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 - Charles Rosher and Karl Struss, Sunrise
1929 - Clyde DeVinna, White Shadows in the South Seas

1930s

1930 - Joseph T. Rucker and Willard Van Der, With Byrd at the South Pole

1931 - Floyd Crosby, Tabu: A Story of the South Seas

1932 - Lee Garmes Shanghai Express

1933 - Charles Bryant Lang. Jr, A Farewell to Arms

1934 - Victor Milner, Cleopatra

1935 - Hal Mohr, A Midsummer Night's Dream

1936 - Gaetano Gaudio, Anthony Adverse

1937 - Karl Freund, The Good Earth

1938 - Joseph Ruttenberg, The Great Waltz
From 1939, there were separate awards for Black and White and for Color:

1939 - Gregg Toland, Wuthering Heights (B&W)
- Ernest Haller and Ray Rennahan, Gone with the Wind (Color)

1940s

1940 - George Barnes, Rebecca (B&W)
- George Perinal, The Thief of Bagdad (Color)

1941 - Arthur C. Miller, How Green Was My Valley (B&W)
- Ernest Palmer and Ray Rennahan, Blood and Sand (Color)

1942 - Joseph Ruttenberg, Mrs. Miniver (B&W)
- Leon Shamroy, The Black Swan (Color)

1943 - Arthur C. Miller, The Song of Bernadette (B&W)
- Hal Mohr and W. Howard Greene, The Phantom of the Opera (Color)

1944 - Joseph LaShelle, Laura (B&W)
- Leon Shamroy, Wilson (Color)

1945 - Harry Stradling, Picture of Dorian Gray (B&W)
- Leon Shamroy, Leave Her to Heaven

1946 - Arthur C. Miller, Anna and the King of Siam (B&W)
- Charles Rosher, Leonard Smith and Arthur Arling, The Yearling (Color)

1947 - Guy Green, Great Expectations (B&W)
- Jack Cardiff, Black Narcissus (Color)

1948 - William Daniels, The Naked City (B&W)
- Joseph Valentine, William V. Skall and Winton Hoch, Joan of Arc (Color)

1949 - Paul C. Vogel, Battleground (B&W)
- Winton Hoch, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (Color)

1950s

1950 - Robert Krasker, The Third Man (B&W)
- Robert Surtees, King Solomon's Mines (Color)
 
1951 - William C. Mellor, A Place in the Sun (B&W)
- Alfred Gilks and John Alton, An American in Paris (Color)

1952 - Robert Surtees, The Bad and the Beautiful (B&W)
- Winton Hoch and Archie Stout, The Quiet Man (Color)

1953 - Burnett Guffey, From Here to Eternity (B&W)
- Loyal Griggs, Shane (Color)

1954 - Boris Kaufman, On the Waterfront (B&W)
- Milton R. Krasner, Three Coins in the Fountain (Color)

1955 - James Wong Howe, The Rose Tattoo (B&W)
- Robert Burks, To Catch a Thief (Color)

1956 - Joseph Ruttenberg, Somebody Up There Likes Me (B&W)
- Lionel Lindon, Around the World in Eighty Days (Color)

For 1957, there was a single award:

1957 - Jack Hildyard, The Bridge on the River Kwai
From 1958, there were separate awards for Black and White and for Color:

1958 - Sam Leavitt, The Defiant Ones (B&W)
- Joseph Ruttenberg, Gigi (Color)

1959 - William C. Mellor, The Diary of Anne Frank (B&W)
- Robert Surtees, Ben-Hur (Color)

1960

1960 - Freddie Francis, Sons and Lovers (B&W)
- Russel Metty, Spartacus (Color)

1961 - Eugen Shuftan, The Hustler (B&W)
- Daniel L. Fapp, West Side Story (Color)

1962 - Jean Bourgoin and Walter Wottitz, The Longest Day (B&W)
- Freddie Young, Lawrence of Arabia (Color)

1963 - James Wong Howe, Hud (B&W)
- Leon Shamroy, Cleopatra (Color)

1964 - Walter Lassally, Zorba the Greek (B&W)
- Harry Stradling, My Fair Lady (Color)

1965 - Ernest Laszlo, Ship of Fools (B&W)
- Freddie Young, Doctor Zhivago (Color)

1966 - Haskell Wexler, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (B&W)
- Ted Moore, A Man for All Seasons (Color)

From 1967, there was a single award again:

1967 - Burnett Guffey, Bonnie & Clyde
Conrad Hall, In Cold Blood
Richard H. Kline, Camelot
Robert Surtees, Doctor Dolittle
Robert Surtees, The Graduate

1968 - Pasqualino De Santis, Romeo and Juliet
Daniel L. Fapp, Ice Station Zebra
Ernest Laszlo, Star!
Oswald Morris, Oliver!
Harry Stradling, Funny Girl

1969 - Conrad Hall, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Daniel Fapp, Marooned
Arthur Ibbetson, Anne of the Thousand Days
Charles B. Lang, Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
Harry Stradling, Hello, Dolly!

1970s

1970 - Freddie Young, Ryan's Daughter
Fred Koenekamp, Patton
Ernest Laszlo, Airport
Charles F. Wheeler, Osami Furuya, Sinsaku Himeda and Masamichi Satoh, Tora! Tora! Tora!
Billy Williams, Women in Love

1971 - Oswald Morris, Fiddler on the Roof
Owen Roizman, The French Connection
Robert Surtees, The Last Picture Show
Robert Surtees, Summer of '42
Freddie Young, Nicholas and Alexandra

1972 - Geoffrey Unsworth, Cabaret
Charles B. Lang, Butterflies Are Free
Douglas Slocombe, Travels With My Aunt
Harold E. Stine, The Poseidon Adventure
Harry Stradling, Jr., 1776

1973 - Sven Nykvist, Cries and Whispers
Jack Couffer, Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Owen Roizman, The Exorcist
Harry Stradling, Jr., The Way We Were
Robert Surtees, The Sting

1974 - Fred Koenekamp and Joseph Biroc, The Towering Inferno
John A. Alonzo, Chinatown
Philip Lathrop, Earthquake
Bruce Surtees, Lenny
Geoffrey Unsworth, Murder on the Orient Express

1975 - John Alcott, Barry Lyndon
Conrad Hall, The Day of the Locust
James Wong Howe, Funny Lady
Robert Surtees, The Hindenburg
Haskell Wexler and Bill Butler, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

1976 - 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 - Vilmos Zsigmond, Close Encounters of the Third Kind
William A. Fraker, Looking for Mr. Goodbar
Fred J. Koenekamp, Islands in the Stream
Douglas Slocombe, Julia
Robert Surtees, The Turning Point

1978 - Nestor Almendros, Days of Heaven
William A. Fraker, Heaven Can Wait
Oswald Morris, The Wiz
Robert Surtees, Same Time, Next Year
Vilmos Zsigmond, The Deer Hunter

1979 - Vittorio Storaro, Apocalypse Now
Nestor Almendros, Kramer vs. Kramer
William A. Fraker, 1941
Frank Phillips, The Black Hole
Giuseppe Rotunno, All That Jazz

1980s

1980 - Geoffrey Unsworth and Ghislaine Cloquet, Tess
Nestor Almendros, The Blue Lagoon
Ralf D. Bode, Coal Miner's Daughter
Michael Chapman, Raging Bull
James Crabe, The Formula

1981 - Vittorio Storaro, Reds
Miroslav Ondricek, Ragtime
Douglas Slocombe, Raiders of the Lost Ark
Alex Thomson, Excalibur
Billy Williams, On Golden Pond

1982 - Billy Williams and Ronnie Taylor, Gandhi
Nestor Almendros, Sophie's Choice
Allen Daviau, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Owen Roizman, Tootsie
Jost Vacano, Das Boot

1983 - Sven Nykvist, Fanny and Alexander
Caleb Deschanel, The Right Stuff
William A. Fraker, WarGames
Don Peterman, Flashdance
Gordon Willis, Zelig

1984 - Chris Menges, The Killing Fields
Ernest Day, A Passage to India
Caleb Deschanel, The Natural
Miroslav Ondricek, Amadeus
Vilmos Zsigmond, The River

1985 - David Watkin, Out of Africa
Allen Daviau, The Color Purple
William A. Fraker, Murphy's Romance
Takao Saito, Masaharu Ueda and Asakazu Nakai, Ran
John Seale, Witness

1986 - Chris Menges, The Mission
Jordan Cronenweth, Peggy Sue Got Married
Don Peterman, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
Tony Pierce-Roberts, A Room With a View
Robert Richardson, Platoon

1987 - Vittorio Storaro , The Last Emperor
Michael Ballhaus, Broadcast News
Allen Daviau, Empire of the Sun
Philippe Rousselot, Hope and Glory
Haskell Wexler, Matewan

1988 - Peter Biziou, Mississippi Burning
Dean Cundey, Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Conrad L. Hall, Tequila Sunrise
Sven Nykvist, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
John Seale, Rain Man

1989 - Freddie Francis, Glory
Michael Ballhaus, The Fabulous Baker Boys
Robert Richardson, Born on the Fourth of July
Mikael Salomon, The Abyss
Haskell Wexler, Blaze

1990s

1990 - Dean Semler, Dances with Wolves
Allen Daviau, Avalon
Philippe Rousselot, Henry & June
Vittorio Storaro, Dick Tracy
Gordon Willis, The Godfather Part III

1991 - Robert Richardson, JFK
Adrian Biddle, Thelma & Louise
Allen Daviau, Bugsy
Stephen Goldblatt, The Prince of Tides
Adam Greenberg, Terminator 2: Judgment Day

1992 - Philippe Rousselot, A River Runs Through It
Stephen H. Burum, Hoffa
Robert Fraisse, The Lover
Jack N. Green, Unforgiven
Tony Pierce-Roberts, Howards End

1993 - Janusz Kaminski, Schindler's List
Gu Changwei, Farewell My Concubine
Michael Chapman, The Fugitive
Stuart Dryburgh, The Piano
Conrad L. Hall, Searching for Bobby Fischer

1994 - John Toll, Legends of the Fall
Don Burgess, Forrest Gump
Roger Deakins, The Shawshank Redemption
Owen Roizman, Wyatt Earp
Piotr Sobocinski, Three Colors: Red

1995 - John Toll, Braveheart
Michael Coulter, Sense and Sensibility
Stephen Goldblatt, Batman Forever
Emmanuel Lubezki, A Little Princess
Lu Yue, Shanghai Triad

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

2005 - 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