Academy Award for Best Cinematography

With the Oscar for best camera the camera crew of a film to be honored. From 1940 to 1967 ( except 1958), the Oscars for black and white and color film were awarded separately, so there were two Oscars for the best camera work.

In the table below, the winners are listed according to the year of award.

1929-1930

1931-1940

1941-1950

1951-1960

1961-1970

1971-1980

1981-1990

1991-2000

2001-2010

Since 2011

Best Film | Best Director | Best Actor | Best Actress | Best Supporting Actor | Best Supporting Actress | Best Original Screenplay | Best Adapted Screenplay | Best Camera | Best Art Direction | Best Costume Design | Best Sound | Best Editing | Best Sound Editing | Best Visual Effects | Best Make - up and Best hairstyles | Best Song | Best Film Music | Best Animated short film | Best Short film | Best Documentary | Best short Documentary | Best Animated film | Best Foreign Language Film

Former categories: Best Assistant Director | Best Original Story | Best Dance Director

Alphabetical list of all winning films

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Joseph Ruttenberg George J. Folsey 1st Academy Awards Charles Rosher Karl Struss George Barnes (cinematographer) The Devil Dancer The Magic Flame Sadie Thompson 2nd Academy Awards Our Dancing Daughters Arthur Edeson In Old Arizona Ernest Palmer (American cinematographer) John F. Seitz 3rd Academy Awards Joseph T. Rucker Willard Van der Veer William H. Daniels Anna Christie (1930 film) Harry Perry (cinematographer) Victor Milner The Love Parade 4th Academy Awards Floyd Crosby Tabu (1931 film) Cimarron (1931 film) Morocco (film) The Right to Love (1930 US film) Barney McGill Svengali (1931 film) 5th Academy Awards Shanghai Express (film) Ray June Arrowsmith (Film) Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931 film) 6th Academy Awards A Farewell to Arms (1932 film) Reunion in Vienna The Sign of the Cross (film) 7th Academy Awards Cleopatra (1934 film) Operator 13 The Affairs of Cellini 8th Academy Awards Hal Mohr A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935 film) Barbary Coast (film) Gregg Toland Les Misérables (1935 film) 9th Academy Awards Anthony Adverse The Gorgeous Hussy The General Died at Dawn 10th Academy Awards Karl Freund The Good Earth (film) Dead End (1937 film) Joseph A. Valentine Wings Over Honolulu 11th Academy Awards Robert De Grasse Vivacious Lady Ernest Haller James Wong Howe Algiers (Film) Peverell Marley Suez (Film) Ernest Miller (cinematographer) Harry J. Wild Army Girl The Buccaneer (1938 film) The Young in Heart Mad About Music Joseph Walker (cinematographer) 12th Academy Awards Joseph H. August Gunga Din (film) Bert Glennon Arthur Charles Miller The Great Victor Herbert First Love (1939 film) Ray Rennahan Gone with the Wind (film) Osmond Borradaile The Four Feathers (1939 film) Sol Polito The Mikado (1939 film) 13th Academy Awards Rebecca (1940 film) The Letter (1940 film) Abe Lincoln in Illinois (film) Arise, My Love Foreign Correspondent (film) The Long Voyage Home Spring Parade The Thief of Bagdad (1940 film) Bitter Sweet (1940 film) The Blue Bird (1940 film) North West Mounted Police (film) 14th Academy Awards The Chocolate Soldier (film) That Hamilton Woman Sergeant York (film) Leo Tover Hold Back the Dawn Dive Bomber (film) Leonard Smith (cinematographer) Billy the Kid (1941 film) 15th Academy Awards Mrs. Miniver (film) Charles G. Clarke Stanley Cortez The Magnificent Ambersons (film) The Pied Piper (1942 film) Kings Row John J. Mescall Take a Letter, Darling This Above All Ted Tetzlaff Jungle Book (1942 film) Reap the Wild Wind 16th Academy Awards The Song of Bernadette (film) Casablanca (Film) Elmer Dyer Charles A. Marshall Air Force (film) So Proudly We Hail! Sahara (1943 film) Madame Curie (film) Phantom of the Opera (1943 film) Lassie Come Home 17th Academy Awards Joseph LaShelle Laura (1944 film) Since You Went Away The White Cliffs of Dover (film) Lionel Lindon Glen MacWilliams Lifeboat (film) Gaslight (1944 film) Robert L. Surtees Wilson (Film) Kismet (1944 film) 18th Academy Awards The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945 film) The Lost Weekend (film) Charles P. Boyle 19th Academy Awards Arthur E. Arling The Yearling (film) 20th Academy Awards Guy Green (filmmaker) Great Expectations (1946 film) Green Dolphin Street Jack Cardiff Harry Jackson (cinematographer) 21st Academy Awards Ted D. McCord I Remember Mama Winton Hoch Joan of Arc (1948 film) The Three Musketeers (1948 film) 22nd Academy Awards Paul Vogel Battleground (film) Champion (1949 film) The Heiress She Wore a Yellow Ribbon Little Women (1949 film) 23rd Academy Awards Samson and Delilah (1949 film) Broken Arrow (1950 film) 24th Academy Awards William C. Mellor Robert Burks Strangers on a Train (film) Death of a Salesman (1951 film) A Streetcar Named Desire (1951 film) Alfred Gilks 25th Academy Awards The Bad and the Beautiful Russell Harlan The Quiet Man The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952 film) 26th Academy Awards Burnett Guffey Roman Holiday Julius Caesar (1953 film) Loyal Griggs Lili The Robe (film) 27th Academy Awards Boris Kaufman On the Waterfront Sabrina (1954 film) Rear Window 28th Academy Awards Marty (Film) Queen Bee (film) The Harder They Fall Around the World in 80 Days (1956 film) War and Peace (1956 film) The Eddy Duchin Story 30th Academy Awards Sayonara Peyton Place (film) 31st Academy Awards Sam Leavitt The Defiant Ones Daniel L. Fapp Separate Tables (film) Joseph MacDonald Gigi (1958 film) The Old Man and the Sea (1958 film) 32nd Academy Awards The Diary of Anne Frank (1959 film) Ben-Hur (1959 film) The Nun's Story (film) 33rd Academy Awards Freddie Francis The Apartment Ernest Laszlo Russell Metty Spartacus (film) William H. Clothier The Alamo (1960 film) Exodus (1960 film) 34th Academy Awards The Absent-Minded Professor The Children's Hour (film) West Side Story (Film) Fanny (1961 film) One-Eyed Jacks A Majority of One 35th Academy Awards Two for the Seesaw Lawrence of Arabia (film) Hatari! Mutiny on the Bounty (1962 film) 36th Academy Awards Hud (film) Lucien Ballard The Balcony (film) Lilies of the Field (1963 film) Cleopatra (1963 film) How the West Was Won (film) The Cardinal 37th Academy Awards Walter Lassally Zorba the Greek (film) Gabriel Figueroa The Night of the Iguana Fate Is the Hunter (film) Philip H. Lathrop My Fair Lady (Film) Cheyenne Autumn Mary Poppins (Film) Geoffrey Unsworth Becket (1964 film) 38th Academy Awards Ship of Fools (film) In Harm's Way King Rat (film) Conrad Hall Doctor Zhivago (film) 39th Academy Awards Haskell Wexler Georgy Girl Seconds (film) Ted Moore Hawaii (film) The Sand Pebbles (film) 40th Academy Awards Bonnie and Clyde (film) Richard H. Kline 41st Academy Awards Pasqualino De Santis Romeo and Juliet (1968 film) Ice Station Zebra Oswald Morris Oliver (Film) Funny Girl (Film) 42nd Academy Awards Arthur Ibbetson Hello, Dolly! (Film) 43rd Academy Awards Ryan's Daughter Fred Koenekamp Airport (1970 film) Charles F. Wheeler Billy Williams (cinematographer) Women in Love (film) 44th Academy Awards Fiddler on the Roof (film) Owen Roizman The Last Picture Show 45th Academy Awards Cabaret (1972 film) Douglas Slocombe Travels with My Aunt (film) Harry Stradling, Jr. 46th Academy Awards Sven Nykvist The Exorcist (film) The Sting 47th Academy Awards The Towering Inferno John A. Alonzo Chinatown (1974 film) Earthquake (film) Bruce Surtees Lenny (Film) 48th Academy Awards John Alcott Barry Lyndon The Day of the Locust (film) Funny Lady The Hindenburg (film) Bill Butler (cinematographer) 49th Academy Awards Bound for Glory (film) King Kong (1976 film) Logan's Run (film) Network (Film) A Star Is Born (1976 film) 50th Academy Awards Vilmos Zsigmond Looking for Mr. Goodbar (film) Julia (1977 film) The Turning Point (1977 film) 52nd Academy Awards Apocalypse Now Kramer vs. Kramer Giuseppe Rotunno 53rd Academy Awards Ghislain Cloquet Tess (Film) The Blue Lagoon (1980 film) Michael Chapman (cinematographer) 54th Academy Awards Reds (film) Ragtime (Film) Alex Thomson (cinematographer) On Golden Pond (1981 film) Gandhi (Film) Allen Daviau Tootsie Jost Vacano Das Boot 56th Academy Awards Caleb Deschanel WarGames Donald Peterman Flashdance Gordon Willis Zelig 57th Academy Awards Chris Menges The Natural (film) Amadeus (Film) 58th Academy Awards David Watkin (cinematographer) Out of Africa (film) The Color Purple (film) Masaharu Ueda Asakazu Nakai Ran (Film) John Seale Witness (1985 film) 59th Academy Awards The Mission (1986 film) Jordan Cronenweth A Room with a View (1985 film) Robert Richardson (cinematographer) Platoon (Film) 60th Academy Awards The Last Emperor Michael Ballhaus Empire of the Sun (film) Philippe Rousselot 61st Academy Awards Who Framed Roger Rabbit 62nd Academy Awards Glory (1989 film) The Fabulous Baker Boys Mikael Salomon 63rd Academy Awards Dean Semler Avalon (1990 film) Dick Tracy (1990 film) 64th Academy Awards Adrian Biddle Bugsy Stephen Goldblatt Adam Greenberg (cinematographer) 65th Academy Awards Stephen H. Burum Hoffa Robert Fraisse (cinematographer) The Lover (film) Unforgiven Howards End (film) 66th Academy Awards The Fugitive (1993 film) Stuart Dryburgh The Piano 67th Academy Awards John Toll Don Burgess (cinematographer) Forrest Gump The Shawshank Redemption 68th Academy Awards Braveheart Michael Coulter Sense and Sensibility (film) Batman Forever Emmanuel Lubezki Shanghai Triad 69th Academy Awards The English Patient (film) Darius Khondji Evita (Film) Michael Collins (Film) 70th Academy Awards Russell Carpenter Kundun Dante Spinotti L.A. Confidential (Film) 71st Academy Awards Saving Private Ryan Remi Adefarasin Elizabeth (Film) Shakespeare in Love The Thin Red Line (1998 film) 72nd Academy Awards American Beauty (Film) Roger Pratt (cinematographer) The Insider (film) 73rd Academy Awards Peter Pau The Patriot (2000 film) Lajos Koltai John Mathieson (cinematographer) Gladiator (2000 film) 74th Academy Awards Andrew Lesnie Bruno Delbonnel 75th Academy Awards Gangs of New York Dion Beebe Chicago (2002 film) The Pianist (2002 film) Edward Lachman Far from Heaven 76th Academy Awards Russell Boyd City of God (2002 film) John Schwartzman 77th Academy Awards The Aviator (2004 film) The Passion of the Christ The Phantom of the Opera (2004 film) 78th Academy Awards Memoirs of a Geisha (film) The New World (2005 film) Wally Pfister Batman Begins Rodrigo Prieto Brokeback Mountain Guillermo Navarro Children of Men Dick Pope (cinematographer) There Will Be Blood Seamus McGarvey Atonement (film) No Country for Old Men (film) 81st Academy Awards Anthony Dod Mantle Tom Stern (cinematographer) Claudio Miranda The Dark Knight (film) The Reader (2008 film) 82nd Academy Awards Mauro Fiore Christian Berger Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (film) Barry Ackroyd Inglourious Basterds 83rd Academy Awards Inception Danny Cohen (cinematographer) Jeff Cronenweth The Social Network True Grit (2010 film) 84th Academy Awards Hugo (film) The Tree of Life (film) Guillaume Schiffman The Artist (Film) Anna Karenina (2012 film) Lincoln (2012 film) Django Unchained Gravity (Film) The Grandmaster (film) Inside Llewyn Davis Phedon Papamichael Nebraska (film) Prisoners (2013 film) Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Academy Award for Best Picture Academy Award for Best Director Academy Award for Best Actor Academy Award for Best Actress Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay) Academy Award for Best Production Design Academy Award for Best Sound Academy Award for Best Film Editing Academy Award for Best Sound Editing Academy Award for Best Visual Effects Academy Award for Best Original Score Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject) Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award for Best Assistant Director Academy Award for Best Story Academy Award for Best Dance Direction
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