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Academy Award for Best Cinematography
The Academy Award for Best Cinematography is awarded each year to a cinematographer for his work in one particular motion picture.List of Winners
| Year | Cinemotographer | Picture |
| 1928 | Charles Rosher and Karl Struss | Sunrise |
| 1929 | Clyde DeVinna | White Shadows in the South Seas |
| 1930 | Joseph T. Rucker and Willard Van Der | 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 |
| 1936 | Gaetano Gaudio | Anthony Adverse |
| 1937 | Karl Freund | The Good Earth |
| 1938 | Joseph Ruttenberg | The Great Waltz |
| 1939 | Gregg Toland (b&w) Ernest Haller and Ray Rennahan (color) |
Wuthering Heights Gone with the Wind |
| 1940 |
George Barnes(b&w) George Perinal(color) |
Rebecca The Thief of Bagdad |
| 1941 |
Arthur Miller(b&w) Ernest Palmer and Ray Rennahan(color) |
How Green Was My Valley Blood and Sand |
| 1942 |
Joseph Ruttenberg, Mrs. Miniver (b&w) Leon Shamroy(color) |
Mrs. Miniver The Black Swan |
| 1943 |
Arthur Miller(b&w) Hal Mohr and W. Howard Greene (color) |
The Song of Bernadette The Phantom of the Opera |
| 1944 |
Joseph LaShelle(b&w) Leon Shamroy(color) |
Laura Wilson |
| 1945 |
Harry Stradling(b&w) Leon Shamroy(color) |
Picture of Dorian Gray Leave Her to Heaven |
| 1946 |
Arthur Miller(b&w) Charles Rosher, Leonard Smith and Arthur Arling(color) |
Anna and the King of Siam The Yearling |
| 1947 |
Guy Green (b&w) Jack Cardiff(color) |
Great Expectations Black Narcissus |
| 1948 |
William Daniels(b&w) Joseph Valentine, William V. Skall and Winton Hoch(color) |
The Naked City Joan of Arc |
| 1949 |
Paul C. Vogel(b&w) Winton Hoch(color) |
Battleground She Wore a Yellow Ribbon |
| 1950 |
Robert Krasker(b&w) Robert Surtees(color) |
The Third Man King Solomon's Mines |
| 1951 |
William C. Mellor(b&w) Alfred Gilks and John Alton(color) |
A Place in the Sun An American in Paris |
| 1952 |
Robert Surtees(b&w) Winton Hoch and Archie Stout (color) |
The Bad and the Beautiful The Quiet Man |
| 1953 |
Burnett Guffey(b&w) Burnett Guffey(color) |
From Here to Eternity Shane |
| 1954 |
Boris Kaufman(b&w) Milton R. Krasner(color) |
On the Waterfront Three Coins in the Fountain |
| 1955 |
James Wong Howe(b&w) Robert Burks(color) |
The Rose Tattoo To Catch a Thief |
| 1956 |
Joseph Ruttenberg(b&w) Lionel Lindon (color) |
Somebody Up There Likes Me Around the World in Eighty Days |
| 1957 | Jack Hildyard | The Bridge on the River Kwai |
| 1958 |
Sam Leavitt(b&w) Joseph Ruttenberg (color) |
The Defiant Ones Gigi |
| 1959 |
William C. Mellor(b&w) Robert Surtees(color) |
The Diary of Anne Frank Ben-Hur |
| 1960 |
Freddie Francis(b&w) Russel Metty (color) |
Sons and Lovers Spartacus |
| 1961 |
Eugen Shuftan(b&w) Daniel P. Fapp(color) |
The Hustler West Side Story |
| 1962 |
Jean Bourgoin and Walter Wottitz(b&w) Freddie Young(color) |
The Longest Day Lawrence of Arabia |
| 1963 |
James Wong Howe(b&w) Leon Shamroy(color) |
Hud Cleopatra |
| 1964 |
Walter Lassally(b&w) Harry Stradling(color) |
Zorba the Greek My Fair Lady |
| 1965 |
Ernest Laszlo(b&w) Freddie Young(color) |
Ship of Fools Doctor Zhivago |
| 1966 |
Haskell Wexler(b&w) Ted Moore(color) |
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? A Man for All Seasons |
| 1967 | Burnett Guffey | Bonnie & Clyde |
| 1968 | Pasqualino De Santis | Romeo and Juliet |
| 1969 | Conrad Hall | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid |
| 1970 | Freddie Young | Ryan's Daughter |
| 1971 | Oswald Morris | Fiddler on the Roof |
| 1972 | Geoffrey Unsworth | Cabaret |
| 1973 | Sven Nykvist | Cries and Whispers |
| 1974 | Fred Koenekamp and Joseph Biroc | The Towering Inferno |
| 1975 | John Alcott | Barry Lyndon |
| 1976 | Haskell Wexler | Bound for Glory |
| 1977 | Vilmos Zsigmond | Close Encounters of the Third Kind |
| 1978 | Nestor Almendros | Days of Heaven |
| 1979 | Vittorio Storaro | Apocalypse Now |
| 1980 | Geoffrey Unsworth and Ghislaine Cloquet | Tess |
| 1981 | Vittorio Storaro | Reds |
| 1982 | Billy Williams and Ronnie Taylor | Gandhi |
| 1983 | Sven Nykvist | Fanny and Alexander |
| 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 |
| 1990 | Dean Semler | Dances with Wolves |
| 1991 | Robert Richardson | JFK |
| 1992 | Philippe Rousselot | A River Runs Through It |
| 1993 | Janusz Kaminski | 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 Kaminski | Saving Private Ryan |
| 1999 | Conrad Hall | American Beauty |
| 2000 | Peter Pau | Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon |
| 2001 | Andrew Lesnie | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring |
| 2002 | Conrad Hall | Road to Perdition |
| 2003 | Russell Boyd | Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World |
| 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 |
| 2008 | Anthony Dod Mantle | Slumdog Millionaire |
