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2020 Academy Awards – Cinematography
1917
Roger Deakins
2019 Academy Awards – Cinematography
Roma
Alfonso Cuarón
2018 Academy Awards – Cinematography
Blade Runner 2049
Roger Deakins
2017 Academy Awards – Cinematography
La La Land
Linus Sandgren
2016 Academy Awards – Cinematography
The Revenant
Emmanuel Lubezki
2015 Academy Awards – Cinematography
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Emmanuel Lubezki
2014 Academy Awards – Cinematography
Gravity
Emmanuel Lubezki
2013 Academy Awards – Cinematography
Life of Pi
Claudio Miranda
2012 Academy Awards – Cinematography
Hugo
Robert Richardson
2011 Academy Awards – Cinematography
Inception
Wally Pfister
2010 Academy Awards – Cinematography
Avatar
Mauro Fiore
2009 Academy Awards – Cinematography
Slumdog Millionaire
Anthony Dod Mantle
2008 Academy Awards – Cinematography
There Will Be Blood
Robert Elswit
2007 Academy Awards – Cinematography
Pan’s Labyrinth
Guillermo Navarro
2006 Academy Awards – Cinematography
Memoirs of a Geisha
Dion Beebe
2005 Academy Awards – Cinematography
The Aviator
Robert Richardson
2004 Academy Awards – Cinematography
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
Russell Boyd
2003 Academy Awards – Cinematography
Road to Perdition
Conrad L. Hall
2002 Academy Awards – Cinematography
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Andrew Lesnie
2001 Academy Awards – Cinematography
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Peter Pau
2000 Academy Awards – Cinematography
American Beauty
Conrad L. Hall
1999 Academy Awards – Cinematography
Saving Private Ryan
Janusz Kaminski
1998 Academy Awards – Cinematography
Titanic
Russell Carpenter
1997 Academy Awards – Cinematography
The English Patient
John Seale
1996 Academy Awards – Cinematography
Braveheart
John Toll
1995 Academy Awards – Cinematography
Legends of the Fall
John Toll
1994 Academy Awards – Cinematography
Schindler’s List
Janusz Kaminski
1993 Academy Awards – Cinematography
A River Runs Through It
Philippe Rousselot
1992 Academy Awards – Cinematography
JFK
Robert Richardson
1991 Academy Awards – Cinematography
Dances with Wolves
Dean Semler
1990 Academy Awards – Cinematography
Glory
Freddie Francis
1989 Academy Awards – Cinematography
Mississippi Burning
Peter Biziou
1988 Academy Awards – Cinematography
The Last Emperor
Vittorio Storaro
1987 Academy Awards – Cinematography
The Mission
Chris Menges
1986 Academy Awards – Cinematography
Out of Africa
David Watkin
1985 Academy Awards – Cinematography
The Killing Fields
Chris Menges
1984 Academy Awards – Cinematography
Fanny and Alexander
Sven Nykvist
1983 Academy Awards – Cinematography
Gandhi
Billy Williams
1982 Academy Awards – Cinematography
Reds
Vittorio Storaro
1981 Academy Awards – Cinematography
Tess
Geoffrey Unsworth
1980 Academy Awards – Cinematography
Apocalypse Now
Vittorio Storaro
1979 Academy Awards – Cinematography
Days of Heaven
Néstor Almendros
1978 Academy Awards – Cinematography
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Vilmos Zsigmond
1977 Academy Awards – Cinematography
Bound for Glory
Haskell Wexler
1976 Academy Awards – Cinematography
Barry Lyndon
John Alcott
1975 Academy Awards – Cinematography
The Towering Inferno
Fred J. Koenekamp
1974 Academy Awards – Cinematography
Cries & Whispers
Sven Nykvist
1973 Academy Awards – Cinematography
Cabaret
Geoffrey Unsworth
1972 Academy Awards – Cinematography
Fiddler on the Roof
Oswald Morris
1971 Academy Awards – Cinematography
Ryan’s Daughter
Freddie Young
1970 Academy Awards – Cinematography
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Conrad L. Hall
1969 Academy Awards – Cinematography
Romeo and Juliet
Pasqualino De Santis
1968 Academy Awards – Cinematography
Bonnie and Clyde
Burnett Guffey
1958 Academy Awards – Cinematography
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Jack Hildyard
1939 Academy Awards – Cinematography
The Great Waltz
Joseph Ruttenberg
1938 Academy Awards – Cinematography
The Good Earth
Karl Freund
1937 Academy Awards – Cinematography
Anthony Adverse
Tony Gaudio
1936 Academy Awards – Cinematography
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Hal Mohr
1935 Academy Awards – Cinematography
Cleopatra
Victor Milner
1934 Academy Awards – Cinematography
A Farewell to Arms
Charles Lang
1932 Academy Awards – Cinematography
Shanghai Express
Lee Garmes
1931 Academy Awards – Cinematography
Tabu: A Story of the South Seas
Floyd Crosby
1930s Academy Awards – Cinematography
With Byrd at the South Pole
Joseph T. Rucker
1930 Academy Awards – Cinematography
White Shadows in the South Seas
Clyde De Vinna
1929 Academy Awards – Cinematography
