Best Cinematography Winners I've Seen

  1. 1928- Sunrise (Charles Rosher and Karl Strauss)
  2. 1929- White Shadows in the South Seas (Clyde DeVinna)
  3. 1930- With Byrd at the South Pole (Joseph T. Rucker and Willard Van Der)
  4. 1931- Tabu: A Story of the South Seas (Floyd Crosby)
  5. 1932- Shanghai Express (Lee Garmes)
  6. 1933- A Farewell to Arms (Charles Bryant Lang Jr.)
  7. 1934- Cleopatra (Victor Milner)
  8. 1935- A Midsummer Night's Dream (Hal Mohr)
  9. 1936- Anthony Adverse (Tony Gaudio)
  10. 1937- The Good Earth (Karl Freund)
  11. 1938- The Great Waltz (Joseph Ruttenberg)
  12. 1939 (Black and White)- Wuthering Heights (Gregg Toland)
  13. 1939 (Color)- Gone with the Wind (Ernest Haller and Ray Rennahan)
  14. 1940 (Black and White)- Rebecca (George Barnes)
  15. 1940 (Color)- The Thief of Bagdad (George Perinal)
  16. 1941 (Black and White)- How Green Was My Valley (Arthur C. Miller)
  17. 1941 (Color)- Blood and Sand (Ernest Haller and Ray Rennahan)
  18. 1942 (Black and White)- Mrs. Miniver (Joseph Ruttenberg)
  19. 1942 (Color)- The Black Swan (Leon Shamroy)
  20. 1943 (Black and White)- The Song of Bernadette (Arthur C. Miller)
  21. 1943 (Color)- The Phantom of the Opera (Hal Mohr and W. Howard Greene)
  22. 1944 (Black and White)- Laura (Joseph LaShelle)
  23. 1944 (Color)- Wilson (Leon Shamroy)
  24. 1945 (Black and White)- The Picture of Dorian Gray (Harry Stradling)
  25. 1945 (Color)- Leave Her to Heaven (Leon Shamroy)
  26. 1946 (Black and White)- Anna and the King of Siam (Arthur C. Miller)
  27. 1946 (Color)- The Yearling (Charles Rosher, Leonard Smith, and Arthur Arling)
  28. 1947 (Black and White)- Great Expectations (Guy Green)
  29. 1947 (Color)- Black Narcissus (Jack Cardiff)
  30. 1948 (Black and White)- The Naked City (William Daniels)
  31. 1948 (Color)- Joan of Arc (Joseph Valentine, William V. Skall, and Winton Hoch)
  32. 1949 (Black and White)- Battleground (Paul C. Vogel)
  33. 1949 (Color)- She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (Winton Hoch)
  34. 1950 (Black and White)- The Third Man (Robert Krasker)
  35. 1950 (Color)- King Solomon's Mines (Robert Surtees)
  36. 1951 (Black and White)- A Place in the Sun (William C. Mellor)
  37. 1951 (Color)- An American in Paris (Alfred Gilks and John Alton)
  38. 1952 (Black and White)- The Bad and the Beautiful (Robert Surtees)
  39. 1952 (Color)- The Quiet Man (Winton Hoch and Archie Stout)
  40. 1953 (Black and White)- From Here to Eternity (Burnett Guffey)
  41. 1953 (Color)- Shane (Loyal Griggs)
  42. 1954 (Black and White)- On the Waterfront (Boris Kaufman)
  43. 1954 (Color)- Three Coins in the Fountain (Milton R. Krasner)
  44. 1955 (Black and White)- The Rose Tattoo (James Wong Howe)
  45. 1955 (Color)- To Catch a Thief (Robert Burks)
  46. 1956 (Black and White)- Somebody Up There Likes Me (Joseph Ruttenberg)
  47. 1956 (Color)- Around the World in Eighty Days (Lionel Lindon)
  48. 1957- The Bridge on the River Kwai (Jack Hildyard)
  49. 1958 (Black and White)- The Defiant Ones (Sam Leavitt)
  50. 1958 (Color)- Gigi (Joseph Ruttenberg)
  51. 1959 (Black and White)- The Diary of Anne Frank (William C. Mellor)
  52. 1959 (Color)- Ben-Hur (Robert Surtees)
  53. 1960 (Black and White)- Sons and Lovers (Freddie Francis)
  54. 1960 (Color)- Spartacus (Russell Metty)
  55. 1961 (Black and White)- The Hustler (Eugen Schufftan)
  56. 1961 (Color)- West Side Story (Daniel L. Fapp)
  57. 1962 (Black and White)- The Longest Day (Jean Bourgoin and Walter Wottitz)
  58. 1962 (Color)- Lawrence of Arabia (Freddie Young)
  59. 1963 (Black and White)- Hud (James Wong Howe)
  60. 1963 (Color)- Cleopatra (Leon Shamroy)
  61. 1964 (Black and White)- Zorba the Greek (Walter Lassally)
  62. 1964 (Color)- My Fair Lady (Harry Stradling)
  63. 1965 (Black and White)- Ship of Fools (Ernest Laszlo)
  64. 1965 (Color)- Doctor Zhivago (Freddie Young)
  65. 1966 (Black and White)- Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Haskell Wexler)
  66. 1966 (Color)- A Man for All Seasons (Ted Moore)
  67. 1967- Bonnie and Clyde (Burnett Guffey)
  68. 1968- Romeo and Juliet (Pasqualino De Santis)
  69. 1969- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (Conrad L. Hall)
  70. 1970- Ryan's Daughter (Freddie Young)
  71. 1971- Fiddler on the Roof (Oswald Morris)
  72. 1972- Cabaret (Geoffrey Unsworth)
  73. 1973- Cries and Whispers (Sven Nykvist)
  74. 1974- The Towering Inferno (Fred Koenekamp and Joseph Biroc)
  75. 1975- Barry Lyndon (John Alcott)
  76. 1976- Bound for Glory (Haskell Wexler)
  77. 1977- Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Vilmos Zsigmond)
  78. 1978- Days of Heaven (Nestor Almendros)
  79. 1979- Apocalypse Now (Vittorio Storaro)
  80. 1980- Tess (Geoffrey Unsworth and Ghislain Cloquet)
  81. 1981- Reds (Vittorio Storaro)
  82. 1982- Gandhi (Billy Williams and Ronnie Taylor)
  83. 1983- Fanny and Alexander (Sven Nykvist)
  84. 1984- The Killing Fields (Chris Menges)
  85. 1985- Out of Africa (David Watkin)
  86. 1986- The Mission (Chris Menges)
  87. 1987- The Last Emperor (Vittorio Storaro)
  88. 1988- Mississippi Burning (Peter Biziou)
  89. 1989- Glory (Freddie Francis)
  90. 1990- Dances with Wolves (Dean Semler)
  91. 1991- JFK (Robert Richardson)
  92. 1992- A River Runs Through It (Philippe Rousselot)
  93. 1993- Schindler's List (Janusz Kaminski)
  94. 1994- Legends of the Fall (John Toll)
  95. 1995- Braveheart (John Toll)
  96. 1996- The English Patient (John Seale)
  97. 1997- Titanic (Russell Carpenter)
  98. 1998- Saving Private Ryan (Janusz Kaminski)
  99. 1999- American Beauty (Conrad L. Hall)
  100. 2000- Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Peter Pau)
  101. 2001- The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (Andrew Lesnie)
  102. 2002- Road to Perdition (Conrad L. Hall)
  103. 2003- Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (Russell Boyd)
  104. 2004- The Aviator (Robert Richardson)
  105. 2005- Memoirs of a Geisha (Dion Beebe)
  106. 2006- Pan's Labyrinth (Guillermo Navarro)
  107. 2007- There Will Be Blood (Robert Elswit)
  108. 2008- Slumdog Millionaire (Anthony Dod Mantle)