Academy Award for Best Cinematography

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

1920s

• 1928 – Sunrise
• 1929 – White Shadows in the South Seas

1930s

• 1930 – With Byrd at the South Pole
• 1931 – Tabu: A Story of the South Seas
• 1932 – Shanghai Express
• 1933 – A Farewell to Arms
• 1934 – Cleopatra
• 1935 – A Midsummer Night's Dream

From 1936, there were separate awards for Black and White and for Color:

• 1936 – Anthony Adverse (B&W); The Garden of Allah (Color)
• 1937 – The Good Earth (B&W); A star is born (Color)
• 1938 – The Great Waltz (B&W); Sweethearts (Color)
• 1939 – Wuthering Heights (B&W); Gone with the Wind (Color)

1940s

• 1940 – Rebecca (B&W); The Thief of Bagdad (Color)
• 1941 – How Green Was My Valley (B&W); Blood and Sand (Color)
• 1942 – Mrs. Miniver (B&W); The Black Swan (Color)
• 1943 – The Song of Bernadette (B&W); The Phantom of the Opera (Color)
• 1944 – Laura (B&W); Wilson (Color)
• 1945 – Picture of Dorian Gray (B&W); Leave Her to Heaven
• 1946 – Anna and the King of Siam (B&W); The Yearling (Color)
• 1947 – Great Expectations (B&W); Black Narcissus (Color)
• 1948 – The Naked City (B&W); Joan of Arc (Color)
• 1949 – Battleground (B&W); She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (Color)

1950s

• 1950 – The Third Man (B&W); King Solomon's Mines (Color)
• 1951 – A Place in the Sun (B&W); An American in Paris (Color)
• 1952 – The Bad and the Beautiful (B&W); The Quiet Man (Color)
• 1953 – From Here to Eternity (B&W); Shane (Color)
• 1954 – On the Waterfront (B&W); Three Coins in the Fountain (Color)
• 1955 – The Rose Tattoo (B&W); To Catch a Thief (Color)
• 1956 – Somebody Up There Likes Me (B&W); Around the World in Eighty Days (Color)

For 1957, there was a single award:

• 1957 – The Bridge on the River Kwai

From 1958, there were separate awards for Black and White and for Color:

• 1958 – The Defiant Ones (B&W); Gigi (Color)
• 1959 – The Diary of Anne Frank (B&W); Ben-Hur (Color)

1960s

• 1960 – Sons and Lovers (B&W); Spartacus (Color)
• 1961 – The Hustler (B&W); West Side Story (Color)
• 1962 – The Longest Day (B&W); Lawrence of Arabia (Color)
• 1963 – Hud (B&W); Cleopatra (Color)
• 1964 – Zorba the Greek (B&W); My Fair Lady (Color)
• 1965 – Ship of Fools (B&W); Doctor Zhivago (Color)
• 1966 – Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (B&W); A Man for All Seasons (Color)

From 1967, there was a single award again:

• 1967 – Bonnie & Clyde
• 1968 – Romeo and Juliet
• 1969 – Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid – Conrad Hall

1970s

• 1970 – Ryan's Daughter
• 1971 – Fiddler on the Roof
• 1972 – Geoffrey Unsworth, Cabaret
• 1973 – Sven Nykvist, Cries and Whispers
• 1974 – The Towering Inferno
• 1975 – John A. Alonzo, Barry Lyndon
• 1976 – Haskell Wexler, Bound for Glory
• 1977 – Close Encounters of the Third Kind
• 1978 – Nestor Almendros, Days of Heaven
• 1979 – Apocalypse Now

1980s

• 1980 – Tess
• 1981 – Reds
• 1982 – Gandhi
• 1983 – Sven Nykvist, Fanny and Alexander
• 1984 – The Killing Fields
• 1985 – Out of Africa
• 1986 – The Mission
• 1987 – The Last Emperor
• 1988 – Mississippi Burning
• 1989 – Glory

1990s

• 1990 – Dances with Wolves
• 1991 – JFK
• 1992 – A River Runs Through It
• 1993 – Janusz Kaminski, Schindler's List
• 1994 – Legends of the Fall
• 1995 – John Toll, Braveheart
• 1996 – John Seale, The English Patient
  • Darius Khondji, Evita
  • Roger Deakins, Fargo
  • Caleb Deschanel, Fly Away Home
  • Chris Menges, Michael Collins
• 1997 – Russell Carpenter, Titanic
  • Janusz Kaminski, Amistad
  • Roger Deakins, Kundun
  • Dante Spinotti, L.A. Confidential
  • Eduardo Serra, The Wings of the Dove
• 1998 – Janusz Kaminski, Saving Private Ryan
  • Conrad L. Hall, A Civil Action
  • Remi Adefarasin, Elizabeth
  • Richard Greatrex, Shakespeare in Love
  • John Toll, The Thin Red Line
• 1999 – 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

• 2000 – Peter Pau, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
  • John Mathieson, Gladiator
  • Lajos Koltai, Malena
  • Roger Deakins, O Brother, Where Art Thou?
  • Caleb Deschanel, The Patriot

• 2001 – Andrew Lesnie, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
  • Bruno Delbonnel, Amélie
  • Slawomir Idziak, Black Hawk Down
  • Roger Deakins, The Man Who Wasn't There
  • Donald M. McAlpine, Moulin Rouge

• 2002 – Conrad Hall, Road to Perdition
  • Dion Beebe, Chicago
  • Edward Lachman, Far from Heaven
  • Michael Ballhaus, Gangs of New York
  • Pawel Edelman, The Pianist

• 2003 – Russell Boyd, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
  • Cesar Charlone, City of God
  • John Seale, Cold Mountain
  • Eduardo Serra, Girl with a Pearl Earring
  • John Schwartzman, Seabiscuit

• 2004 – 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

See also: Academy Awards