Most nominations	Charles Lang	18 nominations	1972	Nominations resulted in 1 award.
Most consecutive awards	Emmanuel Lubezki	3 consecutive awards	2013, 2014, 2015	Awards resulted from 8 nominations.
Oldest winner	Conrad L. Hall	Age 76	2002	Hall died just two months before the awards ceremony. Hall is also the oldest non-posthumous winner, at age 73, in 1999.
Oldest nominee	Asakazu Nakai	Age 84	1985	Nakai shared the nomination with two others.
Youngest winner	Floyd Crosby	Age 31	1930/1931
Youngest nominee	Edward Cronjager	Age 27	1930/1931
Most nominations without an award	George Folsey	13 nominations	1963
First female nominee	Rachel Morrison<ref name=":0">Template:Cite web</ref>		2017
First nominee/winner who also directed the film	Alfonso Cuarón	Cuarón served as director and director of photography for Roma	2018

Winners and nominees

Winners are listed first in colored row, followed by the other nominees.

1920s

Year	Film	Nominees
1927/28(1st)	Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans	Charles Rosher Karl Struss
	The Devil Dancer	George Barnes
	The Magic Flame
	Sadie Thompson
1928/29(2nd) <ref group="note" name="twentynine">The 2nd Academy Awards is unique in being the only occasion where there were no official nominees. Subsequent research by AMPAS has resulted in a list of unofficial or de facto nominees, based on records of which films were evaluated by the judges.</ref>	White Shadows in the South Seas	Clyde De Vinna
	The Divine Lady	John F. Seitz
	4 Devils	Ernest Palmer
	In Old Arizona	Arthur Edeson
	Our Dancing Daughters	George Barnes
	Street Angel	Ernest Palmer

1930s

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

1940s

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

1950s

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

1960s

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

1970s

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

1980s

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

1990s

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

2000s

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

2010s

Year	Film	Nominees
2010 (83rd)	Inception	Wally Pfister
	Black Swan	Matthew Libatique
	The King's Speech	Danny Cohen
	The Social Network	Jeff Cronenweth
	True Grit	Roger Deakins
2011 (84th)	Hugo	Robert Richardson
	The Artist	Guillaume Schiffman
	The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo	Jeff Cronenweth
	The Tree of Life	Emmanuel Lubezki
	War Horse	Janusz Kamiński
2012 (85th)	Life of Pi	Claudio Miranda
	Anna Karenina	Seamus McGarvey
	Django Unchained	Robert Richardson
	Lincoln	Janusz Kamiński
	Skyfall	Roger Deakins
2013 (86th)	Gravity	Emmanuel Lubezki
	The Grandmaster	Philippe Le Sourd
	Inside Llewyn Davis	Bruno Delbonnel
	Nebraska	Phedon Papamichael
	Prisoners	Roger Deakins
2014 (87th)	Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)	Emmanuel Lubezki
	The Grand Budapest Hotel	Robert Yeoman
	Ida	Łukasz Żal and Ryszard Lenczewski
	Mr. Turner	Dick Pope
	Unbroken	Roger Deakins
2015 (88th)	The Revenant	Emmanuel Lubezki
	Carol	Edward Lachman
	The Hateful Eight	Robert Richardson
	Mad Max: Fury Road	John Seale
	Sicario	Roger Deakins
2016 (89th) <ref>Template:Cite news</ref>	La La Land	Linus Sandgren
	Arrival	Bradford Young
	Lion	Greig Fraser
	Moonlight	James Laxton
	Silence	Rodrigo Prieto
2017 (90th)	Blade Runner 2049	Roger Deakins
	Darkest Hour	Bruno Delbonnel
	Dunkirk	Hoyte van Hoytema
	Mudbound	Rachel Morrison
	The Shape of Water	Dan Laustsen
2018 (91st)	Roma	Alfonso Cuarón
	Cold War	Łukasz Żal
	The Favourite	Robbie Ryan
	Never Look Away	Caleb Deschanel
	A Star Is Born	Matthew Libatique
2019 (92nd)	1917	Roger Deakins
	The Irishman	Rodrigo Prieto
	Joker	Lawrence Sher
	The Lighthouse	Jarin Blaschke
	Once Upon a Time in Hollywood	Robert Richardson

2020s

Year	Film	Nominees
2020/21 (93rd)	Mank	Erik Messerschmidt
	Judas and the Black Messiah	Sean Bobbitt
	News of the World	Dariusz Wolski
	Nomadland	Joshua James Richards
	The Trial of the Chicago 7	Phedon Papamichael
2021 (94th)	Dune	Greig Fraser
	Nightmare Alley	Dan Laustsen
	The Power of the Dog	Ari Wegner
	The Tragedy of Macbeth	Bruno Delbonnel
	West Side Story	Janusz Kamiński
2022 (95th)	All Quiet on the Western Front	James Friend
	Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths	Darius Khondji
	Elvis	Mandy Walker
	Empire of Light	Roger Deakins
	Tár	Florian Hoffmeister
2023 (96th)	Oppenheimer	Hoyte van Hoytema
	El Conde	Edward Lachman
	Killers of the Flower Moon	Rodrigo Prieto
	Maestro	Matthew Libatique
	Poor Things	Robbie Ryan
2024 (97th)	The Brutalist	Lol Crawley
	Dune: Part Two	Greig Fraser
	Emilia Pérez	Paul Guilhaume
	Maria	Edward Lachman
	Nosferatu	Jarin Blaschke

Shortlisted finalists

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Year	Finalists	Ref
1967	Barefoot in the Park, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, In the Heat of the Night, The Taming of the Shrew, Thoroughly Modern Millie	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
1968	The Boston Strangler, The Lion in Winter, Planet of the Apes, The Stalking Moon, 2001: A Space Odyssey	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
1969	Gaily, Gaily, Goodbye, Mr. Chips, Paint Your Wagon, True Grit, The Wild Bunch	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
1970	The Great White Hope, The Hawaiians, MASH, The Molly Maguires, Scrooge*	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
1971	The African Elephant, The Andromeda Strain, The Conformist, Mary, Queen of Scots, McCabe & Mrs. Miller	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
1972	Avanti!, The Culpepper Cattle Co., Deliverance, Glass Houses, The Godfather	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
1973	American Graffiti, Cinderella Liberty, Jesus Christ Superstar, Lost Horizon, Siddhartha	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
1974	The Godfather Part II, Harry and Tonto, The Island at the Top of the World, The Tamarind Seed, The Three Musketeers	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
1975	Dog Day Afternoon, Farewell, My Lovely, Ride a Wild Pony, The Sunshine Boys, Three Days of the Condor	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
1976	Birch Interval, Family Plot, Fellini's Casanova, The Incredible Sarah, Marathon Man	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
1977	Exorcist II: The Heretic, The Goodbye Girl, I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, 1900, Star Wars	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
1978	Death on the Nile, The Duellists, Grease, Revenge of the Pink Panther, Who'll Stop the Rain	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
1979	The Electric Horseman, Escape from Alcatraz, The Rose, The Runner Stumbles, 10	<ref name="Champlin" />

Multiple awards and nominations

Awards	Nominations	Recipient
4	18	Leon Shamroy
4	10	Joseph Ruttenberg
3	15	Robert Surtees
	10	Conrad L. Hall
	10	Robert Richardson
	8	Emmanuel Lubezki
	7	Arthur C. Miller
	5	Freddie Young
	4	Vittorio Storaro
	3	Winton C. Hoch
2	16	Roger Deakins
	14	Harry Stradling
	10	James Wong Howe
	8	Ray Rennahan
	7	Janusz Kamiński
	6	Charles Rosher
	5	Burnett Guffey
	5	Haskell Wexler
	4	William C. Mellor
	4	Chris Menges
	4	Geoffrey Unsworth
	3	Hal Mohr
	3	Sven Nykvist
	3	John Toll
	2	Freddie Francis

Awards	Nominations	Recipient
1	18	Charles Lang
	10	William V. Skall
	9	W. Howard Greene
	9	Victor Milner
	8	George Barnes
	8	Joseph LaShelle
	8	Ernest Laszlo
	7	Daniel L. Fapp
	7	Tony Gaudio
	7	Ernest Haller
	7	Milton Krasner
	6	Harold Rosson
	6	Gregg Toland
	5	John Seale
	5	Joseph Valentine
	4	Néstor Almendros
	4	Robert Burks
	4	William Daniels
	4	Allen M. Davey
	4	Lee Garmes
	4	Loyal Griggs
	4	Ernest Palmer
	4	Wally Pfister
	4	Leonard Smith
	4	Karl Struss
	4	Vilmos Zsigmond
	3	Jack Cardiff
	3	Greig Fraser
	3	Karl Freund
	3	Fred J. Koenekamp
	3	Sam Leavitt
	3	Lionel Lindon
	3	Oswald Morris
	3	Philippe Rousselot
	3	Billy Williams
	2	Arthur Arling
	2	Dion Beebe
	2	Joseph Biroc
	2	Robert Elswit
	2	Boris Kaufman
	2	Oliver T. Marsh
	2	Russell Metty
	2	Claudio Miranda
	2	Georges Périnal
	2	Hoyte van Hoytema
	2	Paul C. Vogel
	1	John Alcott
	1	Russell Carpenter
	1	Lol Crawley
	1	Alfonso Cuarón
	1	Anthony Dod Mantle
	1	Andrew Lesnie
	1	Erik Messerschmidt
	1	Guillermo Navarro
	1	Linus Sandgren

Awards	Nominations	Recipient
0	13	George Folsey
	7	Edward Cronjager
	7	John F. Seitz
	6	Caleb Deschanel
	6	Bruno Delbonnel
	6	Russell Harlan
	5	Allen Daviau
	5	Rudolph Maté
	5	Franz Planer
	5	Owen Roizman
	4	Charles G. Clarke
	4	William A. Fraker
	4	Edward Lachman
	4	Robert H. Planck
	4	Rodrigo Prieto
	4	Joseph Walker
	3	Michael Ballhaus
	3	Norbert Brodine
	3	Arthur Edeson
	3	Bert Glennon
	3	Ray June
	3	Matthew Libatique
	3	Joseph MacDonald
	3	Ted D. McCord
	3	Sol Polito
	3	Douglas Slocombe
	3	William E. Snyder
	2	Joseph August
	2	Jarin Blaschke
	2	Michael Chapman
	2	William H. Clothier
	2	Edward Colman
	2	Stanley Cortez
	2	Jeff Cronenweth
	2	Stephen Goldblatt
	2	Darius Khondji
	2	Richard H. Kline
	2	Philip H. Lathrop
	2	Dan Laustsen
	2	John Mathieson
	2	Seamus McGarvey
	2	Miroslav Ondříček
	2	Phedon Papamichael
	2	J. Peverell Marley
	2	Don Peterman
	2	Tony Pierce
	2	Dick Pope
	2	Robbie Ryan
	2	Eduardo Serra
	2	Dante Spinotti
	2	Harry Stradling Jr.
	2	Leo Tover
	2	Sidney Wagner
	2	Gordon Willis
	2	Łukasz Żal

Notes

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References