Best Achievement in Cinematography

1st Academy Awards (1927-1928)
“Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans”
Charles Rosher & Karl Struss

2nd Academy Awards (1928-1929)
“White Shadows in the South Seas”
Clyde De Vinna

3rd Academy Awards (1929-1930)
“With Byrd at the South Pole”
Joseph T. Rucker & Willard Van der Veer

4th Academy Awards (1930-1931)
“Tabu: A Story of the South Seas”
Floyd Crosby

5th Academy Awards (1931-1932)
“Shanghai Express”
Lee Garmes

6th Academy Awards (1932-1933)
“A Farewell to Arms”
Charles Lang

7th Academy Awards (1934)
“Cleopatra”
Victor Milner

8th Academy Awards (1935)
“A Midsummer Night’s Dream”
Hal Mohr

9th Academy Awards (1936)
[Black-and-White]
“Anthony Adverse”
Tony Gaudio
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[Color]
“The Garden of Allah”
W. Howard Greene & Harold Rosson

10th Academy Awards (1937)
[Black-and-White]
“The Good Earth”
Karl Freund
—
[Color]
“A Star Is Born”
W. Howard Greene

11th Academy Awards (1938)
[Black-and-White]
“The Great Waltz”
Joseph Ruttenberg
—
[Color]
“Sweethearts”
Oliver T. Marsh & Allen Davey

12th Academy Awards (1939)
[Black-and-White]
“Wuthering Heights”
Gregg Toland
—
[Color]
“Gone with the Wind”
Ernest Haller & Ray Rennahan

13th Academy Awards (1940)
[Black-and-White]
“Rebecca”
George Barnes
—
[Color]
“The Thief of Bagdad”
Georges Périnal

14th Academy Awards (1941)
[Black-and-White]
“How Green Was My Valley”
Arthur C. Miller
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[Color]
“Blood and Sand”
Ernest Palmer & Ray Rennahan

15th Academy Awards (1942)
[Black-and-White]
“Mrs. Miniver”
Joseph Ruttenberg
—
[Color]
“The Black Swan”
Leon Shamroy

16th Academy Awards (1943)
[Black-and-White]
“The Song of Bernadette”
Arthur C. Miller
—
[Color]
“Phantom of the Opera”
Hal Mohr & W. Howard Greene

17th Academy Awards (1944)
[Black-and-White]
“Laura”
Joseph LaShelle
—
[Color]
“Wilson”
Leon Shamroy

18th Academy Awards (1945)
[Black-and-White]
“The Picture of Dorian Gray”
Harry Stradling
—
[Color]
“Leave Her to Heaven”
Leon Shamroy

19th Academy Awards (1946)
[Black-and-White]
“Anna and the King of Siam”
Arthur C. Miller
—
[Color]
“The Yearling”
Charles Rosher, Leonard Smith, &
Arthur Arling

20th Academy Awards (1947)
[Black-and-White]
“Great Expectations”
Guy Green
—
[Color]
“Black Narcissus”
Jack Cardiff

21st Academy Awards (1948)
[Black-and-White]
“The Naked City”
William Daniels
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[Color]
“Joan of Arc”
Joseph Valentine, William V. Skall, &
Winton C. Hoch

22nd Academy Awards (1949)
[Black-and-White]
“Battleground”
Paul C. Vogel
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[Color]
“She Wore a Yellow Ribbon”
Winton C. Hoch

23rd Academy Awards (1950)
[Black-and-White]
“The Third Man”
Robert Krasker
—
[Color]
“King Solomon’s Mines”
Robert Surtees

24th Academy Awards (1951)
[Black-and-White]
“A Place in the Sun”
William C. Mellor
—
[Color]
“An American in Paris”
Alfred Gilks & John Alton

25th Academy Awards (1952)
[Black-and-White]
“The Bad and the Beautiful”
Robert Surtees
—
[Color]
“The Quiet Man”
Winton C. Hoch & Archie Stout

26th Academy Awards (1953)
[Black-and-White]
“From Here to Eternity”
Burnett Guffey
—
[Color]
“Shane”
Loyal Griggs

27th Academy Awards (1954)
[Black-and-White]
“On the Waterfront”
Boris Kaufman
—
[Color]
“Three Coins in the Fountain”
Milton Krasner

28th Academy Awards (1955)
[Black-and-White]
“The Rose Tattoo”
James Wong Howe
—
[Color]
“To Catch a Thief”
Robert Burks

29th Academy Awards (1956)
[Black-and-White]
“Somebody Up There Likes Me”
Joseph Ruttenberg
—
[Color]
“Around the World in 80 Days”
Lionel Lindon

30th Academy Awards (1957)
“The Bridge on the River Kwai”
Jack Hildyard

31st Academy Awards (1958)
[Black-and-White]
“The Defiant Ones”
Sam Leavitt
—
[Color]
“Gigi”
Joseph Ruttenberg

32nd Academy Awards (1959)
[Black-and-White]
“The Diary of Anne Frank”
William C. Mellor
—
[Color]
“Ben-Hur”
Robert Surtees

33rd Academy Awards (1960)
[Black-and-White]
“Sons and Lovers”
Freddie Francis
—
[Color]
“Spartacus”
Russell Metty

34th Academy Awards (1961)
[Black-and-White]
“The Hustler”
Eugen Schüfftan
—
[Color]
“West Side Story”
Daniel L. Fapp

35th Academy Awards (1962)
[Black-and-White]
“The Longest Day”
Jean Bourgoin & Walter Wottitz
—
[Color]
“Lawrence of Arabia”
Freddie Young

36th Academy Awards (1963)
[Black-and-White]
“Hud”
James Wong Howe
—
[Color]
“Cleopatra”
Leon Shamroy

37th Academy Awards (1964)
[Black-and-White]
“Zorba the Greek”
Walter Lassally
—
[Color]
“My Fair Lady”
Harry Stradling

38th Academy Awards (1965)
[Black-and-White]
“Ship of Fools”
Ernest Laszlo
—
[Color]
“Doctor Zhivago”
Freddie Young

39th Academy Awards (1966)
[Black-and-White]
“Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”
Haskell Wexler
—
[Color]
“A Man for All Seasons”
Ted Moore

40th Academy Awards (1967)
“Bonnie and Clyde”
Burnett Guffey

41st Academy Awards (1968)
“Romeo and Juliet”
Pasqualino De Santis

42nd Academy Awards (1969)
“Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid”
Conrad Hall

43rd Academy Awards (1970)
“Ryan’s Daughter”
Freddie Young

44th Academy Awards (1971)
“Fiddler on the Roof”
Oswald Morris

45th Academy Awards (1972)
“Cabaret”
Geoffrey Unsworth

46th Academy Awards (1973)
“Cries and Whispers”
Sven Nykvist

47th Academy Awards (1974)
“The Towering Inferno”
Fred J. Koenekamp & Joseph Biroc

48th Academy Awards (1975)
“Barry Lyndon”
John Alcott

49th Academy Awards (1976)
“Bound for Glory”
Haskell Wexler

50th Academy Awards (1977)
“Close Encounters of the Third Kind”
Vilmos Zsigmond

51st Academy Awards (1978)
“Days of Heaven”
Néstor Almendros

52nd Academy Awards (1979)
“Apocalypse Now”
Vittorio Storaro

53rd Academy Awards (1980)
“Tess”
Geoffrey Unsworth & Ghislain Cloquet

54th Academy Awards (1981)
“Reds”
Vittorio Storaro

55th Academy Awards (1982)
“Gandhi”
Billy Williams & Ronnie Taylor

56th Academy Awards (1983)
“Fanny and Alexander”
Sven Nykvist

57th Academy Awards (1984)
“The Killing Fields”
Chris Menges

58th Academy Awards (1985)
“Out of Africa”
David Watkin

59th Academy Awards (1986)
“The Mission”
Chris Menges

60th Academy Awards (1987)
“The Last Emperor”
Vittorio Storaro

61st Academy Awards (1988)
“Mississippi Burning”
Peter Biziou

62nd Academy Awards (1989)
“Glory”
Freddie Francis

63rd Academy Awards (1990)
“Dances with Wolves”
Dean Semler

64th Academy Awards (1991)
“JFK”
Robert Richardson

65th Academy Awards (1992)
“A River Runs Through It”
Philippe Rousselot

66th Academy Awards (1993)
“Schindler’s List”
Janusz Kamiński

67th Academy Awards (1994)
“Legends of the Fall”
John Toll

68th Academy Awards (1995)
“Braveheart”
John Toll

69th Academy Awards (1996)
“The English Patient”
John Seale

70th Academy Awards (1997)
“Titanic”
Russell Carpenter

71st Academy Awards (1998)
“Saving Private Ryan”
Janusz Kamiński

72nd Academy Awards (1999)
“American Beauty”
Conrad Hall

73rd Academy Awards (2000)
“Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon”
Peter Pau

74th Academy Awards (2001)
“The Lord of the Rings:
The Fellowship of the Ring”
Andrew Lesnie

75th Academy Awards (2002)
“Road to Perdition”
Conrad Hall

76th Academy Awards (2003)
“Master and Commander:
The Far Side of the World”
Russell Boyd

77th Academy Awards (2004)
“The Aviator”
Robert Richardson

78th Academy Awards (2005)
“Memoirs of a Geisha”
Dion Beebe

79th Academy Awards (2006)
“Pan’s Labyrinth”
Guillermo Navarro

80th Academy Awards (2007)
“There Will Be Blood”
Robert Elswit

81st Academy Awards (2008)
“Slumdog Millionaire”
Anthony Dod Mantle

82nd Academy Awards (2009)
“Avatar”
Mauro Fiore

83rd Academy Awards (2010)
“Inception”
Wally Pfister

84th Academy Awards (2011)
“Hugo”
Robert Richardson

85th Academy Awards (2012)
“Life Of Pi”
Claudio Miranda

86th Academy Awards (2013)
“Gravity”
Emmanuel Lubezki

87th Academy Awards (2014)
“Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)”
Emmanuel Lubezki

88th Academy Awards (2015)
“The Revenant”
Emmanuel Lubezki

89th Academy Awards (2016)
“La La Land”
Linus Sandgren

90th Academy Awards (2017)
“Blade Runner 2049”
Roger Deakins

91st Academy Awards (2018)
“Roma”
Alfonso Cuarón

92nd Academy Awards (2019)
“1917”
Roger Deakins

93rd Academy Awards (2020)
“Mank”
Erik Messerschmidt

94th Academy Awards (2021)
“Dune”
Greig Fraser

95th Academy Awards (2022)
“All Quiet on the Western Front”
James Friend

96th Academy Awards (2023)
“Oppenheimer”
Hoyte van Hoytema

97th Academy Awards (2024)
“The Brutalist”
Lol Crawley

98th Academy Awards (2025)
“Sinners”
Autumn Durald Arkapaw