A list of films that won and were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Cinematography.
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1927- 1939
- 1927-28: Sunrise (winner)
- The Devil Dancer
- The Magic Flame
- Sadie Thompson
- 1928-29: White Shadows in the South Seas (winner)
- The Divine Lady
- 4 Devils
- In Old Arizona
- Our Dancing Daughters
- Street Angel
- 1929-30: With Byrd at the South Pole (winner)
- 1930-31: Tabu (winner)
- 1931-32: Shanghai Express (winner)
- 1932-33: A Farewell to Arms (winner)
- Reunion in Vienna
- The Sign of the Cross
- 1934: Cleopatra (1934) (winner)
- The Affairs of Cellini
- Operator 13
- 1935: A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935) (winner)
- Barbary Coast
- The Crusades
- Les Misérables (1935)
- 1936: Anthony Adverse (winner), The Garden of Allah (special achievement in color cinematography)
- The General Died at Dawn
- The Gorgeous Hussy
- 1937: The Good Earth (winner), A Star Is Born (1937) (special achievement in color cinematography)
- Dead End (1937)
- Wings Over Honolulu
- 1938: The Great Waltz (winner), Sweethearts (special achievement in color cinematography)
- Algiers
- Army Girl
- The Buccaneer
- Jezebel
- Mad About Music
- Merrily We Live
- Suez
- Vivacious Lady
- You Can't Take It With You
- The Young in Heart
- 1939:
- Black-and-white: Wuthering Heights (1939) (winner)
- Color: Gone with the Wind (winner)
- The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
1940- 1949
- 1940:
- Black-and-white: Rebecca (winner)
- Abe Lincoln in Illinois
- All This, and Heaven Too
- Arise, My Love
- Boom Town (1940)
- Foreign Correspondent
- The Letter
- The Long Voyage Home
- Spring Parade
- Waterloo Bridge
- Color: The Thief of Bagdad (1940) (winner)
- Bitter Sweet
- The Blue Bird
- Down Argentine Way
- North West Mounted Police
- Northwest Passage
- Black-and-white: Rebecca (winner)
- 1941:
- Black-and-white: How Green Was My Valley (winner)
- The Chocolate Soldier
- Citizen Kane
- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
- Here Comes Mr. Jordan
- Hold Back the Dawn
- Sergeant York
- Sun Valley Serenade
- Sundown
- That Hamilton Woman
- Color: Blood and Sand (winner)
- Aloma of the South Seas
- Billy the Kid
- Blossoms in the Dust
- Dive Bomber
- Louisiana Purchase
- Black-and-white: How Green Was My Valley (winner)
- 1942:
- Black-and-white: Mrs. Miniver (winner)
- Kings Row
- The Magnificent Ambersons
- Moontide
- The Pied Piper
- The Pride of the Yankees
- Take a Letter, Darling
- The Talk of the Town
- Ten Gentlemen from West Point
- This Above All
- Color: The Black Swan (1942) (winner)
- Arabian Nights
- Captains of the Clouds
- Jungle Book
- Reap the Wild Wind
- To the Shores of Tripoli
- Black-and-white: Mrs. Miniver (winner)
- 1943:
- Black-and-white: The Song of Bernadette (winner)
- Color: Phantom of the Opera (1943) (winner)
- For Whom the Bell Tolls
- Heaven Can Wait (1943)
- Hello, Frisco, Hello
- Lassie Come Home
- Thousands Cheer
- 1944:
- Black-and-white: Laura (winner)
- Double Indemnity
- Dragon Seed
- Gaslight
- Going My Way
- Lifeboat
- Since You Went Away
- Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
- The Uninvited (1944)
- The White Cliffs of Dover
- Color: Wilson (winner)
- Cover Girl
- Home in Indiana
- Kismet (1944)
- Lady in the Dark
- Meet Me in St. Louis
- Black-and-white: Laura (winner)
- 1945:
- Black-and-white: The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945) (winner)
- The Keys of the Kingdom
- The Lost Weekend
- Mildred Pierce
- Spellbound
- Color: Leave Her to Heaven (winner)
- Anchors Aweigh
- National Velvet
- A Song to Remember
- The Spanish Main
- Black-and-white: The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945) (winner)
- 1946:
- Black-and-white: Anna and the King of Siam (winner)
- The Green Years
- Color: The Yearling (winner)
- The Jolson Story
- Black-and-white: Anna and the King of Siam (winner)
- 1947:
- Black-and-white: Great Expectations (1946) (winner)
- Green Dolphin Street
- The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
- Color: Black Narcissus (winner)
- Life with Father
- Mother Wore Tights
- Black-and-white: Great Expectations (1946) (winner)
- 1948:
- Black-and-white: The Naked City (winner)
- Color: Joan of Arc (winner)
- Green Grass of Wyoming
- The Loves of Carmen
- The Three Musketeers (1948)
- 1949:
- Black-and-white: Battleground (1949) (winner)
- Champion
- Come to the Stable
- The Heiress
- Prince of Foxes
- Color: She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (winner)
- The Barkleys of Broadway
- Jolson Sings Again
- Little Women
- Sand
- Black-and-white: Battleground (1949) (winner)
1950- 1959
- 1950:
- Black-and-white: The Third Man (winner)
- All About Eve
- The Asphalt Jungle
- The Furies
- Sunset Boulevard
- Color: King Solomon's Mines (winner)
- Annie Get Yourgun
- Broken Arrow (1950)
- The Flame and the Arrow
- Samson and Delilah
- Black-and-white: The Third Man (winner)
- 1951:
- Black-and-white: A Place in the Sun (winner)
- Color: An American in Paris (winner)
- David and Bathsheba
- Quo Vadis
- Show Boat
- When Worlds Collide
- 1952:
- Black-and-white: The Bad and the Beautiful (winner)
- The Big Sky
- My Cousin Rachel
- Navajo
- Sudden Fear
- Color: The Quiet Man (winner)
- Hans Christian Andersen (1952)
- Ivanhoe
- Million Dollar Mermaid
- The Snows of Kilimanjaro
- Black-and-white: The Bad and the Beautiful (winner)
- 1953:
- Black-and-white: From Here to Eternity (winner)
- The Four Poster
- Julius Caesar (1953)
- Martin Luther
- Roman Holiday
- Color: Shane (winner)
- Black-and-white: From Here to Eternity (winner)
- 1954:
- Black-and-white: On the Waterfront (winner)
- The Country Girl
- Executive Suite
- Rogue Cop
- Sabrina (1954)
- Color: Three Coins in the Fountain (winner)
- Black-and-white: On the Waterfront (winner)
- 1955:
- Black-and-white: The Rose Tattoo (winner)
- Blackboard Jungle
- I'll Cry Tomorrow
- Marty
- Queen Bee
- Color: To Catch a Thief (winner)
- Guys and Dolls
- Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
- A Man Called Peter
- Oklahoma!
- Black-and-white: The Rose Tattoo (winner)
- 1956:
- Black-and-white: Somebody Up There Likes Me (winner)
- Baby Doll
- The Bad Seed (1956)
- The Harder They Fall (1956)
- Stagecoach to Fury
- Color: Around the World in 80 Days (1956) (winner)
- The Eddy Duchin Story
- The King and I
- The Ten Commandments
- War and Peace
- Black-and-white: Somebody Up There Likes Me (winner)
- 1957: The Bridge on the River Kwai (winner)
- An Affair to Remember
- Funny Face
- Peyton Place
- Sayonara
- 1958:
- Black-and-white: The Defiant Ones (winner)
- Desire Under the Elms
- I Want to Live!
- Separate Tables
- The Young Lions
- Color: Gigi (winner)
- Black-and-white: The Defiant Ones (winner)
- 1959:
- Black-and-white: The Diary of Anne Frank (winner)
- Anatomy of a Murder
- Career
- Some Like It Hot
- The Young Philadelphians
- Color: Ben-Hur (1959) (winner)
- The Big Fisherman
- The Five Pennies
- The Nun's Story
- Porgy and Bess
- Black-and-white: The Diary of Anne Frank (winner)
1960- 1969
- 1960:
- Black-and-white: Sons and Lovers (winner)
- The Apartment
- The Facts of Life
- Inherit the Wind
- Psycho
- Color: Spartacus (winner)
- The Alamo (1960)
- BUtterfield 8
- Exodus (1960)
- Pepe
- Black-and-white: Sons and Lovers (winner)
- 1961:
- Black-and-white: The Hustler (1961) (winner)
- Color: West Side Story (winner)
- Fanny
- Flower Drum Song
- A Majority of One
- One-Eyed Jacks
- 1962:
- Black-and-white: The Longest Day (winner)
- Birdman of Alcatraz
- To Kill a Mockingbird
- Two for the Seesaw
- What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
- Color: Lawrence of Arabia (winner)
- Gypsy
- Hatari!
- Mutiny on the Bounty (1962)
- The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
- Black-and-white: The Longest Day (winner)
- 1963:
- Black-and-white: Hud (winner)
- The Balcony
- The Caretakers
- Lilies of the Field
- Love with the Proper Stranger
- Color: Cleopatra (winner)
- The Cardinal
- How the West Was Won
- Irma la Douce
- It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
- Black-and-white: Hud (winner)
- 1964:
- Black-and-white: Zorba the Greek (winner)
- The Americanization of Emily
- Fate Is the Hunter
- Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte
- The Night of the Iguana
- Color: My Fair Lady (winner)
- Becket
- Cheyenne Autumn
- Mary Poppins
- The Unsinkable Molly Brown
- Black-and-white: Zorba the Greek (winner)
- 1965:
- Black-and-white: Ship of Fools (winner)
- In Harm's Way
- King Rat
- Morituri
- A Patch of Blue
- Color: Doctor Zhivago (winner)
- Black-and-white: Ship of Fools (winner)
- 1966:
- Black-and-white: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (winner)
- Color: A Man for All Seasons (winner)
- 1967: Bonnie and Clyde (winner)
- 1968: Romeo and Juliet (1968) (winner)
- 1969: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (winner)
1970- 1979
- 1970: Ryan's Daughter (winner)
- 1971: Fiddler on the Roof (winner)
- 1972: Cabaret (winner)
- 1973: Cries and Whispers (winner)
- 1974: The Towering Inferno (winner)
- 1975: Barry Lyndon (winner)
- The Day of the Locust
- Funny Lady
- The Hindenburg
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- 1976: Bound for Glory (winner)
- 1977: Close Encounters of the Third Kind (winner)
- Islands in the Stream
- Julia
- Looking for Mr. Goodbar
- The Turning Point (1977)
- 1978: Days of Heaven (winner)
- The Deer Hunter
- Heaven Can Wait (1978)
- Same Time, Next Year
- The Wiz
- 1979: Apocalypse Now (winner)
1980- 1989
- 1980: Tess (winner)
- The Blue Lagoon
- Coal Miner's Daughter
- The Formula
- Raging Bull
- 1981: Reds (1981) (winner)
- 1982: Gandhi (winner)
- 1983: Fanny and Alexander (winner)
- 1984: The Killing Fields (winner)
- 1985: Out of Africa (winner)
- The Color Purple
- Murphy's Romance
- Ran
- Witness
- 1986: The Mission (winner)
- 1987: The Last Emperor (winner)
- 1988: Mississippi Burning (winner)
- 1989: Glory (winner)
1990- 1999
- 1990: Dances with Wolves (winner)
- Avalon
- Dick Tracy
- The Godfather Part III
- Henry & June
- 1991: JFK (winner)
- 1992: A River Runs Through It (winner)
- 1993: Schindler's List (winner)
- 1994: Legends of the Fall (winner)
- 1995: Braveheart (winner)
- Batman Forever
- A Little Princess (1995)
- Sense and Sensibility
- Shanghai Triad
- 1996: The English Patient (winner)
- 1997: Titanic (1997) (winner)
- 1998: Saving Private Ryan (winner)
- 1999: American Beauty (winner)
2000- 2009
- 2000: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (winner)
- 2001: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (winner)
- 2002: Road to Perdition (winner)
- 2003: Master and Commander (winner)
- 2004: The Aviator (winner)
- 2005: Memoirs of a Geisha (winner)
- 2006: Pan's Labyrinth (winner)
- The Black Dahlia
- Children of Men
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- The Prestige
- 2007: There Will Be Blood (winner)
- The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
- Atonement
- The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
- No Country for Old Men
- 2008: Slumdog Millionaire (winner)
- 2009: Avatar (winner)
2010- 2019
- 2010: Inception (winner)
- 2011: Hugo (winner)
- 2012: Life of Pi (winner)
- 2013: Gravity (winner)
- 2014: Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (winner)
- 2015: The Revenant (winner)
- 2016: La La Land (winner)
- 2017: Blade Runner 2049 (winner)
- 2018: Roma (winner)
- 2019: 1917 (winner)
2020- 2029
- 2020-21: Mank (winner)
- 2021: Dune (2021) (winner)
- 2022: All Quiet on the Western Front (winner)
- 2023: Oppenheimer (winner)