Academy Award for Best Cinematography

Academy Award for Best Cinematography

The Academy Award for Best Cinematography is awarded each year to a cinematographer for his or her work in one particular motion picture.

1928 - Sunrise
1929 - none given
1930 - none given
1931 - Tabu: A Story of the South Seas[?]
1932 - Shanghai Express
1933 - A Farewell to Arms[?]
1934 - Cleopatra[?]
1935 - A Midsummer Night's Dream[?]
1936 - Anthony Adverse
1937 - The Good Earth
1938 - none given

From 1939, there were separate awards for Black and White and for Color:

1939 - Wuthering Heights (B&W); Gone with the Wind (Color)
1940 - Rebecca (B&W); none given (Color)
1941 - How Green Was My Valley (B&W); Blood and Sand[?] (Color)
1942 - Mrs. Miniver (B&W); The Black Swan[?] (Color)
1943 - The Song of Bernadette (B&W); The Phantom of the Opera[?] (Color)
1944 - Laura[?] (B&W); Wilson (Color)
1945 - Picture of Dorian Gray[?] (B&W); Leave Her to Heaven
1946 - Anna and the King of Siam[?] (B&W); The Yearling[?] (Color)
1947 - Great Expectations (B&W); Black Narcissus (Color)
1948 - The Naked City[?] (B&W); Joan of Arc[?] (Color)
1949 - Battleground[?] (B&W); She Wore a Yellow Ribbon[?] (Color)
1950 - The Third Man (B&W); King Solomon's Mines (Color)
1951 - A Place in the Sun (B&W); An American in Paris[?] (Color)
1952 - The Bad and the Beautiful (B&W); The Quiet Man (Color)
1953 - From Here to Eternity (B&W); Shane (Color)
1954 - On the Waterfront (B&W); Three Coins in the Fountain (Color)
1955 - The Rose Tattoo (B&W); To Catch a Thief (Color)
1956 - Somebody Up There Likes Me[?] (B&W); Around the World in 80 Days[?] (Color)
1957 - none given (B&W); The Bridge on the River Kwai (Color)
1958 - The Defiant Ones (B&W); Gigi (Color)
1959 - The Diary of Anne Frank (B&W); Ben-Hur (Color)
1960 - none given (B&W); Spartacus (Color)
1961 - The Hustler (B&W); West Side Story (Color)
1962 - The Longest Day (B&W); Lawrence of Arabia (Color)
1963 - Hud (B&W); Cleopatra[?] (Color)
1964 - Zorba the Greek (B&W); My Fair Lady (Color)
1965 - Ship of Fools (B&W); Doctor Zhivago (Color)
1966 - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (B&W); A Man for All Seasons (Color)

From 1967, there was a single award again:

1967 - Bonnie & Clyde
1968 - Romeo and Juliet
1969 - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid - Conrad Hall
1970 - Ryan's Daughter
1971 - Fiddler on the Roof
1972 - Cabaret
1973 - Cries and Whispers
1974 - The Towering Inferno
1975 - Barry Lyndon
1976 - Bound for Glory
1977 - Close Encounters of the Third Kind
1978 - Days of Heaven[?]
1979 - Apocalypse Now
1980 - Tess
1981 - Reds
1982 - Gandhi
1983 - Fanny and Alexander[?]
1984 - The Killing Fields
1985 - Out of Africa
1986 - The Mission
1987 - The Last Emperor
1988 - Mississippi Burning
1989 - Glory
1990 - Dances with Wolves
1991 - JFK
1992 - A River Runs Through It[?]
1993 - Schindler's List
1994 - Legends of the Fall[?]
1995 - Braveheart
1996 - The English Patient
1997 - Titanic
1998 - Saving Private Ryan
1999 - American Beauty - Conrad Hall
2000 - Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
2001 - The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
2002 - Road to Perdition[?] - Conrad Hall
- Chicago - Dion Beebe[?]
- Far from Heaven[?] - Edward Lachman[?]
- Gangs of New York - Michael Ballhaus[?]
- The Pianist - Pawel Edelman[?]

See also: Academy Awards