The Academy Award for Best Cinematography is awarded each year to a cinematographer for his or her work in one particular film.
- 1928 Sunrise
- 1929 none given
- 1930 none given
- 1931 Tabu: A Story of the South Seas
- 1932 Shanghai Express
- 1933 A Farewell to Arms
- 1934 Cleopatra
- 1935 A Midsummer Night's Dream
- 1936 Anthony Adverse
- 1937 The Good Earth
- 1938 none given
- 1939 Wuthering Heights (B&W)
- Gone with the Wind (Color)
- 1940 Rebecca (B&W)
- none given (Color)
- 1941 How Green Was My Valley (B&W)
- Blood and Sand (Color)
- 1942 Mrs. Miniver (B&W)
- The Black Swan (Color)
- 1943 The Song of Bernadette (B&W)
- The Phantom of the Opera (Color)
- 1944 Laura (B&W)
- Wilson (Color)
- 1945 Picture of Dorian Gray (B&W)
- 1946 Anna and the King of Siam (B&W)
- The Yearling (Color)
- 1947 Great Expectations (B&W)
- Black Narcissus (Color)
- 1948 The Naked City (B&W)
- Joan of Arc (Color)
- 1949 Battleground (B&W)
- She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (Color)
- 1950 The Third Man (B&W)
- King Solomon's Mines (Color)
- 1951 A Place in the Sun (B&W)
- An American in Paris (Color)
- 1952 The Bad and the Beautiful (B&W)
- The Quiet Man (Color)
- 1953 From Here to Eternity (B&W)
- Shane (Color)
- 1954 On the Waterfront (B&W)
- Three Coins in the Fountain (Color)
- 1955 The Rose Tattoo (B&W)
- To Catch a Thief (Color)
- 1956 Somebody Up There Likes Me (B&W)
- Around the World in 80 Days (Color)
- 1957 none given (B&W)
- The Bridge on the River Kwai (Color)
- 1958 The Defiant Ones (B&W)
- Gigi (Color)
- 1959 The Diary of Anne Frank (B&W)
- Ben-Hur (Color)
- 1960 none given (B&W)
- Spartacus (Color)
- 1961 The Hustler (B&W)
- West Side Story (Color)
- 1962 The Longest Day (B&W)
- Lawrence of Arabia (Color)
- 1963 Hud (B&W)
- Cleopatra (Color)
- 1964 Zorba the Greek (B&W)
- My Fair Lady (Color)
- 1965 Ship of Fools (B&W)
- Doctor Zhivago (Color)
- 1966 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (B&W)
- A Man for All Seasons (Color)
- 1967 Bonnie & Clyde
- 1968 Romeo and Juliet
- 1969 Conrad Hall for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
- 1970 Ryan's Daughter
- 1971 Fiddler on the Roof
- 1972 Cabaret
- 1973 Cries and Whispers
- 1974 The Towering Inferno
- 1975 Barry Lyndon
- 1976 Bound for Glory
- 1977 Close Encounters of the Third Kind
- 1978 Days of Heaven
- 1979 Apocalypse Now
- 1980 Tess
- 1981 Reds
- 1982 Gandhi
- 1983 Fanny and Alexander
- 1984 The Killing Fields
- 1985 Out of Africa
- 1986 The Mission
- 1987 The Last Emperor
- 1988 Mississippi Burning
- 1989 Glory
- 1990 Dances with Wolves
- 1991 JFK
- 1992 A River Runs Through It
- 1993 Schindler's List
- 1994 Legends of the Fall
- 1995 Braveheart
- 1996 The English Patient
- 1997 Titanic
- 1998 Saving Private Ryan
- 1999 Conrad Hall for American Beauty
- 2000 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
- 2001 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
- See also : Academy Awards