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Local 600 Academy Award Winners for Best Cinematography

2021

GREIG FRASER, ACS, ASC
Dune

2020

ERIK MESSERSCHMIDT, ASC
Mank

2019

ROGER DEAKINS, CBE, ASC, BSC
1917

2018

ALFONSO CUARON
Roma

2017

ROGER DEAKINS, CBE, ASC, BSC
Blade Runner 2049

2016

LINUS SANDGREN
La La Land

2015

EMMANUEL LUBEZKI, ASC, AMC
The Revenant

2014

EMMANUEL LUBEZKI, ASC, AMC
Birdman

2013

EMMANUEL LUBEZKI, ASC, AMC
Gravity

2012

CLAUDIO MIRANDA
Life of Pi

2011

ROBERT RICHARDSON, ASC
Hugo

2010

WALLY PFISTER, ASC
Inception

2009

MAURO FIORE
Avatar

2008

Slumdog Millionaire

2007

ROBERT ELSWIT, ASC
There Will Be Blood

2006

GUILLERMO NAVARRO, ASC, AMC
Pan’s Labyrinth

2005

DION BEEBE, ASC, ACS
Memoirs of a Geisha

2004

ROBERT RICHARDSON, ASC
The Aviator

2003

RUSSELL BOYD, ACS, ASC
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

2002

PAWEL EDELMAN, PCS
The Pianist

2001

ANDREW LESNIE, ACS, ASC
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Rings

2000

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

1999

CONRAD L. HALL
American Beauty

1998

JANUSZ KAMINSKI
Saving Private Ryan

1997

RUSSELL CARPENTER
Titanic

1996

JOHN SEALE
The English Patient

1995

JOHN TOLL
Braveheart

1994

JOHN TOLL
Legends of the Fall

1993

JANUSZ KAMINSKI
Schindler's List

1992

PHILIPPE ROUSSELOT
A River Runs Through It

1991

ROBERT RICHARDSON
JFK

1990

DEAN SEMLER
Dances With Wolves

1989

FREDDIE FRANCIS
Glory

1988

PETER BIZIOU
Mississippi Burning

1987

VITTORIO STORARO
The Last Emperor

1986

CHRIS MENGES
The Mission

1985

DAVID WATKIN
Out of Africa

1984

CHRIS MENGES
The Killing Fields

1983

SVEN NYKVIST
Fanny and Alexander

1982

BILLY WILLIAMS
RONNIE TAYLOR
Ghandi

1981

VITTORIO STORARO
Reds

1980

GEOFFREY UNSWORTH
GHISLAIN CLOQUET
Tess

1979

VITTORIO STORARO
Apocalypse Now

1978

NESTOR ALMENDROS
Days of Heaven

1977

VILMOS ZSIGMOND
Close Encounters of the Third Kind

1976

HASKELL WEXLER
Bound for Glory

1975

JOHN ALCOTT
Barry Lyndon

1974

FRED KOENEKAMP
JOSEPH BIROC
The Towering Inferno

1973

SVEN NYKVIST
Cries and Whispers

1972

GEOFFREY UNSWORTH
Cabaret

1971

OSWALD MORRIS
Fiddler on the Roof

1970

FREDDIE YOUNG
Ryan's Daughter

1969

CONRAD HALL
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

1968

PASQUALINO DE SANTIS
Romeo and Juliet

1967

BURNETT GUFFEY
Bonnie and Clyde

1966

HASKELL WEXLER
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
(black and white)

TED MOORE
A Man For All Seasons
(color)

1965

ERNEST LASZLO
Ship of Fools
(black and white)

FREDDIE YOUNG
Doctor Zhivago
(color)

1964

WALTER LASSALLY
Zorba the Greek
(black and white)

HARRY STRADLING
My Fair Lady
(color)

1963

JAMES WONG HOWE
Hud
(black and white)

LEON SHAMROY
Cleopatra
(color)

1962

JEAN BOURGOIN
WALTER WOTTITZ
The Longest Day (black and white)

FRED A. YOUNG
Lawrence of Arabia
(color)

1961

EUGEN SHUFTAN
The Hustler
(black and white)

DANIEL L. FAPP
West Side Story
(color)

1960

FREDDIE FRANCIS
Sons and Lovers
(black and white)

RUSSELL METTY
Spartacus
(color)

1959

WILLIAM C. MELLOR
The Diary of Anne Frank
(black and white)

ROBERT L. SURTEES
Ben-Hur
(color)

1958

SAM LEAVITT
The Defiant Ones
(black and white)

JOSEPH RUTTENBERG
Gigi
(color)

1957

JACK HILDYARD
The Bridge on the River Kwai

1956

JOSEPH RUTTENBERG
Somebody Up There Likes Me
(black and white)

LIONEL LINDON
Around the World in 80 Days
(color)

1955

JAMES WONG HOWE
The Rose Tattoo
(black and white)

ROBERT BURKE
To Catch a Thief
(color)

1954

BORIS KAUFMAN
On the Waterfront
(black and white)

MILTON KRASNER
Three Coins in the Fountain
(color)

1953

BURNETT GUFFEY
From Here to Eternity
(black and white)

LOYAL GRIGGS
Shane (color)

1952

ROBERT SURTEES
The Bad and the Beautiful
(black and white)

WINTON C. HOCH
ARCHIE STOUT
The Quiet Man
(color)

1951

WILLIAM C. MELLOR
A Place in the Sun
(black and white)

ALFRED GILKS
JOHN ALTON
An American in Paris
(color)

1950

ROBERT KRASKER
The Third Man
(black and white)

ROBERT SURTEES
King Solomon's Mines
(color)

1949

PAUL C. VOGEL
Battleground
(black and white)

WINTON HOCH
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
(color)

1948

WILLIAM DANIELS
The Naked City
(black and white)

JOSEPH VALENTINE
WILLIAM V. SKALL
WINTON HOCH
Joan of Arc
(color)

1947

GUY GREEN
Great Expectations
(black and white)

JACK CARDIFF
Black Narcissus
(color)

1946

ARTHUR MILLER
Anna and the King of Siam
(black and white)

CHARLES ROSHER
LEONARD SMITH
ARTHUR ARLING
The Yearling
(color)

1945

HARRY STRADLING
The Picture of Dorian Gray
(black and white)

LEON SHAMROY
Leave Her to Heaven
(color)

1944

JOSEPH LaSHELLE
Laura
(black and white)

LEON SHAMROY
Wilson
(color)

1943

ARTHUR MILLER
The Song of Bernadette
(black and white)

HAL MOHR
W. HOWARD GREENE
The Phantom of the Opera
(color)

1942

JOSEPH RUTTENBERG
Mrs. Miniver
(black and white)

LEON SHAMROY
The Black Swan
(color)

1941

ARTHUR MILLER
How Green Was My Valley
(black and white)

ERNEST PALMER
RAY RENNAHAN
Blood and Sand
(color)

1940

GEORGE BARNES
Rebecca
(black and white)

GEORGE PERINAL
The Thief of Bagdad
(color)

1939

GREGG TOLAND
Wuthering Heights
(black and white)

ERNEST HALLER
RAY RENNAHAN
Gone with the Wind
(color)

1938

JOSEPH RUTTENBERG
The Great Waltz

1937

KARL FREUND
The Good Earth

1936

TONY GAUDIO
Anthony Adverse

1935

HAL MOHR
A Midsummer Night's Dream

1934

VICTOR MILNER
Cleopatra

1933

CHARLES BRYANT LANG, JR.
A Farewell to Arms

1932

LEE GARMES
Shanghai Express

1931

FLOYD CROSBY
Tabu

1930

JOSEPH T. RUCKER
WILLARD VAN DER VEER
With Byrd at the South Pole

1929

CLYDE DE VINNA
White Shadows in the South Seas

1928

CHARLES ROSHER
KARL STRUSS
Sunrise