Academy Award for Best Cinematography
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The Academy Award for Best Cinematography is an Academy Award awarded each year to a cinematographer for work in one particular motion picture.
In its first year, 1927-28, this award (like others such as the acting awards) was not tied to a specific film; all of the work by the nominated cinematographers during the qualifying period was listed after their names. The problem with this system became obvious the first year, since Karl Struss and Charles Rosher were nominated for their work together on Sunrise but three other films shot individually by either Rosher or Struss were also listed as part of the nomination. The second year, 1928-29, there were no nominations at all, although the Academy has a list of unofficial titles which were under consideration by the Board of Judges. In the third year, 1929-30, films, not cinematographers, were nominated, and the final award did not show the cinematographer's name.
Finally, for the 1931 awards, the modern system in which individuals are nominated for a single film each was adopted in all profession-related categories. From 1939 to 1967 (with the single exception of 1957), there were also separate awards for color and for black-and-white cinematography. Since then, the only black-and-white film to win is Schindler's List (1993).
Floyd Crosby won the last Academy Award to go to a silent film for Tabu in 1931. Hal Mohr won the only write-in Academy Award ever, in 1935 for A Midsummer Night's Dream. Mohr was also the first person to win for both black and white and color cinematography.
No winners are lost, although some of the earliest nominees (and of the unofficial nominees of 1928-29) are lost, including The Devil Dancer (1927), The Magic Flame (1927), and Four Devils (1928). The Right To Love (1930) is incomplete, and Sadie Thompson (1927) is incomplete and partially reconstructed with stills.
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1920s
- 1928 - Charles Rosher and Karl Struss, Sunrise
- 1929 - Clyde DeVinna, White Shadows in the South Seas
1930s
- 1930 - Joseph T. Rucker and Willard Van Der Veer, With Byrd at the South Pole
- 1931 - Floyd Crosby, Tabu: A Story of the South Seas
- 1932 - Lee Garmes, Shanghai Express
- 1933 - Charles Bryant Lang. Jr, A Farewell to Arms
- 1934 - Victor Milner, Cleopatra
- 1935 - Hal Mohr, A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Note: This was and still is the only time in the history of the Academy Awards that a write-in candidate won in any category: Mohr had not been nominated by his fellow cinematographers, but won the award on the strength of an overwhelming write-in campaign by the full membership.
- 1936 - Tony Gaudio, Anthony Adverse
- 1937 - Karl Freund, The Good Earth
- 1938 - Joseph Ruttenberg, The Great Waltz
From 1939, there were separate awards for Black and White and for Color:
- 1939
- Gregg Toland, Wuthering Heights (B&W)
- Ernest Haller and Ray Rennahan, Gone with the Wind (Color)
1940s
- 1940
- George Barnes, Rebecca (B&W)
- George Perinal, The Thief of Bagdad (Color)
- 1941
- Arthur C. Miller, How Green Was My Valley (B&W)
- Ernest Palmer and Ray Rennahan, Blood and Sand (Color)
- 1942
- Joseph Ruttenberg, Mrs. Miniver (B&W)
- Leon Shamroy, The Black Swan (Color)
- 1943
- Arthur C. Miller, The Song of Bernadette (B&W)
- Hal Mohr and W. Howard Greene, Phantom of the Opera (Color)
- 1944
- Joseph LaShelle, Laura (B&W)
- Leon Shamroy, Wilson (Color)
- 1945
- Harry Stradling, The Picture of Dorian Gray (B&W)
- Leon Shamroy, Leave Her to Heaven (Color)
- 1946
- Arthur C. Miller, Anna and the King of Siam (B&W)
- Charles Rosher, Leonard Smith and Arthur Arling, The Yearling (Color)
- 1947
- Guy Green, Great Expectations (B&W)
- Jack Cardiff, Black Narcissus (Color)
- 1948
- William H. Daniels, The Naked City (B&W)
- Joseph Valentine, William V. Skall and Winton Hoch, Joan of Arc (Color)
- 1949
- Paul C. Vogel, Battleground (B&W)
- Winton Hoch, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (Color)
1950s
- 1950
- Robert Krasker, The Third Man (B&W)
- All About Eve (1950) - Milton R. Krasner
- Asphalt Jungle, The (1950) - Harold Rosson
- Furies, The (1950) - Victor Milner
- Sunset Blvd. (1950) - John F. Seitz
- Robert Surtees, King Solomon's Mines (Color)
- Annie Get Your Gun (1950) - Charles Rosher
- Broken Arrow (1950) - Ernest Palmer (I)
- Flame and the Arrow, The (1950) - Ernest Haller
- Samson and Delilah (1949) - George Barnes (I)
- Robert Krasker, The Third Man (B&W)
- 1951
- William C. Mellor, A Place in the Sun (B&W)
- Alfred Gilks and John Alton, An American in Paris (Color)
- 1952
- Robert Surtees, The Bad and the Beautiful (B&W)
- Winton Hoch and Archie Stout, The Quiet Man (Color)
- 1953
- Burnett Guffey, From Here to Eternity (B&W)
- Loyal Griggs, Shane (Color)
- 1954
- Boris Kaufman, On the Waterfront (B&W)
- Milton R. Krasner, Three Coins in the Fountain (Color)
- 1955
- James Wong Howe, The Rose Tattoo (B&W)
- Robert Burks, To Catch a Thief (Color)
- 1956
For 1957, there was a single award:
From 1958, there were separate awards for Black and White and for Color:
- 1958
- Sam Leavitt, The Defiant Ones (B&W)
- Joseph Ruttenberg, Gigi (Color)
- 1959
- William C. Mellor, The Diary of Anne Frank (B&W)
- Robert Surtees, Ben-Hur (Color)
1960s
- 1960
- Freddie Francis, Sons and Lovers (B&W)
- Russell Metty, Spartacus (Color)
- 1961
- Eugen Schüfftan, The Hustler (B&W)
- Daniel L. Fapp, West Side Story (Color)
- 1962
- Jean Bourgoin, Walter Wottitz, The Longest Day (B&W)
- Freddie Young, Lawrence of Arabia (Color)
- 1963
- James Wong Howe, Hud (B&W)
- Leon Shamroy, Cleopatra (Color)
- 1964
- Walter Lassally, Zorba the Greek (B&W)
- Harry Stradling, My Fair Lady (Color)
- 1965
- Ernest Laszlo, Ship of Fools (B&W)
- Freddie Young, Doctor Zhivago (Color)
- 1966
- Haskell Wexler, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (B&W)
- Ted Moore, A Man for All Seasons (Color)
From 1967, there was a single award again:
- 1967: Burnett Guffey – Bonnie & Clyde
- 1968: Pasqualino De Santis – Romeo and Juliet
1970s
- 1970: Freddie Young – Ryan's Daughter
- 1971: Oswald Morris – Fiddler on the Roof
- 1972: Geoffrey Unsworth – Cabaret
- 1974: Fred J. Koenekamp and Joseph Biroc – The Towering Inferno
- 1975: John Alcott – Barry Lyndon
- 1976: Haskell Wexler – Bound for Glory
- 1978: Nestor Almendros – Days of Heaven
- 1979: Vittorio Storaro – Apocalypse Now
1980s
- 1980: Geoffrey Unsworth (posthumous award) and Ghislain Cloquet – Tess
- 1981: Vittorio Storaro – Reds
- 1982: Billy Williams and Ronnie Taylor – Gandhi
- 1984: Chris Menges – The Killing Fields
- 1985: David Watkin – Out of Africa
- 1986: Chris Menges – The Mission
- 1987: Vittorio Storaro – The Last Emperor
- 1988: Peter Biziou – Mississippi Burning
- 1989: Freddie Francis – Glory
1990s
- 1990: Dean Semler – Dances with Wolves
- 1991: Robert Richardson – JFK
- 1993: Janusz Kamiński – Schindler's List
- 1994: John Toll – Legends of the Fall
- 1995: John Toll – Braveheart
- 1996: John Seale – The English Patient
- 1997: Russell Carpenter – Titanic
- 1998: Janusz Kamiński – Saving Private Ryan
- 1999: Conrad Hall – American Beauty
2000s
- 2002: Conrad Hall – Road to Perdition (posthumous award)
- 2004: Robert Richardson – The Aviator
- 2005: Dion Beebe – Memoirs of a Geisha
- 2006: Guillermo Navarro – Pan's Labyrinth
- 2007: Robert Elswit – There Will Be Blood
