Who Won Cinematography Oscars?
From "Sunrise" in 1929 to "Oppenheimer" in 2024, the Academy Awards have recognized great achievement in cinematography throughout the years. Other classic films to have won the Oscar for Cinematography include "Titanic", "Dances With Wolves", "Ben-Hur", "On the Waterfront" and "Gone With the Wind".
| 2024 (96th) |
Oppenheimer Hoyte van Hoytema, cinematographer Other Nominees: El Conde; Killers Of The Flower Moon; Maestro; Poor Things |
| 2023 (95th) |
All Quiet On The Western Front James Friend Other Nominees: Bardo, False Chronicle Of A Handful Of Truths; Elvis; Empire Of Light; Tar |
| 2022 (94th) |
Dune Greig Fraser Other Nominees: Nightmare Alley; The Power of the Dog; The Tragedy of Macbeth; West Side Story |
| 2021 (93rd) |
Mank Erik Messerschmidt Other Nominees: Judas And The Black Messiah; News Of The World; Nomadland; The Trial Of The Chicago 7 |
| 2020 (92nd) |
1917 Roger Deakins Other Nominees: The Irishman; Joker; The Lighthouse; Once Upon A Time In Hollywood |
| 2019 (91st) |
Roma Alfonso Cuarón Other Nominees: Cold War; The Favourite; Never Look Away; A Star Is Born |
| 2018 (90th) |
Blade Runner 2049 Roger Deakins Other Nominees: Darkest Hour; Dunkirk; Mudbound; The Shape Of Water |
| 2017 (89th) |
La La Land Linus Sandgren Other Nominees: Arrival; Lion; Moonlight; Silence |
| Year | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | The Revenant | Emmanuel Lubezki |  |
| 2015 | Birdman | Emmanuel Lubezki |  |
| 2014 | Gravity | Emmanuel Lubezki |  |
| 2013 | Life Of Pi | Claudio Miranda |  |
| 2012 | Hugo | Robert Richardson |  |
| 2011 | Inception | Wally Pfister |  |
| 2010 | Avatar | Mauro Fiore |  |
| 2009 | Slumdog Millionaire | Anthony Dod Mantle |  |
| 2008 | There Will Be Blood | Robert Elswit |  |
| 2007 | Pan's Labyrinth | Guillermo Navarro |  |
| 2006 | Memoirs Of A Geisha | Dion Beebe |  |
| 2005 | The Aviator | Robert Richardson |  |
| 2004 | Master And Commander | Russell Boyd |  |
| 2003 | Road To Perdition | Conrad L. Hall |  |
| 2002 | The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring | Andrew Lesnie |  |
| 2001 | Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon | Peter Pau |  |
| 2000 | American Beauty | Conrad L. Hall |  |
| 1999 | Saving Private Ryan | Janusz Kaminski |  |
| 1998 | Titanic | Russell Carpenter |  |
| 1997 | The English Patient | John Seale |  |
| 1996 | Braveheart | John Toll |  |
| 1995 | Legends Of The Fall | John Toll |  |
| 1994 | Schindler's List | Janusz Kaminski |  |
| 1993 | A River Runs Through It | Philippe Rousselot |  |
| 1992 | JFK | Robert Richardson |  |
| 1991 | Dances With Wolves | Dean Semler |  |
| 1990 | Glory | Freddie Francis |  |
| 1989 | Mississippi Burning | Peter Biziou |  |
| 1988 | The Last Emperor | Vittorio Storaro |  |
| 1987 | The Mission | Chris Menges |  |
| 1986 | Out Of Africa | David Watkin |  |
| 1985 | The Killing Fields | Chris Menges |  |
| 1984 | Fanny & Alexander | Sven Nykvist |  |
| 1983 | Gandhi | Billy Williams & Ronnie Taylor |  |
| 1982 | Reds | Vittorio Storaro |  |
| 1981 | Tess | Geoffrey Unsworth & Ghislain Cloquet |  |
| 1980 | Apocalypse Now | Vittorio Storaro |  |
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| 1979 Days Of Heaven | |
| Nestor Almendros | |
| Other Nominees: The Deer Hunter; Heaven Can Wait; Same Time Next Year; The Wiz | |
| 1978 Close Encounters of the Third Kind | |
| Vilmos Zsigmond | |
| Other Nominees: Islands In the Stream; Julia; Looking For Mr Goodbar; The Turning Point | |
| 1977 Bound For Glory | |
| Haskell Wexler | |
| Other Nominees: King Kong; Logan's Run; Network; A Star Is Born | |
| 1976 Barry Lyndon | |
| John Alcott | |
| Other Nominees: The Day of the Locust; Funny Lady; The Hindenburg; One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | |
| 1975 The Towering Inferno | |
| Fred Koenekamp; Joseph Biroc | |
| Other Nominees: Chinatown; Earthquake; Lenny; Murder On the Orient Express | |
| 1974 Cries and Whispers | |
| Sven Nykvist | |
| Other Nominees: The Exorcist; Jonathan Livingston Seagull; The Sting; The Way We Were | |
| 1973 Cabaret | |
| Geoffrey Unsworth | |
| Other Nominees: Butterflies Are Free; The Poseidon Adventure; 1776; Travels With My Aunt | |
| 1972 Fiddler On The Roof | |
| Oswald Morris | |
| Other Nominees: The French Connection; The Last Picture Show; Nicholas and Alexandra; Summer of '42 | |
| 1971 Ryan's Daughter | |
| Freddie Young | |
| Other Nominees: Airport; Patton; Tora! Tora! Tora!; Women In Love | |
| 1970 Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid | |
| Conrad Hall | |
| Other Nominees: Anne of the Thousand Days; Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice; Hello Dolly!; Marooned | |
| 1969 Romeo and Juliet | |
| Pasqualino De Santis | |
| Other Nominees: Funny Girl; Ice Station Zebra; Oliver!; Star! | |
| 1968 Bonnie and Clyde | |
| Burnett Guffrey | |
| Other Nominees: Camelot; Doctor Dolittle; The Graduate; In Cold Blood | |
| 1967 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | |
| Haskell Wexler | |
| Other Nominees: The Fortune Cookie; Georgy Girl; Is Paris Burning?; Seconds | |
| 1967 A Man For All Seasons | |
| Ted Moore | |
| Other Nominees: Fantastic Voyage; Hawaii; The Professionals; The Sand Pebbles | |
| 1966 Ship of Fools | |
| Ernest Laszlo | |
| Other Nominees: In Harm's Way; King Rat; Morituri; A Patch of Blue | |
| 1966 Doctor Zhivago | |
| Freddie Young | |
| Other Nominees: The Agony and the Ecstasy; The Great Race; The Greatest Story Ever Told; The Sound of Music | |
| 1965 Zorba the Greek | |
| Walter Lassally | |
| Other Nominees: The Americanization of Emily; Fate Is the Hunter; Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte; The Night of the Iguana | |
| 1965 My Fair Lady | |
| Harry Stradling | |
| Other Nominees: Becket; Cheyenne Autumn; Mary Poppins; The Unsinkable Molly Brown | |
| 1964 Hud | |
| James Wong Howe | |
| Other Nominees: The Balcony; The Caretakers; Lilies Of the Field; Love with the Proper Stranger | |
| 1964 Cleopatra | |
| Leon Shamroy | |
| Other Nominees: The Cardinal; How the West Was Won; Irma La Douce; It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World | |
| 1963 The Longest Day | |
| Jean Bourgoin; Walter Wottitz | |
| Other Nominees: Birdman of Alcatraz; To Kill A Mockingbird; Two For the Seesaw; What Ever Happened To Baby Jane? | |
| 1963 Lawrence of Arabia | |
| Fred A Young | |
| Other Nominees: Gypsy; Hatari!; Mutiny On the Bounty; The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm | |
| 1962 The Hustler | |
| Eugen Shuftan | |
| Other Nominees: The Absent Minded Professor; The Children's Hour; Judgment at Nuremberg; One Two Three | |
| 1962 West Side Story | |
| Daniel L Fapp | |
| Other Nominees: Fanny; Flower Drum Song; A Majority of One; One-Eyed Jacks | |
| 1961 Sons and Lovers | |
| Freddie Francis | |
| Other Nominees: The Apartment; The Facts of Life; Inherit the Wind; Psycho | |
| 1961 Spartacus | |
| Russell Metty | |
| Other Nominees: The Alamo; Butterfield 8; Exodus; Pepe | |
| 1960 The Diary of Anne Frank | |
| William C Mellor | |
| Other Nominees: Anatomy of a Murder; Career; Some Like It Hot; The Young Philadelphians | |
| 1960 Ben-Hur | |
| Robert L Surtees | |
| Other Nominees: The Big Fisherman; The Five Pennies; The Nun's Story; Porgy and Bess | |
| 1959 The Defiant Ones | |
| Sam Leavitt | |
| Other Nominees: Desire Under the Elms; I Want To Live!; Separate Tables; The Young Lions | |
| 1959 Gigi | |
| Joseph Ruttenberg | |
| Other Nominees: Auntie Mame; Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; The Old Man and the Sea; South Pacific | |
| 1958 The Bridge On The River Kwai | |
| Jack Hildyard | |
| Other Nominees: An Affair To Remember; Funny Face; Peyton Place; Sayonara | |
| 1957 Somebody Up There Likes Me | |
| Joseph Ruttenberg | |
| Other Nominees: Baby Doll; The Bad Seed; The Harder They Fall; Stagecoach to Fury | |
| 1957 Around The World In 80 Days | |
| Lionel Lindon | |
| Other Nominees: The Eddy Duchin Story; The King and I; The Ten Commandments; War and Peace | |
| 1956 The Rose Tattoo | |
| James Wong Howe | |
| Other Nominees: Blackboard Jungle; I'll Cry Tomorrow; Marty; Queen Bee | |
| 1956 To Catch A Thief ("To Catch a Thief") | |
| Robert Burks | |
| Other Nominees: Guys and Dolls; Love Is A Many Splendored Thing; A Man Called Peter; Oklahoma! | |
| 1955 On The Waterfront | |
| Boris Kaufman | |
| Other Nominees: The Country Girl; Executive Suite; Rogue Cop; Sabrina | |
| 1955 Three Coins in the Fountain ("Three Coins In the Fountain") | |
| Milton Krasner | |
| Other Nominees: The Egyptian; Rear Window; Seven Brides for Seven Brothers; The Silver Chair | |
| 1954 From Here To Eternity | |
| Burnett Guffrey | |
| Other Nominees: The Four Poster; Julius Caesar; Martin Luther; Roman Holiday | |
| 1954 Shane | |
| Loyal Griggs | |
| Other Nominees: All the Brothers Were Valiant; Beneath the 12-Mile Reef; Lili; The Robe | |
| 1953 The Bad and the Beautiful | |
| Robert Surtees | |
| Other Nominees: The Big Sky; My Cousin Rachel; Navajo; Sudden Fear | |
| 1953 The Quiet Man | |
| Winton Hoch; Archie Stout | |
| Other Nominees: Hans Christian Andersen; Ivanhoe; Million Dollar Mermaid; The Snows of Kilimanjaro | |
| 1952 A Place In The Sun | |
| William C Mellor | |
| Other Nominees: Death of a Salesman; The Frogmen; Strangers on a Train; A Streetcar Named Desire | |
| 1952 An American In Paris | |
| Alfred Gilks | |
| Other Nominees: David and Bathsheba; Quo Vadis; Show Boat; When Worlds Collide | |
| 1951 The Third Man | |
| Robert Krasker | |
| Other Nominees: All About Eve; The Asphalt Jungle; The Furies; Sunset Blvd | |
| 1951 King Solomon's Mines | |
| Robert Surtees | |
| Other Nominees: Annie Get Your Gun; Broken Arrow; The Flame and the Arrow; Samson and Delilah | |
| 1950 Battleground | |
| Paul C Vogel | |
| Other Nominees: Champion; Come To the Stable; The Heiress; Prince of Foxes | |
| 1950 She Wore A Yellow Ribbon | |
| Winton Hoch | |
| Other Nominees: The Barkleys of Broadway; Jolson Sings Again; Little Women; Sand | |
| 1949 The Naked City | |
| William Daniels | |
| Other Nominees: A Foreign Affair; I Remember Mama; Johnny Belinda; Portrait of Jennie | |
| 1949 Joan of Arc | |
| Joseph Valentine; William V Skall; Winton Hoch | |
| Other Nominees: Green Grass of Wyoming; The Loves of Carmen; The Three Musketeers | |
| 1948 Great Expectations | |
| Guy Green | |
| Other Nominees: The Ghost and Mrs Muir; Green Dolphin Street | |
| 1948 Black Narcissus | |
| Jack Cardiff | |
| Other Nominees: Life With Father; Mother Wore Tights | |
| 1947 Anna And The King Of Siam | |
| Arthur Miller | |
| Other Nominees: The Green Years | |
| 1947 The Yearling | |
| Charles Rosher; Leonard Smith; Arthur Arling | |
| Other Nominees: The Jolson Story | |
| 1946 The Picture Of Dorian Gray | |
| Harry Stradling | |
| Other Nominees: The Keys of the Kingdom; The Lost Weekend; Mildred Pierce; Spellbound | |
| 1946 Leave Her To Heaven | |
| Leon Shamroy | |
| Other Nominees: Anchors Aweigh; National Velvet; A Song To Remember | |
| 1945 Laura | |
| Joseph LaShelle | |
| Other Nominees: Double Indemnity; Dragon Seed; Gaslight; Going My Way; Lifeboat; Since You Went Away; Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo; The Uninvited; The White Cliffs of Dover | |
| 1945 Wilson | |
| Leon Shamroy | |
| Other Nominees: Cover Girl; Home In Indiana; Kismet; Lady In the Dark; Meet Me In St Louis | |
| 1944 The Song of Bernadette | |
| Arthur Miller | |
| Other Nominees: Air Force; Casablanca; Corvette K-225; Five Graves To Cairo; The Human Comedy; Madame Curie; The North Star; Sahara; So Proudly We Hail! | |
| 1944 Phantom of the Opera | |
| Hal Mohr; W Howard Greene | |
| Other Nominees: For Whom the Bell Tolls; Heaven Can Wait; Hello Frisco Hello; Lassie Come Home; Thousands Cheer | |
| 1943 Mrs Miniver | |
| Joseph Ruttenberg | |
| Other Nominees: Kings Row; The Magnificent Ambersons; Moontide; The Pied Piper; The Pride of the Yankees; Take a Letter Darling; The Talk of the Town; Ten Gentlemen from West Point; This Above All | |
| 1943 The Black Swan | |
| Leon Shamroy | |
| Other Nominees: Arabian Nights; Captains of the Clouds; Jungle Book; Reap the Wild Wind; To the Shores of Tripoli | |
| 1942 How Green Was My Valley | |
| Arthur Miller | |
| Other Nominees: The Chocolate Soldier; Citizen Kane; Dr Jeckyll and Mr Hyde; Here Comes Mr Jordan; Hold Back the Dawn; Sergeant York; Sun Valley Serenade; Sundown; That Hamilton Woman | |
| 1942 Blood and Sand | |
| Ernest Palmer; Ray Rennahan | |
| Other Nominees: Aloma of the South Seas; Billy the Kid; Blossoms in the Dust; Dive Bomber; Louisana Purchase | |
| 1941 Rebecca | |
| George Barnes | |
| Other Nominees: Abe Lincoln In Illinois; All This and Heaven Too; Arise My Love; Boom Town; Foreign Correspondent; The Letter; The Long Voyage Home; Spring Parade; Waterloo Bridge | |
| 1941 The Thief of Bagdad | |
| Georges Perinal | |
| Other Nominees: Bitter Sweet; The Blue Bird; Down Argentine Way; North West Mounted Police; Northwest Passage | |
| 1940 Wuthering Heights | |
| Gregg Toland | |
| Other Nominees: Stagecoach | |
| 1940 Gone With the Wind | |
| Ernest Haller; Ray Rennahan | |
| Other Nominees: The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex | |
| 1939 The Great Waltz | |
| Joseph Ruttenberg | |
| Other Nominees: Algiers; Army Girl; The Buccaneer; Jezebel; Mad About Music; Merrily We Live; Suez; Vivacious Lady; You Can't Take It With You; The Young In Heart | |
| 1938 The Good Earth | |
| Karl Freund | |
| Other Nominees: Dead End; Wings Over Honolulu | |
| 1937 Anthony Adverse | |
| Gaetano Gaudio | |
| Other Nominees: The General Died At Dawn; The Gorgeous Hussy | |
| 1936 A Midsummer Night's Dream | |
| Hal Mohr | |
| Other Nominees: Barbary Coast; The Crusades; Les Miserables | |
| 1935 Cleopatra | |
| Victor Milner | |
| Other Nominees: The Affairs of Cellini; Operator 13 | |
| 1934 A Farewell To Arms | |
| Charles Bryant Lang Jr | |
| Other Nominees: Reunion In Vienna; The Sign of the Cross | |
| 1932 Shanghai Express | |
| Lee Garmes | |
| Other Nominees: Arrowsmith; Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde | |
| 1931 Tabu | |
| Floyd Crosby | |
| Other Nominees: Cimarron; Morocco; The Right To Love; Svengali | |
| 1930 With Byrd At the South Pole | |
| Joseph T Rucker; Willard Van Der Veer | |
| Other Nominees: All Quiet On the Western Front; Anna Christie; Hell's Angels; The Love Parade | |
| 1930 White Shadows in the South Seas | |
| Clyde de Vinna | |
| Other Nominees: Our Dancing Daughters; In Old Arizona; Four Devils; The Divine Lady | |
| 1929 Sunrise | |
| Charles Rosher; Karl Struss | |
| Other Nominees: The Devil Dancer; The Magic Flame; Sadie Thompson | |