Oscar Winners-Best Cinematography
The Academy Award for Best Cinematography is awarded each year to a cinematographer for work on one particular motion picture. From 1939 to 1967, there were 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 award for Tabu in 1931, which was the last silent film to win in this category. Hal Mohr was the first person to win for both black-and-white and color cinematography. In 2009, Slumdog Millionaire became the first film to win that was primarily shot on digital video. The following year Avatar was the first nominee and winner to be shot entirely on digital video.
At the 90th Academy Awards, Rachel Morrison earned a nomination for her work on Mudbound, making her the first woman ever recognized in this category.
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Winners: 2019-1985
2019 Winner & Nominees
Joker, eVideo; DVD 21630; HDDVD 808
The Lighthouse, DVD 21781; HDDVD 813
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, DVD 21254;
2018-Roma, DVD 21808; HDDVD 842
2017-Blade Runner 2049, DVD 19255; HDDVD 550
2016- La La Land, eVideo; DVD 18746; HDDVD 495
2015-The Revenant, DVD 17142; HDDVD 455
2014-Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of
Ignorance, DVD 15492; HDDVD 401
2013-Gravity, DVD 14274; HDDVD 310
2012-Life of Pi, DVD 12864; HDDVD 218
2011-Hugo, eVideo; DVD 11392; HDDVD 114
2010-Inception, eVideo; DVD 8484; HDDVD 33
2009-Avatar, DVD 7233; HDDVD 1
2008-Slumdog Millionaire, DVD 6368; HDDVD 251
2007-There Will Be Blood, eVideo; DVD 11257;
2006-Pan’s Labyrinth, eVideo; DVD 3586;
2005-Memoirs of a Geisha, eVideo; DVD 2480
2004-The Aviator, DVD 16627;
2003-Master and Commander: The Far
2002-Road to Perdition, eVideo; DVD 642
2001-The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring,
2000-Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, DVD 380;
1999-American Beauty, eVideo; DVD 245
1998-Saving Private Ryan, eVideo; DVD 2522;
1997-Titanic, eVideo; DVD 2734; HDDVD 175
1996-The English Patient, eVideo; DVD 4637
1995-Braveheart, DVD 2129
1994-Legends of the Fall, DVD 4532
1993-Schindler’s List, DVD 901; HDDVD 281
1992-A River Runs Through It, DVD 582
1991-JFK, DVD 5058
1990-Dances with Wolves, eVideo; DVD 2797
1989-Glory, eVideo; DVD 4180
1988-Mississippi Burning, eVideo; DVD 2721
1987-The Last Emperor, DVD 3718
1986-The Mission, eVideo; DVD 4271;
Winners: 1984-1955
1984-The Killing Fields, eVideo; DVD 5084
1983-Fanny and Alexander, DVD 1466; HDDVD 709
1982-Gandhi, DVD 3952; HDDVD 249
1981-Reds, DVD 2906
1980-Tess, HDDVD 331
1979-Apocalypse Now, DVD 4116; HDDVD 51
1977-Close Encounters of the Third Kind,
1976-Bound for Glory, DVD 3138
1975-Barry Lyndon, eVideo; DVD 4289;
1974-The Towering Inferno, DVD 5481
1973-Cries and Whispers, DVD 7195
1972-Cabaret, eVideo; DVD 12; HDDVD 327
1971-Fiddler on the Roof, eVideo; DVD 14
1970-Ryan’s Daughter, DVD 15749
1969-Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, DVD 5222
1968-Romeo and Juliet, eVideo; DVD 575
1967-Bonnie and Clyde, eVideo; DVD 10; HDDVD 533
1966-(Color) A Man for All Seasons, eVideo;
(B&W) Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, eVideo; DVD 52
1965-(Color) Doctor Zhivago, DVD 7330; HDDVD 420
(B&W) Ship of Fools, DVD 4685
1964-(Color) My Fair Lady, eVideo; DVD 13208;
(B&W) Zorba the Greek
1963-(Color) Cleopatra, DVD 1300; HDDVD 245
(B&W) Hud, DVD 5258
1962-(Color) Lawrence of Arabia, DVD 1301;
(B&W) The Longest Day, DVD 3690
1961-(Color) West Side Story, eVideo; DVD 638;
(B&W) The Hustler, DVD 5261
1960-(Color) Spartacus, eVideo; DVD 4337
(B&W) Sons and Lovers
1959-(Color) Ben-Hur, DVD 6165; HDDVD 109
(B&W) The Diary of Anne Frank, DVD 6570
1958-(Color) Gigi, DVD 192
(B&W) The Defiant Ones, eVideo; DVD 517
1957-The Bridge on the River Kwai, eVideo;
1956-(Color) Around the World in 80 Days, DVD 1201
(B&W) Somebody Up There Likes Me, DVD 5624
1955-(Color) To Catch a Thief, DVD 10363
Winners: 1954-1927
1954-(Color) Three Coins in the Fountain
(B&W) On the Waterfront, eVideo;
1953-(Color) Shane, DVD 4585; HDDVD 259
(B&W) From Here to Eternity, eVideo; DVD 5906
1952-(Color) The Quiet Man, DVD 7322
(B&W) The Bad and the Beautiful, DVD 1184
1951-(Color) An American in Paris, eVideo; DVD 138;
(B&W) A Place in the Sun, eVideo; DVD 9540
1950-(Color) King Solomon’s Mines
(B&W) The Third Man, DVD 1317
1949-(Color) She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, DVD 9590
(B&W) Battleground
1948-(Color) Joan of Arc, DVD 1018
(B&W) The Naked City, DVD 581
1947-(Color) Black Narcissus, DVD 7876
(B&W) Great Expectations, DVD 2485
1946-(Color) The Yearling, DVD 13769
(B&W) Anna and the King of Siam
1945-(Color) Leave Her to Heaven, DVD 4283;
(B&W) The Picture of Dorian Gray, DVD 5293
1944-(Color) Wilson
(B&W) Laura, DVD 10337
1943-(Color) Phantom of the Opera, DVD 13829
(B&W) The Song of Bernadette, DVD 7387
1942-(Color) The Black Swan
(B&W) Mrs. Miniver, DVD 2775
1941-(Color) Blood and Sand, DVD 14402
(B&W) How Green Was My Valley, DVD 796; DVD 5504
1940-(Color) Thief of Bagdad, DVD 5008
(B&W) Rebecca, DVD 2394; HDDVD 553
1939-(Color) Gone with the Wind, eVideo; DVD 190;
(B&W) Wuthering Heights, DVD 63
1938-(Color) Sweethearts
(B&W) The Great Waltz
1937-(Color) A Star is Born, DVD 68
(B&W) The Good Earth, DVD 7297
1936-(Color) The Garden of Allah, DVD 15785
(B&W) Anthony Adverse, DVD 16846
1935-A Midsummer Night’s Dream, eVideo; DVD 7916
1934-Cleopatra, DVD 15604
1933/32-A Farewell to Arms, DVD 4012
1932/31-Shanghai Express, eVideo; DVD 14873
1931/30-Tabu: A Story of the South Seas, VHS 2873
1930/29-With Byrd at the South Pole, eVideo; DVD 212
1929/28-White Shadows in the South Seas