Academy Award for Best Cinematography
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| Academy Award for Best Cinematography | |
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| Presented by | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences |
| Country | United States |
| Official website | http://www.oscars.org |
The Academy Award for Best Cinematography is an Academy Award awarded each year to a cinematographer for work in one particular motion picture.
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[edit] History
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In its first film season, 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, 1929, 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, 1930, 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.
[edit] Superlatives
| Category | Name | Superlative | Year | Notes |
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| Most Awards | Leon Shamroy | 4 awards | 1942 | Awards resulted from 18 nominations |
| Joseph Ruttenberg | 1958 | Awards resulted from 10 nominations | ||
| Most Nominations | Leon Shamroy | 18 nominations | 1965 | Nominations resulted in 4 awards |
| Charles B. Lang, Jr. | 1972 | Nominations resulted in 1 award | ||
| Oldest Winner | Conrad L. Hall | Award at 76 | 2002 | Hall died just 2 months before the awards ceremony. Hall is also the oldest non-posthumous winner, at age 73, in 1999. |
| Oldest Nominee | Asakazu Nakai | Nomination at 84 | 1985 | Shared nomination with two others |
| Youngest Winner | Charles B. Lang, Jr. | Award at 30 | 1932/33 |
First nomination, age 28 |
| Youngest Nominee | ||||
| Most nominations without a win (deceased) | George Folsey | 13 nominations | ||
| Most nominations without a win (living) | Roger Deakins | 9 nominations |
[edit] Winners and nominees
[edit] 1920s
- 1927-1928: Charles Rosher and Karl Struss – Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
- 1928-1929: Clyde De Vinna – White Shadows in the South Seas
[edit] 1930s
- 1929-1930: Joseph T. Rucker and Willard Van der Veer – With Byrd at the South Pole
- 1930-1931: Floyd Crosby – Tabu: A Story of the South Seas
- Edward Cronjager – Cimarron
- Lee Garmes – Morocco
- Charles Lang – The Right to Love
- Barney McGill – Svengali
- 1931-1932: Lee Garmes – Shanghai Express
- Ray June – Arrowsmith
- Karl Struss – Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
- 1932-1933: Charles Lang – A Farewell to Arms
- George J. Folsey – Reunion in Vienna
- Karl Struss – The Sign of the Cross
- 1934: Victor Milner – Cleopatra
- 1935: Hal Mohr – A Midsummer Night's Dream (the only competitive Academy Award ever given to an unnominated, write-in candidate)
- Ray June – Barbary Coast
- Victor Milner – The Crusades
- Gregg Toland – Les Misérables
- 1936: Tony Gaudio – Anthony Adverse
(Special Award presented to W. Howard Greene and Harold Rosson for the color cinematography of The Garden of Allah)
- 1937: Karl Freund – The Good Earth
(Upon recommendation of a committee of cinematographers, a Special Award is presented to W. Howard Greene for the color cinematography of A Star is Born)
- 1938: Joseph Ruttenberg – The Great Waltz
- James Wong Howe – Algiers
- Ernest Miller and Harry J. Wild – Army Girl
- Victor Milner – The Buccaneer
- Ernest Haller – Jezebel
- Joseph A. Valentine – Mad About Music
- Norbert Brodine – Merrily We Live
- J. Peverell Marley – Suez
- Robert De Grasse – Vivacious Lady
- Joseph Walker – You Can't Take It With You
- Leon Shamroy – The Young in Heart
(Special Award presented to Oliver Marsh and Allen Davey for the color cinematography of Sweethearts)
From 1939, there were separate awards for Black and White and for Color:
- 1939 (Black-and-White): Gregg Toland – Wuthering Heights
- Joseph A. Valentine – First Love
- Victor Milner – The Great Victor Herbert
- Joseph H. August – Gunga Din
- Gregg Toland – Intermezzo: A Love Story
- Tony Gaudio – Juarez
- Norbert Brodine – Lady of the Tropics
- Joseph Walker – Only Angels Have Wings
- Bert Glennon – Stagecoach
- Arthur C. Miller – The Rains Came
- 1939 (Color): Ernest Haller and Ray Rennahan – Gone with the Wind
[edit] 1940s
- 1940 (Black-and-White): George Barnes – Rebecca
- James Wong Howe – Abe Lincoln in Illinois
- Ernest Haller – All This, and Heaven Too
- Charles Lang – Arise, My Love
- Harold Rosson – Boom Town
- Rudolph Maté – Foreign Correspondent
- Tony Gaudio – The Letter
- Gregg Toland – The Long Voyage Home
- Joseph A. Valentine – Spring Parade
- Tony Gaudio – Waterloo Bridge
- 1940 (Color): Georges Périnal – The Thief of Bagdad
- Oliver T. Marsh and Allen M. Davey – Bitter Sweet
- Arthur C. Miller and Ray Rennahan – The Blue Bird
- Leon Shamroy and Ray Rennahan – Down Argentine Way
- Victor Milner and W. Howard Greene – North West Mounted Police
- Sidney Wagner and William V. Skall – Northwest Passage
- 1941 (Black-and-White): Arthur C. Miller – How Green Was My Valley
- Karl Freund – The Chocolate Soldier
- Gregg Toland – Citizen Kane
- Joseph Ruttenberg – Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
- Joseph Walker – Here Comes Mr. Jordan
- Leo Tover – Hold Back the Dawn
- Sol Polito – Sergeant York
- Edward Cronjager – Sun Valley Serenade
- Charles Lang – Sundown
- Rudolph Maté – That Hamilton Woman
- 1941 (Color): Ernest Palmer and Ray Rennahan – Blood and Sand
- Wilfred M. Cline, Karl Struss and William E. Snyder – Aloma of the South Seas
- William V. Skall and Leonard Smith – Billy the Kid
- Karl Freund and W. Howard Greene – Blossoms in the Dust
- Bert Glennon – Dive Bomber
- Harry Hallenberger and Ray Rennahan – Louisiana Purchase
- 1942 (Black-and-White): Joseph Ruttenberg – Mrs. Miniver
- James Wong Howe – Kings Row
- Stanley Cortez – The Magnificent Ambersons
- Charles G. Clarke – Moontide
- Edward Cronjager – The Pied Piper
- Rudolph Maté – The Pride of the Yankees
- John J. Mescall – Take a Letter, Darling
- Ted Tetzlaff – The Talk of the Town
- Leon Shamroy – Ten Gentlemen from West Point
- Arthur C. Miller – This Above All
- 1942 (Color): Leon Shamroy – The Black Swan
- 1943 (Black-and-White): Arthur C. Miller – The Song of Bernadette
- James Wong Howe, Elmer Dyer and Charles A. Marshall – Air Force
- Arthur Edeson – Casablanca
- Tony Gaudio – Corvette K-225
- John F. Seitz – Five Graves to Cairo
- Harry Stradling – The Human Comedy
- Joseph Ruttenberg – Madame Curie
- James Wong Howe – The North Star
- Rudolph Maté – Sahara
- Charles Lang – So Proudly We Hail!
- 1943 (Color): Hal Mohr and W. Howard Greene – Phantom of the Opera
- Ray Rennahan – For Whom the Bell Tolls
- Edward Cronjager – Heaven Can Wait
- Charles G. Clarke and Allen M. Davey – Hello, Frisco, Hello
- Leonard Smith – Lassie Come Home
- George J. Folsey – Thousands Cheer
- 1944 (Black-and-White): Joseph LaShelle – Laura
- John F. Seitz – Double Indemnity
- Sidney Wagner – Dragon Seed
- Joseph Ruttenberg – Gaslight
- Lionel Lindon – Going My Way
- Glen MacWilliams – Lifeboat
- Stanley Cortez and Lee Garmes – Since You Went Away
- Robert Surtees and Harold Rosson – Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
- Charles Lang – The Uninvited
- George J. Folsey – The White Cliffs of Dover
- 1944 (Color): Leon Shamroy – Wilson
- Rudolph Maté and Allen M. Davey – Cover Girl
- Edward Cronjager – Home in Indiana
- Charles Rosher – Kismet
- Ray Rennahan – Lady in the Dark
- George J. Folsey – Meet Me in St. Louis
- 1945 (Black-and-White): Harry Stradling – The Picture of Dorian Gray
- 1945 (Color): Leon Shamroy – Leave Her to Heaven
- Robert H. Planck and Charles P. Boyle – Anchors Aweigh
- Leonard Smith – National Velvet
- Tony Gaudio and Allen M. Davey – A Song to Remember
- George Barnes – The Spanish Main
- 1946 (Black-and-White): Arthur C. Miller – Anna and the King of Siam
- 1946 (Color): Charles Rosher, Leonard Smith and Arthur E. Arling – The Yearling
- 1947 (Black-and-White): Guy Green – Great Expectations
- 1947 (Color): Jack Cardiff – Black Narcissus
- 1948 (Black-and-White): William H. Daniels – The Naked City
- 1948 (Color): Joseph A. Valentine, William V. Skall and Winton Hoch – Joan of Arc
- Charles G. Clarke – Green Grass of Wyoming
- William E. Snyder – The Loves of Carmen
- Robert H. Planck – The Three Musketeers
- 1949 (Black-and-White): Paul C. Vogel – Battleground
- 1949 (Color): Winton Hoch – She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
- Harry Stradling – The Barkleys of Broadway
- William E. Snyder – Jolson Sings Again
- Robert H. Planck and Charles Schoenbaum – Little Women
- Charles G. Clarke – Sand
[edit] 1950s
- 1950 (Black-and-White): Robert Krasker – The Third Man
- 1950 (Color): Robert Surtees – King Solomon's Mines
- 1951 (Black-and-White): William C. Mellor – A Place in the Sun
- 1951 (Color): Alfred Gilks and John Alton – An American in Paris
- 1952 (Black-and-White): Robert Surtees – The Bad and the Beautiful
- 1952 (Color): Winton Hoch and Archie Stout – The Quiet Man
- 1953 (Black-and-White): Burnett Guffey – From Here to Eternity
- Hal Mohr – The Four Poster
- Joseph Ruttenberg – Julius Caesar
- Joseph C. Brun – Martin Luther
- Franz Planer and Henri Alekan – Roman Holiday
- 1953 (Color): Loyal Griggs – Shane
- George J. Folsey – All the Brothers Were Valiant
- Edward Cronjager – Beneath the 12-Mile Reef
- Robert H. Planck – Lili
- Leon Shamroy – The Robe
- 1954 (Black-and-White): Boris Kaufman – On the Waterfront
- John F. Warren – The Country Girl
- George J. Folsey – Executive Suite
- John F. Seitz – Rogue Cop
- Charles Lang – Sabrina
- 1954 (Color): Milton R. Krasner – Three Coins in the Fountain
- 1955 (Black-and-White): James Wong Howe – The Rose Tattoo
- 1955 (Color): Robert Burks – To Catch a Thief
- Harry Stradling – Guys and Dolls
- Leon Shamroy – Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
- Harold Lipstein – A Man Called Peter
- Robert Surtees – Oklahoma!
- 1956 (Black-and-White): Joseph Ruttenberg – Somebody Up There Likes Me
- Boris Kaufman – Baby Doll
- Harold Rosson – The Bad Seed
- Burnett Guffey – The Harder They Fall
- Walter Strenge – Stagecoach to Fury
- 1956 (Color): Lionel Lindon – Around the World in 80 Days
For 1957, there was a single award:
- 1957: Jack Hildyard – The Bridge on the River Kwai
- Milton R. Krasner – An Affair to Remember
- Ray June – Funny Face
- William C. Mellor – Peyton Place
- Ellsworth Fredericks – Sayonara
From 1958, there were separate awards for Black and White and for Color again:
- 1958 (Black-and-White): Sam Leavitt – The Defiant Ones
- Daniel L. Fapp – Desire Under the Elms
- Lionel Lindon – I Want to Live!
- Charles Lang – Separate Tables
- Joseph MacDonald – The Young Lions
- 1958 (Color): Joseph Ruttenberg – Gigi
- 1959 (Black-and-White): William C. Mellor – The Diary of Anne Frank
- 1959 (Color): Robert Surtees – Ben-Hur
[edit] 1960s
- 1960 (Black-and-White): Freddie Francis – Sons and Lovers
- Joseph LaShelle – The Apartment
- Charles Lang – The Facts of Life
- Ernest Laszlo – Inherit the Wind
- John L. Russell – Psycho
- 1960 (Color): Russell Metty – Spartacus
- William H. Clothier – The Alamo
- Joseph Ruttenberg and Charles Harten – BUtterfield 8
- Sam Leavitt – Exodus
- Joseph MacDonald – Pepe
- 1961 (Black-and-White): Eugen Schüfftan – The Hustler
- 1961 (Color): Daniel L. Fapp – West Side Story
- 1962 (Black-and-White): Jean Bourgoin and Walter Wottitz – The Longest Day
- 1962 (Color): Freddie Young – Lawrence of Arabia
- 1963 (Black-and-White): James Wong Howe – Hud
- 1963 (Color): Leon Shamroy – Cleopatra
- 1964 (Black-and-White): Walter Lassally – Zorba the Greek
- 1964 (Color): Harry Stradling – My Fair Lady
- Geoffrey Unsworth – Becket
- William H. Clothier – Cheyenne Autumn
- Edward Colman – Mary Poppins
- Daniel L. Fapp – The Unsinkable Molly Brown
- 1965 (Black-and-White): Ernest Laszlo – Ship of Fools
- 1965 (Color): Freddie Young – Doctor Zhivago
- 1966 (Black-and-White): Haskell Wexler – Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
- Joseph LaShelle – The Fortune Cookie
- Kenneth Higgins – Georgy Girl
- Marcel Grignon – Is Paris Burning?
- James Wong Howe – Seconds
- 1966 (Color): Ted Moore – A Man for All Seasons
From 1967, there was a single award again:
- 1967: Burnett Guffey – Bonnie and Clyde
- 1968: Pasqualino De Santis – Romeo and Juliet
- 1969: Conrad Hall – Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
[edit] 1970s
- 1970: Freddie Young – Ryan's Daughter
- Fred J. Koenekamp – Patton
- Ernest Laszlo – Airport
- Osami Furuya, Sinsaku Himeda, Masamichi Satoh and Charles F. Wheeler – Tora! Tora! Tora!
- Billy Williams – Women in Love
- 1971: Oswald Morris – Fiddler on the Roof
- 1972: Geoffrey Unsworth – Cabaret
- Harry Stradling, Jr. – 1776
- Charles Lang – Butterflies Are Free
- Harold E. Stine – The Poseidon Adventure
- Douglas Slocombe – Travels with My Aunt
- 1973: Sven Nykvist – Cries and Whispers
- Owen Roizman – The Exorcist
- Jack Couffer – Jonathan Livingston Seagull
- Robert Surtees – The Sting
- Harry Stradling, Jr. – The Way We Were
- 1974: Fred J. Koenekamp and Joseph F. 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: Néstor Almendros – Days of Heaven
- 1979: Vittorio Storaro – Apocalypse Now
- William A. Fraker – 1941
- Giuseppe Rotunno – All That Jazz
- Frank Phillips – The Black Hole
- Néstor Almendros – Kramer vs. Kramer
[edit] 1980s
- 1980: Geoffrey Unsworth (posthumous award) and Ghislain Cloquet – Tess
- Néstor Almendros – The Blue Lagoon
- Ralf D. Bode – Coal Miner's Daughter
- James Crabe – The Formula
- Michael Chapman – Raging Bull
- 1981: Vittorio Storaro – Reds
- 1982: Billy Williams and Ronnie Taylor – Gandhi
- 1983: Sven Nykvist – Fanny and Alexander
- 1984: Chris Menges – The Killing Fields
- Miroslav Ondříček – Amadeus
- Caleb Deschanel – The Natural
- Ernest Day – A Passage to India
- Vilmos Zsigmond – The River
- 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
[edit] 1990s
- 1990: Dean Semler – Dances with Wolves
- 1991: Robert Richardson – JFK
- 1992: Philippe Rousselot – A River Runs Through It
- 1993: Janusz Kamiński – Schindler's List
- 1994: John Toll – Legends of the Fall
- 1995: John Toll – Braveheart
- Stephen Goldblatt – Batman Forever
- Emmanuel Lubezki – A Little Princess
- Michael Coulter – Sense and Sensibility
- Lü Yue – Shanghai Triad
- 1996: John Seale – The English Patient
- 1997: Russell Carpenter – Titanic
- 1998: Janusz Kamiński – Saving Private Ryan
- Conrad Hall – A Civil Action
- Remi Adefarasin – Elizabeth
- Richard Greatrex – Shakespeare in Love
- John Toll – The Thin Red Line
- 1999: Conrad Hall – American Beauty
[edit] 2000s
- 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 (posthumous award)
- 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
- 2009: Mauro Fiore – Avatar
[edit] 2010s
- 2010: Wally Pfister – Inception
- 2011: TBD
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences official site
- The Official Academy Awards Database, listing all past nominees and winners
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